Leigh Goodwin
@leighgoodwin.bsky.social
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🌿 Poet✒️
🌲 Pacific NW 🌲🌲🌙
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[banner art: Radim Schreiber]
🌿 Poet✒️
🌲 Pacific NW 🌲🌲🌙
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[banner art: Radim Schreiber]
Pinned
Reposted by Leigh Goodwin
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Reposted by Leigh Goodwin
wheat straw november
with russet, gold, pine green
adorning her
with russet, gold, pine green
adorning her
November 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
wheat straw november
with russet, gold, pine green
adorning her
with russet, gold, pine green
adorning her
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Maybe they're
arguing behind that window
or watching reruns
But there's such tenderness
in light that falls on snow
#tanka
#SenseWrds , prompt 151
arguing behind that window
or watching reruns
But there's such tenderness
in light that falls on snow
#tanka
#SenseWrds , prompt 151
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Maybe they're
arguing behind that window
or watching reruns
But there's such tenderness
in light that falls on snow
#tanka
#SenseWrds , prompt 151
arguing behind that window
or watching reruns
But there's such tenderness
in light that falls on snow
#tanka
#SenseWrds , prompt 151
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Black and gold; shade and spring light:
chiaroscuro through leaves
held in this cold hand.
Then - suddenly - November
is spring in Yunnan.
#reversetanka #tanka
chiaroscuro through leaves
held in this cold hand.
Then - suddenly - November
is spring in Yunnan.
#reversetanka #tanka
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Black and gold; shade and spring light:
chiaroscuro through leaves
held in this cold hand.
Then - suddenly - November
is spring in Yunnan.
#reversetanka #tanka
chiaroscuro through leaves
held in this cold hand.
Then - suddenly - November
is spring in Yunnan.
#reversetanka #tanka
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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gently extending
tiny snail-horns to the moon
ferns in the gutter
tiny snail-horns to the moon
ferns in the gutter
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
gently extending
tiny snail-horns to the moon
ferns in the gutter
tiny snail-horns to the moon
ferns in the gutter
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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
#poem from the Diné Blessingway
#GiveThanks
#resist
'eye,
She comes upon me with blessing
wo
I have come upon it
yo
I have come upon blessing
wo
#poem from the Diné Blessingway
#GiveThanks
#resist
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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
#poem from the Diné Blessingway
#GiveThanks
#resist
'eye,
She comes upon me with blessing
wo
I have come upon it
yo
I have come upon blessing
wo
#poem from the Diné Blessingway
#GiveThanks
#resist
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we are called
to gather at the table
our dear earth
used and abused
still offers us her bounty
#TankaThursday table #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka
#givingthanks #life
to gather at the table
our dear earth
used and abused
still offers us her bounty
#TankaThursday table #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka
#givingthanks #life
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
we are called
to gather at the table
our dear earth
used and abused
still offers us her bounty
#TankaThursday table #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka
#givingthanks #life
to gather at the table
our dear earth
used and abused
still offers us her bounty
#TankaThursday table #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka
#givingthanks #life
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November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Reposted by Leigh Goodwin
wake up wake up
I want to be your friend
little sleeping butterfly
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1680-1683
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
I want to be your friend
little sleeping butterfly
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1680-1683
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
wake up wake up
I want to be your friend
little sleeping butterfly
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1680-1683
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
I want to be your friend
little sleeping butterfly
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1680-1683
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
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Thanks
—W.S. Merwin, 1927.
I find this #poem sad but also hopeful. On the other side of bad there will be good. Nothing stays the same.
No matter where we are on our world’s & life’s timeline we can flow forward toward peace and love.
Happy #Thanksgiving. I’m grateful for you.
#poetry
—W.S. Merwin, 1927.
I find this #poem sad but also hopeful. On the other side of bad there will be good. Nothing stays the same.
No matter where we are on our world’s & life’s timeline we can flow forward toward peace and love.
Happy #Thanksgiving. I’m grateful for you.
#poetry
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Thanks
—W.S. Merwin, 1927.
I find this #poem sad but also hopeful. On the other side of bad there will be good. Nothing stays the same.
No matter where we are on our world’s & life’s timeline we can flow forward toward peace and love.
Happy #Thanksgiving. I’m grateful for you.
#poetry
—W.S. Merwin, 1927.
I find this #poem sad but also hopeful. On the other side of bad there will be good. Nothing stays the same.
