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My latest blog is all about poetry...enjoy!

https://www.jacquigreaves-author.com/blog/a-month-of-poetry

#Poetry #Poem #PoetryMonth #WritingCraft #WritingCommunity #ReadersOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #PoetsOfMastodon

Keyboard Lord

I am lord
of my keyboard.
A keyboard lord
is like a budget
radio Rambo.
Instead of
pulling the trigger
I toggle keys.
I take aim
with my mouse
and fire a missive.
Instead of cutting
with survival knife
I wound with words.
My grand hand
raps like a rooster
pecking the eyes out
of little letters;
pecking patches
of shadowy serifs.

#poem #poetry #PoetsOfMastodon

For those who feel too much…
where shadows become poetry and wounds become art.
Enter my world.

#poetsofmastodon
#writingcommunity
#writersofmastodon

CHERRIES

For the fallen.

One by one I burst the little hearts
and plucked out the stones.

First Carlos then Claudia
could not endure
crudeltá, tirannical power
could not endu re
and their despair

My hands were so red, I thought they would be stained for days, but the juice washed off easily. My nails were dyed rose for the rest of the day.

#poetry #poetsofmastodon

Convalescence

Give me thin milk to sip,
Give me gruel.
Nothing with colour
Nothing with taste.
Just paste.

#poetry #poetsofmastodon

The only thing
that hurts
is missing

Not knowing
what juice you
drank
this morning.

The weather
is warming.
As I clean the
house
for my visitor,

Where are you,
other glove?
Lost inside
the vacuum.

20260606 Katherine Morrow

#poetry #poetsofmastodon

The VanDusen botanical garden in Vancouver is drop-dead gorgeous in the Spring!!

So much beauty called for a little haiku.

Path meanders
Spring blossoms. A detour
Heart flutters

#poetry #haiku #poems #poem #writing #writersofmastodon #poetsofmastodon #garden #botanicalgarden #flowers #nature #spring #vancouver #vandusengarden #blossoms #bloom #goldenchaintree

What is it
about Paris

a density
a curve
distinct

cigarette
soot in the
drains, tiles
avoiding white

city of cities

and yet
to live here
would be to be
miserable.

#poetsofmastodon #paris

IN SCHEVENINGEN

Beast of grief, Gaza
Words run into the Sea.

Content screams around the world,
Carried by a wind of eyes.

In the courthouse in The Hague,
a woman silently reads an argument,
then she takes her place
in front of the red light
of the microphone, and speaks.

In the dunes where judges take their lunches
Blue snails exult.
Under low clouds
Sea tasting rain
Makes grasses dance.

Katherine Morrow, May 18, 2026.

#poetsofmastodon

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

Poetry about the devastation of war. Cooperation, understanding, and compassion should replace the thought or intent of war.

#poetry #poetsofMastodon #poetrycommunity #landscape #tree #melancholy #war #wallart #perspective #commentary #emotional #thought #sad #perception

https://www.diamantelavendar.com/blog/2026/3/15/war

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

Frankenstein rising

Truest line ever,
Creature’s “We can be monsters
together”, mood shared

After watching Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry #poetsofmastodon #writing #writingcommunity #DelTorosFrankenstein #romantic #isolation

Sea‑born, loud with salt,
if my depth stings when it hits,
you can keep to sand

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry #poetsofmastodon #writing #writingcommunity

Snow on broken ground
Pain holds a quiet shimmer
Thaw, and walk away

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry #poetsofmastodon #writing #writingcommunity

Whiteout

The holidays come,
a crossroads in the snow.

The falling white
blurs the place we meant to meet.

Blessed by the drift,
we turn away,
each into our own distance.

Storms can gather us.
Storms can let us go.

#poetry #poem #micropoetry
#poetsofmastodon #winterwriting #lettingo

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

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