#poetrycommunity

Some #limerick fun with yet another new-to-me-word:
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/06/08/dog-humor-3/

#Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Neighbors #Dog #Dogs #Pets #Noise #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

A memory from 2 years ago...

"Scars"

#Poem #Poetry
#PoetryCommunity #sonnet

Still wet with seaweed, muck and brine,
The Oracle speaks: “Now leave this shrine
With veiled heads and dress unbound,
And cast behind you on the ground
Your mother’s bones.” We can’t profane
Our ancestors—we must explain
This riddle in some other way.
So we throw stones and walk away.

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #mythology #literature #classic #epic #poem #ancientrome #roman #ancientgreece #metamorphosis #poetrycommunity

Will it Matter? - A Poem
#WritingCommunity #poem #poetry #AmWriting #Kindness #ItDoesntMatter #PoetryCommunity #PoetryIsLife

http://georgelthomas.com/2020/07/28/will-it-matter/

all over the floor
yellow cat paw prints
missed the sign 'wet paint'

#dailyhaikuprompt - paint
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#cats

@dailyhaikuprompt

@poetry

hooded kid
fingers explores the face
of a brick wall

#senryu #haiku #freehaiku #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfMastodon @freehaiku

#MastoPrompt #bus
 
Bus me
Both cheeks, but only
If you really care

#poetry #smallpoems #poem #poetrycommunity​

#MastoPrompt #bus

Each morning I get out of bed,
Eat two fried eggs on toasted bread,
I pack some food to last all day
And grab a coffee on the way,
I wait in line to board the bus,
Politely greet but don’t discuss,
I feel depressed and all alone,
And check the weather on my phone.

#poetry #smallpoems #poem #irony #postmodernism #despair #depression #poetrycommunity

On winter’s eve or summer’s dawn,
The Hunter holds the bowstring drawn,
Ready to let his arrow fly
Straight through the Sacred Bull’s red eye.
Though we are distant, deep and dim,
Eternally evading him,
We seven sisters jointly shine
Along that imaginary line.

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #astronomy #stars #mythology #science #stargazing #nightsky #poetrycommunity

The Master of the Vineyard hired
Us in the morning. Now we’re tired
And hungry, though it’s only noon.
With half the vines still left to prune,
He goes to town and hires more,
Then sets them to an easier chore
And promises an equal pay
As those of us who’ve worked all day.

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #religion #bible #newtestament #parable #christianity #legend #poetrycommunity

the bracelet he gave
turned out to be
a chain of his love

#575Prompt - bracelet
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@aethelshane

@poetry

waiting for the bus
route was lifted years ago
not in her mind

#MastoPrompt - #bus
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@tanweerdar

@poetry

tree roots network
communicates through fungi
the wood wide web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWOqeyPIVRo

#dailyhaikuprompt - roots
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#nature
#trees

@dailyhaikuprompt

@poetry

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting

@poetry @poets @writingcommunity @writers @bookstodon

With bare feet and a tin-pot hat,
I made sure that your cider-vat
For years to come would still be full.
A generous and gentle soul
Anticipating future needs,
From sea to sea I planted seeds…
Or so they say—if not, at least
A handful of states in the northeast.

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #american #history #folklore #legend #americana #agriculture #botany #poetrycommunity

Here in the last and lowest layer,
Locked in ice with my betrayer,
I feed on him that immured me.
But you’re from Tuscany, I see…
So you’ll have heard of Hunger Tower,
But not of my most desperate hour
When, chewing my own hands in madness,
Starvation overpowered my sadness.

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #literature #classic #epic #poem #medieval #italy #legend #history #poetrycommunity

We are working on our newsletter with queer poems that we published! Now might be good to sign up (it's entirely free) -

https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/join-our-email-list/

(psst - we also publish and promote queer stuff year round! So it's not a one-time thing 😺 )

#Jewish #Mazeldon #PrideMonth #queer #LGBTQIA #JewishBooks #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #Newsletter #QueerBooks

Without - Within

He knelt
With bowed head
In front of the triptych.
He'd forgotten the why
And, not looking at it,
Even all that it depicted.
He knew though that here
There was a peace and longing
Vanished from elsewhere.
He knew, that here
Of all places,
He was at home.

