#wsmerwin — Public Fediverse posts

The Single Best Piece of Advice on the Creative Life

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/30/merwin-berryman/

The Single Best Piece of Advice on the Creative Life

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/30/merwin-berryman/

The Single Best Piece of Advice on the Creative Life

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/30/merwin-berryman/

The Single Best Piece of Advice on the Creative Life

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/30/merwin-berryman/

The Single Best Piece of Advice on the Creative Life

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/30/merwin-berryman/

Read this for poetry and for protest.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ordinaryplots/p/ws-merwins-to-the-blank-spaces?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2t69m

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #protest #dissent #FreePalestine #WSMerwin #DevinKelly #HanifAbdurraqib #RossGay #AnnaKornbluh #ColumbiaUniversity #StudentSolidarity #Gaza #JohnCage #music #listening #birds #silence

Read this for poetry and for protest.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ordinaryplots/p/ws-merwins-to-the-blank-spaces?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2t69m

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #protest #dissent #FreePalestine #WSMerwin #DevinKelly #HanifAbdurraqib #RossGay #AnnaKornbluh #ColumbiaUniversity #StudentSolidarity #Gaza #JohnCage #music #listening #birds #silence

Read this for poetry and for protest.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ordinaryplots/p/ws-merwins-to-the-blank-spaces?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2t69m

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #protest #dissent #FreePalestine #WSMerwin #DevinKelly #HanifAbdurraqib #RossGay #AnnaKornbluh #ColumbiaUniversity #StudentSolidarity #Gaza #JohnCage #music #listening #birds #silence

Read this for poetry and for protest.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ordinaryplots/p/ws-merwins-to-the-blank-spaces?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2t69m

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #protest #dissent #FreePalestine #WSMerwin #DevinKelly #HanifAbdurraqib #RossGay #AnnaKornbluh #ColumbiaUniversity #StudentSolidarity #Gaza #JohnCage #music #listening #birds #silence

Read this for poetry and for protest.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ordinaryplots/p/ws-merwins-to-the-blank-spaces?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2t69m

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #protest #dissent #FreePalestine #WSMerwin #DevinKelly #HanifAbdurraqib #RossGay #AnnaKornbluh #ColumbiaUniversity #StudentSolidarity #Gaza #JohnCage #music #listening #birds #silence

This poem by W.S. Merwin reminded me that every single day starts a new year.

Excerpt from "To the New Year" by W.S. Merwin

so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/w-s-merwin-to-new-year.html
#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #poems #WSMerwin #NewYear #beginnings #mindfulness #hope

This poem by W.S. Merwin reminded me that every single day starts a new year.

Excerpt from "To the New Year" by W.S. Merwin

so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/w-s-merwin-to-new-year.html
#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #poems #WSMerwin #NewYear #beginnings #mindfulness #hope

This poem by W.S. Merwin reminded me that every single day starts a new year.

Excerpt from "To the New Year" by W.S. Merwin

so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/w-s-merwin-to-new-year.html
#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #poems #WSMerwin #NewYear #beginnings #mindfulness #hope

This poem by W.S. Merwin reminded me that every single day starts a new year.

Excerpt from "To the New Year" by W.S. Merwin

so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/w-s-merwin-to-new-year.html
#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #poems #WSMerwin #NewYear #beginnings #mindfulness #hope

This poem by W.S. Merwin reminded me that every single day starts a new year.

Excerpt from "To the New Year" by W.S. Merwin

so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/w-s-merwin-to-new-year.html
#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #poems #WSMerwin #NewYear #beginnings #mindfulness #hope

Loss and Gain
Your absence has gone through meLike thread through a needle.Everything I do is stitched with its color.”― W.S. Merwin, Separation

Stick season brings a different kind of light with it. Trees stand like soldiers, marching across landscapes, over hills and deep into valleys. Without the cover of leaves, we see things otherwise obscured.
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/11/19/loss-and-gain/
#Poetry #Relationships #Seasons #MementoMori #NewHampshire #StickSeason #WSMerwin

Loss and Gain
Your absence has gone through meLike thread through a needle.Everything I do is stitched with its color.”― W.S. Merwin, Separation

Stick season brings a different kind of light with it. Trees stand like soldiers, marching across landscapes, over hills and deep into valleys. Without the cover of leaves, we see things otherwise obscured.
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/11/19/loss-and-gain/
#Poetry #Relationships #Seasons #MementoMori #NewHampshire #StickSeason #WSMerwin

"Elegy" by W.S. Merwin
(September 30, 1927- March 15, 2019)
One of my all time beloved poets, with whom I share a birthday, and who left us on this day.

#everynightapoem #WSMerwin #poetry

"Elegy" by W.S. Merwin
(September 30, 1927- March 15, 2019)
One of my all time beloved poets, with whom I share a birthday, and who left us on this day.

#everynightapoem #WSMerwin #poetry

"Elegy" by W.S. Merwin
(September 30, 1927- March 15, 2019)
One of my all time beloved poets, with whom I share a birthday, and who left us on this day.

#everynightapoem #WSMerwin #poetry

"Elegy" by W.S. Merwin
(September 30, 1927- March 15, 2019)
One of my all time beloved poets, with whom I share a birthday, and who left us on this day.

#everynightapoem #WSMerwin #poetry

#3goodthings 1. Double score at the local used shop: hardback copy of #wsmerwin ’s Shadow of Sirius for $10, and a copy of the Long Discourses of the Buddha, a book that costs $50 new, for $25 #buylocal #buyused #poetry #bookstadon 2. One of my oldest and best friends gave me a #startrek mug for #christmas when we met up for coffee today. 3. I got something like three hours of sleep last night, but haven’t experienced much negative fallout from it

#3goodthings 1. Double score at the local used shop: hardback copy of #wsmerwin ’s Shadow of Sirius for $10, and a copy of the Long Discourses of the Buddha, a book that costs $50 new, for $25 #buylocal #buyused #poetry #bookstadon 2. One of my oldest and best friends gave me a #startrek mug for #christmas when we met up for coffee today. 3. I got something like three hours of sleep last night, but haven’t experienced much negative fallout from it

#3goodthings 1. Double score at the local used shop: hardback copy of #wsmerwin ’s Shadow of Sirius for $10, and a copy of the Long Discourses of the Buddha, a book that costs $50 new, for $25 #buylocal #buyused #poetry #bookstadon 2. One of my oldest and best friends gave me a #startrek mug for #christmas when we met up for coffee today. 3. I got something like three hours of sleep last night, but haven’t experienced much negative fallout from it