#poetry
The fish in Menindee have died
Now abundant and rancid, eyes have cried
The clean-up will soon start
Money and time, depart
But these stinky fish must be denied
#OnThisDay The UN Framework Convention on #ClimateChange entered into force (1994).
Birth Anniversary of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna (1960) - often voted as best and most influential #FormulaOne driver of all time in various motorsport polls.
Today is International Day of #Forests,
International Day for the Elimination of #Racial #Discrimination,
World #Poetry Day,
World #Puppetry Day,
World #DownSyndrome Day and
International #ColourDay.
Missile test of North
Carrying the future's hope
Daughter watches on
#northkorea #missiletest #kcna #haiku #poetry
https://www.axios.com/2023/03/20/north-korea-drills-simulated-nuclear-counterattack-claim
It seems that #ChatbotGPT has gotten ahold of my diaries from summer of my sophomore year in high school, but has not read any of my published work...
write a poem in the style of Tiffany Lee Brown
I float on a dreamy cloud,
Soft as a feather, light as a shroud.
A breeze whispers through my hair,
I close my eyes and let go of care.
As I float on this dreamy cloud,
I am reminded of the beauty around.
Life is a gift to cherish and hold,
A precious jewel, more valuable than gold.
Believe and breathe in the light,
Gather hope and receive the fight.
President Biden brings the Ted Lasso cast
To the White House to create a blast.
Mental health is a priority to make,
Leading to a brighter future to take.
Let us stand together and raise our stance,
For a better life with strength and chance.
#mentalhealth #whitehouse #biden #tedlasso #ode #poetry
https://www.axios.com/2023/03/20/ted-lasso-biden-white-house-mental-health
murmurous
adjective
mur· mur· ous ˈmər-mə-rəs ˈmərm-rəs
: filled with or characterized by murmurs : low and indistinct
#WordWizard #WordOfTheDay #WotD #Logophile #lexiphile #lexicography #literature #poetry #writer #writing #storytelling #story #BookStadon
beyond our ken
territories established
via song
Pd Lietz collection
#Spring #SpringThing #SpringTime #Bird #Birds #BirdPhotography
#Nature #Migration #NaturePhotography
#Home #Canada #Haiku #Poetry #Poem #Poems #Poet #Prairie #Larks
#NaturesBliss #Crows #Sparrow #BlueJay #Woodpecker #SpringFever
La prima notte di primavera
amore mio
ho socchiuso la porta finestra della mia camera verde
e tu sei entrato
con le speranze infrante e le risate
con i silenzi e le parole umane
imperfette e calde
e sei rimasto nel mio canto,
separati dal mondo.
Di primo mattino
amore mio
nella fortuna della quiete
ho cacciato il sole
per restare in penombra
e berci indefiniti e belli
tiepidi e oscuri,
noi da soli e stanchi,
nella prima preghiera
di un’alba in primavera.
#poesia #poetry
Oh, Rick Ross,
Your buffalo strayed,
No one expected they'd roam so far away.
You advised collars to keep them safe and sound
But sadly we'd already found.
Strolling in the neighbor's yard with such grace
Quite an impressive sight, as they peacefully graze.
#rickross #buffalo #animals #escape #ode #poetry
https://www.insider.com/rick-ross-buffalo-escape-promise-land-neighbor-georgia-2023-3
Golden Star Of Faith
© Surazeus
20230320
With sacred sorrow of the wretched wood
sad refugees from war still seek the good
elusive as frail butterfly of love
that long evades divine gaze from above
when whistling bombs of arrogant desire
fail to shatter crystal church of the choir.
https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2023/03/golden-star-of-faith.html
#Poem #Poetry #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Romanticism #MetaRomanticism #AmericanDream #Symbolism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism
Golden Star Of Faith
https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-1064-1920-f759-f7c525139940
Navajo seeks justice
For centuries of injustice
Before the Supreme Court
#navajonation #waterrights #supremecourt #justice #haiku #poetry
Oh Suella Braverman, thou art the law's light
So that the Met Police can stand upright
Though scandals come and go
High standards we must know
So that justice can shine bright and bright.
#metpolice #law #justice #ode #poetry
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rogue-police-met-law-change-braverman-b2304058.html
"I Am Not Old"
by ~ Samantha Reynolds
I am not old…she said
I am rare.
I am the standing ovation
At the end of the play.
I am the retrospective
Of my life as art
I am the hours
Connected like dots
Into good sense
I am the fullness
Of existing.