#MastoPrompt - #triptych
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity​

Here's my LIGHT/DELIGHT-Rhyme limerick for my latest Limerick-Off. If you'd like to enter this Limerick-Off, here are the two entry links:
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/05/27/limerick-off-light/
and here:
https://www.facebook.com/madkane/posts/pfbid02bKBd75nkKx3oVdTMDA1vW5nd8m7yyrWiedubBPRYBywuWHWz94n1f5W7Brgu1UAZl

#Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humour #Humor #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

Flood: years of solitude
by Dionisio D. Martínez

To the one who sets a second place at the table anyway.   

To the one at the back of the empty bus.

To the ones who name
each piece of stained glass projected on a white wall.

To anyone convinced
that a monologue is a conversation with the past.

To the one who loses with their own marked deck. 

To those who are destined to inherit the meek.   

To us.

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems

A new poem from Azuka Nzegwu celebrates the Munay-Ki rites of the Q’ero people in the Peruvian Andes. The latest addition to the Indigenizing What It Means to be Human collection at SAPIENS: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/a-love-letter-to-the-munay-ki/

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #anthropology #Peru #q'ero

https://bloguers.net/votar/noemisarrion
#poesia #poema #votar #poesiadeldia #poetrycommunity #poetas #loveislove #amor #LGBTQ :heart_lesbian:

Poem: Words

https://medium.com/the-haiku-shack/words-247a436d038

#poetry #poetrycommunity

Poem: Words

https://medium.com/the-haiku-shack/words-247a436d038

#poetry #poetrycommunity

The Haiku Shack Podcast – ‘The Mountains stood in Haze (1278)’ – Emily Dickinson

https://creativeramblings.com/poetry/podcast-emily-dickinson-5/

#poetry #poetrycommunity

BOXCAR ROMANCE

“you stir the wind between the bridges”

Sketch from the film Streetwise (1984)

#video #videoArt #sketch #sketchbook #poetry #poem #poetryCommunity #writingCommunity #MastoArt #illustration #drawing #watercolor

The poems of Valerie A Szarek "are gems that will invite you in--deeply into your inner world as well as the world in which we live." They are her Offerings.
#poetrycommunity #books #poetryisnotdead #poetrylovers #promo
https://www.amazon.com/Offerings-Valerie-Szarek/dp/1735233013/

Imitation
Tickles imagination
A metamorphosis invocation

#insixwords #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity

A poem of mine in June/July issue of #Philosophy Now #magazine :

“the most widely read philosophy publication in the English-speaking world” 😇

https://philosophynow.org/issues/156/The_Opposite_of_Virtue

#poetry #ethics #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #writing #reading #motivation #inspiration

@FrostPoem

sea thrift of sea pink
grows where others fear to tread
coastal pink beauty

#MicroPrompt - thrift
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting
#nature

@poetry

unconditional
love, world peace, understanding
triptych for mankind

And there's nothing funny about it. Link to Nick Lowe's classic song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy3LpV0THB0

#MastoPrompt - #triptych
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

old bumpy dirt tracks
winding narrow country lanes
journeys of joy

#575Prompt - bumpy
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#countryside

@aethelshane '

@poetry

I just posted my 'bird haiku of the day' on haikudailypodcast. Today's bird is the woodpecker. An inspiration for you too?

dead pine tree branch

woodpecker's territory

so his drumming says

#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#nature
#birds

@poetry
https://haikudailypodcast.substack.com/p/writing-prompts-for-june-2023/comments

the light and warmth
of the sun salutary
for body and soul

#dailyhaikuprompt - soul
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@dailyhaikuprompt

@poetry

spring cold and wet
vegetables hesitated
flourishing at last

#dailyhaikuprompt - #flourishing
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@dailyhaikuprompt

@poetry

The Promise - A Poem
#PoetryCommunity #PoetCommunity #WriterCommunity #WritingCommunity #PoemSociety #Family #Promise #Nanna #Grandmother #Mother #Grief #Grieving #Loss #ThePromise

https://georgelthomas.com/2023/06/06/the-promise/

The Charmer (Limerick)
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/06/05/personality-humor/

#MicroPrompt #Bubble

#Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humour #Humor #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Guns #Gun #Weapons

A #book that asks:

How might we sanctify our days?

