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  1. 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

    simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/it-

  2. 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

    simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/it-

  3. The English poet Roger McGough sends readers’ eyes travelling to and fro the way a tennis ball would across a net when they read 40-Love. Indeed, the poem itself – like the “middle aged couple” he writes about – is split by such a ‘net.’

    #poetry #reading #Love #poem #poet #McGough #graficpoem #poems #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #book #poemaday #poetrycommunity #pictures #readers #readersofmastodon #booksky #bookish #BookTok #bookclub #readit #Bookwyrm #tennis #booklovers

  4. 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

  5. Bedloe's Island

    She lifts her lamp
    to the golden door
    where Virtue stood
    once, long before.

    Here, Lazarus
    came forth, no fear
    to pen the words,
    brief, gilded, clear,

    but now the gate
    is wrought of iron.
    Gold Virtue’s left —
    she's now retired.

    #poem #poemaday #poetry #symmetry #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

  6. It’s a beautiful day
    A #poetry thread

    i.

    Oh, to be seen!
    To have the chance to preen,
    to not be torn down
    and not be told I’m mean.

    Oh, to be seen,
    not to turn you green
    or take your light away —
    let us both shine and gleam.

    Oh, to be seen —
    to be fat with praise, not lean,
    a touch of heart-grown balm
    to soothe my self-esteem.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #collage #mentalhealth #art #photography #mastoart #poetrycommunity #poetsofmastodon

  7. Belvedere
    A #poetry thread

    i.

    Beneath dark clouds of gathering dreams,
    the coppered palace roof aglow;
    its arches catch the whispered streams
    of tales that only sailors know.

    The belvedere peeks through the green,
    stone vessel held in sylvan sway:
    its quiet presence moored beneath
    the restless clouds that rule the day.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #clouds #photography #naturephotography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

  8. Thanks + Giving: A poetry collection I rounded up last year and some thoughts about Native American Heritage Day biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/20. Hat tip to Rebecca Solnit for the fabulous graphic, which she posted on BlueSky last year.

    #poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #Thanksgiving #Indigenous #nativeamericanHeritageMonth #gratitude #giving

  9. Blue angel
    A #poetry thread

    i.

    Lili Marlene,
    a silver icon:
    blue eyes spoke through the screen
    that she didn't belong

    to any one land,
    to simpler souls,
    to any one man
    who’d dare take control.

    Fine arching eyebrows,
    glass-cut angular jaw,
    her white-tie tuxedo
    without a hint of a flaw,

    her face on the screen
    in wisps of blue smoke,
    blue angel that’s free
    of any dictator’s yoke.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #monochrome #cityscape #urbanphotography #photography #mastoart #poetsofmastodon

  10. Centurion
    A #poetry thread

    i.

    The carved-stone soldier on the wall
    guards, stiff, awake in weathered rest.
    His chiseled cloak, though cracked, a pall,
    holds echoes time has left unblessed.

    His lifted arm in sculpted poise
    suggests a tale the stone can’t tell —
    a silent gesture, void of noise,
    still straining ’gainst its stony shell.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #dresden #history #travelphotography #photography #mastoart #poetsofmastodon

  11. Mural
    A #poetry thread

    i.

    Karl-Marx-Allee,
    boulevard of Berlin dreams
    with vast official murals
    that were not what they seemed:

    praising all the workers
    in quasi-religious iconography
    while the peasant-worker state
    was built with concrete atrophy.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #berlin #streetphotography #urbanphotography #satire #cityscape #photography #mastoart #poetsofmastodon

  12. All Saints
    A #poetry thread

    i.

    I sit in a Gothic cathedral
    of stone tracery,
    late medieval
    with things we can't see.

    On this night of All Saints’,
    their many souls gathered ’round,
    flitting in shadows, faint
    and making no sound

    that could be discerned
    by physical ears
    except by those who’ve learned
    to listen with tears.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #gothic #allsaints #allsouls #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography #mastoart #poetsofmastodon

  13. Garden mouse
    A #poetry thread

    i.

    All around this place
    sprawls a mighty hectic city,
    its concrete embrace
    smothers all without pity.

    In this urban autumn
    on an afternoon stroll,
    we stumble through a hedge: some
    hidden gardens on a knoll.

    Among fallen leaves
    and plants turning gold,
    some solitary eaves
    of a tiny house, neat, though old:

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #autumn #garden #naturephotography #symmetry #longexposure #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

  14. Water, fall

    Red stone of granite
    sits in silver stream,
    small hints of agate
    in autumnal gleam

    with golden needles
    caught in the run,
    fair hair of cedars
    in setting sun.

    The brook, it babbles
    on its bare stone face,
    its psalm sings, channeled
    with flowing grace.

    Red stone is pocked,
    on waterfall perched —
    Upon this rock
    I’ll build my church.

    #poem #poemaday #poetry #bloomscrolling #autumn #fall #seasons #garden #naturephotography #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

  15. A poem we could all use right about now: "Hokusai Says" by Roger Keyes. An excerpt:

    He says don’t be afraid.
    Don’t be afraid.
    Look, feel, let life take you by the hand.
    Let life live through you.

    ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/11/r

    #poetry #poem #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #RogerKeyes #Hokusai #KatsushikaHokusai #PoetryOfPresence

  16. The throneroom
    A #poem

    She stood upon the beach’s stone
    the wind and waves a-waxing within
    I saw it was her natural throne
    beneath the blue sky’s baldaquin
    Behind, a white cliff walls her keep,
    attended by seagulls as her knights
    with seaweed’s red carpet from the deeps:
    the throneroom’s crowned in golden light
    There’s none more noble than nature’s friend
    who all Creation’s glory defends

    #poetry #writing #poemaday #photography #KapArkona #rügen #nature