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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 1h

My #sundaysentence this week is Ani DiFranco contemplating the immediate outcome of writing: “I wake up to the fact that I have transformed my pain into something more beautiful and useful than it was in its original state.”

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 1h

#poem #poetry #thanksgiving

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#SundaySentence

~Lisel Mueller

found in the first few pages of The Paper Birds, a novel by Jeanette Lynes

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Karen Turner @karenjturner.bsky.social · 1d

11th October, daily stitching marking the passage of time
#intuitivedailystitching #textileart #embroidery #stitchjournal

detached fly stitches in blue/taupe hand-dyed silk thread

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Harry Foster @harryfoster.bsky.social · 22h

Sammy Blue Jay taking off from the feeder this morning showing those amazing colours and designs.

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 1d

"Star-craving mad: so mad as to want
to devour the stars. Gripped by a single
fixation, an insuperable sidereal tongue-lust."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...

Poetry pamphlet Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (Opaat Press) sits on a purple desktop, surrounded by bright red and green peppers

Handwritten transcription of the poem Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan, with coffee and the Saturday Globe and Mail nearby

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 22h

Autumn Moose
Holly Cheverie ~ Anishinaabe
n.d.

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Maria Dunn Music @mariadunnmusic.bsky.social · 23h

#sadsongs my own song The Fool from my 1998 debut album From Where I Stand #lostlove

(goodness, I sound young!); beautiful harmonies from Dawn Cross, violin, Shannon Johnson, guitar, Gary Koliger

The Fool

Provided to YouTube by Distant Whisper Music The Fool · Maria Dunn From Where I Stand ℗ Distant Whisper Music Released on: 1998-09-01 Composer: Rr. Lyricist: Rr. Auto-generated by YouTube.

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 1d

#TodaysPoem

Who is that creature
and who does he want?

~Kathryn Starbuck

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

A Gift

That we all want to be alone, I reply, except when we do not; that the world was open to my sorrow and ate most of it; that today is a gift and I am ready to receive you.

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 2d

#TodaysPoem

There's oil in the puddles in taffeta patterns
That run down the drain
In colored arrangements
That Michael will change with a stick that he found

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Michael from Mountains

YouTube video by Joni Mitchell - Topic

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 8d

This year is beginning to seem endless.

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 3d

"this is one way to learn/the poverty of acceptance around us"

from Francine Diodati's poem, "Fragile X Syndrome," in our Sept/Oct issue:

Fragile X Syndrome

They call it delayed, fragile chromo- somes that string you together perfectly—they make my freckles shift on the shirt of my being: genetic ...

literarymama.com

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Ariel Gordon @ariel-gordon.bsky.social · 3d

So my first FREE workshop at WPL has been announced: October 25 at the Windsor Park Library! Share/Sign up, friends!
@wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

The Devoted Friend
Jeff Dillon
2021

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 3d

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The Bros. Landreth • Nothing (Acoustic)

YouTube video by The Bros. Landreth

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 5d

#TodaysPoem (s)

One day the earth will shudder.
Savour what does not fall.

www.lornedaniel.ca/poems

Poems | Lorne Daniel

Selected poems by Lorne Daniel. New collection of poetry coming in 2025.

www.lornedaniel.ca

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On Creative Writing @oncreativewriting.bsky.social · 5d

On today's CBC's The Next Chapter, host Antonio Michael Downing talks with author and creative writing professor Robert J. Wiersema, who recommends three books to make you a better writer.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-67-the-next-chapter/clip/16173454-want-better-writer-read-books

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 6d

"The only thing growing taller, growing greener,
than your memory of being a forest is the awareness you will be a forest again."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
from The Forest by @paulvermeersch.bsky.social in NMLCT (2025 @ecwpress.bsky.social) ecwpress.com/products/nmlct

The poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch (ECW Press) is perched on a tree branch, with morning light showing through the leaves.

Handwritten transcription of part of the poem "The Forest" from the poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 6d

I just learned that a distant ancestor previously unknown to me was the inspiration for the character Ma Kettle in Betty MacDonald's semi-fictional memoir, the Egg and I. Ma and Pa Kettle, the film series, followed. And this gives me a reason to smile.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 6d

Along the Coastal Shores of the Salish Seas Traditional Native Territories
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun ~ Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish, Syilx
2023

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 7d

#TodaysPoem
#SundaySentence

It must be beautiful to be a temporary thing,
as beautiful as it is to last and never fade.

~Luke Sawczak
contemporaryverse2.ca/poetry/the-m...

The moon – Contemporary Verse 2

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13d

UK photographer Shirley Baker, Hulme, Manchester, 1965 #WomensArt #Monday

Photograph of a 1960s British street in which two small white girls in dresses play, one swings from a lampost on a homemade swing using rope while the other watches

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 8d

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#TodaysPoem

night drapes
stars emit light
around the north star-fire
stars journey
in their wake
stories extend

~Manny Loley

star poem

night drapes stars emit light around the north star-fire stars journey in their wake stories extend Translated from the Diné by the author

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 8d

I can't help smiling when I play You are my Sunshine on guitar on an October day that feels like summer and I hear tiny song birds sing through the open screen door.

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 8d

#TodaysPoem

his own mad beauty  
as it met her smile 
that look that bright  
that eye she gave.

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Poet Heid E. Erdrich Responds to a Portrait by Amedeo Modigliani | National Gallery of Art

The educator, curator, interdisciplinary artist, and guest curator at the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College responds to Modigliani's "Roma Woman with Baby"

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