Leigh Goodwin

on the steep decline
balancing heaven and earth
mountain goats

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

red: dogwood twigs gray: clouded day clear: each drop of winter rains photograph

I heard a winter tree in song
Its leaves were birds, a hundred strong;

When all at once it ceased to sing,
For every leaf had taken wing.

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#poem Mervyn Peake
#micropoem
#art Dana Marie Shepherd

#resist

red-leafed vines reach through morning fog to silvered water photograph

suspended
In vapor was the ocean’s presence, ghost

Of deep water and the bite of salt.

All morning bathed in a dovelike brooding.
The fog satisfied itself

watering the doors

Of snails, the leeward mold

and held still.

#poem excerpt: Mark Jarman
#art Pedro J

#resist

blue storm-wave rising photograph

To live at all is miracle enough.
The doom of nations is another thing.
Here in my hammering blood-pulse is my proof.

Nor greed nor fear can tear our faith apart
When every heart-beat hammers out the proof
That life itself is miracle enough.

#poem excerpt: Mervyn Peake
#art Art Wolfe

#resist

brown snail sleeps on a mossed log— rainforest autumn photograph

in chill green weather
how pleasant to remain at home—
snail

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#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Marc Schroth

#resist

A Small Dark Light: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Legacy of the Tao Te Ching and What It Continues to Teach Us About Personal and Political Power 2,500 Years Later “It is the profound modesty of the language that offers what so many people for so many centuries have found in this book: a pure apprehension of the mystery of which we are part.”

"Who knows
doesn’t talk.
Who talks
doesn’t know."

On Ursula K. Le Guin's birthday, her magnificent translation of the Tao Te Ching
www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/21/l...

a pine grove
under the snowy mountain
darkens into dusk

#haiku #haiga

Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders “Into the space ship, Granny.”

On Ursula K. Le Guin's birthday, her exquisite meditation on change, menopause as rebirth, and the civilizational value of elders: www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/30/u...

there’s no thunder
when a cloud gives in to rain
just a subtle shift
and for you to be there
when I dissolve

#Photography Adrianna Amari
@4aamari.bsky.social

Subjectifying the Universe: Ursula K. Le Guin on Science and Poetry as Complementary Modes of Comprehending and Tending to the Natural World “Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.”

“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, born on this day in 1929, on subjectifying the universe www.themarginalian.org/2018/04/10/u...

stream running white-watet through forest over mossed rocks under fallen trees photograph

what mattered was the woodness
of wood
the stoneness of stone

roots locked onto rock,
the glimpse of cold, dark, giving water

the path running forward,
the way between the trees

the ache in my bones,
for all that’s been lost & sometimes why

🌿🍁🍂

#poem excerpt: Mark Roper
#art TK Tonino

#resist

striped snail rests on autumn-crisped brown leaf photograph

sadness of leaf-fall
never notably disturbs you —
snail

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#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Dorota Krauze

#resist

brown snail ascends blue crocus stem — autumn love story photograph

autumn crocus cordially sustains
our hopes of spring to come ‐—
snail

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

#resist

red dogwood green birch October photograph

O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.

The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.

O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.

#poem excerpt: Robert Frost
#art L.C. Goodwin

I'm just waiting to see if it's going to be the bat, a shiv in the back, or an affair right under his nose.

We all know it's going to be something.

a man with a beard and long hair is looking at the camera Alt: Bearded Redford Approves

I sense some sort of double meaning there... 😂

a woman in a blue shirt is holding her head with her hands Alt: Nina Reeves considers ripping her hair out

Badly written.

Nina should've blurted "I lied & didn't ask my daughter! She kept quiet to protect me! She's innocent, it's NOT HER FAULT!! Willow, they have me on tape, I had to tell the truth or it would be so much worse for you! I LOVE YOU!!"

Then Willow could freak out with some justification.

I'll Stop Fighting When Heather Cox Richardson Says We're Fine heavy block text in cobalt blue on a background of the American Flag, closeup, overexposed, rippling in the wind Free with Heather Cox Richardson's permission to anyone who wants it

I whipped this up, free to share (with Professor Richardson's permission) for anyone

Yup, it's a possibility!

Dark Michael FTW!

Wendell Berry on How to Be a Poet and a Complete Human Being “Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill…”

"Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet..."

Wendell Berry on how to be a poet and a complete human being www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/12/h...

October 19, 2025 All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies.

October 19, 2025

winter dusk~
the snowy pine drawn
from memory

#haiku

a close up of a cat 's face with its eyes closed and the words `` pretty please '' written below it . Alt: a close up of a cat 's face with big eyes and the words `` pretty please '' written below it .

Hey could we manifest Portia setting up a time bomb in Drewpy's spine or something during the surgery?

Like maybe sneaking in a stent that will fail or some stitches that will dissolve after awhile?

Turns out he set up his own shooting/fake murder attempt, & then suddenly he drops dead after all?

a cartoon of a puddle of water with labtoons.com written on the bottom Alt: cube of ice melting

Stone Cold melted? all over Mossy lol

He couldn't hold his water even for a minute.

Global Warming is REAL y'all

dewdrops
on every leaf
too many worlds to count

#haiku

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red autumn roses leaves dun as winter lawns photograph

among October's
vehement reds

only the ruby silk
petals of roses

defy the flame of maple
(her sugar-sap heart

yearning to the calm
cold of winter)

🍁🌿

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art unknown

#resist

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