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tree dad

(too long for here - link below)

#poetry #poemaday

https://simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/tree-dad

tree dad

(too long for here - link below)

#poetry #poemaday

https://simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/tree-dad

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

Weltzeituhr Berlin

Steel solar system
spins for a world that is gone —
red dawn, now twilight

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #berlin #ddr #ostalgie #photography

Plattenbau
A #poem in two parts

—

i.

After the war, when housing was rare —
mostly broken down ruins with no private
toilets, no furnace, in ruinous disrepair —
tall concrete houses were built. But

their cousins across the dividing Wall
would mock those places: ugly as sin,
too spare, later covered in brown coal pall
and monotonous, like cheap soup from a tin

🧵👇🏼

#poemaday #poetry #dresden #architecture #urbanphotography #abandoned #ostalgie #gdr #photography #mastoart #poetsofmastodon

Years ago I wrote about the values in the 4H Pledge https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2011/02/head-heart-hands-and-health.html. Ever since then when I find a good pledge I drop it in the comments on that post. The poems make suitable reading for the Fourth of July, especially in these times. These aren't unthinking patriotism--they pledge to things like the soil in a garden and Janet Wong's "acceptance / of the views, / so different, /
that make us America."

#America #pledge #PledgeOfAllegiance #4H #poetry #poems #poem #PoemADay #TodaysPoem

Final post in my Year of Poems: December. Every month I've compiled a collection of poems about that month of the year. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-year-of-poems-december.html

#poetry #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #December #winter #Animals #AnimalTracks #snow

Hard by the Alpine farmstead’s edge
I saw a fencepost standing there —
It stood there shorn of its old fence
and pointed skyward, unaware
of how naked it now seemed to be:
Instead of keeping cows inside
it beckons to its lush green field
that’s dotted by gold flowers wild:
This fencepost doesn’t keep me out —
It points to a heavenly scenic route

#himmelfahrt #AscensionDay
#poem #poemaday #poetry #writing #photography #landscape
#allgäu #austria #alps #vorarlberg

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