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Leigh Goodwin
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🌿 Poet✒️

🌲 Pacific NW 🌲🌲🌙



[banner art: Radim Schreiber]
I agree, it is a wonderful commons. Lightyears better than the bird platform, and sadly far better too than the wrecked, smoking landscape FB has become. 💔

For you, because you are a light —
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 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
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
💚💛🧡🌿🍁🍂💫
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Happy Thanksgiving & Mac & Cheese Day!
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I concur.

#HappyPieDay
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Have a beautiful holiday, dear friend.

💚💚🧡🧡🌱🍁🍂✨️
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm grateful for you, Eve.

Blessings.
Happy #Thanksgiving

#resist
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 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
#art Fireflies at Ochanomizu:
Kobayashi Kiyochika
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#art Catching Fireflies by the Uji River in Yamashiro Province:
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 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
Though I come not within sight
of the airy castles of my dreams,
teach me to be thankful for life,
for time's memories
that are good & sweet.

May the evening's twilight
find me gentle still.

✨️🌿

#poem 2/2:
Traditional Celtic Blessing
Adaptation: LCG
#art Ben Sandimki

#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
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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 wish

to receive.

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#art Siede Preis
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
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
#art Diane Diederich
#haiku #micropoem

#resist
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
under crow’s nests in city trees

in the night wind
brings inland ocean,
breaking the tides of air

over the low roofs, calling
Come out, come

out, in the boats of your beds,
dream deep-sea voyages

your cotton sheets for sails,
your love for keel and compass

#poem 3/3 L.C. Goodwin
#art Paul Zizka
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Storm Warning

Me climbing into bed with
The sea, just the sea
~Lisa Gordon

in the night wind
brings inland ocean,

from away past the deep
embayments of the Sound

past the rampart range
uplifted against sunset

over sea lions, locks, slick streets,
rain-colored houses sleeping

#poem 2/3
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Just for love,
in stormy times.
May we all
come safely through.

#resist

#poem thread 1/3
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings.

Not all things are blest, but the seeds
of all things are blest.
The blessing is in the seed.

This moment, this seed,
this look, this instant of love.

One life, or the faring stars.

🌱🌿🍁

#poem excerpt: Muriel Rukeyser
#micropoem
#art Mary Jo Hoffman
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM