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BarbChamberlainMindfulness poem for the <a href="https://toot.community/tags/lichenology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lichenology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/phycology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phycology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/mycology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mycology</a> fans. <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Bryology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bryology</a> fans can likely relate too.On Peace by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer"There is so much I cannot do to help the world, but this— let me learn to metabolize silence as the alga in lichen metabolizes light."<a href="https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/03/28/on-peace/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/03/28/on-peace/</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/lichen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lichen</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#algae</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/fungus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fungus</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/mosses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mosses</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mosstodon</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/mindfulness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mindfulness</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoetryOfPresence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryOfPresence</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peace</a>

BarbChamberlainHow to celebrate World Poetry Day today? Hey, you could read some poetry!An excerpt from "Grace" by James Crews:Lately, I think it’s grace that makes us push up through the soil of our lives like the blades of a daffodil that may take weeks to bloom, but at least senses that first moment of softening warmth in the earth, and slices through old leaves to meet it. What a waste a closed heart is, <a href="https://mailchi.mp/5c6acdfb2063/weekly-pause-grace-makes-us?e=4660b7819e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mailchi.mp/5c6acdfb2063/weekly-pause-grace-makes-us?e=4660b7819e</a>.<a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WorldPoetryDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldPoetryDay</a>

Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶Dean Village, Edinburgh A <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> in three parts—i.A man with a shadow across his face walked down from a high stone bridge into a deep valley of hidden grace that gave his rusted mood a shiny new hinge.By the calmly warbling waters of Leith as they flowed through the village of Dean, a tiny miracle — even though very brief — sparked and burned in his spirit’s ravine.🧵👇🏼<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poemaday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poemaday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#edinburgh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landscape</a>

RichardI am well aware of the weaknesses of my poetry and I will admit that I am deeply envious of those select few who get to make a living as a poet, just writing poems for a living and not having to really work, but I am also grateful to be a working class poet who has seen true poverty, disability, suffering, family strife, death of loved ones, divorce, betrayal from close friends, spiritual cycles, and all the things that makes life real. I may not have an abundant audience at the tip of my fountain pen, but I do have authenticity of spirit and that is worth a thousand best sellers. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryLover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryLover</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poem</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryCafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCafe</a>

BarbChamberlain"Dangerous Coats" by Sharon OwensSomeone clever once said Women were not allowed pockets In case they carried leaflets To spread sedition Which means unrest To you & me A grandiose word For commonsense Fairness Kindness Equality So ladies, start sewing Dangerous coats Made of pockets & seditionFound thanks to <a href="https://mstdn.science/@GrrlScientist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GrrlScientist</a>.<a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/InternationalWomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalWomensDay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/clothing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clothing</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/pockets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pockets</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resist</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/fairness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fairness</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kindness</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/equality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equality</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justice</a>

RichardSomeone seemed to suggest my poetry is "transgressive". - This is a complete misunderstanding of my poetry. I am not attempting to be undercutting or impossible to understand. Every word is thought about and put in its right place. My poems are understandable, but I have spent years writing poetry that is meant to be thought about to be clarified. Even my most difficult poems can be clarified into simple summaries. Yes, I am making a statement, but good poetry is *meant to *teach. Some poems even require study - those have always been my favorite poems, so I am drawn to that style. Not that every poem I write is that difficult. But "transgressive", no. In the end my poems are anti-oppression and pro-moments of empathy and understanding, towards ourselves and each other. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryLover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryLover</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poem</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryCafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCafe</a>

RichardI uploaded a rather long book of poems to Internet Archive here:<a href="https://archive.org/details/upon-the-written-hours-richard-jtilley" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/upon-the-written-hours-richard-jtilley</a>Update: 3/5/25 - I think Internet Archive is not all that accurate. There is no way my book can have 0 views with 5,000 to 8,000 unique visitors a month, 3 times that in visits and 5 times or more that in hits. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryLover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryLover</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poem</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryCafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCafe</a>

BarbChamberlainExcerpt from "America" by Maya Angelou The gold of her promise has never been mined Her borders of justice not clearly defined Her crops of abundance the fruit and the grain Have not fed the hungry nor eased that deep pain<a href="https://www.poetryverse.com/maya-angelou-poems/america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.poetryverse.com/maya-angelou-poems/america</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#America</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/MayaAngelou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MayaAngelou</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justice</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hunger</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#patriotism</a>

