#todayspoem

**Vicki Ziegler** @bookgaga@mastodon.social · Mar 15

Mar 15

Dana McFarland @danamcfarland@mastodon.social

"Considering
the situation in the semi-
dark, I'm out of options.
Light glimmers without
the certainty of the switch turned on."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
from Hell Light Flesh by Klara du Plessis (2020 Palimpsest Press) https://bit.ly/2YOssNr

Poetry collection Hell Light Flesh by Klara du Plessis (Palimpsest Press), with its bright golden cover, sits on a purple desktop with a black pen, coffee in a blue cup and a notebook with an ornate gold cover

Handwritten transcription of a brief poem from the collection Hell Light Flesh by Klara du Plessis - the book is held open with a small piece of red brick, an uncapped black pen rests on the notebook page and coffee in a blue cup is visible in one corner

**Dana McFarland** @danamcfarland@mastodon.social · Mar 9

Mar 9

Dandelions in bullet holes
We stand in our civilian clothes
On blankets laid out on a lawn
Clouds of rain will all move on

#SundaySentence is from Sarah Harmer

#TodaysPoem

https://sarahharmer.bandcamp.com/album/sarah-harmer-all-of-our-names?t=6

https://tidal.com/track/98513340?u

Sarah HarmerSarah Harmer - All Of Our Names, by Sarah Harmer11 track album

**Richard** @waystation@sunny.garden · Mar 9

Mar 9

I 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.

@poetry

BarbChamberlain @BarbChamberlain@toot.community

**BarbChamberlain** @BarbChamberlain@toot.community · Mar 8

Mar 8

"Dangerous Coats"
by Sharon Owens

Someone 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 & sedition

Found thanks to @GrrlScientist.

#poem #poems #poetry

**Vicki Ziegler** @bookgaga@mastodon.social · Mar 5

Mar 5

Unpacking My Bottom Drawer · Sep 12, 20222022 Grateful 15: Pat IngoldsbyI have recently rediscovered the inimitable Pat Ingoldsby, a character I grew up with as a child.

"What it is to be here
and not want to go home
and be home and not want
to be here.
It is time for me to buy
a ticket to myself."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
A Single to Me by Pat Ingoldsby from Poems So Fresh And So New ... Yahoo! (1995) https://tinyurl.com/4udywhh8

Black text on white paper that reads YES (poem title by Pat Ingoldsby). In amongst a sea of daisies you will find a few who have decided 'wouldn't it be lovely if I tinged my petals pink'. They're the ones I love

**Richard** @waystation@sunny.garden · Mar 5

Mar 5

Someone 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.

@poetry

**Richard** @waystation@sunny.garden · Mar 2 *

Mar 2 *

https://archive.org/details/upon-the-written-hours-richard-jtilley

I uploaded a rather long book of poems to Internet Archive here:

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.

@poetry

Internet ArchiveUpon The Written Hours Richard JTilley : Richard J Tilley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveUpon the Written Hours by Richard J TilleyMade freely available and uploaded to Internet Archive

**Vicki Ziegler** @bookgaga@mastodon.social · Feb 28

Feb 28

The Poetry FoundationPatience, Though I Have NotPatience of all my harm, For fortune is my foe; Patience must be the charm To heal me of my woe: Patience without offence Is a painful patience.

"Patience, do what they will
To work me woe or spite,
I shall content me still
To think both day and night,
To think and hold my peace,
Since there is no redress."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Patience, Though I Have Not by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1530) https://tinyurl.com/mtd8m8z2

**Julé Cunningham** @JD_Cunningham@sunny.garden · Feb 28

Feb 28

Julé Cunningham @JD_Cunningham@sunny.garden

A poem written three thousand years ago

about a man who walks among horses
grazing on a hill under the small stars

comes to life on a page in a book

and the woman reading the poem,
in the silence between the words,

in her kitchen, filled, with a gold, metallic light,

finds the experience of living in that moment
so clearly described as to make her feel finally known

by someone. And every time the poem is read,

no matter her situation or her age,
this is more or less what happens.
-- 'Eternity' by Jason Shiner from 'Raised by Wolves'

#FridayPoem #TodaysPoem #poetry #bookstodon @poetry

**BarbChamberlain** @BarbChamberlain@toot.community · Feb 23

Feb 23

BarbChamberlain @BarbChamberlain@toot.community

Excerpt 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

https://www.poetryverse.com/maya-angelou-poems/america

www.poetryverse.comMaya Angelou - AmericaThe 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 pai...

**Richard** @waystation@sunny.garden · Feb 22

Feb 22

https://subspacewagon.systems/united-states-of-soapberry-contrition-with-academia-overjoyed/

United States of Soapberry Contrition with Academia Overjoyed

@poetry
@academicchatter

subspacewagon.systemsUnited States of Soapberry Contrition with Academia Overjoyed – Richard J Tilley

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BarbChamberlain @BarbChamberlain@toot.community

**BarbChamberlain** @BarbChamberlain@toot.community · Feb 21

Feb 21

Start your Friday with a celebration of words. "Saying Things" by Marilyn Krysl https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/02/marilyn-krysl-saying-things.html

"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."

www.ayearofbeinghere.comMarilyn Krysl: "Saying Things"A collection of daily mindfulness poems, composed primarily by contemporary and recent poets of the here & now.

**Vicki Ziegler** @bookgaga@mastodon.social · Feb 19

Feb 19

The Poetry FoundationThe Pond MuseumThe fenestrate surface of the pond surfaces in old companions snag ripples namely, Saburo I recommend his face for the pond museum above the fox’s skulking face the hare’s face, death’s polished stone the crane’s larval pearl eyes transmitting the code for a sodden voice in…

"Evening, I went down
on the pantry, pried open
a basket of rice cakes, grew
partial to eating in the dark
if only to concentrate the sound
of walking through the wilderness
at night, enlarged
without people
as wax I sleep in nectar"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
The Pond Museum by Brandon Shimoda from O Bon (2011 Litmus Press) https://tinyurl.com/5xumj6jc

**Vicki Ziegler** @bookgaga@mastodon.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Poets.orghostFor us, the ancestors came too early / slipping in and out of doorways,

"Maybe this is why we love so helplessly
stretching the word far beyond its modest capacity:
there are always more names to speak alive
new gods on our altars
many spirits who sleep in our beds
receiving our bodies as offerings."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
host by Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu (2025 Poetry Magazine) https://tinyurl.com/45y4tad4

**Vicki Ziegler** @bookgaga@mastodon.social · Feb 8

Feb 8

BarbChamberlain @BarbChamberlain@toot.community

"The bone that survives.

You sit there
and I am there for you

like a shovel in your pelvic girdle
to shovel all the shit

out of your sedentary life."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Sacrum by Monty Reid (@mgreid) from Vertebrata (2024 Turret House Press) https://tinyurl.com/2tpz9uvz

Poetry chapbook Vertebrata by Monty Reid (Turret House Press) rests upright in the snow with an ornate notebook with a gold cover, leaning against a grimy white metal railing

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Sacrum" from the poetry chapbook Vertebrata by Monty Reid

**BarbChamberlain** @BarbChamberlain@toot.community · Feb 4

Feb 4

We 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.

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/02/gwendolyn-brooks-speech-to-young-speech.html

www.ayearofbeinghere.comGwendolyn Brooks: <br />"Speech to the Young <br /> Speech to the Progress-Toward <br /> (Among them Nora and Henry III)"A collection of daily mindfulness poems, composed primarily by contemporary and recent poets of the here & now.