No matter where we are on our world’s & life’s timeline we can flow forward toward peace and love.
Happy #Thanksgiving. I’m grateful for you.
#poetry
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The sky unlatched a seam,
and a thin blue corridor opened.
Something small and trembling rose,
claimed its place among the quiet,
and disappeared into the hush.
#BlueskyRelay
#theskysavedroomforonemore
and a thin blue corridor opened.
Something small and trembling rose,
claimed its place among the quiet,
and disappeared into the hush.
#BlueskyRelay
#theskysavedroomforonemore
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The sky unlatched a seam,
and a thin blue corridor opened.
Something small and trembling rose,
claimed its place among the quiet,
and disappeared into the hush.
#BlueskyRelay
#theskysavedroomforonemore
and a thin blue corridor opened.
Something small and trembling rose,
claimed its place among the quiet,
and disappeared into the hush.
#BlueskyRelay
#theskysavedroomforonemore
Give praise with water,
With storms of rain and thunder
And the small rains that sparkle as they dry,
And the faint floating ocean roar
That fills the seaside villages,
And the clear brooks that travel down the mountains
🌬🌦
#poem excerpt: Anne Porter
#art Eiko Ojala
#GiveThanks #resist
With storms of rain and thunder
And the small rains that sparkle as they dry,
And the faint floating ocean roar
That fills the seaside villages,
And the clear brooks that travel down the mountains
🌬🌦
#poem excerpt: Anne Porter
#art Eiko Ojala
#GiveThanks #resist
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Give praise with water,
With storms of rain and thunder
And the small rains that sparkle as they dry,
And the faint floating ocean roar
That fills the seaside villages,
And the clear brooks that travel down the mountains
🌬🌦
#poem excerpt: Anne Porter
#art Eiko Ojala
#GiveThanks #resist
With storms of rain and thunder
And the small rains that sparkle as they dry,
And the faint floating ocean roar
That fills the seaside villages,
And the clear brooks that travel down the mountains
🌬🌦
#poem excerpt: Anne Porter
#art Eiko Ojala
#GiveThanks #resist
Grant me a few friends
who will love me for what I am,
and keep ever burning
before my vagrant steps
the kindly light of hope.
#poem 1/2
#GiveThanks #resist
who will love me for what I am,
and keep ever burning
before my vagrant steps
the kindly light of hope.
#poem 1/2
#GiveThanks #resist
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Grant me a few friends
who will love me for what I am,
and keep ever burning
before my vagrant steps
the kindly light of hope.
#poem 1/2
#GiveThanks #resist
who will love me for what I am,
and keep ever burning
before my vagrant steps
the kindly light of hope.
#poem 1/2
#GiveThanks #resist
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
#poem from the Diné Blessingway
#GiveThanks
#resist
'eye,
She comes upon me with blessing
wo
I have come upon it
yo
I have come upon blessing
wo
#poem from the Diné Blessingway
#GiveThanks
#resist
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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
#poem from the Diné Blessingway
#GiveThanks
#resist
'eye,
She comes upon me with blessing
wo
I have come upon it
yo
I have come upon blessing
wo
#poem from the Diné Blessingway
#GiveThanks
#resist
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Reposted by Leigh Goodwin
clouds rush by
my morning window
making their way
to a rendezvous
of some import
I bid them good day
and have another cuppa tea
my morning window
making their way
to a rendezvous
of some import
I bid them good day
and have another cuppa tea
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
clouds rush by
my morning window
making their way
to a rendezvous
of some import
I bid them good day
and have another cuppa tea
my morning window
making their way
to a rendezvous
of some import
I bid them good day
and have another cuppa tea
Reposted by Leigh Goodwin
all the poems
torn, crumpled, burnt
the songs unwritten
Evanescent as birdsong
sacred as spring's first frog
#tanka in response
torn, crumpled, burnt
the songs unwritten
Evanescent as birdsong
sacred as spring's first frog
#tanka in response
A lot of what we call “the canon” is not “the best” so much as “the survived” - the work that got copied, funded, taught, archived, distributed, translated, reprinted, passed hand to hand.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
all the poems
torn, crumpled, burnt
the songs unwritten
Evanescent as birdsong
sacred as spring's first frog
#tanka in response
torn, crumpled, burnt
the songs unwritten
Evanescent as birdsong
sacred as spring's first frog
#tanka in response