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Gaia Jane Thomas

@gaiajane.bsky.social

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Poet (she/her) PennSound: bit.ly/3DfAvHk Poetry Foundation: bit.ly/3BydKOn Every Place on the Map is Disabled (Northwestern): bit.ly/3IUmzpk

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 19d

Okay that made my day. Thank you so much @bookgaga.bsky.social 💜💜

(Spirit must have known I needed an extra shove in the right direction. It always comes around through the net of community somehow. The net is wider than you might imagine. 😘)

It’s good to know my works touch people! 🫂

Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 19d

"In this time of
indeterminacy when cracks thirst for light the thin
reedy line that peters in and out has the least chance
of detection."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
wolf dream moon by Gaia Thomas (@gaiajane.bsky.social) (2021 The Scores)

wolf dream moon

In this time of indeterminacy when cracks thirst for light the thin reedy line that peters in and out has the least chance of detection. And you were a balloon I kept tethered to me through lack of…

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 4h

Lucille Clifton, someone inside me remembers
from The Book of Light

someone inside me remembers

that my knees must be hidden away
that my hair must be shorn
so that vanity will not test me
that my fingers are places of prayer
and are holy that my body is promised
to something more certain
than myself

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 4h

“I too am blessed with
the one gift you cherish;
to feel the living move in me
and to be unafraid.”

Lucille Clifton, as for myself
#quotes
#poetry

Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 4h

Oof. This one hurt. Lucille knows.
#poetry
Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

in my own defense

what could i choose
but to slide along behind them,
they whose only sin
was being their father's children?
as they stood with their backs
to the garden,
a new and terrible luster
burning their eyes,
only You could have called
their ineffable names,
only in their fever
could they have failed to hear.

Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 5h

Lucille Clifton, from The Book of Light
#poetry

the road led from delight
into delight. into the sharp
edge of seasons, into the sweet
puff of bread baking, the warm
vale of sheet and sweat after love,
the tinny newborn cry of calf
and cormorant and humankind.
and pain, of course,
always there was some bleeding,
but forbid me not
my meditation on the outer world
before the rest of it, before the bruising of his heel, my head,
and so forth.

Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 1d

There are many versions of this song, but I think The Fabulous Echoes knocked it out of the park.

#MusicSky

Kong Ling 江玲 - (Old HK)..More Than I Can Say (1961)

YouTube video by Ken W

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Beth Death and the Dumb-Belles @shoebillmansion.bsky.social · 1d

#LookAndSee 236 #MusicChallenge

"Let's move before they raise the parking rate"

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 1d

If sexy romps were songs
#MusicSky

Calexico and Iron & Wine - History Of Lovers

YouTube video by CollarboneOfAHare

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upfromsumdirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 1d

"simultaneously mythic and realist".... // "....exploring the portal of his own body through space and time." ❤️

cover photo for the poetry collection, The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife, by upfromsumdirt featuring warm, yellow artwork on a dark blue background with white typography.

Simultaneously mythic and realist, this collection is an invitation to sway in a swell of Black love and to stomp in protest against the world’s injustices. The voice in these poems is both intimate and international, welcoming us into his soul and taking us on a sweeping journey through the Black diaspora. In the process, upfromsumdirt demonstrates the complexity of Blackness by examining the portal of his own body through space and time and interrogating its binds.”

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 2d

#meme
#existential
#NothingNewUndertheSunday

A man in period costume holds the hand of a seated woman.
“What's wrong?

—My current emotions are irrelevant, it's all just passing phenomena in the entropic spacetime we call reality

I don't understand

—No one ever does”

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for being so generous with your pics! I think not a lot of people have a life like this anymore - especially in the US where quality of life is on the decline. It’s nice to live vicariously.

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Maurice @windypops.bsky.social · Aug 16

Molly like a flower blooming in the rain.
My wife says like a blooming nuisance.

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 2d

Naughty not nice.

Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social · 2d

These two are clearly up to no good.

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ØeHiKC @svetlana-gotsyk.bsky.social · 8d

❤️🐕🐶🐾🦴🇺🇦💙💛✊

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Maurice @windypops.bsky.social · 3d

Will you brush me?
Yes I will brush you.
Spasibo!

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Maurice @windypops.bsky.social · 2d

Into the blue.

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Jenny Kalahar @jennykalahar.bsky.social · 2d

I'm seeking submissions for Issue 23 of Last Stanza Poetry Journal. I award a single $100 prize and a published interview. Details are on the blog: laststanzapoetry.blogspot.com #poetrysubmissions #poetry #poetryjournal #poems #submitpoetry

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S. Preston Duncan @sprestonduncan.bsky.social · 2d

It's the anniversary of an absolutely perfect wedding. People say you don't get to enjoy your own wedding. We did.

Fan for life of Tigh Phaidi in Tuar Mhic Éadaigh, Co. Mayo. They made everything easy and beautiful and delicious.

A couple stands in front of the red door of Paddy's Thatch Bar in Tuar Mhic éadaigh, Co. Mayo, Ireland after being wed. She wears a white and green dress. He wears an earth toned Harris Tweed suit. There are plants hanging from red windows.

Sunset on Lough Mask behind Tigh Phaidi in late October, 2024

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 3d

William Stafford

11 LOSERS

You learn from losers. You give back their sounds
with a little twist and yielding becomes an art.
You assume the present and find your needs wherever
you are. Your oppressors are never to know they’re
in a war. “Yes” is the sound of breath at its easiest.

I found a place by a lake one time where I camped
for a week. I never spoke, even a whisper.
It’s cold up there, and hot, and when the wind
goes by it shrieks. At the end it was goodby
with only a wave. I was a careful loser
headed north, carrying all I would need.

If the world had asked me to stay I would have stayed.

William Stafford

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 3d

#Caturday

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

My cat Winston has to listen to the news a lot, so sometimes he has a face like this.

Greetings from #Kyiv, friends!

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smallest church @smallestchurch.bsky.social · 4d

lessons at 41 from 40: deleting instagram is the best thing i did for my mental health in years. the second best was tossing all my makeup bc now i don’t have to go to war with myself over whether to wear it (i never really want to anyway).

two cat paws sticking out from under a blanket

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 4d

The way she’s sitting/chilling on my standing desk 😹😻

A cat sitting on a desk with her hind quarters and back feet up on a raised platform and her front feet down on the base of the desk. The sun is shining and lighting up her fur.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 4d

Whatever forever and ever whatever

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 4d

So excited for this.

ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO Premieres on HBO Max on 14 November

YouTube video by johnlennon

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Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 4d

Paul and I are here for you. And this is exactly how I am when I’m just chilling. And makes me feel so seen and valued and loved. There’s something about Oklahoma it’s like the balance point at the middle of the knife. You become okay with yourself.

Gaia Jane Thomas @gaiajane.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but

Got Back to Tulsa ☀️

YouTube video by PAUL McCARTNEY

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