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-heretic-s-hymnal

#poetry #books #bookstodon #spirituality #prayer #Islam #faith #poetrycommunity #Monday

I wish I could put
jasmine's perfume in a spray
for dull winter days

#575Prompt - spray
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@aethelshane

@poetry

I just posted my 'bird haiku of the day' on the website of haikudailypodcast. Today it's about the hummingbird.

tiny, colourful
ninety wingbeats per second
hummingbird power

#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@poetry

https://haikudailypodcast.substack.com/p/writing-prompts-for-june-2023

image in mirror
does the cat know she's
looking at herself?

#MastoPrompt - #self
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@tanweerdar

@poetry

the cold and wet spring
put the potager on hold
flourishing at last

#dailyhaikuprompt - flourishing
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@dailyhaikuprompt

@poetry

The latest free reviews on Bogi Reads the World: a fantasy graphic novel that was a pleasant surprise, a small volume of queer prose poetry, and a vintage YA science fiction book!

https://www.bogireadstheworld.com/reviews-sina-lemus-hoover/

#Bookstodon @bookstodon #Books #BookReviews #BogiReads #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #GraphicNovels #Iran #Mythology #Latine #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Queer #YA

A Certain Kind of Debt

BY SANDRA SIMONDS

You warned me about striving.
You said once they gave you a house

with waves of peppermint in the backyard,
the Library of Babylon, and free lunch,

they would take it away. Still, I ate
the fake meat they served on Fridays,

always alone with my petite jar of grief.
I liked the jar because it gave me something

to look forward to. The truth is uncomfortable—
now that’s something I told you.

I told you other things too—that we would
end up down south again in that city

of tarot card readers, storms, and gin.
In the summer, it’s terror for people

who can’t take it. But we can.
We were never really going to get away.

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems

The descendants of William Wordsworth are on a mission to raise awareness of the poet and his work, and they’re starting with the younger generation. By Eileen Jones.
#Wordsworth #Poetry #poetrycommunity
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/books/wordsworth-and-the-new-romantics/

freedom of speech ends
where begin hatred, sedition,
discrimination
🏳️‍🌈

#MastoPrompt - #speech
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting
#pride
#pridemonth

@tanweerdar

@poetry
@writingcommunity

every wedding's
dreaded moment
speech time

#MastoPrompt - #speech
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@tanweerdar

@poetry
@writingcommunity

@DrOinFLA

flower here, leaf there
gather my garden salad
palate and eye feast

#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting

@poetry @poets @writingcommunity @writers @bookstodon

I just posted my bird haiku of the day on haikudailypodcast.substack.com. Today's prompt is 'sparrow'

from the bird feeder
sparrows look at me as if
asking permission

#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#SmallPoems
#writing
#writingcommunity

https://haikudailypodcast.substack.com/p/writing-prompts-for-june-2023/comments

3800 Year-Old Ancient Egyptian #Poetry

"Talking with the #Soul: A Dialogue about #Life & #Death "

Thanks, to @madrush for sharing this treasure — astonishing how timeless it is!

