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it all counts

a scientist
uses math
(which counts
things) to help
visualize
invisible
verifiable things
even things
that cannot be
yet verified
by touch (counting
for real) instead
metaphysically
represented in
quantities of 123
where infinity
which might
as well be
nothingness
as the Answer indicates
Error or
rather unknown
or trickier
(motion)

#poetry #poemaday

https://simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/it-all-counts

it all counts

a scientist
uses math
(which counts
things) to help
visualize
invisible
verifiable things
even things
that cannot be
yet verified
by touch (counting
for real) instead
metaphysically
represented in
quantities of 123
where infinity
which might
as well be
nothingness
as the Answer indicates
Error or
rather unknown
or trickier
(motion)

#poetry #poemaday

https://simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/it-all-counts

viśuddha

i don't know
why i feel
i want
to be wanted
despite knowing
(why)

#poetry #poemaday

https://simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/vi-uddha

viśuddha

i don't know
why i feel
i want
to be wanted
despite knowing
(why)

#poetry #poemaday

https://simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/vi-uddha

Upstairs

sometimes I live a little too much upstairs
and by upstairs I mean
in my head

It’s been years since I listened

to that song
I’ve wondered what it was called
or how the chorus went
the words were fuzzy like mittens
in the back of the closet
what was crystal in my mind
was the way I felt
belting it out as I drove
with the windows down
and the wind carrying away the pressure
to be accurate so I could focus
on pouring out what was bottled up
I knew from the guitar and the choir
clapping the beat
just before the first words
dropped from her mouth
that I was going back to My Church
and I was singing along with a friend
I’ve never met

Sepulcrum

Bones interred in a rotunda made of ivy-cloaked stone
where a chipped statue sits in the dusk on her stained throne.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #mausoleum #moody #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Limbus

Tree trunk, stripped bare.
Crossbar, damp air.
Black clouds, crows caw,
perched on nails — gone.

A sign, four words.
No voice is heard.
Cramped cave, stone bed
where herbs lay — bled.

Long wait, dark night.
No candles burn bright.
Hinted return.
But silence — burns.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #catholic #anglican #holyweek #holysaturday #goodfriday #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Excerpt from "A Poem for Roadkill" by River Elizabeth Hall, a WA state poet:

"What if we pulled over,
got close enough to feel the death-rattle
shake the air against our skin?

Offered regret for getting in the way
with our roads, our tires, our glass?"

https://tinderboxpoetry.com/a-poem-for-roadkill

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #animals #birds #nature #traffication #wildlife #transportation #Roadkill #RiverHall #SafetyOverSpeed #RoadSafety

Starship Berlin
A #poetry thread in three parts

—

i.

The promise of a future bright
encased in a temporal temple:
It sits among Berlin’s blinking lights,
a spaceship made to resemble.

Its oracles stood in this aluminum starchurch
dressed in sparkling ABBA track suits,
alit by glittering disco balls with lights that search
for the future’s many loyal recruits.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #writing #photography
#Berlin #architecture #futurism #scifi #transience
#iccberlin #hasselhoff #iwentthere

Reread a poem this morning that I included in one of my transportation poetry round-ups (http://bikestylespokane.com/2024/02/17/how-we-get-where-were-going-transportation-poems/).

“The News in Southwest Minnesota” by Marianne Murphy Zarzana

"The victim, following the rules of the road, still unsafe, vulnerable.
The intersection, unconsciously aiding and abetting fatal collisions."

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/07/marianne-murphy-zarzana-news-in.html

#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #TranspoPoems #transportation #RoadSafety #VisionZero #SafetyOverSpeed #CrashNotAccident #DriverNotCar

And through the wisps of winter’s crisp
and frosted burden on these boughs,
I see the sky a blank pale slate
to paint with brightly lit displays
of trees aglow with Yuletide cheer

(Blank verse for a blank sky)

#silentsunday #stillersonntag #art #poemaday #poem #poetry #blankverse #winter #Sky #Branch #Tree #Tranquility #Winter #Blue #Outdoors #BareTree #advent #christmas #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #photography #fotografie

And through the wisps of winter’s crisp
and frosted burden on these boughs,
I see the sky a blank pale slate
to paint with brightly lit displays
of trees aglow with Yuletide cheer

(Blank verse for a blank sky)

#silentsunday #stillersonntag #art #poemaday #poem #poetry #blankverse #winter #Sky #Branch #Tree #Tranquility #Winter #Blue #Outdoors #BareTree #advent #christmas #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #photography #fotografie

And through the wisps of winter’s crisp
and frosted burden on these boughs,
I see the sky a blank pale slate
to paint with brightly lit displays
of trees aglow with Yuletide cheer

(Blank verse for a blank sky)

#silentsunday #stillersonntag #art #poemaday #poem #poetry #blankverse #winter #Sky #Branch #Tree #Tranquility #Winter #Blue #Outdoors #BareTree #advent #christmas #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #photography #fotografie

And through the wisps of winter’s crisp
and frosted burden on these boughs,
I see the sky a blank pale slate
to paint with brightly lit displays
of trees aglow with Yuletide cheer

(Blank verse for a blank sky)

#silentsunday #stillersonntag #art #poemaday #poem #poetry #blankverse #winter #Sky #Branch #Tree #Tranquility #Winter #Blue #Outdoors #BareTree #advent #christmas #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #photography #fotografie

And through the wisps of winter’s crisp
and frosted burden on these boughs,
I see the sky a blank pale slate
to paint with brightly lit displays
of trees aglow with Yuletide cheer

(Blank verse for a blank sky)

#silentsunday #stillersonntag #art #poemaday #poem #poetry #blankverse #winter #Sky #Branch #Tree #Tranquility #Winter #Blue #Outdoors #BareTree #advent #christmas #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #photography #fotografie

And though the storm clouds gather still,
salvation waits, as all around
us, people whom we love and love
us help to make safe harbors sound.
Together we will make our stand
and weather dangers on safe ground

#art #photography #fotografie #poetry #poem #poemaday #Sky #Cloud #Ship #NauticalVessel #Outdoors #Transportation #Sailboat #Boat #Lifesaver #Berlin #Kladow #Harbor #Harbour #Hafen #red #blue #tranquililty #tranquil_scene