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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
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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
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Because life is sacred.

#veganfortheanimals
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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“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
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"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
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“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
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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
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"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
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“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
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"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
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“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
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“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
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“…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
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". . . 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
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“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
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"...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
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“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
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“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”

-Wallace Stevens, #BOTD in 1879

(From “Adagia”)

#poetry #poets
October 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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“I will take with me the emptiness of my hands
What you do not have you find everywhere”

-W. S. Merwin, #BOTD in 1927

(Excerpt from “Provision”)

#poetry #poets
September 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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“Between the idea 
And the reality 
Between the motion 
And the act 
Falls the Shadow”

-T. S. Eliot, #BOTD in 1888

From “The Hollow Men”

#poetry #poets
September 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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“So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing,

and put your lips to the world.
And live
your life.”

-Mary Oliver, #BOTD in 1935

From “Mornings at Blackwater”

#poetry #poets
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Happy National Read A Book Day! 📚

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! ….When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
September 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”

-Rita Dove, #BOTD in 1952

#poetry #poets
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“A good writer is like a wind over meadow grass.
He bends the words to his will,
But is invisible everywhere.
Lament is strong in the bare places.
Among the winter trees, his words are fixed to music.”

-Charles Wright, #BOTD in 1935

#poetry #poets
August 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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“There is such solitude in that gold.
The moon of these nights is not the moon
The first Adam saw. Long centuries
Of human vigil have filled her with
An old lament. See. She is your mirror.”

-Jorge Luis Borges, #BOTD in 1899

From “The Moon" (trans. A. S. Kline)

#poetry #poets
August 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.

John Wesley
August 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM