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entanglements

biological
cell conglomerate
of grouped bosons
quivering
in your resonance
hello!
(to you)

#poetry #poemaday

https://simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/entanglements

entanglements

biological
cell conglomerate
of grouped bosons
quivering
in your resonance
hello!
(to you)

#poetry #poemaday

https://simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/entanglements

natural evil

you needn't imagine evil
brutality or opportunistic
greed when you can see it
spread its beautiful vines
over all diversity before you
crushing it down, starving
it by stealing the very sun

try to uproot it
and discover how
it will make you
uproot everything
else as the price

#poetry #poemaday

https://simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/natural-evil

natural evil

you needn't imagine evil
brutality or opportunistic
greed when you can see it
spread its beautiful vines
over all diversity before you
crushing it down, starving
it by stealing the very sun

try to uproot it
and discover how
it will make you
uproot everything
else as the price

#poetry #poemaday

https://simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/natural-evil

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

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

Thanks + Giving: A poetry collection I rounded up last year and some thoughts about Native American Heritage Day https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/11/thanks-giving.html. 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

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

Pickpocketed pie
A #poem in three parts

—

i.

A Georgian house stands in Wanstead
along Kingfisher Avenue,
built of brick of cherry red:
something came into my view —

Upon its wall, a stone plaque I see:
It remembers a stolen cherry pie,
which cost a fine of half a guinea
on a warm day in July,

long ago, one summer’s day,
in the 18th century,
a pastry plucked from baker’s tray —
and consumed, famously.

🧵👇🏼

#poemaday #poetry #london #wanstead #uk #mobilephotography #photography

I never quite know when my daily poetry-reading practice and my work in transportation will overlap. They do more often than you might think, as with this poem by Maya Stein, "The Sting."
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I never quite know when my daily poetry-reading practice and my work in transportation will overlap. They do more often than you might think, as with this poem by Maya Stein, "The Sting."
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I never quite know when my daily poetry-reading practice and my work in transportation will overlap. They do more often than you might think, as with this poem by Maya Stein, "The Sting."
https://mayastein.com/campaigns/view-email/8IlGTYKuxyvQy0hmK3OHEjfOMRdy2x2AQlLIiBWo_WjX5YT_wuZJSPssXttWWIV6xb73h-sYS44F_Np43GkGoPdNtqYuTr-RFcCSGIkjWLBaFmrbLZMO-R9wwYNgTaFXQpcIxhXV9tzTDSlPmDc2a1mWXx1z3hTkNndNFw==?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=68aca675e2f0fd766918dc26&ss_email_id=68ae19d5d2547058f5c7222c&

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I never quite know when my daily poetry-reading practice and my work in transportation will overlap. They do more often than you might think, as with this poem by Maya Stein, "The Sting."
https://mayastein.com/campaigns/view-email/8IlGTYKuxyvQy0hmK3OHEjfOMRdy2x2AQlLIiBWo_WjX5YT_wuZJSPssXttWWIV6xb73h-sYS44F_Np43GkGoPdNtqYuTr-RFcCSGIkjWLBaFmrbLZMO-R9wwYNgTaFXQpcIxhXV9tzTDSlPmDc2a1mWXx1z3hTkNndNFw==?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=68aca675e2f0fd766918dc26&ss_email_id=68ae19d5d2547058f5c7222c&

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I never quite know when my daily poetry-reading practice and my work in transportation will overlap. They do more often than you might think, as with this poem by Maya Stein, "The Sting."
https://mayastein.com/campaigns/view-email/8IlGTYKuxyvQy0hmK3OHEjfOMRdy2x2AQlLIiBWo_WjX5YT_wuZJSPssXttWWIV6xb73h-sYS44F_Np43GkGoPdNtqYuTr-RFcCSGIkjWLBaFmrbLZMO-R9wwYNgTaFXQpcIxhXV9tzTDSlPmDc2a1mWXx1z3hTkNndNFw==?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=68aca675e2f0fd766918dc26&ss_email_id=68ae19d5d2547058f5c7222c&

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I love the philosophy and artistic style of Oxherd Boy, Regina Linke. The latest drawing features a Bertolt Brecht poem.

"Motto"
by Bertolt Brecht

In the dark times
Will there be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.

https://oxherdboy.org/products/dark-times

#OxherdBoy #art #ReginaLinke #BertoltBrecht #DarkTimes #singing #PoetryOfPresence #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay

Great walls that are built
to keep people out
are actually meant
to lock them in

But even the greatest,
most fearsome walls
must and shall crumble
before the weight of time

The crack of concrete
is the sound of freedom

#poem #poemaday #poetry #writing
#photography
#Berlin #berlinwall #potsdam #berlinermauerweg #history #moody

A painful true poem about the history of transportation projects, "The Facts of Art" by Natalie Diaz.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56354/the-facts-of-art

#PoemADay #poem #TodaysPoem #poetry #TranspoPoems #infrastructure #transportation #Hopi #Arizona #NatalieDiaz #NAGPRA #ARPA #Indigenous #Native #NDN

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 in this town of fateful twists
where history treads a zigzag path
of painful change and bitter grist —
rebirth’s the constant aftermath

#art #poem #poetry #poemaday
#potsdam #germany #architecture #History #Sky #Outdoors #Landmark #Travel #Tourism #Building #baroque #caption4reflection #prussia #palace #church #dome #colonnade #snap_architecture #snap_europe #snap_europe_germany #snap_kingdom #photography #fotografie #nikonphotography #nikonphoto

A Maya Stein poem for #VerseThursday: "trust me, I don't know what I'm doing". It isn't a poem "about" bicycling but there's a line in it that I loved (of course):
"I know that riding a bicycle makes me braver
than yesterday"

https://mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/july-25-2023

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #MayaStein

A Maya Stein poem for #VerseThursday: "trust me, I don't know what I'm doing". It isn't a poem "about" bicycling but there's a line in it that I loved (of course):
"I know that riding a bicycle makes me braver
than yesterday"

https://mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/july-25-2023

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #MayaStein

A Maya Stein poem for #VerseThursday: "trust me, I don't know what I'm doing". It isn't a poem "about" bicycling but there's a line in it that I loved (of course):
"I know that riding a bicycle makes me braver
than yesterday"

https://mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/july-25-2023

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #MayaStein

A Maya Stein poem for #VerseThursday: "trust me, I don't know what I'm doing". It isn't a poem "about" bicycling but there's a line in it that I loved (of course):
"I know that riding a bicycle makes me braver
than yesterday"

https://mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/july-25-2023

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #MayaStein

A Maya Stein poem for #VerseThursday: "trust me, I don't know what I'm doing". It isn't a poem "about" bicycling but there's a line in it that I loved (of course):
"I know that riding a bicycle makes me braver
than yesterday"

https://mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/july-25-2023

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #MayaStein