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john mαtthєw

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a shadow of my former self #poetry #cycling #iphotos check out my story: https://jmattwaters.wordpress.com/ poetry collections: http://t.ly/B1OXU 📌 eastern #iowa INFP ♏ ♒️ ♑️ Joined October 2023

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · Oct 16

please wake up there's so much to see

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Jenny @jenneke1961.bsky.social · 16h

Priceless breath of dawn.

#WeekOForOpulent
#AlpabetChallenge
#StunDay
My last one for this week. As always, thanks Sheena 🤗

Breathtaking pink, red in blue sky sunrise. Dotted clouds all over. Reflection in calm water. Silhouettes of windmill and trees on the horizon. Jetty stretched out in the foreground.

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 2h

yellow field maples
none of these million leaves
utterly perfect

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 2d

the rain
washing away the mud
on the steps
I delete your message
from my phone

#tanka #TankaThursday

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 1h

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BOMBS OVER LEBANON

#poetry

Bombs over Lebanon

We used to discuss a broad range of current events all the while not understanding how stressed we were —but now all we talk about is the weather & the cat both of which are the most obvious ha…

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 3h

Mighty Mississippi and Lock & Dam #11 as seen from Eagle Point Park in Dubuque #iowa

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ione blue @ioneblue.bsky.social · 4h

three things
#photography
#macrophotography
#photographersofbluesky
#eastcoastkin
#imageandverse
#stunday
#flowers

one more from Mary Oliver:

As long as you're dancing, you can
break the rules.

Sometimes breaking the rules is just
extending the rules.

Sometimes there are no rules.

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macrophotograph of three purple-edged clematis petals. in the background, a bright yellow green flower is glowing. they appear to be worshipping it. as they should be when put together with the Three Things to Remember of Mary Oliver's verse.

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Standing Mountain @standingmountain.bsky.social · 9h

To rise in consciousness without love is to stretch into abstraction —
a sky vast yet cold, where light travels without warmth.

To love without consciousness is to burn without form —
a fire fierce but blind, consuming without understanding.

The full bloom of being, presence entwine.

#Andean

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 3h

'Reality is what I make it. That is what I have said I believed. Then I look at the hell I am wallowing in, nerves paralyzed, action nullified - fear, envy, hate: all the corrosive emotions of insecurity biting away at my sensitive guts.'

Plath <Nov-1952>

john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 4h

'It's hard to stay centered today. Your mind is on something wonderful that's happening for you. Eventually you'll have to come down and face reality, but there's no rush to do so.'

#scorpio

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c @3boxesofsighs.bsky.social · 19d

give me silence, water, hope
give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

pablo neruda

Ivory dahlia with streaks of fuchsia against black background

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c @3boxesofsighs.bsky.social · 11d

think you're escaping and run into yourself. longest way round is the shortest way home.
james joyce

pink dahlia against a black background

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Travertin📷🍀 @travertin.bsky.social · 2d

Mokara Orchidee
📷Sigi Wenger
#flickr flic.kr/p/2rxMc81

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Miya115 @miya1156.bsky.social · 16h

Today..

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sky-cloud-lover.bsky.social @sky-cloud-lover.bsky.social · 1d

#sunset✨💫

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kawabezmleka 💚 @kawabezmleka.bsky.social · 3d

#Kraków 🐉
#photography
🛸🌌🌿☮️❤️🍀🎶🌞
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0sHdfvlIEI

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Zdravka @meliorism-78.bsky.social · 1d

Ghosts of the forest…

A monochrome photo of trees during a foggy morning.

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Pelzerb @pelzerb.bsky.social · 1d

#BlueSkyArtShow
#GoldenHour #Glow
#iPhone #Photography
#GreenSat #OrangeSun
#October #BloomScrolling
📷 10/25 #EastCoastKin 🌱

A vibrant orange cosmos flower in sharp focus against a blurred green background, with a fuzzy bumblebee perched on its center disk florets. The flower’s delicate petals radiate outward, illuminated by warm morning light. Additional orange cosmos blooms appear softly out of focus in the background.

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mike @staykinduniverse.swifties.social · 11h

made a thing.

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 11h

a gloomy & breezy morning ~ a good day to be lazy perhaps 🤗

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ApeLife @apelife.bsky.social · 1d

Morning Mail
#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow #EastCoastKin

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 1d

Reaching across the aisle

Two bees. One on each side of a white aster. Arms reaching towards each other. Almost touching

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pm gibbs @pmgibbs.bsky.social · 22h

A cypress tree is surrounded by it’s knees and pollen covered water

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slowdriver25.bsky.social @slowdriver25.bsky.social · 1d

#Dahlias #flowers #FlowerReport #flowersky #FlowerPhotography #flora #Garden #blooms #BloomScrolling #bloomsky #insects #bugs #animals #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #photosky #PhonePhotography #photo #MobilePhotography #photography

closeup view of a Dahlia flower having red petals and a yellow core, with a winged slim insect having a black body with yellow stripes, standing upside down on the yellow middle part

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Pam Brown @pamlivengoodbrown.bsky.social · 2d

A young gray fox in repose for #foxfriday 🦊❤️

Photo of a young gray fox, about 6 months old, lying on a wall. Black landscape rocks are seen behind the fox, and the rock wall has some nice lichen showing.

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Rosehr Photography @rosehrphotography.bsky.social · 1d

Eyes on the Lane: Melbourne’s Fire-Door Muse Sparks a Riot of Color and Symbolism
#photography Hans-Joachim Rosehr
#Australia

#FlindersLaneVibes
#UrbanCanvasMelbourne
#StreetArtWithSoul

A kaleidoscopic mural on a black fire door in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, features a stylized portrait with flowing multicolored hair and abstract facial patterns, surrounded by eye motifs. The brick wall bursts with eclectic street art: a sunflower near a barred window, a winged heart, a skull, and swirling colors. The scene evokes a fusion of watchfulness, rebellion, and creative defiance—an open-air gallery where symbolism meets spontaneity.

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