#versethursday — Public Fediverse posts

The hand erasing writes the real thing.
—Henri Cole

The disappearance within a painting of a woman
on a swing under a mango tree

altered by the artist to disguise her identity
just two villages away
or perhaps
their change of heart
possibly even the newer alternatives of ink

Now there is only a tree, its branches,
not even the colour of her arms

where she floats in her own gale of stillness,
just ink, watercolour, opaque paper
Kangra, India 1850

~~ 'A Disappearance' by Michael Ondaatje from 'A Year of Last Things'

#VerseThursday #TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry

I leave you to your ceremony of grieving
Which is also of celebration
Given when an honored humble one
Leaves behind a trail of happiness
In the dark of human tribulation.
None of us is above the other
In this story of forever.
Though we follow that red road home,
one behind another.
There is a light breaking through the storm
And it is buffalo hunting weather.
There you can see your mother.
She is busy as she was ever—
She holds up a new jingle dress, for her youngest beloved daughter.
And for her special son, a set of finely beaded gear.
All for that welcome home dance,
The most favorite of all—
when everyone finds their way back together
to dance, eat and celebrate.
And tell story after story
of how they fought and played
in the story wheel
and how no one
was ever really lost at all.
~~ 'The Story Wheel' by Joy Harjo from 'An American Sunrise'

#VerseThursday #TodaysPoem #poem @poetry

At thirty-six
I finally stopped wanting to shower—
a caricature,
convinced I couldn’t do that right,
either.

#VerseThursday

2 years ago, almost to the day, I posted this:

#VerseThursday

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Cold toilet seats away from home are ok with me, I can imagine no recent sitters,
How about you?

"He begins
at the crown of my scalp. He parts the two sides like a tree

branch at the V, and I think of all the forks in the road
in all the storybooks about emerald forests, kingdoms.
All the swinging bridges we travailed. Mariners, trains, conductors."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry #VerseThursday
Hairbrush by Cynthia Atkins (2023 Reverie Magazine) https://tinyurl.com/38bhhazd

"Empty mountain: no man is seen.
But voices of men are heard.
Sun's reflection reaches into the woods
And shines upon the green moss."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry #VerseThursday
Deer Enclosure by Wang Wei, translated by Wai-Lim Yip from Hiding the Universe (1972 Grossman Publishers) https://tinyurl.com/y9w53btd
in 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger (1987, 2016 New Directions Publishing) https://tinyurl.com/2p95v5mk

"Our orbit is drunk in its spin, and sobriety comes
only in flashes. No one knows who we are.
We live in that freedom and peril.
Let the imagination be the beast it is
that eats and fattens on us.
But let us not believe a word it says."

#TodaysPoem #VerseThursday #poetry @poetry
In the Air by @ronnabloom (2024 Brick Literary) https://tinyurl.com/5ewvd55z

"Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache" by Juliana Spahr is long, and worth the time.

https://poems.com/poem/gentle-now-dont-add-to-heartache/

Found thanks to the excerpt posted Phyllis Cole-Dai's site "The Raft". https://phylliscoledai.substack.com/p/the-daily-boost-798 Phyllis edited the books Poetry of Presence and Poetry of Presence II and I read from her 3-year collection of mindfulness poems every morning. https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/

#PoetryOfPresence #poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #VerseThursday #nature #Ohio #BeingHere

"Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache" by Juliana Spahr is long, and worth the time.

https://poems.com/poem/gentle-now-dont-add-to-heartache/

Found thanks to the excerpt posted Phyllis Cole-Dai's site "The Raft". https://phylliscoledai.substack.com/p/the-daily-boost-798 Phyllis edited the books Poetry of Presence and Poetry of Presence II and I read from her 3-year collection of mindfulness poems every morning. https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/

#PoetryOfPresence #poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #VerseThursday #nature #Ohio #BeingHere

"Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache" by Juliana Spahr is long, and worth the time.

https://poems.com/poem/gentle-now-dont-add-to-heartache/

Found thanks to the excerpt posted Phyllis Cole-Dai's site "The Raft". https://phylliscoledai.substack.com/p/the-daily-boost-798 Phyllis edited the books Poetry of Presence and Poetry of Presence II and I read from her 3-year collection of mindfulness poems every morning. https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/

#PoetryOfPresence #poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #VerseThursday #nature #Ohio #BeingHere

"Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache" by Juliana Spahr is long, and worth the time.

https://poems.com/poem/gentle-now-dont-add-to-heartache/

Found thanks to the excerpt posted Phyllis Cole-Dai's site "The Raft". https://phylliscoledai.substack.com/p/the-daily-boost-798 Phyllis edited the books Poetry of Presence and Poetry of Presence II and I read from her 3-year collection of mindfulness poems every morning. https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/

#PoetryOfPresence #poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #VerseThursday #nature #Ohio #BeingHere

"Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache" by Juliana Spahr is long, and worth the time.

https://poems.com/poem/gentle-now-dont-add-to-heartache/

Found thanks to the excerpt posted Phyllis Cole-Dai's site "The Raft". https://phylliscoledai.substack.com/p/the-daily-boost-798 Phyllis edited the books Poetry of Presence and Poetry of Presence II and I read from her 3-year collection of mindfulness poems every morning. https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/

#PoetryOfPresence #poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #VerseThursday #nature #Ohio #BeingHere

15/31: OBITS. by tess liem (2018 Coach House Press) https://tinyurl.com/4m7aue67

"when the big lights clunk on
& the grass-stained pitcher
walks the batter to first base

the crowd is quiet &
grief, like a swing,
hits you out of the park."

Obit.

#TheSealeyChallenge #SealeyChallenge #31Books31Days #31BooksInAugust #todayspoem #poetry #VerseThursday @poetry

8/31: A BALTIC FRIDAY EARLY IN GREY by Adele Graf (2017 above/ground press) https://tinyurl.com/39ndzn7e

"their amazing were killed to met the possible
any there after family and passed
became again front even any there Latvian
wouldn't he home
what inside prison that the visitors see
in its to it deep mind
a Baltic Friday early in grey"

#TheSealeyChallenge #SealeyChallenge #31Books31Days #31BooksInAugust #todayspoem #poetry #VerseThursday @poetry

"But the clouds here, I haven’t
yet mentioned the clouds here:
they sing these very personal songs
about wronging and being
wronged. They smoke a lot
of cigarettes. You can hear it.
And I sing along though I have
no voice. I sing with my eyes."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #VerseThursday @poetry
At Laundromats Here There Are No Dryers by Stuart Ross (2017 The Rusty Toque) https://tinyurl.com/36zz9ywc

"my mother says, look how we are astonished
            by the jails, I say, by the floors holding our reflections
knowing enough medicine, enough 
            to call the burning world back to love"

#TodaysPoem #VerseThursday #poetry @poetry
from “The World After Rain” by Canisia Lubrin (2023 Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day) https://tinyurl.com/mvybf7wc

"I who can blink
to break the spell of daylight

and what a sliding screen between worlds
is a blink"

#TodaysPoem #VerseThursday #poetry @poetry
A Rushed Account of the Dew by Alice Oswald from Falling Awake (2016 Jonathan Cape) https://tinyurl.com/46hydytw

"Blocks filled with stories,
with people,
a community.

A past,
a present,
a future.

Here."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #VerseThursday @poetry
from Denison Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes (2023 ECW Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdfmed8t

"This morning before daybreak a thunderstorm

In the last hours before her death
her enemies came. A raccoon, that storm,
the FedEx truck manned by a gentle woman
who'd recently lost her own dog."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry #VerseThursday
Stella by Michael Ondaatje from A Year of Last Things (2024 McClelland & Stewart) https://tinyurl.com/2xcx9z9n

Got a #VerseThursday of two poems I quite like, (Note: the poems are not screen reader friendly but the one that's the link to the slowdown has it performed. click that)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/149976/obligations-2 - a Choose Your Own Adventure Poem

https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2023/10/27/986-eggshells - this is about shades of gray and black It's amazing to hear it read aloud

"Please let me be a blaze. I will destroy,

I mean create again this place."

