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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 19h

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 21h

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(Note: my mum used this word for leftovers. She would make a meal for us of orts. Today I am making a post of orts.) 1. Coming home from swimming, the sight of the bigleaf maples turning yellow and…

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe you'll take time today to write a poem to the hope that lives inside and waits to be heard. Even if your words never see paper, if they exist only in your head, be kind to yourself. Write the poem you need to get through this.

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 2d

Thank-you for taking time to share this poem. So thoughtful.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 2d

"You may have to break
your heart, but it isn’t nothing
to know even one moment alive."

An inhale of a poem

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 3d

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From 'Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings' (2015)
—Joy Harjo

#poetry #poem #booksky

Fall Song

It is a dark fall day.
The earth is slightly damp with rain.
I hear a jay.
The cry is blue.

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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 3d

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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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 3d

#poem #poetry #thanksgiving

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 3d

#SundaySentence

~Lisel Mueller

found in the first few pages of The Paper Birds, a novel by Jeanette Lynes

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Karen Turner @karenjturner.bsky.social · 4d

11th October, daily stitching marking the passage of time
#intuitivedailystitching #textileart #embroidery #stitchjournal

detached fly stitches in blue/taupe hand-dyed silk thread

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Harry Foster @harryfoster.bsky.social · 3d

Sammy Blue Jay taking off from the feeder this morning showing those amazing colours and designs.

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 4d

"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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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

Autumn Moose
Holly Cheverie ~ Anishinaabe
n.d.

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Maria Dunn Music @mariadunnmusic.bsky.social · 3d

#sadsongs my own song The Fool from my 1998 debut album From Where I Stand #lostlove

(goodness, I sound young!); beautiful harmonies from Dawn Cross, violin, Shannon Johnson, guitar, Gary Koliger

The Fool

Provided to YouTube by Distant Whisper Music The Fool · Maria Dunn From Where I Stand ℗ Distant Whisper Music Released on: 1998-09-01 Composer: Rr. Lyricist: Rr. Auto-generated by YouTube.

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 4d

#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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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 5d

#TodaysPoem

There's oil in the puddles in taffeta patterns
That run down the drain
In colored arrangements
That Michael will change with a stick that he found

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsSr...

Michael from Mountains

YouTube video by Joni Mitchell - Topic

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 11d

This year is beginning to seem endless.

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 5d

"this is one way to learn/the poverty of acceptance around us"

from Francine Diodati's poem, "Fragile X Syndrome," in our Sept/Oct issue:

Fragile X Syndrome

They call it delayed, fragile chromo- somes that string you together perfectly—they make my freckles shift on the shirt of my being: genetic ...

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Ariel Gordon @ariel-gordon.bsky.social · 6d

So my first FREE workshop at WPL has been announced: October 25 at the Windsor Park Library! Share/Sign up, friends!
@wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 6d

The Devoted Friend
Jeff Dillon
2021

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 6d

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The Bros. Landreth • Nothing (Acoustic)

YouTube video by The Bros. Landreth

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 8d

#TodaysPoem (s)

One day the earth will shudder.
Savour what does not fall.

www.lornedaniel.ca/poems

Poems | Lorne Daniel

Selected poems by Lorne Daniel. New collection of poetry coming in 2025.

www.lornedaniel.ca

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On Creative Writing @oncreativewriting.bsky.social · 8d

On today's CBC's The Next Chapter, host Antonio Michael Downing talks with author and creative writing professor Robert J. Wiersema, who recommends three books to make you a better writer.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-67-the-next-chapter/clip/16173454-want-better-writer-read-books

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 9d

"The only thing growing taller, growing greener,
than your memory of being a forest is the awareness you will be a forest again."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
from The Forest by @paulvermeersch.bsky.social in NMLCT (2025 @ecwpress.bsky.social) ecwpress.com/products/nmlct

The poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch (ECW Press) is perched on a tree branch, with morning light showing through the leaves.

Handwritten transcription of part of the poem "The Forest" from the poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 9d

I just learned that a distant ancestor previously unknown to me was the inspiration for the character Ma Kettle in Betty MacDonald's semi-fictional memoir, the Egg and I. Ma and Pa Kettle, the film series, followed. And this gives me a reason to smile.

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