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Leigh Goodwin
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🌿 Poet✒️

🌲 Pacific NW 🌲🌲🌙



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winter kitchen~
the smallest cup
overflows with sunshine

#haiku
November 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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This is priceless, whatever your gender: Ursula K. Le Guin on change, menopause as rebirth, and the civilizational value of elders www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/30/u...
Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders
“Into the space ship, Granny.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
At Great Pond
the sun, rising,
scrapes his orange breast
on the thick pines,

down tumble
a few orange feathers

white bird
like a white candle

all around me the lilies
are breaking open again
from the black cave
of the night.

☀️🦢

#poem excerpt: Mary Oliver
#art Danny Brown

#resist
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
assuredly this curious world
confounds & yet sustains us—
snail

🐌

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem #AfterIssa #snail
#art Vyacheslav Mishchenko

#resist
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Ancient pond; the frog
jumps in and in and in:
the deep slap of
water



The frog jumps into the ancient pond; she says,
no, I am not
ready

🌬🌱

#poem Marilyn Chin
#haiku #micropoem
#art Kay Shaffer

#resist
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
how we shield ourselves
with fictions, from uncertainties
and afflictions — snail

🐌

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#art Snail Investigates ‘La Reine’: Kasia

#resist
November 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
only the red
flower can speak

to the maple's leaves
in autumn

🍁🍁🍁

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#art Lajsikonik

#resist
November 29, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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a still-warm sun
yet in its light the slant
and heft of winter

2nd try on one of today's #haiku
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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wheat straw november
with russet, gold, pine green
adorning her
Before the winds opened the curtains 🍂….
November 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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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
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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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
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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oh, love
every soft word you give me
is an erosion of the hard ones
the world gave me by mistake

#poetry
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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gently extending
tiny snail-horns to the moon
ferns in the gutter
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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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
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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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
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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breaking wave —
I keep teaching myself
to surface
#haiku #poetry
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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wake up wake up
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
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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
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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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
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 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
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
To a Husband

Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River
Are your words in the dark, Beloved.

✨️💫

#poem Amy Lowell
#art Radim Schreiber

#resist
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 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
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 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
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
#art Diane Diederich
#haiku #micropoem

#resist
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM