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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · Nov 14

New book of #haiku and #renga by Laurence Stacey and Dick Whyte out now!!! #poetry #poems #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #micropoetry Buy copies here: amazon.com/dp/1991310471

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 9h

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 10h

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From 'Sea Garden' (1916)
—H.D. / Hilda Doolittle

#forgottenpoets #poetry #booksky

OREAD

WHIRL up, sea -
Whirl your pointed pines,
Splash your great pines
On our rocks,
Hurl your green over us,
Cover us with your pools of fir.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 16h

e.e. cummings, born on this day in 1894

christ but they're few

all (beyond win
or lose) good true
beautiful things

god he sings

the robin (who
'll be silent in
a moon or two)

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1d

John Wieners

The higher one goes
up the angelic ladder
remains the minute bits
and ends of our life:

Seeds there to recur when we
are most unaware.
Old faces, letters crop up again.
Words from our poems

Menace the night.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1d

Monday with Jane Hirshfield

Obstacle

This body, still walking.
The wind must go around it.

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 4d

Cherry Smith's 'Famished' should be on the national curriculum. Not just for English Literature, but History & Politics too.

'They made us underdogs,
then shot us if we barked'

#poetry #poemoftheday #racism #irishfamine #antiimperialism
#ireland

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 5d

One of the things I love about poems is that you can read the same poem on a different day and it can have a different heart

This poem, today, beats differently than the last day I read it

'The Last Toast' - Anna Akhmatova

#poetry
#poemoftheday

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 1d

Hehe - love that 🖤

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 2d

October humidity
Like a heart-red tower light,
now bright, now not so bright.

Autumn night at the end of the world.

Charles Wright, from The Sestets