@lizboquet.bsky.social
Poet & Teacher
Lovely! Great minds think alike—I posted a similar shot this morning.
12.10.2025 08:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Leaves don’t fall, they let
go when the air finally
earns their rusted trust.
#haiku #fall #autumn #booksky #poem
"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song."
- Maya Angelou
Thank you very much!
26.04.2025 19:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks!
26.04.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe I’m the only sad one to ask—but where?
26.04.2025 14:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lovely to hear that—I always wonder who reads what and what they think. Thanks for letting me know.
23.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for reposting my poem, Clare!
23.04.2025 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Shock and awww! Just woke up to find my poem-within-a-poem, "How to Choose Haiku," featured today by NaPoWriMo. Full prompt, poem, and backstory are up on my site: www.elizabethboquet.com/napowrimo-20...
#napowrimo #poetry #poem #haiku #motherdaughter
After a wide-eyed night, my six-line poem for NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 15 #napowrimo #napowrimo2025 #poetryoftheday #poemsofinstagram #sleepless #poem #poetry
15.04.2025 06:06 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ugh. I’m sorry about that. Never easy, is it? Thanks for reposting my poem!
11.04.2025 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#poetry #typesetting #NaPoWriMo #poem #pets #grief #pancakes #ensemble
11.04.2025 05:37 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Same here, but I’m doing Maureen Thorson’s National Poetry Writing Mont (NaPowriMo www.napowrimo.net)
10.04.2025 18:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Are you sharing your work somewhere?
10.04.2025 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks for taking the time, Emma!
10.04.2025 11:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Those hummingbirds are full of surprises! Best of luck with NaPoWriMo.
01.04.2025 14:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Best of luck! I'm trying, too. Not easy but a fun challenge, I think.
01.04.2025 14:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well, I cannot resolve to leaving you "unread"--because I read you and hope you carry on.
01.04.2025 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Go, Jan, go!
08.03.2025 15:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“Reverse Musical Chairs” by Elizabeth Boquet, first published by Stoneboat Literary Journal, then read by Billy Collins on The Poetry Broadcast.
www.elizabethboquet.com
#poetry #poem #grief #loss #mother
Perfect way to start, in my book.
04.03.2025 10:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“The smell of seaweed drying on the rocks” — my mantra today.
07.02.2025 10:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m thinking that the best workshops have made me hear and see my poem for what and how it is — its punctuation’s limits and with no backstory. Think tender reality check.
06.02.2025 09:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What a stunning shot! Pats to Harley.
02.02.2025 07:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh Patti! How exciting! Cannot wait to get a copy!
31.01.2025 09:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Rattle is my favorite.
30.01.2025 07:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Scent of a Woman
22.01.2025 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Likewise!
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Happy to be here, looking forward to (re)connecting with poets and discovering their work. If you have a website or blog dedicated to poetry, please share it—I’d love to take a look. Here's mine: elizabethboquet.com
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