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Reading the amazing collection "You Better Be Lightning" by poet Andrea Gibson.
From "Home Sick" (read the whole thing at https://andreagibson.org/homesick-a-plea-for-our-planet)
If we aimed to be just half as good
as one of the earth’s mistakes,
we could turn so much around.
Our living would be seed, the future would have roots.
We would cast nothing from the garden of itself.
and we would make the thorns proud.#poetry #poem #poems #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #AndreaGibson #Earth #future #science #eco
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Reading the amazing collection "You Better Be Lightning" by poet Andrea Gibson.
From "Home Sick" (read the whole thing at https://andreagibson.org/homesick-a-plea-for-our-planet)
If we aimed to be just half as good
as one of the earth’s mistakes,
we could turn so much around.
Our living would be seed, the future would have roots.
We would cast nothing from the garden of itself.
and we would make the thorns proud.#poetry #poem #poems #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #AndreaGibson #Earth #future #science #eco
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Reading the amazing collection "You Better Be Lightning" by poet Andrea Gibson.
From "Home Sick" (read the whole thing at https://andreagibson.org/homesick-a-plea-for-our-planet)
If we aimed to be just half as good
as one of the earth’s mistakes,
we could turn so much around.
Our living would be seed, the future would have roots.
We would cast nothing from the garden of itself.
and we would make the thorns proud.#poetry #poem #poems #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #AndreaGibson #Earth #future #science #eco
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Reading the amazing collection "You Better Be Lightning" by poet Andrea Gibson.
From "Home Sick" (read the whole thing at https://andreagibson.org/homesick-a-plea-for-our-planet)
If we aimed to be just half as good
as one of the earth’s mistakes,
we could turn so much around.
Our living would be seed, the future would have roots.
We would cast nothing from the garden of itself.
and we would make the thorns proud.#poetry #poem #poems #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #AndreaGibson #Earth #future #science #eco
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Reading the amazing collection "You Better Be Lightning" by poet Andrea Gibson.
From "Home Sick" (read the whole thing at https://andreagibson.org/homesick-a-plea-for-our-planet)
If we aimed to be just half as good
as one of the earth’s mistakes,
we could turn so much around.
Our living would be seed, the future would have roots.
We would cast nothing from the garden of itself.
and we would make the thorns proud.#poetry #poem #poems #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #AndreaGibson #Earth #future #science #eco
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corpus callosum
a nice fantasy, to code
definitions of what is
what is allowed and how
exactly transformations
mechanical crack root
daisy in the wide field
swaths of yellow seas
enumerated mowed lines
tripped in the logic
cut where i remembered
him asking you must choose
the Whole earth or everything
breaks me entirely in halves -
corpus callosum
a nice fantasy, to code
definitions of what is
what is allowed and how
exactly transformations
mechanical crack root
daisy in the wide field
swaths of yellow seas
enumerated mowed lines
tripped in the logic
cut where i remembered
him asking you must choose
the Whole earth or everything
breaks me entirely in halves -
an exercise
i scared myself
today finding
a boundary
i didn't know
i had by accident
when i pushed
myself hard
past what i knew
no longer certain
how i would returnthe trick of course
being to allow
what settles to be
a newly reformed
me -
an exercise
i scared myself
today finding
a boundary
i didn't know
i had by accident
when i pushed
myself hard
past what i knew
no longer certain
how i would returnthe trick of course
being to allow
what settles to be
a newly reformed
me -
trunk brain
```
one grows accustomed
having what you need
such as water, so to
speak, meaning not a
thing to trees other
than i am drying out
possibly to die only
if i knew what dying
was and there is not
a thing to do but be
here in this hot air
laced with particles
of soot so i will do
my best to close all
my pores, holding my
breath until i might
feel normal again in
the inbetween humans
```
#poetry #poemaday -
trunk brain
```
one grows accustomed
having what you need
such as water, so to
speak, meaning not a
thing to trees other
than i am drying out
possibly to die only
if i knew what dying
was and there is not
a thing to do but be
here in this hot air
laced with particles
of soot so i will do
my best to close all
my pores, holding my
breath until i might
feel normal again in
the inbetween humans
```
#poetry #poemaday -
Freshly curated batch of transportation poems for your reading enjoyment. I post links and an excerpt; up to you to decide which ones you want to read in their entirety. https://bikestylelife.com/2026/08/03/transportation-poems-again/
