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Clutter

Gardener, gloves off, with his callouses laid bare.
A shed with old tools and a ladder up to nowhere.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #stilllife #clutter #photography

Clutter

Gardener, gloves off, with his callouses laid bare.
A shed with old tools and a ladder up to nowhere.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #stilllife #clutter #photography

Clutter

Gardener, gloves off, with his callouses laid bare.
A shed with old tools and a ladder up to nowhere.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #stilllife #clutter #photography

Clutter

Gardener, gloves off, with his callouses laid bare.
A shed with old tools and a ladder up to nowhere.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #stilllife #clutter #photography

Clutter

Gardener, gloves off, with his callouses laid bare.
A shed with old tools and a ladder up to nowhere.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #stilllife #clutter #photography

Happy National Limerick Day!

A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with a distinct AABBA rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm.

Edward Lear (born today) popularised the form in the 19th century, frequently using them in his #Book of Nonsense.

What is your favourite limerick? Feel free to share 😉

#limerick #today #LimerickDay #onthisday #poetry #poem #writing #reading #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #poetrycommunity #poet #EdwardLear #PoetrySky #poetrylovers #poemaday

Happy National Limerick Day!

A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with a distinct AABBA rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm.

Edward Lear (born today) popularised the form in the 19th century, frequently using them in his #Book of Nonsense.

What is your favourite limerick? Feel free to share 😉

#limerick #today #LimerickDay #onthisday #poetry #poem #writing #reading #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #poetrycommunity #poet #EdwardLear #PoetrySky #poetrylovers #poemaday

Happy National Limerick Day!

A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with a distinct AABBA rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm.

Edward Lear (born today) popularised the form in the 19th century, frequently using them in his #Book of Nonsense.

What is your favourite limerick? Feel free to share 😉

#limerick #today #LimerickDay #onthisday #poetry #poem #writing #reading #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #poetrycommunity #poet #EdwardLear #PoetrySky #poetrylovers #poemaday

Happy National Limerick Day!

A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with a distinct AABBA rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm.

Edward Lear (born today) popularised the form in the 19th century, frequently using them in his #Book of Nonsense.

What is your favourite limerick? Feel free to share 😉

#limerick #today #LimerickDay #onthisday #poetry #poem #writing #reading #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #poetrycommunity #poet #EdwardLear #PoetrySky #poetrylovers #poemaday

Happy National Limerick Day!

A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with a distinct AABBA rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm.

Edward Lear (born today) popularised the form in the 19th century, frequently using them in his #Book of Nonsense.

What is your favourite limerick? Feel free to share 😉

#limerick #today #LimerickDay #onthisday #poetry #poem #writing #reading #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #poetrycommunity #poet #EdwardLear #PoetrySky #poetrylovers #poemaday

Dandy lions

What’s a weed but a plant where it shouldn’t have been?
The teeth of a lion scatter wide on the wind.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #dandelion #garden #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

Dandy lions

What’s a weed but a plant where it shouldn’t have been?
The teeth of a lion scatter wide on the wind.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #dandelion #garden #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

Dandy lions

What’s a weed but a plant where it shouldn’t have been?
The teeth of a lion scatter wide on the wind.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #dandelion #garden #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

Dandy lions

What’s a weed but a plant where it shouldn’t have been?
The teeth of a lion scatter wide on the wind.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #dandelion #garden #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

Dandy lions

What’s a weed but a plant where it shouldn’t have been?
The teeth of a lion scatter wide on the wind.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #dandelion #garden #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

Barrow-wheel

A garden: a row of rusting wheelbarrows, dulled steel.
A barrow of bones gathering moss by a creek, waterwheel.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #metal #symmetry #naturephotography #photography

Barrow-wheel

A garden: a row of rusting wheelbarrows, dulled steel.
A barrow of bones gathering moss by a creek, waterwheel.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #metal #symmetry #naturephotography #photography

Barrow-wheel

A garden: a row of rusting wheelbarrows, dulled steel.
A barrow of bones gathering moss by a creek, waterwheel.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #metal #symmetry #naturephotography #photography

Barrow-wheel

A garden: a row of rusting wheelbarrows, dulled steel.
A barrow of bones gathering moss by a creek, waterwheel.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #metal #symmetry #naturephotography #photography

Barrow-wheel

A garden: a row of rusting wheelbarrows, dulled steel.
A barrow of bones gathering moss by a creek, waterwheel.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #metal #symmetry #naturephotography #photography

Lumen
A #poetry thread

i.

In sable night
that lacks the stars,
a sealed off cave.
A man, five scars.

The tail of night,
a crack is heard.
Black stone is rolled,
a flight of birds.

Beloved with
her oils and herbs.
She sees the stone
and finds no words.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #easter #happyeaster #sunflower #flower #nature #holyweek #anglican #catholic #selectivefocus #spirituality #photography

Lumen
A #poetry thread

i.

In sable night
that lacks the stars,
a sealed off cave.
A man, five scars.

The tail of night,
a crack is heard.
Black stone is rolled,
a flight of birds.

