River Ripa

Orange sunrise over an ocean of gentle waves

What a shame the hate men don’t see how special this life is,

If they did, they’d be incapable of their cruelty.

#poetry #bskypoets #poet #ocean #oceanphotography #photography #naturephotography

Full moon light framed by trees with a wispy cloud

Bound together,
earth and cloud and
me to that moon,
our centers stupor,
in sweet gravity.

#poetry #excerpt #amwriting #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poetsofbsky #photography #nature #moon #fullmoon #poetrycommunity #moonlight

Near full moon beyond a spackling of clouds at the edge of the pine forest

The feeling of this vision
Replaces thought, misery, misfortune
With the tiny reminder that
Only this is real
Only this holds you
In exuberance

#poetry #bskypoetry #amwriting #nature #moon #fullmoon #photography #art #divine #poet #bskypoets #skygazing #micropoetry

Shag hickory tree in winter, photo by Famartin. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

They say hickory nuts are not worth it
Too much effort for too little meat
But this sustenance falls to our feet
Fills our palms, fills our bellies
Hickory milk, buttery sweet
Omegas, magnesium
Survival through winter
How is that not worth it?

#poetry #bskypoets #nature #hickory #survivalist

Grateful to be featured in this event this evening starting at 7pm ET. Zoom event open to all if you’d like to tune in 🧡 I’m kicking it off.

Register here for a link: bit.ly/3JFPb5X

#poetry #openmic #poetryshare #poetryzoom #poetryevent #virtualpoetry #poet #expression #sharing

Hand against a large stone overlooking the ocean

I’m transmitted its light-spun memories
Coursing from stone to spine to soul
It holds the wisdom of a thousand grandmas
This earthen elder, keeper of steadiness

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Purple and pink clouds at sunset

When you accidentally smudge your imagination across the sky

#poetry #bskypoets #quoteoftheday #photography #sky #art #color #imagination #poet #poetrycommunity #ctpoets #clouds #expression #micropoetry

Blue orange and pick sunsets in an enchanted cloud sky reflecting on a lake

The dragons become whales
My mind becomes water
Unclouded by the clouds
Unearthed by the color
Beneath sky, only hope

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Mountain front range in the sunlight across a big field grass field

I laid on the grass,
heart to ground,
ear to earth,
and remembered,
everything.

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Light blue sky with soft clouds through the treetops

How wide the sky when I let it be…

#presence #awe #poetry #poet #quoteoftheday #beherenow #awareness #bskypoets #ctpoets #ctpoetry #amwriting #micropoem #photography #nature

Five Poets Recite (David Berner, Desma Sheerer, Nicole Dalcourt, River Ripa, Laurie Kuntz) Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast · Episode

Sharing a podcast that one of my poems was featured on this past Monday. Tune in 🙏✨

Excerpt:

summon
strings of
language
so absurd
they can’t be
apprehended

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poem #poetrypodcast #bskypoets #amwriting #writer #expression #art

@viewlesswings.bsky.social

Flowing waterfall in a green forest

I smell the waterfall in my hair
Minerals, air, moss stone

#poetry #nature #naturepoetry #poem #poetsofbsky #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #photography #waterfall #forest #ctpoetry #ctpoets

Thank you 🙏🌙

Blue damselfly with green blue metallic body and black feathery wings in a green plant

I follow the blue damselfly
its black feathery wings
heart goes so light I lift, too
along the narrow pass
the colors in me show
dull purples, shy golds
an effort of a human

#poetry #poet #nature #photography #poem #bskypoets #poeta #quote #dailyquote #naturepoem #writer #art

📸Bonnie Nielsen

Waterfall across the stream through the green forest pass

Heart stays soft with earthly strength

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What can we cultivate, if not our spirits?

#poetry #poet #poem #quote #dailyquote #bskypoets #photography #flower #nature #spiritality #meditation

The blue sky with wispy clouds peeking between the tree tops

“It’s not your job to be ecstatically happy,” The shifting sky said. “It’s not your job to be inconsolably sad, either. It’s your job to be deeply aware. And to be deeply aware is to be peace.”

#poet #peace #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #bskypoets #ctpoetry #nepoetry #spreadpeace #love #empathy

Beautiful tree with lush moss by a river

The heavy in me
the electric in me
the moon rings that reach
To the forest in me
The wine that’s in me
The truth that’s in me
The hope that slow grows
On the dying in me

#poem #poetry #poet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #nypoetry #tree #nature #photography #moss #writer

Bunny in Forest backyard by hammock

How do I explain to the bunny — enblissed in his sunset leaf dinner, surrounded by fireflies, brutally interrupted by thunderous explosions — that the fireworks will not kill him?

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #nature #photography #bunny #writer #quote #poem #amwriting #compassion #nofireworks #poeta

River coursing through a lush green forest

The water that’s coursed for billions of years courses through us.

How ancient we are, how big our family. We recognize every stream from the water within.

#poetry #poet #bskypoet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #quote #dailyquote #photography #river #waterislife #writer

Moon out the window and candle on altar glowing in the night

More often than not
the word glow appears
on my page first
I write it mindlessly
breathe it fully
what’s more beautiful
than to glow

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #poem #excerpt #glow #photography #moon #candle #author #writer #amwriti

River flowing through a mossy forest

When did my one word wishes
Become pages of prayers
Soliloquy by the stream
Voice becomes rivulet
Becomes voice again
The only place
I can verbalize

#poetry #poet #poem #writer #amwriting #bskypoets #bskypoetry #ctpoetry #poetrycommunity #river #photography #art #peace #unity

Golden sunrise over the ocean

Where colors
are conscious
inner to outer
to inner
imaginings
of truth
never to be
discovered
but to be painted
again and
again

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #photography #sunrise #ocean #imagination #art #creativity #amwriting #ctpoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

A sunrise dimmed by the dust storms of the Sahara rising over the aquamarine ocean of south Florida

The sunrise wraps
round and round
the dust of Sahara
storms its soul
across space
feeds the forests
sustains the sea
quells the colors
chokes the humans
knows just what to do

#sunrise #poetry #poem #saharandust #poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #photography #ocean #art #duststorm #ctpoetry

Little white and yellow flowers in a sea of green

“It looks like the universe,” they said in the same breath.

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #quote #flowers #photography #ctpoetry #nepoetry #connecticutpoetry #newenglandpoetry #amwriting #art #presence

Woman and trees reflection in a puddle

Sweet humans, may we join our hearts, pool our love and wash away these monsters.

#poetry #poet #lovewins #love #quote #dailyquote #compassion #unity #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #nonviolence

summon
strings of
language
so absurd
they can’t be
apprehended

#poetry #selfexpression #poet #ctpoetry #ctpoet #connecticutpoetry #nepoetry #poeta #writer #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky #nature #photography

Woman in hoodie crouched at the edge of the shoreline at sunrise

The great switch
of speaker and cipher
chasing spirit
to its inimitable
origins
where only
breath
can breathe

#language #poetry #evolution #poet #poem #excerpt #bskypoets #poeta #poetrycommunity #connecticutpoets #connecticutpoetry

Woman in shallow stream in the forest lifting palmful of water up

Water fills my palms
pours over me
rehydration
mind expands
in 100 directions

#poetry #micropoetry #presence #poet #poem #bskypoetry #nature #photography #art #river #writer #writing #amwriting