#TodaysPoem #VerseThursday #poetry @poetry
Disembodied At The Botanical Gardens by Robin Richardson (2017 The Ex-Puritan Magazine) https://tinyurl.com/nhjvdapc

"Beyond the loggia, I watch

rain not fall, I watch fall not rain, often—
I am the expectation of gravitas,

a tub gelato, a deep spoon. Sometimes
I calligraphy the refrigerator."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry #VerseThursday
Constellation Cannoli by Tara Mesalik MacMahon (2020 Duende Literary) https://tinyurl.com/y4m8a5js

Only a title and two lines, so far.

“nōn serviam”

my citizenship
is hush money

#VerseThursday

"A swift flow erodes one side,
while a silty ladle adds to the other.
Repeating this motion over and over,
an oxbow lake is born and a new biome
rises."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #VerseThursday @poetry
A Tribute to Fractals by Leslie Thomas (2023 Consilience Journal) https://tinyurl.com/36v67nkt

"The golf links lie so near the mill
that almost every day
the laboring children can look out
and watch the men at play."

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
(02/04/1876 – 04/04/1959)
US writer
#VerseThursday

outside the inservile thunder rolls
when I - I -
find a verse again.

It flits on a breeze of psyche,
sweet and calm and unaccustomed
and welcome in its rarity.

#VerseThursday

"when alone,
spelunkingly in
quire for wings to
fly with, to dive dive
dive with, to trysohardto
define"

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #VerseThursday @poetry
Spelunk by Edie Reaney Chunn (2023 untethered magazine) https://tinyurl.com/yknp229b

"the runaway world upside down
and no god of chaos to lift one hand
and make the place behave"

#TodaysPoem #poetry #VerseThursday @poetry
The Turning Point by Alfred Purdy from North of Summer (1967 McClelland and Stewart) https://tinyurl.com/yeysb5t9

"winter sun
I wish I was as tall
as my shadow"

#TodaysPoem #poetry #VerseThursday @poetry
by @MarjoleinRotsteeg (2024 Scarlet Dragonfly Journal) https://tinyurl.com/3mvthry8

On #NationalPoetryDay,
I really just wanted to say,
Down with the Tories,
Their lies and their stories,
Vote tactically and make them pay.

#GTTO #Poems #Poetry #PoetryDay #VerseThursday #Limerick

https://stopthetories.vote/

On #NationalPoetryDay,
I really just wanted to say,
Down with the Tories,
Their lies and their stories,
Vote tactically and make them pay.

#GTTO #Poems #Poetry #PoetryDay #VerseThursday #Limerick

https://stopthetories.vote/

On #NationalPoetryDay,
I really just wanted to say,
Down with the Tories,
Their lies and their stories,
Vote tactically and make them pay.

#GTTO #Poems #Poetry #PoetryDay #VerseThursday #Limerick

https://stopthetories.vote/

On #NationalPoetryDay,
I really just wanted to say,
Down with the Tories,
Their lies and their stories,
Vote tactically and make them pay.

#GTTO #Poems #Poetry #PoetryDay #VerseThursday #Limerick

https://stopthetories.vote/

On #NationalPoetryDay,
I really just wanted to say,
Down with the Tories,
Their lies and their stories,
Vote tactically and make them pay.

#GTTO #Poems #Poetry #PoetryDay #VerseThursday #Limerick

https://stopthetories.vote/

A Maya Stein poem for #VerseThursday: "trust me, I don't know what I'm doing". It isn't a poem "about" bicycling but there's a line in it that I loved (of course):
"I know that riding a bicycle makes me braver
than yesterday"

https://mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/july-25-2023

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #MayaStein

A Maya Stein poem for #VerseThursday: "trust me, I don't know what I'm doing". It isn't a poem "about" bicycling but there's a line in it that I loved (of course):
"I know that riding a bicycle makes me braver
than yesterday"

https://mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/july-25-2023

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #MayaStein

A Maya Stein poem for #VerseThursday: "trust me, I don't know what I'm doing". It isn't a poem "about" bicycling but there's a line in it that I loved (of course):
"I know that riding a bicycle makes me braver
than yesterday"

https://mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/july-25-2023

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #MayaStein

A Maya Stein poem for #VerseThursday: "trust me, I don't know what I'm doing". It isn't a poem "about" bicycling but there's a line in it that I loved (of course):
"I know that riding a bicycle makes me braver
than yesterday"

https://mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/july-25-2023

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #MayaStein

A Maya Stein poem for #VerseThursday: "trust me, I don't know what I'm doing". It isn't a poem "about" bicycling but there's a line in it that I loved (of course):
"I know that riding a bicycle makes me braver
than yesterday"

https://mayastein.com/poetry/2023/8/7/july-25-2023

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems #BikeTooter #MayaStein

Just in time for #VerseThursday, I published another collection of poems involving bicycles. Enjoy!
http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/07/27/more-poems-on-the-bike-rack/
#BikePoems #poetry #poem #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #BikeTooter #BikeToot #cycling #bicycles #bikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeNite

Just in time for #VerseThursday, I published another collection of poems involving bicycles. Enjoy!
http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/07/27/more-poems-on-the-bike-rack/
#BikePoems #poetry #poem #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #BikeTooter #BikeToot #cycling #bicycles #bikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeNite

Just in time for #VerseThursday, I published another collection of poems involving bicycles. Enjoy!
http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/07/27/more-poems-on-the-bike-rack/
#BikePoems #poetry #poem #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #BikeTooter #BikeToot #cycling #bicycles #bikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeNite

Just in time for #VerseThursday, I published another collection of poems involving bicycles. Enjoy!
http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/07/27/more-poems-on-the-bike-rack/
#BikePoems #poetry #poem #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #BikeTooter #BikeToot #cycling #bicycles #bikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeNite

Just in time for #VerseThursday, I published another collection of poems involving bicycles. Enjoy!
http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/07/27/more-poems-on-the-bike-rack/
#BikePoems #poetry #poem #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #BikeTooter #BikeToot #cycling #bicycles #bikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeNite

This poem really landed for me: "Elliptical" by Harryette Mullen. I can't put all the tags I think are relevant because that fills in blanks you can fill in for yourself. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51632/elliptical

#poetry #poem #poems #assumptions #stereotypes #VerseThursday #HarryetteMullen #TodaysPoem

Posted another collection of poems that touch on some mode of transportation, sometimes in surprising ways. http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/05/06/do-not-drive-through-this-poems-in-the-way-transportation-poems-keep-rolling-in/ #poetry #poems #transportation #TranspoPoems #train #transit #flying #walking #WalkTooter #VerseThursday

Exterminating Angel Press published their spring issue this week: "Recipes for Disaster." They've included my little #reminiscence about my late Mom's -- er -- unusual approach to the culinary arts. It's called "Special."

https://exterminatingangel.com/special/

#VerseThursday #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #community #writing #food #cooking #cuisine #motherhood #MothersDay #coffee #turkey #family #memory #nostalgia #affection #irony

For #VerseThursday, three poems of mine up at iamb: poetry seen and heard. If you're into social justice and / or spiders, check them out :)

#iamb #poetry #poet #PoetsOfMastodon #LitMags #SocialJustice #spiders

https://www.iambapoet.com/wave-thirteen/jude-marr

for #VerseThursday , here are two brand new poems of mine, complete with #audio, over at #RedOgreReview:

(TW for second poem: death / drowning)

https://ogre.red/issues/2023-04/2023-04-boehm-annette-c/

#poetry #poetsofmastodon #writingcommunity #writinglife #litjournals #space #ophelia #dust #asexualpoetry

for #VerseThursday , here are two brand new poems of mine, complete with #audio, over at #RedOgreReview:

(TW for second poem: death / drowning)

https://ogre.red/issues/2023-04/2023-04-boehm-annette-c/

#poetry #poetsofmastodon #writingcommunity #writinglife #litjournals #space #ophelia #dust #asexualpoetry