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Lisa Ervin
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Jesus follower. Avid reader. Poetry lover. Vegan.

“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.” -Paulo Coelho
“Praise the light of late November,
the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones.”

-Barbara Crooker, from “Praise Song”

#poetry
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Happy #WorldKindnessDay!

“Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.”

-Mary Oliver, from “Why I Wake Early”

#poetry
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Because life is sacred.

#veganfortheanimals
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Some good news this Monday morning: The Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. 🏳️‍🌈
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”

-Anne Sexton, #BOTD in 1928

From “The Witch’s Life”

#poets #poetry
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Let us love gently.”

-Charles Baudelaire, from “Sonnet of Autumn”, trans. Roy Campbell

#poetry
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"I want to know if you know how to melt
Into that fierce heat of living
Falling toward the center of your longing."

-David Whyte, #BOTD in 1955

From “Self Portrait”

#poets #poetry
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”

-Cynthia Rylant

#november
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“So dull and dark are the November days.
The lazy mist high up the evening curled,
And now the morn quite hides in smoke and haze;
The place we occupy seems all the world.”

-John Clare, from “November”

#poetry #november
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today is World Vegan Day. Please, take time to reflect on the plight of animals in the world.

We have the power to end their suffering.

Choose compassion. Go vegan.

#WorldVeganDay #GoVegan #VeganForTheAnimals
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Touch has a memory."

-John Keats, #BOTD in 1795

From "[What can I do to drive away]"

#poets #poetry
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!”

-Paul Valéry, #BOTD in 1871

(From “The Graveyard By The Sea”, trans. C. Day Lewis)

#poets #poetry
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Love is the last light spoken."

-Dylan Thomas, #BOTD in 1914

(From “Ceremony After A Fire Raid”)

#poets #poetry
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“I am learning how to compromise the wild dream ideals and the necessary realities without such screaming pain.”

-Sylvia Plath, #BOTD in 1932

(From The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)

#poets #poetry
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Cling tight to the hearts that will not let you fall.”

-Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. J.G. Holland, October 1881
October 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything."

-Richard Rohr
October 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I
For you a liar am a thousand times . . .”

-John Berryman, #BOTD in 1914

(From “Sonnet 43”)

#poets #poetry
October 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“…not mild, not temperate,
God’s love for the world. Vast
flood of mercy
flung on resistance.”

-Denise Levertov, #BOTD in 1923

(Excerpt from “To Live In The Mercy Of God”)

#poets #poetry
October 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
". . . the poet is truly the thief of fire."

-Arthur Rimbaud, #BOTD in 1854

(From a letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871)

#poets #poetry #writing
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”

-Arthur Rimbaud, #BOTD in 1854

(Excerpt from “A Season in Hell”)

#poets #poetry
October 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"...we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

-Oscar Wilde BOTD in 1854
October 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“kiss me a little:
the air
darkens and is alive –
o live with me in the fewness of
these colours;”

e. e. cummings, #BOTD in 1894

(Excerpt from “XLVIII”)

#poetry #poets
October 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”

-Jack Gilbert, from “A Brief for the Defense”

#poetry
October 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”

-Wallace Stevens, #BOTD in 1879

(From “Adagia”)

#poetry #poets
October 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.”

-W. S. Merwin, from “The Love of October”

#poetry
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM