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#poet

Ewan :unverified:
3 hours ago

Happy #WorldPoetryDay, everyone! :kirby_happy:

#Poet #Poetry

Sky "Bunny" Stanton 🌈♾️🧠
5 hours ago

Hey all,

Which of these usernames would you be most interested in reading poetry from, if you encountered it in the wild?

#Poetry #Poet #Writer #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticWriter

Somersetlass 🇺🇦💙
9 hours ago

#WorldPoetryDay seems like a perfect time to share favourite poems. One of mine, and appropriate for #spring, though a few weeks late, is Miracle on St David's Day, by Gillian Clarke. It's based on a true story, something which happened to the #poet in the 1970s, and speaks to the power of #poetry.

Anyone else like to #share a poem?

#AltText begins here:

"They flash upon that inward eye
which is the bliss of solitude’
(from ‘The #Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth)"

#nature #neurodiversity

An afternoon yellow and open-mouthed
with daffodils. The sun treads the path
among cedars and enormous oaks.
It might be a country house, guests strolling,
the rumps of gardeners between nursery shrubs.

I am reading poetry to the insane.
An old woman, interrupting, offers
as many buckets of coal as I need.
A beautiful chestnut-haired boy listens
entirely absorbed. A schizophrenic

on a good day, they tell me later.
In a cage of first March sun a woman
sits not listening, not feeling.
In her neat clothes the woman is absent.
A big, mild man is tenderly led

to his chair. He has never spoken.
His labourer’s hands on his knees, he rocks
gently to the rhythms of the poems.
I read to their presences, absences,
to the big, dumb labouring man as he rocks.

He is suddenly standing, silently,
huge and mild, but I feel afraid. Like slow
movement of spring water or the first bird
of the year in the breaking darkness,
the labourer’s voice recites ‘The Daffodils’.

The nurses are frozen, alert; the patients
seem to listen. He is hoarse but word-perfect.
Outside the daffodils are still as wax,
a thousand, ten thousand, their syllables
unspoken, their creams and yellows still.

Forty years ago, in a Valleys school,
the class recited poetry by rote.
Since the dumbness of misery fell
he has remembered there was a music
of speech and that once he had something to say.

When he’s done, before the applause, we observe
the flowers’ silence. A thrush sings
and the daffodils are flame.
coolmccool
20 hours ago

John Cooper Clarke's 'I Wanna Be Yours' is apparently the world's favourite poem. He's a good bloke is Mister Clarke. I saw him at that gig at the Ally Pally in Crystal Palace in 1980 (pictured in the article). He was brilliant; but also really friendly and down-to-earth, happy to have a chat and give me an autograph (which I lost about 5 mins later, of course). Good to see his work getting the appreciation it deserves. 😀

#poetry #poem #poems #poet #punk #punkpoetry @historyofpunkrock

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/20/john-cooper-clarke-arctic-monkeys-worlds-favourite-poem-i-wanna-be-yours-ford-cortina

DreambeastPoems
23 hours ago

Happy #worldpoetryday Which poet are you? #poet #poetry #poem

Poets All

Poet one
writes for fun
to spread a smile
beneath the sun

Poet two
writes for you
to make you think
what’s right to do?

Poet three
writes to see
the worst and best
in you and me

Poet four
writes to roar
a distant dream
and see it soar

Poet five
writes to thrive
to garner gold
and feel alive

Poet six
writes to fix
the old mistakes
with latest tricks
	
Poet seven
writes to reckon:
What’s right and wrong?
What’s hell and heaven?

Poet eight
writes to date
a latest love
that could be fate

Poet nine
writes to mine
a hidden hope
that didn’t shine

Poet ten
writes to pen
Imagine where?
Imagine when?

Poets all
Great to small
From one to ten
Please write again!

Mark Bird
CAWeeber
1 day ago

A new poem published today as part of the "Indigenizing What It Means to be Human" collection. Check it out! #poet #poetry #anthro #anthropology #poetrycommunity

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/looking-for-the-lepchas/

Pd Lietz
2 days ago

smitten
by springs earthy scent
arrow hits it mark

pd ~ 🌱
prompt -> arrow
#Imagiku #haiku #poetry #writing #SmallPoem #poet #Poetry #writer #MicroPoetry #poems
#March #Spring #scent
#Love #poem

Mike Airhart
2 days ago

All of us are to each other
the limbs of a single body, each of us drawn
from life’s shimmering essence, God’s perfect pearl;
and when this life we share wounds one of us,
all share the hurt as if it were our own.
You, who will not feel another’s pain,
you forfeit the right to be called human.

-- Saadi Shirazi, #Sufi #poet

#islam #poetry

Celtibot
2 days ago

Today is Tobias Smollett's Birthday!

Celtibot wishes blessings on Tobias Smollett's Birthday to all those who keep it.
#scotsman #author #writer #poet #scottish #celtic #CelticCalendar

smalldog club ☑️
2 days ago

I was captured by the pic, then I started to dig into who is Roque Dalton.

Roque Antonio Dalton García

Salvadoran, 1935 - 1975.

Dalton sounds radical/great. I learn something new all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_Dalton

#elsalvador #poet #activist

(1/3)

Black and white photo of Dalton
R S Thomas (poet)
2 days ago

‘The Grave’ - #RSThomas
(Uncollected Poems, @BloodaxeBooks)
#bardd #barddoniaeth #cerdd
#poet #poetry #poem #TheGrave

Image shows text of poem - 
The Grave. 
I pass your grave Daily; walk up and down On it. I know that under The bright grass there is nothing But your dry bones. Prytherch, They won't believe that this Is the truth. Rumours start Like hill fires; empty minds Blow on them. Someone has seen You at a meeting; somewhere A bomb grumbles. Echoes Reverberate in the heart's Hollows. Durable As a tree in history's Landscape, you are renewed By wishes, by foliage Of young hopes... It is the old Failing, a skirmish seen As a battle, victory turned To a legend before it is won.
Pd Lietz
3 days ago

deft at illusion
the subtle signs of spring
let the show begin

Pd Lietz Original Photo & haiku
DailyHaikuPrompt
#haiku #nature #zesty
#SpringFever #Spring
#ShowTime #Seasons
#March #Poet #Poets
#poetry #MicroPoetry
#Poem #Seductive #Spring #JoinIn

17th March -> Subtle
@dailyhaikuprompt
@nlowell

A tree trunk with bare limbs is in the foreground looking over the break up snowdrifts and 
the blue ice off a marsh. In background on opposite shore are red wolf willows. 
A photography I took one spring day years ago and used various apps to create the look I wanted.
Yahia Lababidi
3 days ago

'They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.'

#Greek #poet Dinos Christianopoulos (this line was picked up by #Mexican counterculture & frequently used by #protesters in civil unrest)

#socialjustice #protest #revolution #activism #quote #poetry #saturday #inspiration

R S Thomas (poet)
3 days ago

Hello, you might like to know that the Welsh poet-priest RS Thomas is now on Mastodon at @RSThomasPoet
You’re welcome to follow, if you post/toot anything relating to him please include the above ID &/or the hashtag #RSThomas so it can easily be found & shared.
Diolch, thank you 😊
#Bardd #Poet

@paigecm
@paulbrislen
@ricardofodol
@sgcjerusalem
@SnarkyAnglican
@snim2
@StephenCogbill

Yahia Lababidi
3 days ago
Yahia Lababidi
3 days ago

'You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest?

The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.'

— David Whyte

#irish #poet #meditation

Yahia Lababidi
3 days ago

For every #poet it is always morning in the world; #history a forgotten, insomniac night.

The fate of #poetry is to fall in #love with the world in spite of history.

―Derek Walcott

#quotes #today #goodmorning #blackmastodon #BlackFedi

Salenagodden
3 days ago

COFFERDAM out now: limited edition,
'chapbook journal' with new & previously unpublished works by: James Kelman, Salena Godden, Benjamin Myers, Billy Childish, Arianna Reiche, Aimee Campbell, Tim Wells, Steve Finbow, Tamar Yoseloff, Anna Wall, David Todd, Fred Voss & more

Cofferdam. Handsewn. Tuscan Brown card covers. 'Cofferdam' signature embossed by hand in metallic red. Purple endpapers

https://thetangerinepress.com/ANTHOLOGIES/COFFERDAM/

#books #poetry #bookstodon #limitededition #poet

Cofferdam chap book: Red embossed writing reads cofferdam title. Cup of coffee. Background blue and brown tiles.
Yahia Lababidi
4 days ago

“You didn't make yourself a #poet — you entered a situation in which there was #poetry ."

–Derek Walcott

#quote #blackmastodon #blackfedi #literature #books

Yahia Lababidi
4 days ago

"Good #science and good #art are always about a condition of awe …

I don’t think there is any other function for the #poet or the #scientist in the #human tribe but the astonishment of the #soul .
*
I have no nation, now, but the #imagination ."

—Derek Walcott

#quote #blackmastodon #blackfedi #CreativeToots #spirituality #meditation #inspiration #oddproverbs #friday #life

James Baillie
4 days ago

New poem! It's called Cathedral, and was inspired by some musing on the very man-made nature of forestry in "nature park" environments, among other themes.

https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg150480#msg150480

Thoughts/boosts welcome!

#Poem #Poetry #Poet #WritingCommunity

Yahia Lababidi
5 days ago

@Magpieboy In the words of #French #poet, Paul Valéry: “un ouvrage n’est jamais achevé . . . mais abandonné”.

(A work of #art is never truly completed... but abandoned.)

Vayl Larkin (they/them)
5 days ago

Hello! Pinning this as an intro, so I beg the pardon of those who have already been introduced sufficiently ;).

I post a lot about social justice, marginalized groups I'm part of, marginalized groups I'm advocating for, and poetry. Also I wrote a play, which will become apparent with even a cursory perusal. (I also edit a lot of my posts for spelling, punctuation, creative anachronisms and missing tags. Oops. Here, I fix.) It's me in the photo.

#introduction #disabled #trans #poet #playwright

Vayl Larkin is pictured, a nonbinary transmasculine person with fuschia hair that is curly and short. (Fuschia is a bright, bold cross between pink and purple). Their button shirt is flannel and their green glasses frame their rounded heart-shaped face. Their nose is small, as is their mouth, but their eyes look bigger as a result so it's all relative, you know? I like knowing only people reading the description are going to know that's how I feel about that. Others can just try to guess!
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
5 days ago

@PseudoNovalis

Is it wrong to think that the poet is a little God? If so, I don't want to be right.

"El poeta es un pequeño Dios."
Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948)

#Chilean #Poet #Spanish #Poetry

ARTE POÉTICA
Que el verso sea como una llave
TOHFGITGW
que abra mil puertas.
12 D' 2126
Una hoja cae; algo pasa volando
Cuanto miren los ojos creado sea,
y el alma del oyente quede temblando
Inventa mundos nuevos y cuida tu palabra
el adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata.
Estamos en el ciclo de los nervios.
El músculo cuelga
como recuerdo en los museos;
mas no por eso tenemos menos fuerza:
el vigor verdadero
reside en la cabeza.
Por qué cantáis la rosa, joh Poetas!
Hacedla florecer en el poema
Solo para nosotros
viven todas las cosas bajo el Sol.
El poeta es un pequeño Dios. 200alo
ARTE POÉTICA
Que el verso sea como una llave
TOHFGITGW
que abra mil puertas.
12 D' 2126
Una hoja cae; algo pasa volando
Cuanto miren los ojos creado sea,
y el alma del oyente quede temblando
Inventa mundos nuevos y cuida tu palabra
el adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata.
Estamos en el ciclo de los nervios.
El músculo cuelga
como recuerdo en los museos;
mas no por eso tenemos menos fuerza:
el vigor verdadero
reside en la cabeza.
Por qué cantáis la rosa, joh Poetas!
Hacedla florecer en el poema
Solo para nosotros
viven todas las cosas bajo el Sol.
El poeta es un pequeño Dios. 200alo
ARTE POÉTICA
Que el verso sea como una llave
TOHFGITGW
que abra mil puertas.
12 D' 2126
Una hoja cae; algo pasa volando
Cuanto miren los ojos creado sea,
y el alma del oyente quede temblando
Inventa mundos nuevos y cuida tu palabra
el adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata.
Estamos en el ciclo de los nervios.
El músculo cuelga
como recuerdo en los museos;
mas no por eso tenemos menos fuerza:
el vigor verdadero
reside en la cabeza.
Por qué cantáis la rosa, joh Poetas!
Hacedla florecer en el poema
Solo para nosotros
viven todas las cosas bajo el Sol.
El poeta es un pequeño Dios. 200alo
R S Thomas (poet)
5 days ago

@Magpieboy
Diolch, thank you, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this account @RSThomasPoet, also http://facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc.
- and there’s a Society you can join… https://rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/

- please boost?

#bardd #barddoniaeth #cerdd
#poet #poetry #poem

Sharon Cummings Art
6 days ago

flamingos are pink
a lengthy proposition
The truth a dull gray.

These birds aren't actually pink.
Born gray, their food choices tinge their feathers its characteristic shade. I use creative license. ;)

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/enchanted-flamingo-tropical-bird-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #AYearForArt #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoes #micropoetry #poet #poem #nature #writer #fun #cute #bird #birds #flamingo #flamingos #tropical #beach #beachlife #beachy #beaches #nature #coastal #animals

Colorful flamingo bird art with a nautilus shell motif by artist Sharon Cummings.  Haiku in post.
R S Thomas (poet)
6 days ago

‘Farm Child’ - #RSThomas
(An Acre of Land, Montgomeryshire Printing Co)
#FarmChild
#bardd #barddoniaeth #cerdd
#poet #poetry #poem

Image shows text of poem - 
Farm Child.
Look at this village boy, his head is stuffed With all the nests he knows, his pockets with flowers, Snail-shells and bits of glass, the fruit of hours Spent in the fields by thorn and thistle tuft. Look at his eyes, see the harebell hiding there; Mark how the sun has freckled his smooth face Like a finch's egg under that bush of hair That dares the wind, and in the mixen now Notice his poise; from such unconscious grace Earth breeds and beckons to the stubborn plough.
Sharon Cummings Art
1 week ago

Garden spirits roam
Beneath the shrimp plants
Along the hibiscus
Between the orchids
Hanging soulfully
Their names carved
Into oddly shaped stones
A constant reminder
Of sweet furry paws
Gentle giants and little friends
Never forgotten

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/garden-spirits-vibrant-red-flowers-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #flower #flowers #floral #spring #springtime #garden #poetry #poet #poem #writing #writingcommunity #dog #dogs #pet #pets #cat #cats #red #garden #gardening #writer #poems #poets

Bright red poppy fowers with blue and green background in an abstract style by contemporary artist Sharon Cummings.  Poetry in post.
Sharon Cummings Art
1 week ago

In my world
Colors are like feelings
All over the place
Yet frozen in a moment
Hidden treasures to discover
Express and share
I wear my art on my sleeve
A mixture of fantasies
Reality only an afterthought...

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/hidden-nautilus-art-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #nautilus #sea #sealife #ocean #oceaans #oceanlife #beach #beachlife #beachy #beaches #poetry #haiku #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #poem #poems #poet #poets #micropoetry #smallpoems #red

Red, blue and aqua nautilus seashell art by beachy beach artist Sharon Cummings.  Poem in post.

A web-only series begins on #MekongReview! Part 1 of Edith Mirante's essay on the life and adventures of Clive Branson — #antifascist, #painter, #poet, #communist and determined "class traitor" — is now up on our website: https://mekongreview.com/a-death-in-arakan-part-1-clive-branson-antifascist-painter-and-poet/

Lory Widmer Hess
1 week ago

New Blog Post: My #review of the #spiritual #memoir (s) by Joy Harjo - Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior. I loved these beautiful, courageous, wrenching stories of living a creative life against all odds.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #SpiritualWriting #poet #PoetryCommunity

https://enterenchanted.com/spiritual-memoir-review-crazy-brave-and-poet-warrior/#comment-3571

Cover of Joy Harjo's memoir Poet Warrior, dark blue background with white text and a circular beaded image of a red and gold spider on a white and blue background
Sharon Cummings Art
1 week ago

deep into the cold
sea of lavender delight
The nautilus sleeps.

