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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, the end stop in the penultimate line and the caesura in final line...

How it slows you down, how it makes you think

#poetry
#poemoftheday

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 6h

muddy watermint
all the pale roots thickening
where nobody sees

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 14h

She's higher now,
the Crane Moon
climbing the pure twilight,
a lantern
mounting the great hill of dusk

@evecastle.bsky.social

#resist

a full moon rises over a lighthouse with viralhog written below it

Alt: a full moon rises over a lighthouse

media.tenor.com

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 16h

Between owls and roses – Mary Oliver on the meaning of life www.themarginalian.org/2020/09/08/m...

Between Owls and Roses: Mary Oliver on the Meaning of Life

“The world where the owl is endlessly hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which I live too. There is only one world.”

www.themarginalian.org

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 16h

october night
the full moon a blossom
forgetting to wilt

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 15h

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

#quote by Amanda Gorman

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 14h

the pheasants are draped
in chestnut, copper & gold
autumn foliage

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

#art @amberrylamb on Instagram

A watercolor drawing of a pheasant in various shades of brown and green. The pheasant wears a little hat with a feather in it and is surrounded by branches with berries on them. The drawing is placed on a brown surface surrounded by feathers, twigs, acorns, leaves, and the artist’s drawing utensils. Drawing by @amberrylamb on Instagram.

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Barico @njbarico.bsky.social · 1d

#俳句 #haiku

unsure where to flow
the stream turns
into a cloud

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

Stray birds of summer come to my
window to sing and fly away.

And yellow leaves of autumn, which
have no songs, flutter and fall

there with a sigh.

🌬🍂🍁

#poem excerpt:
Rabindranath Tagore
#art Sky-Genta

#resist

yellow maple leaves
cling, steadfast
to their slim branch

photograph

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

Strike

Teach me to make a spark
I have only mute stones
~ Ann Black Nash

flint
must find iron

despair
must find resolve

from such straitened love
breaks flame

to light the world

🔥

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Kallerna

sparks in flight
draw fire
on the black paper
of night

photograph

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

This island earth
rivers and trees
birds and jaguars
all of us together
among the sea of stars

🌎

#poem Voima Oy
#micropoem
#art artist unknown

#resist

blue marble:
Earth's night
from space

illustration

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

In remembrance & gratitude
for those who kept us
from starvation

for those whose hands
held out to us,
we filled in turn with sorrow.

May we each & all
never be given only
what we deserve

but instead be taught,
& learn well,
to give as we would receive

#poem L.C Goodwin
#art Siede Preis

#resist

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

Coming with a Corn Kernel Girl, 'eye

She comes upon me with blessing, wo

I have come upon it, yo

I have come upon blessing, wo

~ from the Diné Blessingway

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

💛💛💛💛☀️🍂🌿🍁

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 1d

the harvest field’s face
freckled with brown hares
autumn sunshine

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social
What a delightful prompt to start Monday morning. My secret simple pleasure that returns me to childhood joy is flying a kite. I keep it in the boot of my car.
#promptcombo #simplepleasures

Simple Pleasures

The wind frets at the pebbles,
salt spray burns my face.
The kite jerks like a stubborn gull,
its red plastic heart flapping,
tail tangled, untamed.
Thin bamboo bones creak
as it strains for sky—
a sailboat chasing invisible tides.
I laugh, barefoot, skirt & hair whipping,
each tug of string a pulse returning—
old hands, yes,
but the girl is still flying.

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 1d

the stream pauses
on a stone
to think
#haiku #poetry

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

💙💙💙☀️💛!!

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 1d

woodsmoke
above the bridge
brown leaves falling

#haiku

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

some modern Galileo
might observe

how circumstances foil theory,
complexities befall trajectory

even the simplest fall to earth
seldom so linear as it seems

🍂

#poem 2/2 L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#TheHomePlace
#art Dogwood & Birch Leaves:
L.C. Goodwin

#resist

ruby-red against green
first dogwood,
then birch

photograph

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

Twelfth October

from crimsoned dogwoods
indolent leaves depart

moth-float
life's one flight

benificence of atmosphere
and gravity

#poem 1/2

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

#art Panoramic
#haiku #micropoem

#resist

yellow maple leaves hover
over green lawn—
rainforest autumn

photograph

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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Two #haiku, yesterday and today.
Maybe it's time to get back to writing a little poem daily . . .

first cool night
the silver sound of crickets
slips in the window

such a noise!
two or three mockingbrirds
argue in grackle

(and yes, they really do!)
youtu.be/PbImHA61P1o?...

Northern Mockingbird Singing

YouTube video by MikWilkens

youtu.be

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

#art Andy English
#peace #poem Wendell Berry

#resist

heron reflects,
reflected
in rippled water

grayscale illustration

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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 2d

As her Moonliness probably knows, cherry blossoms in Japanese culture symbolize acceptance of transience and mortality . . . so this is perfect.

YourMoonliness @yourmoonliness.bsky.social · 2d

the other side
of giving up
cherry blossoms

#dailyhaikuprompt
#blossom

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