Mercy

Butterflies at The Hide/Hwange, Zimbabwe, Africam
#butterfly, #nature, #wildlife, #Zimbabwe, #livestream, #Africam

White backed Vulture at Victoria's Falls/Zimbabwe, Africam
#birds, #Vulture, #WhiteBackedVulture, #nature, #wildlife, #Zimbabwe, #livestream, #Africam

It makes us seem small together being each one what we are alone when we long as one. It’s probably a sin to make an idol of it. I have sometimes done so.

Dara Barrois/Dixon

Africa’s great elephant divide: countries struggle with too many elephants – or too few In countries such as South Sudan, the great herds have all but disappeared. But further south, conservation success mean increasing human-wildlife conflict

Africa’s great elephant divide: countries struggle with too many elephants – or too few

Let me tell you: some of our countries aren’t where we left them.

Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST
#smallpoemsunday

—: Inhibition :— The night is pointed With cruel stars, And sharpened By the steel war chant Of ambushed crickets. If there were a blood-red moon, One could carefully Kill the thing he loved And bury it Beneath a monumental pine tree. But the cold bayonets Of the stars Prevent me; And the revengeful crickets Have made me weary of both love and hate.

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From the latest issue of #ForgottenPoets
—Joseph Upper

#poetry #poems #booksky

Pity The Nation
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 2007
(After Khalil Gibran)
#poem #poetry

Here is to eking out of 2025 in one piece! Cheers to 2026🎊🥂.

7. It is good, absence.

Ted Berrigan

Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree

NGC 2264, 2,700 light-years away in Monoceros, is a star-forming region known as the Christmas Tree Cluster, Fox Fur, and Unicorn Nebula. Spanning 80 light-years, it features vibrant emission and reflection nebulae shaped by energetic newborn stars.

Credit: Michael Kalika

Grey crowned Crane at Hwange/Zimbabwe, Africam
#birds, #Crane, #nature, #Zimbabwe, #livestream, #Africam

EASY COMPANY Knowing your solitude is there, my solitude consents here not needing what it needs.

William Bronk

"I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Winter Night in the Forest (1888)
🎨 Ladislav Mednyánszky

Stay alive; at least for the moment: it doesn’t last long. Stay alive. Other worldly considerations though are out. The living has nothing to do with the life.

happy #smallpoemsunday from William Bronk

CHALLENGE Don’t set up barriers it’s useless my unsheathed heart hurtles toward you.

Claribel Alegría, translated by D. J. Flakoll

Bushbucks at The Hide/Hwange, Zimbabwe, Africam
#Bushbuck, #nature, #Zimbabwe, #livestream, #Africam

WRONG I wish to be misunderstood; that is, to be understood from your perspective.

Bill Knott

Great Egret at Victoria Falls/Zimbabwe, Africam
#birds, #Egret, #nature, #Zimbabwe, #livestream, #Africam

Congratulations! It’s an incredible book…I felt seen & moved through the lives of the women you wrote about.

From Louise Glück's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780374534097

#poems #booksky #writing

Delusion and awareness are not static forces; they are in constant motion. In one moment, we may be lost in delusion, caught up in a story of self. In the next moment, awareness may arise, illuminating the truth and revealing the emptiness of that story.

Night night everyone.

"The days are getting shorter and colder, but I ask you to remember: even as the Winter comes in, there is Hope and there is Light."
~ Seamus Heaney

It’s a very good book, haunting, stays with you long after you finish it.

Carmine Bee eaters and a White fronted Bee eater at Tembo Plains, Zimbabwe, Africam
#birds, #BeeEaters, #nature, #Zimbabwe, #livestream, #Africam

Hilarious! Your family is a sitcom.:-)

'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'

I wanted to salvage something from my life, to fix some truth beyond all change, the way photographers of war, miles from the front, lift print after print into the light, each one further cropped and amplified, pruning whatever baffles or obscures, until the small figures are restored as young men sleeping.

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Your laughter turns the world to paradise - Rumi

#poem #poetry

A timelapse showing the incredible movement of a growing vine, exhibiting both nastic movement to find, and then a thigmotropic response to grasp and hold.

Credit: Roger P Hangarter