You think I am waiting to die…
But I am waiting to be found
I am a treasure.
I am a map.
And these wrinkles are
Imprints of my journey
Ask me anything.
painting enchantment
wet pigment staining pure white
Moments of pure bliss!
Wishing that each of you finds your bliss whatever it is. :)
#art #artwork #artist #artists #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #artistsofmastodon #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #micropoetry #poet #poem #follow #nature #poets #poems #writer #writers #colorfulart #colorful #life #abstract #abstractart #hope #drip #painting #paintings #contemporaryart #modernart
A 1966 #documentary featuring #PhilipWhalen & #GarySnyder. Each gets some biography focus and then each reads their #poetry.
Both were key members of the #BeatGeneration and both read their poetry at the Six Gallery in #SanFrancisco on October 7, 1955 when Allan Ginsberg first publicly read his seminal #poem Howl. Both, also, had/have strong #PNW & #Oregon ties, and both were #Buddhist, fyi.
USA: Poetry, Philip Whalen & Gary Snyder (1966)
https://youtu.be/oFg7K4vAGnk
All that drip and you still don’t slay
Just cringe it is how you try to play
Low rizz, sus, not gucci, bet
What this means … I’m too old to get.
Twitter in a rage
MAGA defends Trump's fiery words
Republics divided
Reasonable arguments:
Is that any the worse than an oyster and and exchange
Is there not much more joy in a table and more chairs and very likely roundness and a place to put them
Makes sense!#GertrudeStein #TenderButtons #poetry #prose #prosepoetry
RE: https://botsin.space/users/TenderButtons/statuses/110056691909848896
![In between Hyde Park and The Dorchester Hotel along London’s Park Lane, locals and tourists alike are being captivated daily by Lorenzo Quinn’s massive public sculpture, entitled Harmony. This installation deconstructs the recognizable symbol of the Yin and Yang, by creating a physical gap between the two pieces and placing two aluminum figures in the opposing slopes of each side. The male figure sitting in the lower nook of the brushed aluminum Yang stares deeply into a polished chrome sphere, while the female figure seated in the upper recess of the Yin symbol replicates this gesture with a distressed sphere. Each of these orbs seem to be the perfect size to fit into the hollow hole in each side of the symbol, implying that “each person fills a space that the other was missing and therefore complet[es] his companion. This creates a perfect harmony that is essential to every relationship.”](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/110/058/353/614/998/773/small/4bf7b3311e19a791.png)
Poetry is never a personal matter,
a poet sings for those who cannot.
Testify
For Trump's grand jury
Under oath, voice his story
Attorney Costello
Answered the call
#robertcostello #trumpgrandjury #stormydaniels #hushmoney #cinquain #poetry
"in exile,
I read, it is best to link
redemption to prayer,
so that prayer
becomes redemption"
- from Daily Blessings by Hillel Broder
(also included in our Passover sale!)
https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/books/daily-blessings/
#Poems #Poetry #Jewish #Mazeldon #JewishPoetry #JewishAuthors #Talmud #Berachot
the lifeboat sinking
our captain promises to stop
drinking seawater
tomorrow
or perhaps the week after
if his demons allow
the government
turns to science for answers
hoping to evolve
a backbone
any day now
their masters pour oil
on deep and moneyed waters
dreaming of the good times
when nobody cared
https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/dreaming-of-the-good-times
The twenty-ninth piece. Don't we all have moments when we feel unseen? This is for you! 💐 🥺
This one may seem like a lament - but its origins are actually rather amusing to me. You can read the full reflection on "Flowers" at https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/1897070
"31 days of poetry and ink" full series: https://www.humangray.com/31-days-of-poetry-and-ink/
#MastoArt #CreativeToots #poetry #illustration #ink #TraditionalArt
Once In a while we find a place which remains a mystery and beholds the character to enhance the wonder of what lies behind the facade...
#castle #artist #artwork #mastoart #mastodon #photo #poetry #movies #art #AYearForArt #buyintoart #scifi #photography #history #travel #film #life #mystery #drama #romance
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A clock ticking in the empty den of the old house when no one’s around. Family pictures on the end tables, on the wall. Loomis has been gone for some time. He’s somewhere, but no one knows where. When he comes back, he’ll be...
#writing #literature #poetry #stories #adventures #language #reading #amwriting #books #prose #novels #writers #bookstodon #amreading #writersofmastodon
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
"I suffer wrongs that will not be said.
None will hear my excuse or cries.
Just as the candle weeps,
No one knows if the tears it sheds,
Come from its closeness to the fire
Or the longing of the bee’s wax for the honey’s sweetness, now parted."
UBS-Credit Suisse deal
Nightly work of the markets
Is it enough? We wait
#ubs #creditsuisse #markets #deal #haiku #poetry
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/global-markets-view-asia-graphic-pix-2023-03-19/
When you see the mice
A shadow will soon appear
The coffee is near
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Haiku #Senryu #MicroFiction #SmallStories #VSS
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Don’t love me,
take what I give and be happy.
Don’t love me,
be there to listen when the burden of existence
becomes too heavy, and I need to share.
Don't love me,
I give, for I'm so desperate to receive.
You reach for me with your heart upon your sleeve
and I fall.
I fall in the depths of my fears and despair,
taking refuge in pain inflicted upon me by others.
The others, my demons,
the ones you need to fight,
the ones I need to conquer.
I long for a haven of forever.
I long for one out of thousands.
I'm hoping for the impossible —
life's promise that this time it will last,
that this time there won't be any pain,
that this time my love won't be in vain.
Don't love me
for it's the illusion you love.
Cracks you sense in me
you fill with what you want me to be.
I'm broken and mended time and time again.
Every night, with glittery moonlight
I break.
With every dawn
I became whole again,
mended in tears of my own despair.
Sun is the healer,
it chases the shadows away
and fear has no place in my heart once again.
Healing, I need healing.
Don't love me
for I'm not whole.
I’m in pieces scattered around me.
I mourn each and every one of them,
making a new mosaic every day.
Don't love, but love me anyway.
~ Iva
note:
This poem was written as I was resisting to let go and fall in love with my husband.
Vladimir Putin speaks his mind
Welcomes Chinese paths' to combine
For restoring peace
Ending war's increased
Where Ukraine stands and what it may shine
#russia #china #ukraine #xijinping #putin #ode #poetry
https://www.reuters.com/world/eve-xi-visit-putin-welcomes-chinese-role-ukraine-crisis-2023-03-19/
Profuse pink
A missing petal
Perfection
豊富なピンク
欠けた花びら
完全
おはようございます 🌧️
がんばりましょう。
⛩️👻💗👻⛩️
Shot 2023 ©️ Nara Moore, Do not use in AI
#PoetsOfMastodon #Haiku #Senyru #俳句 #川柳 #Poem #Poetry #FreeHaiku @freehaiku
#Shahai #シャハイ #Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真
#Spring #春 #Flower #花 #Sakura #桜
Rescuing their rival
UBS steps in to the fray
Government brokered deal
Happy equinox to all—and to those of us in the north, happy first day of spring!
Here's a poem to celebrate, thanks to the Poetry Today newsletter of Maya C. Popa. You can find more from Maya here: https://mayacpopa.substack.com/
distrust at first
had to prove I
was worth my mare's trust
#575Prompt - distrust
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#writing
#writingcommunity
It's "UN French Language Day," which gives me a good excuse to post my latest limerick:
Pardon My French!
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/03/20/french-language-humor/
#Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Language #French #UN #UNFrenchLanguageDay
Cropped images undone
"aCropalypse" flaw revealed
Google Pixel woes
This ✨Wonderful✨ private note from an 87 year old #French #woman , #today 🤗
"Vive la #france !"
Anyone know a good #translator ?
#translation #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #writing #WritingCommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #boost #Mastodon #introduction #introductions #Fediverse #SilentSunday #Monday #literature #readers
Fury
Burns hot in Alonso's chest
Penalty from FIA
Costing him hard earned place
On the podium of success
#fernandoalonso #fia #podium #saudiarabia #cinquain #poetry
http://www.independent.co.uk/f1/f1-fernando-alonso-penalty-podium-saudi-b2304019.html
A few more lovely words and a tune before I bimble off into the sunset. Wishing you all a very glorious evening 💫 💖
"We must stay alive
to our place in the family
of green and breathing things
that use even our sighs
to make sweetness from light.
What grace. Allow what is simple
to be simple. Accept it as
truth."
Extract from Air by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
#Poetry #Bookstodon #Nature #Life #Quotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL8rWu7uGc0&list=RDEMLCF4ElvKOMp0u9KJAEu5qw&index=7
"Here lies the land: every air
Beneath swift clouds, glad glints of sun,
Belonging to no-one but itself.
We are mere transients, who sing
It's westlin' winds and fernie braes,
Northern lights and siller tides,
Small folk playing our part."
