#imagism — Public Fediverse posts

#WritersCoffeeClub for 4th August 2026

4. Do you consider yourself a writer, an author, an artist, something else? Why?

- Writer. I write. Not short story writer or poet or essayist. Just writer. Self identifying as an “author” sounds weird, so I don’t.
- Imagist. Because I love images (words or pics) and it’s a cool arm of the Modernists

#Writing #Imagism

Where I will continue to post about “writing” should you care to bookmark

https://rlraymond.com/blog/?q=Writing

#Writing #CreativeWriting #Imagism

Oracle

Fleeting footfalls up a high grassy hill.
A path to a temple where shadows hold still.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #imagism #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Glory

Silk snowmelt sun
pokes up in pale sky.
Blue scilla buds spun
from frost's last dye.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #macrophotography #imagism #photography

Firmament

Stone tracery flows
across a vaulted
Gothic
sky

A retina’s veins glow
to hold fast the sky
in a steady
eye

#imagism #poem #poemaday #poetry #gothic #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Unfilled

Racks of empty beer steins
capped with grey
pewter.

Rows of greying heads
beneath caps of
red.

#imagism #poem #poemaday #poetry #berlin #photography

News, breaking

Colorful marionette in a shop window.
Coiffed TV anchor on the evening news.

#imagism #poem #poemaday #poetry #puppets #marionette #toys #photography

On a Prague street

Old tram tracks
through the town —
once warm footprints
in fossil sand

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👁️ A restored old tram passes by a car on an old city street
📍 Tržiště/Karmelitská, Prague
📅 11 Jun 2025
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 400, ƒ6.3, -0.7 ev, 1/1000s

#poem #poemaday #poetry #writingcommunity #imagism #prague #photography

At night, a Christmas garland brightly lit —
Milky Way, spine of the sky.

#poem #poetry #poemaday #writing #imagism #photography #christmas #holiday #nightphotography

where long waves carve the air unseen
young clouds accumulate like herds
at sun-blessd kissing gates
and though you wonder at their swelling weight,
or if they come to dance
as soft and dreamy creatures
in your tilted fluffy head
you miss a joy unfolding when
each nods and takes their silent turn
to surf
where long waves carve the air unseen

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#poem #poetry #smallPoems #imagism #imagist #clouds #waves

= the perfect gloss =

so many dreams
reshaped

to perfect red
lipstick

glossed with swift
success

the finest nylon
legs

#poem #poetry #imagist #imagism
#smallPoems
#wrdz

each passing wave rattles empty shells, gulls calling
my daughter’s hand is cold beneath the rubble

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A new #poem today aiming at #imagism (in the sense of by Pound's "In a Station of the Metro.")
Though from responses elsewhere I guess I might sent folk off down the wrong road. 🤔
Open to #discussion if you are interested.

#poetry #poetryCommunity #smallPoems
#wrdz

here's something I tripped over while out running this morning.

= blindfolded =

i fall towards the centre of the earth
at zero miles an hour ...

#Poem #Poetry #smallPoems #imagism
#poetrycommunity
#autumn #fall
#wrdz

a paddle on the edge of #deepTime - Revolutions

#poem #poetry #imagism
#poetrycommunity
#wrdz

Autumn has fallen —
Under the great sky river
soft leaves whisper flow

#FeedbackWelcome

#poem #poetry #haiku #俳句 #poemaday #imagism #Tree #Tranquility #TranquilScene #Nature #TreeTrunk #Green #ScenicsNature #Growth #Plant #natur #naturephotography #naturfotografie #sanssouci #parksanssouci #parksanssoucipotsdam #potsdam #germany #fotografie #photography

And on the pink rose petals
the dewdrops hang like jewels

#bloomscrolling #art #poem #poetry #imagism #poesie #photography #fotografie #rose #roses #rosen #dew #tau #nature #natur #garden #garten

September dusk
pepperoni clouds curl up
at the oven's edge

#poem #poetry #haiku #bonsaiku
#poetrycommunity #imagism #vsspoem #vss365 #MicroPoetry
#wrdz

= streetwise =

shirt sleeved grandad
three streets to the wind
returning from the front
stalls of the smoking picture house
drunk on bloky flags
and tri-fooled britannia
trips over plimsoles lying
slips on nets street-dredging
for bent old shilling navies
signs on a scurvy line
just to get away

drowns in absent glory

that's him maybe
stuffed behind this peopled
bronze as though memorials
suffice

https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/streetwise

#smallPoems #poetry #imagism #war #loss
#streetSailing
#wrdz

Some #haiku won!t stay in their bonsai pot.

sprouting from #imagiku 15 ...

= slow wave =

silent bells surging
softly up the sweeping hill
blue spring reveille

slow wave of whispers

https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/slow-wave

#smallPoems #poetry #imagism #bonsaiku
#wrdz

as free electrons
dancing arctic skies deny
magnetic fields

they feed us songs
upon the dreaming sir
and chains, in velvet

#imagiku (3) #haiku #senryu #smallpoems #poetry #freedom #imagism

Since the first translations of haiku were made in the West, some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century have grown fond of this poetic genre, from Rainer Maria #Rilke to Paul #Eluard. In Italy, some poets who have embraced the current of hermeticism, such as #Ungaretti and #Quasimodo, approached haiku. Famous is that of Ezra Pound with his urban #imagism:

"The appearance of these faces in the crowd,/Petals on a wet, black bough."

#haiku #pound

#Aurora

the night
icefish stunned
agape, where a lake
might have dreamed by day
one gasp between
coiled breaths, an evanescent
curved ascent in flowing purple
dance with mountains coldly scaled
as carved from diamond air

soft curtains filigreed
in green while deep time
turns

we only stare
just once to hear that angel light
in silence singing

#myPoem #poetry #poetryCommunity #imagism #smallpoem #smallpoems
@poetry @imagism @smallpoem @smallpoems

. at noon
soft apricot of sky
icebergs
freezing in the eye
minty ferns
coalescing
in your nose
all rain evolved
to rings and bows
around
an opal sun

powder snow
refuses
to make balls
carves dwarfs and bears
with every fall
from fairy-story trees

oh take me North
so I can be
#mypoem #imagism #poetry @poetry

forest pool
frogswollen

restless bees
chainsaw coming

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#VerseThursday #poetry
As, it happens, written on a Thur in September. Despite pools and frogs, not a haiku, but trying for similar juxtaposition in a very compressed form (#7wordsPoet), and #imagism

It's 100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb ...

= the endless boy =

under lapis skies
kohl eyed maidens dance
insinuating joy
sheer gauze and lotus blossom
poised to never fall
a summer cast in stone

golden masked
the boy king rises
swathed in falcon wings
to endless polar stars

#imagism #poetry #egypt #tutankhamun #mypoem

light
a crack
in eggshell sky
spills across the dawn
breaks all night's
tiny pieces
into frights of birds
and sparks
of wide-eyed dew
on spiders lace

walk with me
until day has gathered
her decorum

#imagism #poetry
#poetrycommunity

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