Beloved with
her oils and herbs.
She sees the stone
and finds no words.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #easter #happyeaster #sunflower #flower #nature #holyweek #anglican #catholic #selectivefocus #spirituality #photography

Lumen
A #poetry thread

i.

In sable night
that lacks the stars,
a sealed off cave.
A man, five scars.

The tail of night,
a crack is heard.
Black stone is rolled,
a flight of birds.

Beloved with
her oils and herbs.
She sees the stone
and finds no words.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #easter #happyeaster #sunflower #flower #nature #holyweek #anglican #catholic #selectivefocus #spirituality #photography

Lumen
A #poetry thread

i.

In sable night
that lacks the stars,
a sealed off cave.
A man, five scars.

The tail of night,
a crack is heard.
Black stone is rolled,
a flight of birds.

Beloved with
her oils and herbs.
She sees the stone
and finds no words.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #easter #happyeaster #sunflower #flower #nature #holyweek #anglican #catholic #selectivefocus #spirituality #photography

Lumen
A #poetry thread

i.

In sable night
that lacks the stars,
a sealed off cave.
A man, five scars.

The tail of night,
a crack is heard.
Black stone is rolled,
a flight of birds.

Beloved with
her oils and herbs.
She sees the stone
and finds no words.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #easter #happyeaster #sunflower #flower #nature #holyweek #anglican #catholic #selectivefocus #spirituality #photography

Vigil
A #poetry thread

i.

A portal with a warning line,
this cave’s mouth made of blackened stone.
A journey split from mortal time —
into the black. Cries, echoes, groans.

Down I descend to frozen depths.
A poet, partner, pulls me on
past popes and princes who, plaintive, wept
for what to them is neverdawn.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #catholic #anglican #easter #eastervigil #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Vigil
A #poetry thread

i.

A portal with a warning line,
this cave’s mouth made of blackened stone.
A journey split from mortal time —
into the black. Cries, echoes, groans.

Down I descend to frozen depths.
A poet, partner, pulls me on
past popes and princes who, plaintive, wept
for what to them is neverdawn.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #catholic #anglican #easter #eastervigil #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Vigil
A #poetry thread

i.

A portal with a warning line,
this cave’s mouth made of blackened stone.
A journey split from mortal time —
into the black. Cries, echoes, groans.

Down I descend to frozen depths.
A poet, partner, pulls me on
past popes and princes who, plaintive, wept
for what to them is neverdawn.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #catholic #anglican #easter #eastervigil #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Vigil
A #poetry thread

i.

A portal with a warning line,
this cave’s mouth made of blackened stone.
A journey split from mortal time —
into the black. Cries, echoes, groans.

Down I descend to frozen depths.
A poet, partner, pulls me on
past popes and princes who, plaintive, wept
for what to them is neverdawn.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #catholic #anglican #easter #eastervigil #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Past the gate
A #poetry thread

—

i.

Beneath the saints’ carved, watchful gaze,
I pause at gilt ironwork’s curled vine.
A veil, a hush: my darker days
are drawn a cleaner, calmer line.

A lady — known, not named — sits here,
blue-shaded in a candle’s glow,
not judging me, but making clear
that mercy doesn’t need a show.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday#gothic #church #cathedral #tomb #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite

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

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

No. 12 (Which)

Two doors side by side,
one dark wood, one bright bare stone —
he turns the third knob

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #travelphotography #door #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

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

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

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

Break

Between tall houses
a gap of sky.
A shadowed pigeon
decides to fly.

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

Yesteryeast

Salt on warm bread roll
fresh from worn red-brick oven —
first snow on my tongue

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

Plenty

Old James Bond poster
glued to a crumbling townhouse —
diamonds, forever

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #abandoned #street #window #urbanphotography #photography #mastoart #poetsofmastodon

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

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

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

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

Gaia

Ruby dahlia
feeds chilled nectar to a bee —
mother’s instinct stirs

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

Equinox

Bee balm seedheads bare,
spiderwebs in spent blossoms —
a heart bears the frost

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #bloomscrolling #autumn #garden #naturephotography #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

Apartmented

Concrete balconies
stacked up sheer windswept façades —
chilled wedding cake, cut

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #potsdam #babelsberg #monochrome #blackandwhite #cityscape #urbanphotography #photography #poetsofmastodon

Nest
A #poetry thread

—

i.

In a quiet old town square
on its cobblestoned stage
under afternoon sun's glare,
two children of young age

prance in tall houses’ shade,
run from shadows to the bright
as their gentle father waits
with a smile of warm delight.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #poetry #streetphotography #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

Deus ex cathedra

Stone Gothic arches
soaring from shadow to light —
In stillness, a breath

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #gothic #cathedral #monochrome #blackandwhite #longexposure #silentsunday #photography #mastoart #poetsofmastodon

For Elise

When Beethoven’s ears slept,
within the silence he heard
how music had crept
into his mind like a bird

that took soaring wing,
then came softly to nest
where silence wakes and sings
between crescendo and rest.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #prague #architecture #door #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

Mist

The little bronze boy
looks over the edge of youth —
Waterfall flows, foams, fades

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography #blackandwhitephotography #mastoart #poetsofmastodon