#poety — Public Fediverse posts

‘To Everlasting Oblivion’ by John Marston

https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/to-everlasting-oblivion

#poety #poem #english #literature

‘Nature and Life’ by George Meredith

https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/george-meredith-poem-nature-and-life

#poety #poem #english #literature #nature

An excellent bio piece on the poet, W.H. Auden.

https://youtu.be/4IClrLmItos?si=sgBM1jYnl7wV02Q3

#poety #poet #biography #WHAuden

Billy's Goddam Band

Out in the alley smoking a
Joint before the Xyna Gallery gig
A Ryder truck pulls up w/more gear than
Fits in the storefront we’re playing
And out steps Billy Fucking Corgan
And his goddam band. Guess we
Have an opener! Did they miss the
Turn off to the Stadium?! Two
Guitar hockey rink rock which I like
When I’m not annoyed, aloofness like
They were goddam Smashing Pumpkins.

#chicago #poety

Splatter Poetry: Dancing the Darkness FantaSplatter Poetry: Dancing the Darkness Fantastic

https://stgreenie.blogspot.com/2025/05/dancing-darkness-fantastic.html?spref=tw

#poety #poem #amwriting

Military on parade,
all for me he said
and the crowd cheered.

Hurrah Hurrah!
All hail the king, ...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-parade-and-the-non-king-5d9f281c8731

#LGBTQ #Poety #QueerPoetry #USPolitics #ProtestPoetry #NoKings

Sometimes, you find poetry where you least expect it~

#Sticker #Stickers #Poety

started with a spark,
darkness shrugged off, ten years on -
the bonfire burns.

#dailyhaikyprompt - bonfire #poety #haiku

The problem with adverbs, undoubtedly /
Is that they often rhyme, oh so thoroughly.

#boostingIsSharing
#fiction #prose and #poety #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
#RSdiscussion

It's hard to be the beginning
the one pulled from a cage of ribs
without the sweet smell of milk
or symbiosis of skin...

"When God Listens To Eve" by Sarah Dickenson Snyder #poety #poem #poems #Poets https://www.gyroscopereview.com/2023/04/origin-stories-sarah-snyder/?fbclid=IwAR2ThrNje8F08suPvE_U3ua-4FYiZU4CLRraV0RxoDP8m4rQmfyV0hSXTkI

World’s dark and sleepy
Her smile reflects in his
Drifting past the day

#haiku
#poety
#DailyHaikuPrompt -smile
#575Prompt

Elegant gander
A flotilla of goslings
Ripples in the pond

#haiku
#poety
#DailyHaikuPrompt -geese

In his winter dreams
He Soared with the cardinals
Snow on scarlet wings

#haiku
#poety
#DailyHaikuPrompt -snow

Shuffling in new skates
scrapping across bumpy ice
with wobbly ankles

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#DailyHaikuPrompt -skates

My overcoat’s thick,
But wind sneaks up my sleeves.
Goose flesh on my arms

#haiku
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#DailyHaikuPrompt -overcoat

Twisted and bent.
The ancient conifer prevails
Against the north wind

#haiku
#poety
#DailyHaikuPrompt north wind

https://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/identifying-bristlecone-pines.htm (ink to an article about the words oldest tree)

murmurous music
drifting from the fan
while dozing —bang

#Haiku #poety #ExplodingHeadSyndrome #Apophena #Promptodon

I love this poem written by the great Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. I like the surprise.

“A Poppy Blooms”

I write, erase, rewrite

Erase again, and then

A poppy blooms.

(link to a Hokusai poppy print.
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/25108/poppies-from-an-untitled-series-of-flowers (l

#haiku
#poety
#DailyHaikuPrompt

Confession

Countee Cullen

If for a day joy masters me,
Think not my wounds are healed;
Far deeper than the scars you see,
I keep the roots concealed.

They shall bear blossoms with the fall;
I have their word for this,
Who tend my roots with rains of gall,
And suns of prejudice.

#poety #CounteeCullen #oppression #resistance #resilience #pain #renewal

What are your favorite mags publishing visual poetry/poetry-inflected art, either in print or online? Not as plugged in as I would like, so I’m making a list.

#poety #VisualPoetry #VisPo #art

“Real poetry brings back into play all the unsettled debts of history.”

—The Situationist International

#poety #Situationist #SituationistInternational #history

grab a handful.
you yank,
i'll tug,
we'll both pull,
reciprocating our efforts.
teamwork is key,
when it comes to a fitted sheet.

#MastoPrompt #poety #poem #SmallPoems

@tanweerdar

what must it be like to live
until the very moment you die
to simply plummet
from the ancient Yew
a bright note, quelled
by a Cooper's Hawk
or the insolence
of the neighbor's cat?

birds don’t waste a thought
on the inevitability of endings
because they have the sky
and the sky has them

#mastoprompt #poety

For anyone wishing to read John Milton’s great English language epic poem “Paradise Lost,” or who have perhaps once read it but didn’t quite understand it, this recent New Books Network / Writ Large #podcast featuring Zachary Davis interviewing Prof. Erik Gray about #Milton, the poem, and its #history provides an excellent introduction and overview well suited to all interested. https://newbooksnetwork.com/on-john-miltons-paradise-lost #bookstodon #literature #poety #earlymodern