"You said you lived a good life....to love is to accept shadows..."

(yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress)
📸: my own

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Thank you for the lovely comment, love the Rumi passage.

"a river of stars 
shares the silence 
as we flicker on the shore"

(yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress)

📸: my own

#Poetry #NightSky #Photography #Canada #nature #writingcommunity

NASA lasers confirm Earth is losing landmass to rising seas much more quickly than we thought NASA lasers have confirmed that the main factor causing global sea level rise since 1993 has been land ice melt from the poles.

And there’s this too (published yesterday): www.earth.com/news/lasers-...

"the sharp edges of
shifting winds
slice off the old skin"

(yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress)

📸: my own

#PoetryCommunity, #PoetryOfCanada, #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Photography #Canada #nature

Canada Poetry Magazine - "Abandoned Boyhood" by JM Kehoe Read the poem, 'Abandoned Boyhood' by JM Kehoe, poet from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Published in Canada Poetry Magazine, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

Honoured to have my poem “Abandoned Boyhood” published in Canada Poetry Magazine (@ Wax Poetry & Art). You can read it here: https://f.mtr.cool/nofiawotav

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“A lake holds its breath,
while the sky rehearses”

(Yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress)

Photo : my own

#Poetry #NightSky #Photography #Canada #nature #writingcommunity

“Some treasures can’t be carried, only stood upon.…”

(yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress)

📸: my own

#poetry #grief #forDad #fieldnotes #lightandloss #poemfragment #naturepoem #remains #BlueskyPoets #HikingWithDogs #NaturePhotography #WildernessViews #DogsOfBluesky #AdventureDog

Ahh thank you so much @ravenhowell.bsky.social !!

A close-up of wild grasses and tall blades in the foreground, glistening faintly with dew. Behind them, yellow wildflowers blur into soft focus. The sky is streaked with dusk light — lavender, pink, and pale blue — casting a gentle glow over the field. The scene is quiet, tender, and reflective.

“…what remains / still leans into the light”
—for Dad

(yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress)

📸: my own

#poetry #grief #forDad #fieldnotes #lightandloss #poemfragment #naturepoem #remains #BlueskyPoets

Nice piece!

“Somewhere deeper in, we find the walls we didn’t know we built.”

(yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress)
📸: my own

#poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #forest #solitude #poemfragment #writingcommunity #nature

" Spores drifting —
dust becoming life again."

(from one of my poems-in-progress)
📸: my own

#poetry #micropoem #forestpoetry #mushrooms #canada #nature #poetrycommunity

"The calm calls:
mirrored fog, all thoughts unfinished."

(from my untitled poem-in-progress)
📸: my own

#poetry #poem #dock #mist #BlueskyPoets #OttawaPoet #nature #writingcommunity #canada

Thank you!!

Ok thanks for the heads up, it might be a browser security filter flagging the image host. Should be safe on my end, but if others are seeing the same thing, please let me know.

"The places where shadows
never stop nestling,”

(from a recent poem I am still working on.)
📸: my own
#poetry #blueskypoets #canlit #moonlight #naturepoetry #poetsofbluesky #originalpoetry #landscapephotography #selfshot #poetryandphotography #moon #nature

June 23-29, 2025: Poetry from John Brantingham and JM Kehoe - Poetry Super Highway Poetry from John Brantingham (Jamestown, New York) and JM Kehoe (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

Honoured to be featured this week as a Poet of the Week at Poetry Super Highway.

Two of my poems—"Has the West Always Been Uncivilized?" and "A Beautiful Life of Loneliness"—are up now:
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/gajtcojzoc

#poetry #PoetOfTheWeek #WritingLife @poetrysuperhwy.bsky.social

Thank you @barbowlprincess.bsky.social !!! hope you get to visit some day, it is beautiful.

Dangling, bewildered / in golden rays.

Rosie, the watcher of dusk.

📸: my own
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Great analysis and video - resonates deeply. Thank you for this necessary work !

Thanks so much!

The gloamy morning
frays into day
as we linger in our awe

(from a poem about a deer)

#poetry #mistymorning #ecopoetry #smallpress #writersky #poetrycommunity #writersky #bluesky #photography #art #reflectoin #fall #poem

Thanks so much, @msmengakde.bsky.social !

Thank you @poetryofnature.bsky.social !

Some say they no longer
see me, others flee
my silence.

(from a poem where shadows say more than light)

📸: my own
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the red sandy shores of PEI under a cloudy, stormy sky

My lungs grew strong
and grew used to
the briny mist.

(from a poem about heat, grief, and the body's memory of water)

📸: Taken on the shores of PEI — a place that still breathes in me.

#ecopoetry #poetrycommunity #smallpress #PEI #canada #naturepoetry #blueskywriters #landscapephotography #nature

Lovely!

People observing a river, in black and white

Each breath drew three
roots—water, air,
earth—in concert.

From a poem about heat, grief, and the body's memory of water.
Still unpublished — part of a growing collection.

#poetry #ecopoetry #smallpress #writersky #photo

Thank you!