Fun facts: Nautilus snooze, must live in cold water and have a multi lobed brain. They are super cool and I am obsessed!

#MastoPrompt Cold

ART https://fineartamerica.com/featured/purple-nautilus-shell-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #nautilus #sea #sealife #ocean #oceaans #oceanlife #beach #beachlife #beachy #beaches #poetry #haiku #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #poem #poems #poet #poets #micropoetry #smallpoems #purple

Purple and lavender nautilus shell art by beachy beach artist Sharon Cummings.  Haiku in post.
Pd Lietz
1 week ago

territorial
a yellow headed blackbird
future uncertain

Paula Lietz Photos & haiku

Be respectful be present.
Nature only cares that you care.

Words/Image = Home
With respect xx Paula
#haiku #poetry #Writing #SmallPoem #poet #writer #poem #MarshMadness #Bird #birds #MarshBirds
#NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Nature #March #JoinIn #Song #NatureCommunity
#BlackBird #YellowHeaded
#Photography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

A Yellow-Headed Black Bird is the exact description of this bird,  it about as long as a robin but more slender.
A young Yellow Headed Black Bird nearly a year old. The head feathers not quite fully matured and has the look of youth with its brown and white feathers.
Sky "Bunny" Stanton 🌈♾️🧠
2 weeks ago

Hey poets of the Fediverse, where do you post your poetry? (Including publications, social media, blogs, websites, etc. etc.) What platform do you like best for putting your poems out there and why?

