This gorgeous poem of largesse and consolation travels through the temporal now, back into the past, and then out into the universe with a stunning glimpse into the possibility of eternity.
In this wistful meditation on a father’s promise to his daughter, a promise that he can never keep and that the world can’t make good on, he reveals the aching beauty of living a transient but irreplaceable life, and passing a version of it on to our children. #PoetryCommunity#ModernPoetry
“The Waking” is a quiet revelation: that consciousness itself is a rhythm between knowing and unknowing. Roethke’s refrain becomes a kind of prayer for trust, a reminder to let life lead us even when we cannot see where the path bends. #TheWaking#TheodoreRoethke#EngagingTheSenses#PoetsOnBlueSky
Imagine a call center where poets work the phones between Emily Dickinson and Mary Oliver—customer support for the divine. We’re all on the line, serving as conduits for messages that transcend us.
(2/2) 🌊✨ Neruda reminds us that home isn’t walls, but where solitude becomes belonging—where sea, earth, and love root us in wholeness. May we learn, as he says, to be “more of the earth each day.” #PabloNeruda#PoetryDaily#NaturePoetry#PoetryOfTheSea
(1/2) 🌊✨ Neruda reminds us that home isn’t walls, but where solitude becomes belonging—where sea, earth, and love root us in wholeness. May we learn, as he says, to be “more of the earth each day.” #PabloNeruda#PoetryDaily#NaturePoetry#PoetryOfTheSea
Each of us is an express train racing through life—always late for something. Wonders end before we arrive, countless lives pass us by. Sometimes we ache to stop, burst into lonely houses, and fill them with flowers and music—giving instead of stealing, if only they’d let us. #Poetry#PoetryCommunity
What are we, when stripped of titles and names? Mistral reminds us: just two souls, hand in hand, moving together like grass in the wind. Love, in its simplest form, is not possession—it is freedom, rhythm, and a shared dance that outlives everything else. #poetry#PoetryCommunity#PoetryDaily#Poem
An autological word defines itself—‘pentasyllabic’ has five syllables, ‘visible’ can be seen. After this mischievous poem, we searched for its opposite. All we found was ‘heterological,’ meaning not self-descriptive. Fitting that the word we wanted doesn’t exist—language pokes fun at itself. #poetry
This poem enacts its own question. The broken line breaks and repetitions embody the stammer of thought when confronted with death, while the image of the apple tree roots the mystery in tender, earthly renewal.
This poem shimmers with elemental beauty. Valentine’s valley, stars, and mountain evoke the vastness of the natural world, while the closing plea—“let me in”—feels like a call to be part of that mystery.
Oliver’s use of anaphora (beginning consecutive lines the same way) so playfully mirrors the implacable return of the sun every morning. Despite the despair and ire running rampant around us, we faithfully continue to read and write poems; to respond to the dawn with praise. #poetrycommunity#poem
Elizabeth Bishop offers us a gorgeous, funny plea to trust in the slowness of time which is “nothing if not amenable.” Zooming out from our hurried concerns, we find ourselves in a world where lichens arrange “to meet the rings around the moon.” #poem #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetryDaily
A rough-edged sonnet finally cut open by the razorblade inside it (look at that stanza break!), this piece by the late Craig Arnold speaks to the tenacity with which we carry forward, often despite ourselves, the possibilities and regrets of youth. #poetry#poem#poetrycommunity#poetrylovers
A prayer is not always for saving—sometimes it’s for remembering, for holding what’s been lost until we can make something beautiful again. 🌊✨ #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetryDaily #PoetrySlam
The simplicity of Levertov’s language reminds us that hope, like water, is elemental; it is in our nature. And it is renewable–like a favorite poem or the fountain that this one evokes, hope is there, awaiting our return. #Poetry#PoemToPonder#PoetryOnBsky#DailyPoem#PoetryCircle#MindfulPoetry