Kathleen Jamie - Here Lies Our Land
#Poetry #Bookstodon #Life #Nature
possibilities
are endless colorful drips
Art reveals itself.
#MastoPrompt - drip
ART https://fineartamerica.com/featured/abstract-art-possibilities-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html
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@bsmall2 I read and write #poetry pretty widely. Recently: https://marokomag.com/post/for-the-world-s-pretty-eyes https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159602/the-artist-63d98c7c811b0 poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram
"When everything you look at starts to speak to you,
you have wholly embarked upon the journey.
When everything you see secrets its magic in your direction,
the path has begun to leak its secret.
As the migrants of long ago would say: the explorer becomes the path, in the end ..."
from Book of the Edge, Ece Temelkuran
#Poetry #Bookstodon #Nature #travel #quotes #Life #Perspective
Very good article here with excellent excerpts of poetry.
Hitting nail on the head here:
'While the dimension of ethnic cleansing and racialised cultural prejudice, stressed by some historians, tends to be downplayed in other accounts in favour of socio-economic explanations, it is certain that the Clearances generate images of widespread destruction and the erasure of people, their culture, and a way of life...'
Haiku Prompt 3/20/23!
Create a haiku using the word of the day: hyson
https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/hyson-2023-03-20/
#WOTDHaikuPrompt #haiku #wordoftheday #prompt #poetry #JoinIn
Every day
at the flower shop -
free scent
Haiku Prompt 3/19/23!
Create a haiku using the word of the day: purloin
https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/purloin-2023-03-19/
#WOTDHaikuPrompt #haiku #wordoftheday #prompt #poetry #JoinIn
We notice the unhindered sky. The breathable expanse. A clearing where once there was none. An opening within the uncertainty, between the question and it's mark. A place of hope, 'perhaps', and longing. A place of waiting and whispers. A place of richer listening. Where we can know the touch of our truest expectations and learn the tender textures of our hearts...
DIVINE BY PAMELA WILLIAMS
Gentle breeze upon
Ivy entangling the mind
Sunshine saves the soul
#dailyhaikuprompt #ivy
Meet Divine a fascinating stilt walker character at Animal Kingdom camouflaged amongst the trees, often hard to find.
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up close it is clear
distant objects appear blurry
light is misguided
#SmallPoems #Poetry #poem #haiku
#MastoPrompt #myopic
you don't have to be
ivy league educated
To think for yourself...
#DailyHaikuPrompt - ivy
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low simmer anger
a secret one sided fight
suddenly explodes
#dailyhaikuprompt
#writingcommunity
#poem #poetry
#haiku #prompt - rage
if I were a bear
I would eat lots of honey
and sleep all winter
#dailyhaikuprompt
#writingcommunity
#poem #poetry
#haiku #prompt - bear
Time
Slips
Like a landslide
A rush of
Things once
Held
Together
Now not
Other days
It #drips
So slowly
Like a tap
That has
Not
Quite
Turned itself
Off
And keeps you
Awake
At night
#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #LoveArt #print #Photography #poetry
JohnClare on the banks of the River Gwash; and yes, that really is the Gwash, near Stamford.
The cows stand loitering by thy flaggy brink
Free from noons sultry flies & in delight
The weary cart horse hastens in to drink
Then knaps the moist grass with a keener bite
The #MastoPrompt for Monday 20th March 2023 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
i had #chatgpt #ai write a villanelle about #TheOrville (or, as i dubbed it, an orvillanelle) for @tomcostantino ~ #scifi #poetry #poem #writing
March 20, 2023
watching this film, originally in English and Mandarin
dubbed in German and then in Russian
not quite eliminating the previous audio tracks
would probably be a bit easier if it weren’t also subbed
in Dutch over Cantonese over English
rendering the experience occluded holographic
four fragmented linguistic elements variously known
as one might know cooking oatmeal and French toast
where historically French toast has been any number of things
while oatmeal, beloved oatmeal, sometimes utterly lacks oats
in a mélange with eggy cinnamon, while the French breads
sometimes don’t even egg a little bit, even in the closet
finding myself on the streets again, angry teens RDXing cars
tanks getting ready to roll, but not rolling yet, economic collapsar
spinning in radio silence, glitches of radio screams
punctuating interstellar distances where we’ve been dreaming contact
everything between included, photographic intersectional
a sophit lie-down, upside-down, soft-silenced
where we’re watching this film we’re in, knowing it’s coming
knowing it’s been, knowing in iron cornices filed down to wire
magnetized, shaken to blank, baby syndrome regurgitating memetics
screening truths that are truths that are truths that have never been
gyrations at umbilicus end, it’s not fashion, it’s not ism, it’s dance
threshing striations towards homogenous obliteration, unpeopling
we have always been watching this film, we have always been in it
saying there is no film, there is please gods no film, where are my people
everyone pointing at painting in egg-wash, baking down fixations
motivations in let it not be real, let the reveal be concealed eternally
burn cinnamon, burn the itch, burn the ever-loving ash out of the
[insert people here] until we can look the other way, everyone like us
we are not watching this film, we have never been here
fill the trenches with everything we might have known
dark matterless prolapsar, where are my people
where are my people, glitch-signal out
broken E-R bridge, white light
white light
where are my people
* * *
#poem #poetry #writing
> ... though the enacted subject is a sad one, the act of performing it is joyous because it leads the poet to true equivalents of his feeling. In art a true equivalence (no matter of what) is always a joyous capture.
#JohnCiardi in #HowDoesAPoemMean made me think of #Camus in #TheRebel on #DespairingLiterature, that there can not be a #LiteratureOfDespair, We read for #JoyousCapture, I guess. #Poetry #Poem #LitCrit
I see the people searching
For what I think I've found
I plan to call to them over
—and hesitate
Could I be wrong?
Could my search have ended false?
How else could so many weary souls
Pass by their heart's desire?
I thought I'd found the light.
---
Living in the sea
Swimming with purpose endlessly
Chomping up my prey
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My book has been published. Wahoo.
My trunk is slender, white and tall
But doesn’t bow or bend. Come fall,
My gold leaves decorate the river.
The slightest movement makes me quiver,
And that’s due to my deep despair
At my part in this whole affair…
For once, upon Golgotha stood
A cross constructed from my wood.
#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #botany #trees #folklore #poetrycommunity
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I --
I took the one with the steeper gradient,
And that has made all the difference.
#silentsunday #sunday #nature #naturephotography #photography #photo #outdoors #winter #poetry #marshmadness #march #hiking #robertfrost
subtle never works
Mother Nature doesn't play
Earth is in danger!
#DailyHaikuPrompt - subtle
#MastoPrompt - mother
#art #artwork #artist #AYearForArt #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #micropoetry #poet #poem #nature #spring #peace #love #goddess #women #woman #colorfulart #artists #writer #writers #poets #poems #healing #spirituality #spiritual #inspiration #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #mothersday #mother #nature
"And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges"
Twelfth Night, Act 5, Scene 1
Let's hope that comes true this week. Lookin' at you, Bunter. And you, 45. 😡
#ShakespeareSunday #Quotes #Poetry #Plays #Bookstodon #UKPolitics #USPolitics #PrivilegesCommittee #RecallPetition #LockHimUp
The twenty-eighth piece. Another lovely subway encounter that put a smile on my face!
"The Flute Player" previously posted at https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/1895453
"31 days of poetry and ink" full series: https://www.humangray.com/31-days-of-poetry-and-ink/
#MastoArt #CreativeToots #poetry #illustration #ink #TraditionalArt
Tiniest of buds
Subtle warming of the wind
Herons know to brood
#Haiku
#poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - subtle
We need spaces of wild idleness. Wide expanses of feral ambling, even if only for brief stretches. Just enough for remembrance and recognition; to remember our own undomesticated possibility, to recognize our undiscovered vastness.
"With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?" (Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays)
IMO haiku are not about words, but images
8) Write a haiku involving this image, but *not* this word:
- ARROW
and tag it: #imagiku 8 #haiku
= and FOLLOW #imagiku AND @imagiku
over to you …
and boost this, & responses!
My personal view of Haiku https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/so-what-is-haiku
My subs: (eventually) clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/imagiku-arrow
previous: https://writing.exchange/@w0dz/110027420031349478
This is not a DAILY prompt.
#poetry #poetryCommunity #smallpoems #amwriting #writingCommunity #senryu
Frozen and still in ice,
under the crystalline moon.
Frosted rocks suspended,
waiting for the warmth of the sun.
A sliver of light,
pale in the east.
A line of division,
chasing away the colourless night.
#Scotland #Galloway #Photography #Blackandwhitephotography #Poetry
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sometimes takes the lead
waiting with obedient patience
never alone, always faithful
a best friend indeed ~ pamela
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Thanks @cardi for the image!