RichardUnited States of Soapberry Contrition with Academia Overjoyed<a href="https://subspacewagon.systems/united-states-of-soapberry-contrition-with-academia-overjoyed/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://subspacewagon.systems/united-states-of-soapberry-contrition-with-academia-overjoyed/</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryLover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryLover</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poem</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PoetryCafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCafe</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

BarbChamberlainStart your Friday with a celebration of words. "Saying Things" by Marilyn Krysl <a href="https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/02/marilyn-krysl-saying-things.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/02/marilyn-krysl-saying-things.html</a>"you feel your own voice taking off like a swift, when you say a word you feel like a gong that’s been struck, to speak is to step out of your skin, stunned."<a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/MarilynKrysl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarilynKrysl</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/speaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speaking</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/talking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#talking</a>

BarbChamberlainWe could all use some Gwendolyn Brooks."Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among them Nora and Henry III)"Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.” You will be right. For that is the hard home-run.Live not for battles won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.<a href="https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/02/gwendolyn-brooks-speech-to-young-speech.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/02/gwendolyn-brooks-speech-to-young-speech.html</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/GwendolynBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GwendolynBrooks</a>

BarbChamberlainYou may need this. An excerpt from "Tenderness" by James Crews:"That’s how tenderness works in us, some heat rising up from beneath, then spreading outward to touch the lives of anyone who comes near—"<a href="https://mailchi.mp/77f22b56abd3/weekly-pause-tenderness?e=4660b7819e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mailchi.mp/77f22b56abd3/weekly-pause-tenderness?e=4660b7819e</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/JamesCrews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JamesCrews</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kindness</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/tenderness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tenderness</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#life</a>

BarbChamberlainA delightful tribute: "Numbers" by Mary Collins. An excerpt:"Even subtraction is never loss, just addition somewhere else: five sparrows take away two, the two in someone else’s garden now."<a href="https://poetrying.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/numbers-mary-cornish/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://poetrying.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/numbers-mary-cornish/</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/MaryCollins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaryCollins</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#numbers</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#math</a>

BarbChamberlainExcerpt from Elizabeth Alexander, "Praise Song for the Day""I know there's something better down the road. We need to find a place where we are safe. We walk into that which we cannot yet see."<a href="https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/01/elizabeth-alexander-praise-song-for-day.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/01/elizabeth-alexander-praise-song-for-day.html</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ElizabethAlexander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElizabethAlexander</a>

BarbChamberlainExcerpt from Wendell Berry, "2007, VI" ["It is hard to have hope"] Listen privately, silently to the voices that rise up from the pages of books and from your own heart. Be still and listen to the voices that belong to the streambanks and the trees and the open fields. There are songs and sayings that belong to this place, by which it speaks for itself and no other.<a href="https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/12/wendell-berry-2007-vi-it-is-hard-to.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/12/wendell-berry-2007-vi-it-is-hard-to.html</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WendellBerry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WendellBerry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hope</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a>

BarbChamberlainThanks + Giving: Family traditions, why I think of this as "fabulous four-day weekend", places to donate to support Indigenous people and farm workers, and poetry <a href="https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/11/thanks-giving.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/11/thanks-giving.html</a>.<a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/NativeAmericanHeritageMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Thanksgiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thanksgiving</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/FarmWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarmWorkers</a>

BarbChamberlain"Remember" by Joy Harjo--excerpt."Remember the earth whose skin you are: red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth brown earth, we are earth. Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems."<a href="https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/11/joy-harjo-remember.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/11/joy-harjo-remember.html</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/JoyHarjo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JoyHarjo</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoetryOfPresence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryOfPresence</a>

Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶Glienicke Bridge A <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> in six parts (🧵)i.King David’s bard once sang about ceaseless cycles of the tides, a time to hope and time for doubt as we the cresting waves must ride.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poemaday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poemaday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Berlin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/potsdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#potsdam</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monochrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monochrome</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bridge</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#war</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peace</a>🧵👇🏼

Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶The last rose petals fall to the ground leaving the rosehips bare as autumn’s chill again comes around to strip blooms that had been fair The rosehips have hairs all wiry and grey that also break off, one by one Her color is gone, she fades away until this rose lady’s season is done Her petals arrayed on frosty soil decay gently in the cold rain while in her hips, seeds are born to bring forth new roses again<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poemaday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poemaday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flowers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloomscrolling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autumn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autumn</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fall</a>

Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶In the dying joy of summer’s final flowers fall petals plaintively to the still-warm soil to melt into Gaia’s gentle embrace to dream of giving birth to a new dew-dripped spring of sadnesses left behind once more<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poemaday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poemaday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photooftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photooftheday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flowers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloomscrolling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mentalhealth</a>

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