Leigh Goodwin
@leighgoodwin.bsky.social
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🌿 Poet✒️
🌲 Pacific NW 🌲🌲🌙
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[banner art: Radim Schreiber]
🌿 Poet✒️
🌲 Pacific NW 🌲🌲🌙
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[banner art: Radim Schreiber]
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November 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Millay is such a genius with sonnets. I can't think of anyone else in the modern age who handles them so deftly, in modern idiom no less.
I've been reading & re-reading the same small volume of her Collected Sonnets like a novel for over 40 years.
I've been reading & re-reading the same small volume of her Collected Sonnets like a novel for over 40 years.
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Millay is such a genius with sonnets. I can't think of anyone else in the modern age who handles them so deftly, in modern idiom no less.
I've been reading & re-reading the same small volume of her Collected Sonnets like a novel for over 40 years.
I've been reading & re-reading the same small volume of her Collected Sonnets like a novel for over 40 years.
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I love a sonnet.
The octave, general in terms, listing the necessities love fails to provide. Then in the sestet, more personal, and challenging the idea that ‘Love is All’. But even with that, at the end, the poet does not think she would trade or sell it for solace.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
The octave, general in terms, listing the necessities love fails to provide. Then in the sestet, more personal, and challenging the idea that ‘Love is All’. But even with that, at the end, the poet does not think she would trade or sell it for solace.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I love a sonnet.
The octave, general in terms, listing the necessities love fails to provide. Then in the sestet, more personal, and challenging the idea that ‘Love is All’. But even with that, at the end, the poet does not think she would trade or sell it for solace.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
The octave, general in terms, listing the necessities love fails to provide. Then in the sestet, more personal, and challenging the idea that ‘Love is All’. But even with that, at the end, the poet does not think she would trade or sell it for solace.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
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near the lighthouse feet /
billowing nets unravel /
night loosens its hold
#haikufeels
#unravel
#haiku
#prompt
billowing nets unravel /
night loosens its hold
#haikufeels
#unravel
#haiku
#prompt
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
near the lighthouse feet /
billowing nets unravel /
night loosens its hold
#haikufeels
#unravel
#haiku
#prompt
billowing nets unravel /
night loosens its hold
#haikufeels
#unravel
#haiku
#prompt
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A prayer for presence from the field bunting. More bird divinations and the story/process behind them at almanacofbirds.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A prayer for presence from the field bunting. More bird divinations and the story/process behind them at almanacofbirds.org
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late afternoon light
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
late afternoon light
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
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YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*
Let my words
be bright with animals
If we pretend
we are the center,
that moles & kingfishers,
eels & coyotes
are at the edge of grace,
then we circle, dead moons
about a cold sun.
This morning I ask only
the blessing
to wear the skin of the bear
in my songs
#poem Joseph Bruchac
#art Ron Sanford
be bright with animals
If we pretend
we are the center,
that moles & kingfishers,
eels & coyotes
are at the edge of grace,
then we circle, dead moons
about a cold sun.
This morning I ask only
the blessing
to wear the skin of the bear
in my songs
#poem Joseph Bruchac
#art Ron Sanford
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
the unpainted stars:
rolling fires of genesis,
all colors of creation
from our safe
& certain distance
how they appear
to hold their silences,
each white-gold celebration
hammered & framed
against the velvet wall of night
💫
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#art New Galaxy ~ Hubble Telescope
#resist
rolling fires of genesis,
all colors of creation
from our safe
& certain distance
how they appear
to hold their silences,
each white-gold celebration
hammered & framed
against the velvet wall of night
💫
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#art New Galaxy ~ Hubble Telescope
#resist
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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halfway to Kyoto
in the middle of the sky
clouds of snow
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
in the middle of the sky
clouds of snow
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
halfway to Kyoto
in the middle of the sky
clouds of snow
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
in the middle of the sky
clouds of snow
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
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November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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after the rain came
the sky lay down in the field
where the river was
the sky lay down in the field
where the river was
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
after the rain came
the sky lay down in the field
where the river was
the sky lay down in the field
where the river was
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three degrees of frost
all the effortless patterns
across the puddles
all the effortless patterns
across the puddles
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
three degrees of frost
all the effortless patterns
across the puddles
all the effortless patterns
across the puddles
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stars
scatter like leaves,
leaves
scatter like stars
autumn paints the night
🍂🍁✨️
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Reach ~ Vesela Nk
#resist
scatter like leaves,
leaves
scatter like stars
autumn paints the night
🍂🍁✨️
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Reach ~ Vesela Nk
#resist
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
stars
scatter like leaves,
leaves
scatter like stars
autumn paints the night
🍂🍁✨️
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Reach ~ Vesela Nk
#resist
scatter like leaves,
leaves
scatter like stars
autumn paints the night
🍂🍁✨️
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Reach ~ Vesela Nk
#resist
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For our final #AutumnArrivalSpotlight, who else but the stunning Waxwing?