All kinds of things
Can be
#Reclaimed
Lands
Words
Wounds
There is no
Shame
In having been
Hurt
The world
Cuts us all
In different
Ways
There is nothing
Wrong
With looking
At a
Scar
And saying
"I survived that day
And here I still am, today"
This is not the kind
Of pride
That goes before
A fall
This is the kind
That it was
Meant for
#MastoPrompt #Poetry #SmallPoems (OK not really "small" but whatever)
I asked #chatgpt to write a new stanza based on Kubla Khan :
n Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A pleasure-dome beyond compare,
With walls and towers stretching on
To capture the imaginations there.
Within its gates, a paradise
Of gardens, forests, and winding streams,
And there beneath the azure skies,
The emperor dreamed his wondrous dreams.
But in the shadow of that dome
Lurked secrets dark and strange to tell,
A place where shadows roamed
And whispered secrets of a hell.
Beneath the cedars' heavy boughs,
Where moonbeams fell like silver rain,
The emperor heard a voice that howled,
A sound that chilled his very brain.
And so it was that Kubla heard
The voices of the ancients rise,
Whispering of the bloody sword
And of the war that never dies.
But he refused to heed their cries,
The warnings of the restless dead,
And so his kingdom met its demise,
In the blood that his own hands had shed.
My latest short story has some satirical touches (okay, dollops).
I may have chosen too easy a target, but I was in a hurry to publish it – an irony in itself.
https://reiditwrite.substack.com/p/publish-no-matter-if-damned-or-proud
#satire #shortstory
#publishing #publishers
#writer #writers #writing
#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
Back in October & November I participated in a Nature Writing workshop. On one of our earliest sessions we walked to the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City and it inspired a poem. You can read it on my blog.
https://circleofignorance.com/2023/03/17/the-bare-hearth-a-poem/
Our creative work is the proof that we have survived the harshest seasons. The diminishing daylight. The shifts into the dark. That we taught our cells to tolerate the cold. That even in the slow dormancy we have never stopped working. We learned to make a flower. A candy liquid. A shielded seed desperate to be sown. Our determination to persevere...
to wake and walk the day
thinking perhaps you have
perambulated into the penumbra of your
melancholy
at last
but no
your legs haven’t the length to
outpace the shadow
your lungs haven’t the breath to bear
its grave pressure
so you put down your pen as the dark
swallows again
a quarter century flies
parallel to the white stork
I am a mother.
#DailyHaikuPrompt - Stork
#MastoPrompt - quarter
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crypto bros
building the biggest pyramid
last laugh coming
or tears all around
noah's flood
looks like condensation
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#wrdz
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
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Gipsies believe their dead folk change
Into wild flowers, ever to range
Along the trails.
So, when you pass, give them a greeting--
Their beauty like your own is fleeting,
And, too, belongs to God, my sweeting.
Wild Flowers (For Rosemary) by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=19041
#WildflowerHourNYC #Poetry #Nature Poetry
From The original Rare Sights Gallery, The Wonder of Reflection. Visit, have your own moment, be enchanted.
This, was a once upon a very long time sight. Once seen never forgotten...
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Read on
at
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we busy ourselves
until our souls glaze over
Just bee still and breathe...
#DailyHaikuPrompt bee
#MastoPrompt glaze
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Shimmering sugar
Baked and filled with delicious
Morning time devours
Every Friday for the past 7 years my grandkids partake in #donutfriday and I get a little Snapchat video of the fun. A tradition I have grown to adore!
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#Bees land on blossoms
Pollinating and Buzzing
Time to land now - Sting!
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Pogonophobia - the fear of beards
pog·o·no·pho·bi·a
/ˌpōɡənəˈfōbēə/ noun
The term pogonophobia is derived from the Greek words pogon (πώγων) for "beard" and phobos (φόβος) for "fear." Its antonym would be "pogonophilia", that is the love of beards or bearded persons.
#WordWizard #WordOfTheDay #WotD #Logophile #lexiphile #lexicography #literature #poetry #writer #writing #storytelling #story
"Man is
a great wall-builder -
the Berlin Wall
the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem -
but the wall
most impregnable
has a moat
flowing with fright
around his heart"
~ Oswald Mtshali
#bookstodon #poetry #Quotes
Moody's review looms
Banks face potential downgrade
Silicon Valley falls
#moodys #banks #siliconvalleybank #collapse #haiku #poetry
http://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-updates-03-14-23/index.html
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 15th March 2023 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
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
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