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✮ Warning Lights I Ignore ✮

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Today's poem:

Excerpt from the Rubaiyat
- by Omar Khayyam

What is the world? A caravanserai,
A pied pavilion of night and day;
A feast whereat a thousand Jamshids sat,
A couch whereon a thousand Bahrams lay.

#OmarKhayyam #poetry #caravanserai #han #travel #transience

Today's poem:

Excerpt from the Rubaiyat
- by Omar Khayyam

What is the world? A caravanserai,
A pied pavilion of night and day;
A feast whereat a thousand Jamshids sat,
A couch whereon a thousand Bahrams lay.

#OmarKhayyam #poetry #caravanserai #han #travel #transience

Peach Rose

or

Transience in Peach

Three short poems constructed from a 12-link #Rengay (original poem in reply)

@NaraMoore
@extraspecialbitter
@MarkBrigham

Photo Nara Moore Copyright 2026

#Poetry #Rose #Flowers #Summer #transience #Seasons #Haiga #俳画 #NMPoetry #Photography #マストドン写真部

Peach Rose

or

Transience in Peach

Three short poems constructed from a 12-link #Rengay (original poem in reply)

@NaraMoore
@extraspecialbitter
@MarkBrigham

Photo Nara Moore Copyright 2026

#Poetry #Rose #Flowers #Summer #transience #Seasons #Haiga #俳画 #NMPoetry #Photography #マストドン写真部

This Moment – Lost

a thought of beauty strikes me
and I must express it so

but as I reach to grasp it
it flutters away,

a moth,
a feather,
a small white bird
startled by the motion
of my wanting.

my hand closes
around nothing,

void,

and I stand there
foolish with longing,
as if the air itself
had promised me a gift
then taken it back.

and I weep
for the passing moment.

it will never come again.

not in that light,
not with that breath,
not with the same small door
opened briefly
between the soul
and the world.

May 8, 1987 (age 19) (Expanded and updated June 2026)

This Moment – Lost

a thought of beauty strikes me
and I must express it so

but as I reach to grasp it
it flutters away,

a moth,
a feather,
a small white bird
startled by the motion
of my wanting.

my hand closes
around nothing,

void,

and I stand there
foolish with longing,
as if the air itself
had promised me a gift
then taken it back.

and I weep
for the passing moment.

it will never come again.

not in that light,
not with that breath,
not with the same small door
opened briefly
between the soul
and the world.

May 8, 1987 (age 19) (Expanded and updated June 2026)

Something borrowed, or: Returned

A Sijo

moving day: behind the shelves
rectangles untouched by sunlight;
nail anchors loosen from plaster
with soft clicks into my palm;
tomorrow, fresh coats of primer
mute the shades of former lives

d’Verse poetics: Something borrowed, something blue

At d’Verse, we are encouraged to compose poems based on the old wedding rhyme “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” Poets may use one of those phrases in their poems or make up their own lucky customs, traditions, or superstitions. Our poems can be happy, funny, creepy, or anything else we choose.

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

„What Light Leaves Behind“ (2024)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍Lourmarin, Provence, France

#monochrome #monochromemonday #shadows #photography #bnw #bnwphotography #photo #shutters #blackandwhite #abstract #lines #pattern #blackandwhitephotography #urban #urbanphotography #transience #travel #France #LeicaM #monochrom #fotomontag #Schatten #Fotografie #Foto #Fenster #schwarzweiss #abstrakt #Linien #Muster #Vergänglichkeit #schwarzweissfotografie #urban #Reisen #Frankreich

„What Light Leaves Behind“ (2024)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍Lourmarin, Provence, France

#monochrome #monochromemonday #shadows #photography #bnw #bnwphotography #photo #shutters #blackandwhite #abstract #lines #pattern #blackandwhitephotography #urban #urbanphotography #transience #travel #France #LeicaM #monochrom #fotomontag #Schatten #Fotografie #Foto #Fenster #schwarzweiss #abstrakt #Linien #Muster #Vergänglichkeit #schwarzweissfotografie #urban #Reisen #Frankreich

A thin sheet of ice seals a roadside puddle, marked by fine white lines and soft fractures. It suggests how quickly form appears, and how quietly it lets go.
#photography #ice #winter #abstract #stillness #transience #patterns #silence #photo

A thin sheet of ice seals a roadside puddle, marked by fine white lines and soft fractures. It suggests how quickly form appears, and how quietly it lets go.
#photography #ice #winter #abstract #stillness #transience #patterns #silence #photo

Life requires change, and change brings excitement, even on a molecular level, as we all know. This excitement permeates through your ambivalence; it affects you, it becomes one with you, it becomes a warbler. No, this warbler is just another structure within you. It becomes a song of a warbler— brief and beautiful— Hooo- hokekyo, hooo- hokekyo.

https://hermitage.utsob.me/musings/a-mountain-willow/

#Poetry #Haiku #Transience

A quotation from The Bible

We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
 
[μὴ σκοπούντων ἡμῶν τὰ βλεπόμενα ἀλλὰ τὰ μὴ βλεπόμενα· τὰ γὰρ βλεπόμενα πρόσκαιρα, τὰ δὲ μὴ βλεπόμενα αἰώνια.]

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
2 Corinthians 4: 18 [KJV (1611)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/81657/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #2Corinthians #eternity #impermanency #impermanence #invisibility #permanence #permanency #spirit #temporality #transcendence #transience #visibility #world

picture of a frozen puddle by a road lets your mind wander through the patterns and shapes

#photography #photo #nature #winter #ice #frozen #puddle #patterns #mystery #beauty #stillness #transience #ground #dark #frost

A quotation from Cicero

Nothing flourishes for ever; each generation gives place to its successor.
 
[Nihil enim semper floret; aetas succedit aetati.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 11, ch. 15 / sec. 39 (11.15/11.39) (43-02 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #philippic #impermanence #age #change #era #flourish #flower #generation #passageoftime #success #succession #successor #transience

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the game. Links:

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music

https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Available_Music

Title:
Transience

Author:
Aleksi Aubry-Carlson

official filename:
transience.ogg

time to upload: 5 seconds

If you like this song maybe you want to follow @wesnoth

#wesnoth #WesnothMusic #GameMusic #music #soundtrack #WesnothSoundtrack #FediMusic #AleksiAubryCarlson #Transience #WesnothTransience

Starship Berlin
A #poetry thread in three parts

—

i.

The promise of a future bright
encased in a temporal temple:
It sits among Berlin’s blinking lights,
a spaceship made to resemble.

Its oracles stood in this aluminum starchurch
dressed in sparkling ABBA track suits,
alit by glittering disco balls with lights that search
for the future’s many loyal recruits.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #writing #photography
#Berlin #architecture #futurism #scifi #transience
#iccberlin #hasselhoff #iwentthere

These fleeting moments
I take note of them
sometimes in words
sometimes in pictures
sometimes in silence
while I make myself
at home
with the flow
of life

#vsspoem - #transience
#WritingCommunity #poetry

@worded_art
@poetry