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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 10h

#TodaysPoem

"Now it is Loneliness who comes at night
Instead of Sleep, to sit beside my bed..."

- Katherine Mansfield, from Loneliness (1910)

Born: October 14, 1888, Wellington, New Zealand

Weekly Poem: Loneliness - Explorations in English Language Learning

Now it is Loneliness who comes at nightInstead of Sleep, to sit beside my bed.Like a tired child I lie and wait her tread,I watch her softly blowing out the

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, thank you so much, Liz - I love making them! I'll be sure to pass along your compliments to Mavis ... :)

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 15h

"I listen to my circadian rhythm on repeat
to drown out the laments of the harsh winds."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Seasonal Affective Disorder by @SelenaMercuri.bsky.social (2023 The Innis Herald)

Seasonal Affective Disorder | The Innis Herald

Snow tires trudge through grey slush as headlights interrogate the blizzard that has murdered the warmth of the sun and my shadow melts through the

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ArtWorks for Cancer @artworksforcancer.bsky.social · 1d

Striking photographic works by Sherman Hines (rendered on metal by Posterjack) are installed in the chemotherapy area at Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (OSMH www.osmh.on.ca).

Stay tuned for more updates from our latest installation.

Dr Michael Weinberg of ArtWorks for Cancer installs a photographic work entitled Voglers Cove, Nova Scotia by Sherman Hines (rendered on metal by Posterjack) in the chemotherapy area at Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (OSMH).

A series of vibrant photographic works by Sherman Hines (rendered on metal by Posterjack) are installed in the chemotherapy area at Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (OSMH).

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, thank you so much, Theresa!

Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 1d

Mavis and I sent another wacky afghan on its way to a new home today! #AfghanCrochet

Mavis the Airedale perches proudly on another wacky crocheted afghan - this one in shades of green, blue and purple - draped across a dark gray sofa.

Close-up of details and stitches of a crocheted afghan in shades of green, blue and purple

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 1d

"It helps, I find, to dress for God who, if present
is what everyone wears underneath."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Clothes by @ronnabloom.bsky.social from In a Riptide (2025 Brick Books) asterismbooks.com/product/in-a...

Poetry collection In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom (Brick Books) sits with a notebook with an ornate gold cover atop a wicker laundry basket

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Clothes" from the poetry collection In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 2d

You're very welcome, Frances! Thank you for the wonderful poetry ...

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 2d

I love that we're always waving to each other ! 🥰

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 2d

"I'll know you when you get here - but if you don't arrive
I'm waving anyway, because you might need it
on your long road through, the one everyone is taking."

#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem
Envoy by @ronnabloom.bsky.social from In a Riptide (2025 Brick Books) www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/in-a-ripti...

In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom

Reviewed by Michael Greenstein

www.theseaboardreview.ca

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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 2d

My #sundaysentence this week is Ani DiFranco contemplating the immediate outcome of writing: “I wake up to the fact that I have transformed my pain into something more beautiful and useful than it was in its original state.”

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Lynne Perednia @perednia.bsky.social · 2d

"And I can only hope that you will take away a sound belief that--if you're searching for where you belong--you always have a home within yourself."

-- Tim Curry
VAGABOND
#SundaySentence

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 2d

Rather than feel like a powerless baby bird, I chose to believe, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that I was invulnerable and capable of anything.

#SundaySentence from We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin.
#BookSky💙📚

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 2d

It's pretty amazing, isn't it?

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 2d

"Our two heads bent in conversation,
touches on shoulder, on the small
of backs. That daylight dance

we recognize from long years of practice."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
affinity/ease by @francesboyle19.bsky.social (2025 @talking-time.bsky.social) talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/fran...

Frances Boyle

affinity/ease Our two heads bent in conversation, touches on shoulder, on the small of backs. That daylight dance we recognize from...

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 3d

Cillian Murphy reading Yeats’s “When You Are Old”

❤️ 🇮🇪 📖 #poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #WBYeats #CillianMurphy #PoetrySky

YouTube: youtu.be/qRBgbUhc9TE?...

"When You Are Old" by W. B. Yeats (read by Cillian Murphy)

YouTube video by Zsuzsanna Uhlik

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 3d

"Star-craving mad: so mad as to want
to devour the stars. Gripped by a single
fixation, an insuperable sidereal tongue-lust."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...

Poetry pamphlet Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (Opaat Press) sits on a purple desktop, surrounded by bright red and green peppers

Handwritten transcription of the poem Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan, with coffee and the Saturday Globe and Mail nearby

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 3d

#TodaysPoem

Who is that creature
and who does he want?

~Kathryn Starbuck

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

A Gift

That we all want to be alone, I reply, except when we do not; that the world was open to my sorrow and ate most of it; that today is a gift and I am ready to receive you.

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my, did @silentbookclub.bsky.social dazzle on the Read with Jenna segment of the Today Show this week! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYY...

How Silent Book Clubs Are Flipping the Script on Traditional Ones

YouTube video by TODAY

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 4d

Look what arrived AT MY DOOR in time for Thanksgiving Weekend. #goodness #SQUEE!!! #flipflopdance

SADIQA DE MEIJER @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social
IN THE FIELD @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #anstrutherpress

palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the...

Lovingly displayed on @bookgaga.bsky.social #blankie

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 4d

"Tell it to send its small things past us,
past us like smoke empties from a jar, tell the tiny lightning bodies to

glint mica, spread borealis."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Long Exposure Fireflies by Amie Irwin (2017 @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social) aboutplacejournal.org/issues/south...

Amie Irwin – SOUTH – About Place Journal

“Long Exposure Fireflies” and “Sardis Song”

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 5d

"These kids who slip into my library and try to fade into the furnishings are hiding their true selves from their parents out of fear of rejection or punishment." Review by Lily Moayeri of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social, which we saw last night at an enthusiastic full house @hotdocs.bsky.social

bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social @bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social · 5d

As a real-life school librarian, watching 'The Librarians' hits differently.
For #BannedBooksWeek we talk about fights over books, censorship, and access that define modern libraries.
#TheLibrarians #LibraryLife #BookBans bookandfilmglobe.com/books/watchi...

Watching 'The Librarians' as a School Librarian - Book and Film Globe

The Librarians is ostensibly about the troubles I face as a school librarian under attack from politically motivated parents who want to ban whole sets of

bookandfilmglobe.com

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 5d

It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood! ;)

Mavis the Airedale, freshly groomed, poses in front of a tree in which a spaceship is uploading a cow

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 5d

"In this time of
indeterminacy when cracks thirst for light the thin
reedy line that peters in and out has the least chance
of detection."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
wolf dream moon by Gaia Thomas (@gaiajane.bsky.social) (2021 The Scores)

wolf dream moon

In this time of indeterminacy when cracks thirst for light the thin reedy line that peters in and out has the least chance of detection. And you were a balloon I kept tethered to me through lack of…

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 6d

My pleasure! Such great poems ...

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