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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 22d

Grateful to be featured in this event this evening starting at 7pm ET. Zoom event open to all if you’d like to tune in 🧡 I’m kicking it off.

Register here for a link: bit.ly/3JFPb5X

#poetry #openmic #poetryshare #poetryzoom #poetryevent #virtualpoetry #poet #expression #sharing

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 28d

I’m transmitted its light-spun memories
Coursing from stone to spine to soul
It holds the wisdom of a thousand grandmas
This earthen elder, keeper of steadiness

#poet #poetry #excerpt #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #photography #nature #light #sky #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poeta #amwriting #stone

Hand against a large stone overlooking the ocean

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Sep 11

When you accidentally smudge your imagination across the sky

#poetry #bskypoets #quoteoftheday #photography #sky #art #color #imagination #poet #poetrycommunity #ctpoets #clouds #expression #micropoetry

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Aug 30

The dragons become whales
My mind becomes water
Unclouded by the clouds
Unearthed by the color
Beneath sky, only hope

#poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poetry #photography #sunset #sky #nature #clouds #lake #writer #bskyauthors #bskywriters #art

Blue orange and pick sunsets in an enchanted cloud sky reflecting on a lake

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Aug 27

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Aug 26

I laid on the grass,
heart to ground,
ear to earth,
and remembered,
everything.

#poetry #poet #naturepoetry #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #earthpoetry #photography #mountains #nature #sunlight #writer #author

Mountain front range in the sunlight across a big field grass field

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Aug 15

How wide the sky when I let it be…

#presence #awe #poetry #poet #quoteoftheday #beherenow #awareness #bskypoets #ctpoets #ctpoetry #amwriting #micropoem #photography #nature

Light blue sky with soft clouds through the treetops

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sharing a podcast that one of my poems was featured on this past Monday. Tune in 🙏✨

Excerpt:

summon
strings of
language
so absurd
they can’t be
apprehended

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poem #poetrypodcast #bskypoets #amwriting #writer #expression #art

@viewlesswings.bsky.social

Five Poets Recite (David Berner, Desma Sheerer, Nicole Dalcourt, River Ripa, Laurie Kuntz)

Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast · Episode

open.spotify.com

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jul 29

I smell the waterfall in my hair
Minerals, air, moss stone

#poetry #nature #naturepoetry #poem #poetsofbsky #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #photography #waterfall #forest #ctpoetry #ctpoets

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you 🙏🌙

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jul 14

I follow the blue damselfly
its black feathery wings
heart goes so light I lift, too
along the narrow pass
the colors in me show
dull purples, shy golds
an effort of a human

#poetry #poet #nature #photography #poem #bskypoets #poeta #quote #dailyquote #naturepoem #writer #art

📸Bonnie Nielsen

Blue damselfly with green blue metallic body and black feathery wings in a green plant

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jul 13

Heart stays soft with earthly strength

#poet #poetry #poem #bskypoets #nature #photography #waterfall #quote #dailyquote #motherearth #writer #amwriting

Waterfall across the stream through the green forest pass

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jul 11

What can we cultivate, if not our spirits?

#poetry #poet #poem #quote #dailyquote #bskypoets #photography #flower #nature #spiritality #meditation

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jul 9

“It’s not your job to be ecstatically happy,” The shifting sky said. “It’s not your job to be inconsolably sad, either. It’s your job to be deeply aware. And to be deeply aware is to be peace.”

#poet #peace #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #bskypoets #ctpoetry #nepoetry #spreadpeace #love #empathy

The blue sky with wispy clouds peeking between the tree tops

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jul 6

The heavy in me
the electric in me
the moon rings that reach
To the forest in me
The wine that’s in me
The truth that’s in me
The hope that slow grows
On the dying in me

#poem #poetry #poet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #nypoetry #tree #nature #photography #moss #writer

Beautiful tree with lush moss by a river

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jul 5

How do I explain to the bunny — enblissed in his sunset leaf dinner, surrounded by fireflies, brutally interrupted by thunderous explosions — that the fireworks will not kill him?

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #nature #photography #bunny #writer #quote #poem #amwriting #compassion #nofireworks #poeta

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jun 28

The water that’s coursed for billions of years courses through us.

How ancient we are, how big our family. We recognize every stream from the water within.

#poetry #poet #bskypoet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #quote #dailyquote #photography #river #waterislife #writer

River coursing through a lush green forest

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jun 28

More often than not
the word glow appears
on my page first
I write it mindlessly
breathe it fully
what’s more beautiful
than to glow

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #poem #excerpt #glow #photography #moon #candle #author #writer #amwriti

Moon out the window and candle on altar glowing in the night

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jun 19

When did my one word wishes
Become pages of prayers
Soliloquy by the stream
Voice becomes rivulet
Becomes voice again
The only place
I can verbalize

#poetry #poet #poem #writer #amwriting #bskypoets #bskypoetry #ctpoetry #poetrycommunity #river #photography #art #peace #unity

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jun 16

Where colors
are conscious
inner to outer
to inner
imaginings
of truth
never to be
discovered
but to be painted
again and
again

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #photography #sunrise #ocean #imagination #art #creativity #amwriting #ctpoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jun 12

The sunrise wraps
round and round
the dust of Sahara
storms its soul
across space
feeds the forests
sustains the sea
quells the colors
chokes the humans
knows just what to do

#sunrise #poetry #poem #saharandust #poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #photography #ocean #art #duststorm #ctpoetry

A sunrise dimmed by the dust storms of the Sahara rising over the aquamarine ocean of south Florida

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jun 9

“It looks like the universe,” they said in the same breath.

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #quote #flowers #photography #ctpoetry #nepoetry #connecticutpoetry #newenglandpoetry #amwriting #art #presence

Little white and yellow flowers in a sea of green

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · Jun 4

Sweet humans, may we join our hearts, pool our love and wash away these monsters.

#poetry #poet #lovewins #love #quote #dailyquote #compassion #unity #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #nonviolence

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · May 28

summon
strings of
language
so absurd
they can’t be
apprehended

#poetry #selfexpression #poet #ctpoetry #ctpoet #connecticutpoetry #nepoetry #poeta #writer #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky #nature #photography

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · May 23

The great switch
of speaker and cipher
chasing spirit
to its inimitable
origins
where only
breath
can breathe

#language #poetry #evolution #poet #poem #excerpt #bskypoets #poeta #poetrycommunity #connecticutpoets #connecticutpoetry

Woman in hoodie crouched at the edge of the shoreline at sunrise

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