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Mayday Solidarity Rengay Project

I will be publishing a #Mayday #rengay on May 1st on #PIXIV, #AO3, and Fedi using the following theme: "#solidarity." If you would like to participate, please DM me 2x3-line verses and 2x2-line verses by the 28th.

Details

• Depending on how traditional you feel, 3-line verses use the pattern 5, 7, 5 beats, and 2-line verses 7, 7 beats.
• Don't worry about connecting your lines; they will be rearranged later to make a "coherent" poem.
• Avoid obvious words such as "union" and "solidarity" to minimize duplication.
• Since we are an international community, non-English verse will be accepted, provided I can verify the contents using Deep L.

I will arrange and edit, using portions of all good-faith contributions, and publish on May 1st in Japan and the US. All contributors will be credited unless you specify otherwise.

In solidarity, let's verse

#Wss366 #PoetsOfMastodon #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #Tanka

Mayday Solidarity Rengay Project

I will be publishing a #Mayday #rengay on May 1st on #PIXIV, #AO3, and Fedi using the following theme: "#solidarity." If you would like to participate, please DM me 2x3-line verses and 2x2-line verses by the 28th.

Details

• Depending on how traditional you feel, 3-line verses use the pattern 5, 7, 5 beats, and 2-line verses 7, 7 beats.
• Don't worry about connecting your lines; they will be rearranged later to make a "coherent" poem.
• Avoid obvious words such as "union" and "solidarity" to minimize duplication.
• Since we are an international community, non-English verse will be accepted, provided I can verify the contents using Deep L.

I will arrange and edit, using portions of all good-faith contributions, and publish on May 1st in Japan and the US. All contributors will be credited unless you specify otherwise.

In solidarity, let's verse

#Wss366 #PoetsOfMastodon #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #Tanka

@johannab @phillipcrymble.bsky.social Welcome, Phillip! I hope you love it here.

Poetry is a fabulous hobby. I wrote some myself many years ago, but these days I mostly just enjoy what others come up with.

Mary Oliver’s work was incredible. I see you’ve already share a little of it.

You might enjoy #PoetryCommunity and #PoetsOfMastodon, and I’m sure they’d love to get to know you as well.

Hi y'all. Well, this is past due. $13 bucks needed for April's survival. ASAP

All efforts to uplift and meet on time are appreciated. Also, if folks would like to make posts of their own, that helps too. Alt-text in the flyer.

Thank you all. Linktr.ee/khernandez

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #disability #housingcrisis #Blackmutualaid #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #WritersofMastodon #PoetsofMastodon #QueerCrowdfund

Well, y'all. I didn't make it.

I'm 320 short and hope to get that in by Monday to avoid fees and other capitalistic ugliness.

Amplifying helps. If you dont want to see a disabled Black woman unhoused please do all you can.

Thank you all. https://Linktr.ee/khernandez

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #disability #housingcrisis #Blackmutualaid #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #WritersofMastodon #PoetsofMastodon #QueerCrowdfund

Beautiful Nature Poetry by John Grey!

I am delighted to have John Grey join me again to share some of his outstanding poetry!

https://www.diamantelavendar.com/blog/2026/3/17/beautiful-nature-poetry-by-john-grey

#poetry #poetsofMastodon #poet #blog #blogpost #nature #naturewriting
#poem #creative #inspiration #guestpost #beauty #peace

New poem, inspired by the clear cutting in Stanley Park, Vancouver, and more generally all the destruction happening in the world right now. My way of grieving I guess.
https://blog.echoingfrog.ca/the-grieving-forest

And if you want to see what's happening in the park, I posted a video (it's on Instagram though) : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUxDw9IDk58/

#poetry #poems #poem #writing #english #nature #forest #deforestation #Vancouver #StanleyPark #poetryCommunity #poetsofmastodon #writersofmastodon

RE: https://mastodon.online/@brianbilston/115859986238588765

This.

#poem #poetry #peace #poetsofmastodon

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

Poetry by John Grey. Take a journey into the beauty of nature!
If you're an author or artist, I take submissions on a rolling basis!

https://www.diamantelavendar.com/blog/2025/11/6/guest-post-poetry-by-john-grey

#poetry #poet #writing #writer #author #nature #spirituality #rest #reflection #reading #poetsofMastodon #poem #poetrycommunity #blog #blogger #submission #naturewriting #naturepoetry #beauty #relaxation #reading #read #spiritual #spirituality

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

This is my original poem, "An Unveiled Title." Beyond the existential themes, the structure itself holds a secret.

#OriginalPoetry #Acrostic #LiteraryCraft #Poetry #WritingCommunity #AlphaAndOmega #poetrycommunity #poems #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

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

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

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

Update: With the lack of creatives signed up, the September event is effectively cancelled. However, there will hopefully be a small stream running for part of the event to share more about the ethos and reasons behind the choices behind the event.

More events are planned in the future!