#PoetryCommunity #Poet #Writing #AmWriting #Poetry

Pd Lietz
2 weeks ago

mutual respect

the balance for survival

our species floundered

thinking we were greater than

while always part of the whole
~~~
Be respectfully be present.
Nature only cares that you care.

Words/Image = Home
With respect xx Paula
#Life #haiku #poetry #Writing #SmallPoem #poet #writer #poem #MarshMadness #Bird #birds #Beaver #Animals #Pelican #Goose #Tanka
#NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Water #Nature #March #JoinIn #NatureCommunity
#BlackBird

I was taking a photo of pelicans which are in the bottom foreground in a marsh from up the road and a marsh hawk came into the frame from the upper left, I believe they call it photobombing.
A Canada Goose with famous white cheek patch on black head is not far off shore line and  to its upper left a beaver is swimming away. They rely on each other warnings regarding predators.
A lucky snap through reeds, I was focusing on the Red Wing Black Bird which the description is in its name when a white pelican sailed by. Side photo of both facing the left
Azul Buho
2 weeks ago

Guess the #poet:
"... the #snow carefully everywhere descending"

A view from an upstairs window across snow-covered back gardens in the UK.
Sharon Cummings Art
2 weeks ago

I am
searching
One
perfect
moment
Is all
I need
to feel
I have made
a difference...

Each day comes with challenges, but I look for the good. Sometimes it is literally ONE thing that renews me and it is enough.

ART https://fineartamerica.com/featured/modern-abstract-art-a-perfect-moment-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #artist #artists #artistsofmastodon #poetry #writing #writer #writers #poet #poets #poem #poems #writingcommunity #modernart #abstract #abstractart #colorfulart #colorful #homedecor #painting #paintings #blue #healing #

Abstract painting in blue, yellow, white and green by contemporary artist Sharon Cummings.  A modern wave of color.  Poem in post.
Monica DePaul, Author
2 weeks ago

Every time I explain the struggle I've been facing in finding a publisher, inevitably someone always chimes in with "DiD yOu KnOw AbOuT sElF-pUbLiShInG????" Of course I know about it! Jesus, I tried it twice and failed horrifically. I don't know how to market anything profitably, and no free resource knows how to market a young adult paranormal non-romance that reads more like a text-based anime than like Twilight. If I self-publish, I need thousands of dollars for professional marketing. My income sucks, so that's why I've been dead-set on traditional publishing despite the constant, never-ending form rejections I get regardless of the huge amount of work I put into my query.

For God's sake, I know
That self-publishing exists
Not ideal FOR ME

#HaikusByMonica #Haiku #Daily #Poetry #Poet #AmWriting #Writer #Author #publishing #selfpublishing #AmQuerying #book #AuthorLife #Books #YAbooks

MYDekel469
2 weeks ago
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 weeks ago

I write haiku to relax my brain — here’s a link to a digital volume that includes poetry about my native Iowa, nature, coffee and my adopted hometown of Chicago.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMFKW7XF

#ebook #books #Bookstodon #amReading #haiku #PoetryLovers #HaikuPoetry #poet #writing #writer #author #Sunday #SelfCareSunday #origami #relax #download #FediShop

branded content of my ebook, Syllabic Origami. Overhead perspective of woman reading an ebook. To the upper left is an art element of a sticky note which reads: "How to celebrate 'Read an Ebook Week'" coffee, poetry, comfy chair — SUNDAY SORTED.
Sharon Cummings Art
4 weeks ago

Twilight eyes flicker
Glints of heavenly bodies
That enchanted moment
When everything disappears
A magic slight of hand
The Universe opens wide
As darkness sinks it's teeth
Into delicious fleshy thoughts
Of deep blissful sleep
A dreamy delusion

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-mosaic-art-twilight-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#twilight #night #nighttime #dark #darkness #art #artwork #artist #artists #mastoart #fediart #artwork #landscape #landscapes #landscapeart #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #writing #writers #writingcommunity #AYearForArt

Blue and aqua mosaic painting art by artist Sharon Cummings.  Poem in post.
Sharon Cummings Art
4 weeks ago
Blue and aqua abstract bird art with a mosaic pattern by contemporary artist Sharon Cummings.  Haiku in post.
Edgar Allan Poem
1 month ago

Wind tears through the peaks
The gale rocks the trees,
Gusting force so fierce,
One can scarcely breathe.

Roaring on the windward,
Howling on the lee,
The woods groan and creak,
Much more than a breeze.

The waters white like seas,
As the tempest sweeps,
We pray to appease,
Yet it never seems to cease.

#poem #poetry #poet #smallpoems #wind #nature #gale #tempest #art #mastoart #fediart #landscape #landscapeart #lake #storm #lakedistrict #england #country #countryside #natureart #thursday

Jane Rosenberg LaForge
1 month ago

A toxicology report on the remains of Nobel Laureate and #poet Pablo Neruda will be published on Wednesday. It's likely the evidence will show he was deliberately poisoned (i.e., murdered) w/botulism and did not die of "malnutrition" and "prostate cancer." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/14/forensic-study-finds-chilean-poet-pablo-neruda-was-poisoned-says-nephew?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=fb_us&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR092nno8lTzYhCRx4ztITSUt9thrtnOF_E_EoYlzKG5bFAPH8cjPs9WMkw#Echobox=1676387446

'#Roses are Red, Violets are blue'

1862 Hugo's Les Misérables

Les bleuets sont bleus, les roses sont roses,
Les bleuets sont bleus, j'aime mes amours.

1590 Spenser's The Faerie Queene

It was upon a Sommers shynie day,
When Titan faire his beames did display,
In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew,
She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay;
She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew

#ValentinesDay #history #poet #poetry

Title page of The Faerie Queene, circa 1590
The dedicatory page of the 1590 edition of Spenser's Faerie Queene, reading: "To the most mightie and magnificent Empresse Elizabeth, by the grace of god, Queene of England, France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c."
patamystic
1 month ago

Introduction:

i am Eric Jennings aka Erwin Dink aka cc bovarisme (he/him) - #invocateur, #poet, #imagist

my experiences as a #MaleSurvivor of #CSA #ChildhoodSexualAbuse informs my work

i write #invocations, #poetry, #memoir, #CNF, #ExperimentalWriting, #scripts, and other things

i am also a #photographer, #GraphicArtist, and #illustrator

i live in #EastBay #OaklandCA

Emergence Magazine
1 month ago

The global political response to the ecological crisis has largely revolved around human-centered frameworks, but poet and translator David Hinton brings forward a different axis for our response to turn on: a rewilding of consciousness itself. Read this week’s newsletter. https://mailchi.mp/emergencemagazine/rewilding-the-mind #Interview #Poet #Newsletter #ShambhalaPublications

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