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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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)

    #1987 #Beauty #ContemplativePoetry #creativeStruggle #emptiness #fleetingBeauty #fragileBeauty #grief #humanExperience #impermanence #inspiration #longing #loss #lyricalPoetry #missedMoment #Pain #poeticReflection #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Sorrow #transience #vanishedMoment #void #weeping #Writing #youthPoetry
  7. 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)

    #1987 #Beauty #ContemplativePoetry #creativeStruggle #emptiness #fleetingBeauty #fragileBeauty #grief #humanExperience #impermanence #inspiration #longing #loss #lyricalPoetry #missedMoment #Pain #poeticReflection #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Sorrow #transience #vanishedMoment #void #weeping #Writing #youthPoetry
  8. 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)

    #1987 #Beauty #ContemplativePoetry #creativeStruggle #emptiness #fleetingBeauty #fragileBeauty #grief #humanExperience #impermanence #inspiration #longing #loss #lyricalPoetry #missedMoment #Pain #poeticReflection #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Sorrow #transience #vanishedMoment #void #weeping #Writing #youthPoetry
  9. 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)

    #1987 #Beauty #ContemplativePoetry #creativeStruggle #emptiness #fleetingBeauty #fragileBeauty #grief #humanExperience #impermanence #inspiration #longing #loss #lyricalPoetry #missedMoment #Pain #poeticReflection #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Sorrow #transience #vanishedMoment #void #weeping #Writing #youthPoetry
  10. 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)

    #1987 #Beauty #ContemplativePoetry #creativeStruggle #emptiness #fleetingBeauty #fragileBeauty #grief #humanExperience #impermanence #inspiration #longing #loss #lyricalPoetry #missedMoment #Pain #poeticReflection #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Sorrow #transience #vanishedMoment #void #weeping #Writing #youthPoetry
  11. 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!

    #Change #Instability #Moving #Poem #Poetry #Sijo #Temporary #Transience #Transition #Wistfulness
  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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.

    hermitage.utsob.me/musings/a-m

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. A quotation from Shakespeare

    GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
       For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
       Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
       He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
       With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
       Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #richardii #blowingover #brevity #burningout #fierceness #fuel #selfconsumption #transience

  20. A quotation from Shakespeare

    GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
       For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
       Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
       He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
       With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
       Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #richardii #blowingover #brevity #burningout #fierceness #fuel #selfconsumption #transience

  21. A quotation from Shakespeare

    GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
       For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
       Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
       He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
       With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
       Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #richardii #blowingover #brevity #burningout #fierceness #fuel #selfconsumption #transience

  22. A quotation from Shakespeare

    GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
       For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
       Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
       He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
       With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
       Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #richardii #blowingover #brevity #burningout #fierceness #fuel #selfconsumption #transience

  23. A quotation from James Hilton

    The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

    James Hilton (1900-1954) Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter
    Lost Horizon, ch. 8 [High Lama] (1933)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hilton-james/79489/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshilton #losthorizon #shangrila #age #brevity #elderly #humancondition #lifetime #oldage #transience #youth

  24. A quotation from James Hilton

    The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

    James Hilton (1900-1954) Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter
    Lost Horizon, ch. 8 [High Lama] (1933)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hilton-james/79489/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshilton #losthorizon #shangrila #age #brevity #elderly #humancondition #lifetime #oldage #transience #youth

  25. A quotation from James Hilton

    The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

    James Hilton (1900-1954) Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter
    Lost Horizon, ch. 8 [High Lama] (1933)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hilton-james/79489/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshilton #losthorizon #shangrila #age #brevity #elderly #humancondition #lifetime #oldage #transience #youth

  26. A quotation from James Hilton

    The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

    James Hilton (1900-1954) Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter
    Lost Horizon, ch. 8 [High Lama] (1933)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hilton-james/79489/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshilton #losthorizon #shangrila #age #brevity #elderly #humancondition #lifetime #oldage #transience #youth

  27. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
     
    [Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 21 (7.21) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7926…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #remembrance #afterlife #brevity #death #fame #forget #forgotten #history #passageoftime #past #renown #reputation #time #transience #unimportance #marchoftime #timemarcheson

  28. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
     
    [Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 21 (7.21) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7926…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #remembrance #afterlife #brevity #death #fame #forget #forgotten #history #passageoftime #past #renown #reputation #time #transience #unimportance #marchoftime #timemarcheson

  29. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
     
    [Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 21 (7.21) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7926…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #remembrance #afterlife #brevity #death #fame #forget #forgotten #history #passageoftime #past #renown #reputation #time #transience #unimportance #marchoftime #timemarcheson

  30. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
     
    [Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 21 (7.21) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7926…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #remembrance #afterlife #brevity #death #fame #forget #forgotten #history #passageoftime #past #renown #reputation #time #transience #unimportance #marchoftime #timemarcheson

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

    github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tre

    wiki.wesnoth.org/Available_Mus

    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

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

    github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tre

    wiki.wesnoth.org/Available_Mus

    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

  33. This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at

    github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tre

    Also described at:

    wiki.wesnoth.org/Available_Mus

    Title:
    Transience

    Author:
    Aleksi Aubry-Carlson

    official filename:
    transience.ogg

    time to upload: 5 seconds

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

  34. 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

  35. 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