#transportation #TranspoTooter #poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #driving -
Freshly curated batch of transportation poems for your reading enjoyment. I post links and an excerpt; up to you to decide which ones you want to read in their entirety. https://bikestylelife.com/2026/08/03/transportation-poems-again/
#transportation #TranspoTooter #poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #driving -
Freshly curated batch of transportation poems for your reading enjoyment. I post links and an excerpt; up to you to decide which ones you want to read in their entirety. https://bikestylelife.com/2026/08/03/transportation-poems-again/
#transportation #TranspoTooter #poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #driving -
Freshly curated batch of transportation poems for your reading enjoyment. I post links and an excerpt; up to you to decide which ones you want to read in their entirety. https://bikestylelife.com/2026/08/03/transportation-poems-again/
#transportation #TranspoTooter #poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #driving -
Freshly curated batch of transportation poems for your reading enjoyment. I post links and an excerpt; up to you to decide which ones you want to read in their entirety. https://bikestylelife.com/2026/08/03/transportation-poems-again/
#transportation #TranspoTooter #poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #driving -
close the windows
here the air
we breath
burns lightly
just a hint
miles of fire
rages hot
each hotter
year at the mercy
of the wind
changing directions
and it chokes
thick in lungs
seeing no sky
brown red sun
diffuse oven
thick hot
with all
consumed
and only ash
to breathe -
close the windows
here the air
we breath
burns lightly
just a hint
miles of fire
rages hot
each hotter
year at the mercy
of the wind
changing directions
and it chokes
thick in lungs
seeing no sky
brown red sun
diffuse oven
thick hot
with all
consumed
and only ash
to breathe -
eminent domain
(too long for here 😔 link below)
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eminent domain
(too long for here 😔 link below)
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player instincts
what chance brings us
wandering from the wild
always searching
to fill a need by chance
encounters rummaging through
the stumbled-upon trinket,
bit or blob sure to satisfy
out from the larger gardens
to the smaller of another's
or anything that might be it
as the doe-eyed wanderers do -
player instincts
what chance brings us
wandering from the wild
always searching
to fill a need by chance
encounters rummaging through
the stumbled-upon trinket,
bit or blob sure to satisfy
out from the larger gardens
to the smaller of another's
or anything that might be it
as the doe-eyed wanderers do -
Handclap
The familiar chords
#Instruments #Music #Poem #PoemADay #Poetry #Run
and vibrato from the violins
are as easy to slip into
as worn-in running shoes
As the drums lay down
the beat like footfalls on pavement,
you run, you keep the rhythm
like your life depends on it
and maybe in this moment
it keeps you alive -
Handclap
The familiar chords
#Instruments #Music #Poem #PoemADay #Poetry #Run
and vibrato from the violins
are as easy to slip into
as worn-in running shoes
As the drums lay down
the beat like footfalls on pavement,
you run, you keep the rhythm
like your life depends on it
and maybe in this moment
it keeps you alive -
Handclap
The familiar chords
#Instruments #Music #Poem #PoemADay #Poetry #Run
and vibrato from the violins
are as easy to slip into
as worn-in running shoes
As the drums lay down
the beat like footfalls on pavement,
you run, you keep the rhythm
like your life depends on it
and maybe in this moment
it keeps you alive -
Handclap
The familiar chords
#Instruments #Music #Poem #PoemADay #Poetry #Run
and vibrato from the violins
are as easy to slip into
as worn-in running shoes
As the drums lay down
the beat like footfalls on pavement,
you run, you keep the rhythm
like your life depends on it
and maybe in this moment
it keeps you alive -
Handclap
The familiar chords
#Instruments #Music #Poem #PoemADay #Poetry #Run
and vibrato from the violins
are as easy to slip into
as worn-in running shoes
As the drums lay down
the beat like footfalls on pavement,
you run, you keep the rhythm
like your life depends on it
and maybe in this moment
it keeps you alive -
palantiri
alone, home
a computer screen
never-met friends
adventuring
in a made-up worldsuch intimate
knowledge of others
in the realer world
finds its way home
through fantasy
and the freedom
abstraction
of who we are
revealed -
palantiri
alone, home
a computer screen
never-met friends
adventuring
in a made-up worldsuch intimate
knowledge of others
in the realer world
finds its way home
through fantasy
and the freedom
abstraction
of who we are
revealed -
a hot spell
why would you care
what goes on elsewhere
with comfy sheets and shoeswhy tell a lie
when you started to cry
when all the room's a viewwhy turn inside
on an uncontrolled ride
with plenty of mopping to do -
a hot spell
why would you care
what goes on elsewhere
with comfy sheets and shoeswhy tell a lie
when you started to cry
when all the room's a viewwhy turn inside
on an uncontrolled ride
with plenty of mopping to do