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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. 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

  4. The bridge once broken
    A #poem (🧵6/6)

    Now on this day of all souls missed
    by those who find themselves left behind,
    one faithful departed returns to kiss
    the forehead of a son’s reopened mind.

    [end]

    #allsaints #allsouls #poetry #poemaday #writing

  5. The bridge once broken
    A #poem (🧵5/6)

    Across the valley, dark, deep, and wide,
    a spectral stretch of stones appears
    to shine as a silvery coach now rides
    across, to bring two sundered shadows near.

    👇🏼

    #allsaints #allsouls #poetry #poemaday #writing

  6. The bridge once broken
    A #poem (🧵4/6)

    By then his old mind’s lantern had failed;
    the new light I’d shone back went unseen
    and broken arches into a chasm trailed
    where once a golden bridge had briefly been.

    👇🏼

    #allsaints #allsouls #poetry #poemaday #writing

  7. The bridge once broken
    A #poem (🧵3/6)

    The care he’d showed I did not feel
    as the pillars of our bridge began to crack.
    Too late, I turned back to heal
    the fallen span that we now lacked.

    👇🏼

    #allsaints #allsouls #poetry #poemaday #writing

  8. The bridge once broken
    A #poem (🧵2/6)

    His memory murmurs in a darkened nook
    of years of yearning and wasted days,
    as the distance that filled up the book
    of our lives still grows as I turn to grey.

    👇🏼

    #allsaints #allsouls #poetry #poemaday #writing

  9. The bridge once broken
    A #poem (🧵1/6)

    On the day of all souls in the fall
    as leaves lose luster to winter’s bane
    my father’s shade returns to call
    while I walk along a splintered lane:

    👇🏼

    #scotland #edinburgh #moody #allsaints #allsouls #history #photography #poetry #poemaday #writing #writingcommunity

  10. Love the last lines of Sheila Packa's poem "Not Forgotten", about her father teaching her to ride a bike:

    "That he could hold me was a given
    that he could release me was a gift."

    ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/06/s

    This one's in my second collection of bike poetry links bikestylespokane.com/2023/07/2.

    #poem #poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #cycling

  11. Reading poetry this morning I ran across "Machine" by Michael Donaghy, which I included in my first round-up of bicycle poems.

    "So much is chance,
    So much agility, desire, and feverish care,
    As bicyclists and harpsicordists prove

    Who only by moving can balance,
    Only by balancing move."

    bikestylespokane.com/2022/12/1

    #poetry #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #BikeTooter #cycling #BikePoems #music #MusicPoems #harpsichord #balance

  12. 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"

    mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/

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