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โ€ข ๐ŸŒฟ Poetโœ’๏ธ ๐ŸŒฒ Pacific NW ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒ™ โ€ข [banner art: Radim Schreiber]

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on the steep decline
balancing heaven and earth
mountain goats

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

22.10.2025 14:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
red: dogwood twigs
gray: clouded day
clear: each drop of
winter rains

photograph

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.

๐Ÿ‚

#poem Mervyn Peake
#micropoem
#art Dana Marie Shepherd

#resist

22.10.2025 06:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
red-leafed vines reach
through morning fog
to silvered water

photograph

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

suspended
In vapor was the oceanโ€™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

22.10.2025 06:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
blue storm-wave
rising

photograph

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

22.10.2025 06:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
brown snail
sleeps on a mossed logโ€”
rainforest autumn

photograph

brown snail sleeps on a mossed logโ€” rainforest autumn photograph

in chill green weather
how pleasant to remain at homeโ€”
snail

๐ŸŒ

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

#resist

22.10.2025 06:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 โ€œIt 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.โ€

"Who knows
doesnโ€™t talk.
Who talks
doesnโ€™t know."

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

22.10.2025 03:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

a pine grove
under the snowy mountain
darkens into dusk

#haiku #haiga

21.10.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders โ€œInto the space ship, Granny.โ€

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...

22.10.2025 00:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

thereโ€™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

22.10.2025 00:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 141    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Subjectifying the Universe: Ursula K. Le Guin on Science and Poetry as Complementary Modes of Comprehending and Tending to the Natural World โ€œScience describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.โ€

โ€œScience describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.โ€

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

22.10.2025 02:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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a cartoon of snoopy sitting at a table with the words teehee on the bottom right ALT: a cartoon of snoopy sitting at a table with the words teehee on the bottom right
22.10.2025 03:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
stream running white-watet
through forest over
mossed rocks under
fallen trees

photograph

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 thatโ€™s been lost & sometimes why

๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‚

#poem excerpt: Mark Roper
#art TK Tonino

#resist

21.10.2025 07:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
striped snail 
rests on autumn-crisped 
brown leaf

photograph

striped snail rests on autumn-crisped brown leaf photograph

sadness of leaf-fall
never notably disturbs you โ€”
snail

๐ŸŒ

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

#resist

21.10.2025 06:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
brown snail ascends
blue crocus stem โ€”
autumn love story

photograph

brown snail ascends blue crocus stem โ€” autumn love story photograph

autumn crocus cordially sustains
our hopes of spring to come โ€โ€”
snail

๐ŸŒ

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

#resist

21.10.2025 06:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
red dogwood
green birch
October

photograph

red dogwood green birch October photograph

O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrowโ€™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

21.10.2025 06:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

21.10.2025 05:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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... ๐Ÿ˜‚

21.10.2025 04:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

21.10.2025 04:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'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

21.10.2025 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yup, it's a possibility!

21.10.2025 00:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dark Michael FTW!

20.10.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wendell Berry on How to Be a Poet and a Complete Human Being โ€œMake a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skillโ€ฆโ€

"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...

20.10.2025 04:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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October 19, 2025 All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as โ€œHate Americaโ€ rallies.

October 19, 2025

20.10.2025 05:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 987    ๐Ÿ” 336    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 54

winter dusk~
the snowy pine drawn
from memory

#haiku

20.10.2025 06:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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?

20.10.2025 07:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

20.10.2025 01:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

dewdrops
on every leaf
too many worlds to count

#haiku

19.10.2025 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก๐ŸคŽ๐ŸคŽโค๏ธโค๏ธ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒฟ

19.10.2025 07:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
red autumn roses
leaves dun
as winter lawns

photograph

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)

๐Ÿ๐ŸŒฟ

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

#resist

19.10.2025 07:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’šโœจ๏ธ๐ŸŒ™

19.10.2025 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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