@histodons #histodons #history #culture #egypt #poetrycommunity #writing #WritingCommunity #Egypt #reading #audio #humanity

what poets do
unlock imagination
both theirs and yours

#MastoPrompt - #unlock
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@tanweerdar

memories lost
a past lost
a self lost

#dailyhaikuprompt - lost
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@dailyhaikuprompt - lost

the names, the dates
on the war memorial
inscriptions shock

#MastoPrompt - #inscription
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@tanweerdar

Pleased to have 4 #poems featured in Live Encounters #Magazine : showcasing leading academics, #writers, #poets, #activists of all hues etc. from around the #world.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #WritingCommunity #spirituality #prayer #SilentSunday #Monday #inspiration

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting

@poetry @poets @writingcommunity @writers @bookstodon

golden like the sun
in full bloom
yellow buttercups

#dailyhaikuprompt - yellow
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@dailyhaikuprompt

woken up by
polyphonic birdsong
perfect harmony

#MastoPrompt - birdsong
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@tanweerdar

A poem from February I completely forgot about.

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting

@poetry @poets @writingcommunity @writers @bookstodon

Check out Abigail Chabitnoy's new poem "Post-" that's part of the Indigenizing What It Means to be Human collection at SAPIENS: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/post/

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #anthropology #Indigenous #motherhood

demonic
and angelic, two sides
of the same person

#MastoPrompt - demonic
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@tanweerdar

The Con Man (Limerick)
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/05/17/con-man-humor/

#Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Media #Fox #FoxNews #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

Since November, when I started on Mastodon and decided to translate some of my previous texts (written in Russian) into English, anglophony seemingly overtook me: the only poem in Russian that I've done this year, for example, was a rewrite I've done to finish the book, which sat on my desk since late 2017.

And things I'm writing now in English looks something like this→

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting

@poetry @poets @writingcommunity @writers @bookstodon

I'm excited to share this #video trailer for my forthcoming #book, Quarantine Notes, by filmmaker Marc Neys (aka Swoon).

I hope his artistic short #film captures your #imagination and you might consider ordering my book, available next week:

https://youtu.be/72SjsDhlnLM

Please, #boost to help me get the word out. Thank you 🙏

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #WritingCommunity #poetry #wisdom #meditation #covid #covid19 #Inspiration #motivation #hope #poetrycommunity #writing #life #love

cousin of primrose
stretches of cowslip now rare
habitats lost

#DailyHaikuPrompt - cowslip
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#nature

@dailyhaikuprompt

floaty summer dress
a gust of wind
oops!

#575Prompt - gust
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@aethelshane

The greatest divide
Is now inside of us all
Remove it or die.

#MastoPrompt - #divide
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@tanweerdar

Head into a gust
But only if you must - you
Can go with the flow.

#575Prompt - gust
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@aethelshane

rolling landscape
far reaching views
from top of the hills

#DailyHaikuPrompt - hills
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@dailyhaikuprompt

My poem "Cinderella" is currently up at Strange Horizons!
#writing #poetry #poem #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/cinderella/

Into the open timidly lured,
By innocence and youth assured,
From every snare of man yet free,
An untouched maiden captured me.
Unwary of such cunning trap,
I lay my head upon her lap.
She signaled for the hunter’s net,
And instantly I knew regret.

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #folklore #animals #cryptozoology #legend #naturalhistory #poetrycommunity

#vss365 prompt: #scruff

It may look like she’s getting rough
When mother grips me by the scruff,
But that’s just how she cares for me.
I’m old enough to wander free,
But too small to be on my own.
Until I’m weaned and mostly grown,
My mischief-making brothers and I
Her full attention occupy.

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #pets #cats #kittens #poetrycommunity #mothersday #catsofmastodon

birdsong at dusk
trees ringing with melody
never out ot tune

#DailyHaikuPrompt - melody
#MastoPrompt - ringing
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@dailyhaikuprompt
@tanweerdar

I see a future
Where the worst noise in towns is
Cycle bells ringing.

#575Prompt - ringing
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@aethelshane

negativity
nothing saps
energy more

#DailyHaikuPrompt - sap
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@dailyhaikuprompt

no matter how fast
you're running, you can't shake off
your shadow

#575Prompt - running
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@aethelshane

My new weekly installment in Metapsychosis: #journal of #consciousness, #literature & #art:

Never mind #poetry or prose, good #literature is the art of friction.
✨
#Poems seem to grow with us. Often, it’s only we who are catching up with a #poem’s dimension.
✨
#Writing is a kind of echolocating—to discover our tribe.

https://www.metapsychosis.com/collections/quarantine-notes/

via @madrush

#WritingCommunity #ai #inspiration #motivation #wisdom #spirituality #meditation #poetrycommunity #quotes #words #books #life

@nasa Thank you, for this tremendous #photo — like a waking #dream or #time #travel.

Which is how I feel about the #desert in general & I’m fortunate to have visited this one, in particular: White Desert (aka ‘Farrafra’) in #Egypt .

Here’s a #book I wrote about my transporting desert experiences— with #photography 🙏🏼✨

https://www.theculturium.com/yahia-lababidi-desert-songs/

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #culture #mysticism #poetrycommunity #poetry #writing #Morocco

spring progresses
I can hear the bluebells
ringing

#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@tanweerdar

The part I played in eighty-nine
Was mainly as a Florentine.
Elected then to high position,
I tried to be a politician
Who took the side of Papal states.
But when they barred me at the gates,
To poetry I gave myself,
No longer Ghibelline nor Guelph.

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #history #literature #medieval #italy #politics #poet #religion #poetrycommunity

the rain didn't stop
the day she died
heaven's grief

#DailyHaikuPrompt - grief
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@dailyhaikuprompt

there is no handbook
for grief, it takes the time
it takes

#DailyHaikuPrompt - grief
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@dailyhaikuprompt

a spring shower
works magic on the forest
lush green explosion

#DailyHaikuPrompt - lush
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

@dailyhaikuprompt

When my hard work is not enough,
I store away my treasured stuff,
With straight face and a heart that’s breaking.
Though everyone was always taking,
And never once did I stop giving,
I’m all alone and somehow living
Out of my car at seventy-two,
And I don’t know what to do.

😢

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #homeless #homelessness #news #contemporary #crisis #poetrycommunity

The prompt word was "creeping," which inspired me to write a haiku about a long ago incident.

Creeping up on me,
He put me in a chokehold
and bit off diamond.

#575Prompt #Creeping

#Crime #Jewelry #Assault #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

Fellow members of the #PoetryCommunity on Mastodon: According to the Haiku society of America, the definition of #haiku doesn't include a syllable count (though its mentioned in the discussion notes), but is mainly concerned with clean, imagistic language centered on nature/the seasons and human experience. So why so much obsession with syllable count online? Not even all Japanese haiku fit the 5-7-5 syllable count. (Though the three unrhymed lines are ever present.)

https://hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definitions.html#Haiku

Tea soothes a cold heart
When steeped warmth rises from within
Arranging thoughts to endure

#mastoprompt - arrange
#dailyhaikuprompt - #tea

Tea Time➡️ https://3-pamela-williams.pixels.com/featured/2-tea-time-pamela-williams.html

#teatime #relax #beverage #art #digitalart #artography #mentalhealth #smile #art #artist #creativetoots #mastoart #fediart #AYearforArt #TheArtDistrict #poem #haiku #poetry #writing #575haiku #herbaltea #BuyIntoArt #PoetryCommunity
#SharePamsArt

My May Day 2023 manifesto poem in video form. A reminder to all remain vigilant against fascism.

#Poem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Fascism #Trans #discrimination #UkPol #UkPolitics #Tories

I missed the last rays
but the cherry blossom is
still spectacular
and the sky like a painting.
Birds singing the sun to bed.
🌸🌸🌸
#tanka #tankapoetry #cherryblossom #starbankpark #cherryblossomsunset #naturephotographer #naturepoetry #sunset #springevening #poetrycommunity

#vss365 prompt: #bumblebee

I sing a song of single tone,
A constant, mesmerizing drone,
And displace pollen as I fumble.
Industrious, alert and humble,
I see you have sufficient clover.
But if my days are almost over,
I fear you’re short on revery
To make a prairie without me.

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #science #biology #emilydickinson #environment #bees #agriculture #climatechange #poetrycommunity

In celebration of #worldbookday , a shameless plug of my #books 📚

✨10 collections of cultural essays, poetry, aphorisms & conversations ✨

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Here's my haiku for "Big Word Day."

Applaud or compose
Sesquipedalian prose?
Today is YOUR day.

http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/04/21/big-word-day-senryu/

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‘I recently stopped my #Twitter account & like many others, moved to #Mastodon & the first #poet I encountered there was Yahia Lababidi.

What a delight! What a calm voice of reason. What an excellent poet. I am going to let Yahia speak for himself. Enjoy!’

— @Magpieboy

https://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/2023/04/yahia-lababidi-poet-of-hope.html?fbclid=IwAR3lkY4eHtnXc3ja4XKxjW1fRAAVS6Xe5gI9nt5ijF3Yh-Z3PRqyuYZj_1U&m=1&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

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I'm very pleased to share my 2nd #creative collaboration with an #artist from #Mastodon
[Here, is my 1st with @madrush
https://www.metapsychosis.com/creative-agents/yahia-lababidi/ ]

I do hope you enjoy
my wide-ranging conversation with #poet Paul Tobin @Magpieboy — about #books , #socialmedia , #heroes , #ai & much else— on his popular #poetry blog:

https://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/2023/04/yahia-lababidi-poet-of-hope.html

Please, #boost 🙏 ⭐

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Clearing

Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.

Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.

Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worthy of rescue.

— Martha Postlethwaite

#poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #poetrycommunity #poetrymonth #SilentSunday #Sunday

@mguhlin

but

the output of these things is only ever *plausible*.
No guarantees of accuracy or "truth".

Fine for "inspiration", though it would be cheaper to n draw random words from a hat.
In a teaching environment, it would be unwise to regard them as sources of wisdom. Maybe a bad habit to set?

#ChatGPT #AI #poetrycommunity

yeah, I tried poetry once... now I can't unsee the startling beauty all around me, nestled away in overheard snippets of conversation and the most random word pairings

pizza moon
(with a side of word salad, pls)

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Rainy Sunset

The angry pink sky
Spews her vitriol across
Night's weeping canvas.

https://write.bz/poetry/rainy-sunset

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@dailyhaikuprompt

My top tips for those of us lucky enough to work from home.

#poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

“I was not born to this
wariness. I came of age
as my kind do—armed with ache
…
I bore witness: I listened,
then took it back into a solitude
neither light nor rain
could reach.”

— Rita Dove

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159786/unaccompanied-anthem?utm_source=Poetry+Foundation&utm_campaign=af310901bd-PMAG-APRIL-4-ELEVEN_LEGENDS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ff7136981c-af310901bd-185848829&mc_cid=af310901bd&mc_eid=e80d9e297f

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HORSE BY PAMELA WILLIAMS

Magnificent creatures Gazing and wondering. Standing tall in the quiet of the moonlight. Spirits of the wild galloping. Grace and power an inspiring sight~pamela

#mastoprompt #inspired

👇#SharePamsArt👇
https://3-pamela-williams.pixels.com/featured/11042-horse-pamela-williams.html

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📖 #today’s #meditation :

✨
You can't bury pain
and not expect it
to grow roots.
✨

https://www.dailywisdomtexts.com/yahia_lababidi

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🦋Blue Morpho Butterfly🦋Come away to a quiet place
Where birds sing amongst the trees
and Angels spread there wings
Peaceful sounds of nature whisper
amongst the flowers
And words will never sting

👇#SharePamsArt👇
https://3-pamela-williams.pixels.com/featured/blue-morpho-butterfly-2-pamela-williams.html

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subtle scent
via favouring wind
the ole tree blossoms

#Imagiku prompt -> apple

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#Bird #BirdPhotographer #Birds #Nature
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#WritingCommunity
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