These Scandinavian visitors are a winter favourite with their vibrant crests and yellow-tipped tails.
Watch for flocks feasting on berries in parks and gardens, our seasonal showstoppers!
These Scandinavian visitors are a winter favourite with their vibrant crests and yellow-tipped tails.
Watch for flocks feasting on berries in parks and gardens, our seasonal showstoppers!
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
For our final #AutumnArrivalSpotlight, who else but the stunning Waxwing?
These Scandinavian visitors are a winter favourite with their vibrant crests and yellow-tipped tails.
Watch for flocks feasting on berries in parks and gardens, our seasonal showstoppers!
These Scandinavian visitors are a winter favourite with their vibrant crests and yellow-tipped tails.
Watch for flocks feasting on berries in parks and gardens, our seasonal showstoppers!
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This that you call Ursus maritimus
this polar bear
came from somewhere
is going somewhere
not locked in time
the great resistance is,
Darwin told us it's all moving
(to) no particular place
particular physics,
quantum mechanics
#poem 1/2
this polar bear
came from somewhere
is going somewhere
not locked in time
the great resistance is,
Darwin told us it's all moving
(to) no particular place
particular physics,
quantum mechanics
#poem 1/2
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This that you call Ursus maritimus
this polar bear
came from somewhere
is going somewhere
not locked in time
the great resistance is,
Darwin told us it's all moving
(to) no particular place
particular physics,
quantum mechanics
#poem 1/2
this polar bear
came from somewhere
is going somewhere
not locked in time
the great resistance is,
Darwin told us it's all moving
(to) no particular place
particular physics,
quantum mechanics
#poem 1/2
stars
scatter like leaves,
leaves
scatter like stars
autumn paints the night
🍂🍁✨️
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Reach ~ Vesela Nk
#resist
scatter like leaves,
leaves
scatter like stars
autumn paints the night
🍂🍁✨️
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Reach ~ Vesela Nk
#resist
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
stars
scatter like leaves,
leaves
scatter like stars
autumn paints the night
🍂🍁✨️
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Reach ~ Vesela Nk
#resist
scatter like leaves,
leaves
scatter like stars
autumn paints the night
🍂🍁✨️
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Reach ~ Vesela Nk
#resist
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November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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in a field of stars
swaying in the cosmic winds
where the poppies bloom
#♡ᝰ.🖋️
#poetrysky
#poetry #poem
#blueskypoets
#writingcommunity
#haiku #3lines #scifaiku
*A pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep, encircled by four coiled dust shells. #JWST MIRI
credit: NASA
swaying in the cosmic winds
where the poppies bloom
#♡ᝰ.🖋️
#poetrysky
#poetry #poem
#blueskypoets
#writingcommunity
#haiku #3lines #scifaiku
*A pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep, encircled by four coiled dust shells. #JWST MIRI
credit: NASA
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
in a field of stars
swaying in the cosmic winds
where the poppies bloom
#♡ᝰ.🖋️
#poetrysky
#poetry #poem
#blueskypoets
#writingcommunity
#haiku #3lines #scifaiku
*A pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep, encircled by four coiled dust shells. #JWST MIRI
credit: NASA
swaying in the cosmic winds
where the poppies bloom
#♡ᝰ.🖋️
#poetrysky
#poetry #poem
#blueskypoets
#writingcommunity
#haiku #3lines #scifaiku
*A pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep, encircled by four coiled dust shells. #JWST MIRI
credit: NASA
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cricket song
at moonrise
a kind
of silence
at moonrise
a kind
of silence
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
cricket song
at moonrise
a kind
of silence
at moonrise
a kind
of silence
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the blues have lifted
a bit
gratitude fills the space
a bit
gratitude fills the space
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
the blues have lifted
a bit
gratitude fills the space
a bit
gratitude fills the space