Many people have never seen PeerTube before so this is a chance to just see what the UI looks like and how a livestream is presented. It will be very simple and low-key and only run for a part of the time. #peertube #art #noAI #artists #writing #creativesShowcase #livestream #peertubeLive #poetry #poetsOfMastodon #mastoArt #FediArt #peertube #art #noAI #artists #writing #creativesShowcase #livestream #peertubeLive #poetry #poetsOfMastodon #mastoArt #FediArt

Through trees ray of light
Touching the deer standing guard
A crane takes its flight

#DailyHaikuPrompt for Sept 15
#Deer

#haiku #poetry #poems #poem #SmallPoems #Writing #WritingPrompt #WritingPrompts #WritersOfMastodon #PoetsOfMastodon #english #WritingCommunity #MastodonWriters

Wild rose long withered
Grace can bloom in the Fall frost
But this too won't last

#DailyHaikuPrompt for Sept 14
#Chrysanthemum #WildRose

#haiku #poetry #poems #poem #SmallPoems #Writing #WritingPrompt #WritingPrompts #WritersOfMastodon #PoetsOfMastodon #english #WritingCommunity #MastodonWriters

Pearly dew
comes with Autumn wind
Pumpkin smiles

#DailyHaikuPrompt for Sept 13
#pumpkin #dew

#haiku #poetry #poems #poem #SmallPoems #Writing #WritingPrompt #WritingPrompts #WritersOfMastodon #PoetsOfMastodon #english #WritingCommunity #MastodonWriters

fluorescent lamp
another haiku lights up
from the invisible

#haiku #senryu #haiga #shahai
#PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfMastodon

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

Oculus

Great circular hole
through the high church dome
lets in the filtered light
of a much greater home.

—

👁️ Oculus in the dome of a Baroque church
📍 Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche), Dresden
📅 12 Jun 2024
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ4, -0.7 ev, 1/125s

#poem #poemaday #poetry #dresden #frauenkirche #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

Oculus

Great circular hole
through the high church dome
lets in the filtered light
of a much greater home.

—

👁️ Oculus in the dome of a Baroque church
📍 Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche), Dresden
📅 12 Jun 2024
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ4, -0.7 ev, 1/125s

#poem #poemaday #poetry #dresden #frauenkirche #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

Oculus

Great circular hole
through the high church dome
lets in the filtered light
of a much greater home.

—

👁️ Oculus in the dome of a Baroque church
📍 Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche), Dresden
📅 12 Jun 2024
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ4, -0.7 ev, 1/125s

#poem #poemaday #poetry #dresden #frauenkirche #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

Oculus

Great circular hole
through the high church dome
lets in the filtered light
of a much greater home.

—

👁️ Oculus in the dome of a Baroque church
📍 Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche), Dresden
📅 12 Jun 2024
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ4, -0.7 ev, 1/125s

#poem #poemaday #poetry #dresden #frauenkirche #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart

sinking sun

our shadows reach out

to meet

#haiku #senryu #shahai #haiga #PoetsOfMastodon #PoetryCommunity #poetry

Beach town in winter
Not a soul to collide with
Profuse emptiness

#DailyHaikuPrompt for June 29, 2025
#profuse and #desolate

@dailyhaikuprompt

#poems #english #haiku #writing #poetry #writersofmastodon #poetsofmastodon #shortpoem

Beach town in winter
Not a soul to collide with
Profuse emptiness

#DailyHaikuPrompt for June 29, 2025
#profuse and #desolate

@dailyhaikuprompt

#poems #english #haiku #writing #poetry #writersofmastodon #poetsofmastodon #shortpoem

Beach town in winter
Not a soul to collide with
Profuse emptiness

#DailyHaikuPrompt for June 29, 2025
#profuse and #desolate

@dailyhaikuprompt

#poems #english #haiku #writing #poetry #writersofmastodon #poetsofmastodon #shortpoem

Beach town in winter
Not a soul to collide with
Profuse emptiness

#DailyHaikuPrompt for June 29, 2025
#profuse and #desolate

@dailyhaikuprompt

#poems #english #haiku #writing #poetry #writersofmastodon #poetsofmastodon #shortpoem

A new poem written using all the prompts from @dailyhaikuprompt for the week of May 17-24, 2025. Not a haiku, just a different fun challenge.

#Yellow #EarlyFrost #Field #Silence #Verdant #Rust #Road #NorthWind #Breath #Wine #Nightingale #Bonfire #Pool #Leaves #Tickle #Seclusion

https://blog.echoingfrog.ca/waiting-for-spring

#poetry #poems #poem #Writing #WritingPrompt #WritingPrompts #writersofmastodon #poetsofmastodon #english #InspiredByNatureSeries #nature #seasons #Spring #Summer #Fall #Autumn #Winter

Dear readers,

Today's #poemaday was specially written for the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. #VEDay #VEDay80

It’s much longer than usual: For the special occasion, I chose to typeset it as a PDF.

Download here: https://bit.ly/airmanjones

Enjoy!

#photography #poetry #poem #berlin #poetsofmastodon #mastoart #writingcommunity #writing