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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 11h

autumn moon~
the forest and i
the same color

#haiku

Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 33m

There's always something.

Always.

Mine is congenitally incapable of finishing little things.

Never cleans his plate.
Never fully closes a Tupperware.
Never wraps anything completely.
Never gets *all* the clothes in the laundry basket.
Etc.
(This is a list I could never finish.)

Love him, but...

a person peeking out from behind a red curtain with a blue curtain behind them

Alt: puppet banging its head on side of proscenium

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 41m

ok, but ... a six-pack of track suits?

😎

Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 43m

#art Kate 🐌🌿

#poem #haiku
#micropoem

#resist

black snail
brown shell glowing
traverses rainy green leaf

photograph

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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 6h

Come on!
God calls, still youthful,
excited by the world

And here they are
the lion, the squirrel
the grazing beasts

all gazing
at their creator who
the artist in his hubris

paints as man

#ekphrastic #poem

www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/ms2...

Folio 2v - Creation of the animals - The Aberdeen Bestiary

Folio 2v - Creation of the animals - The Aberdeen Bestiary - MS 24

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

More love, I can hear our hearts cryin'
More love, I know that's all we need
More love, to flow in between us
To take us and hold us and lift us above
If there's ever an answer
It's more love

💠🌿🍂🍁

lyric #poem 3/3:
Gary Nicholson & Tim O'Brien
#art Autumn Pansies:
Maria Urso

purple & white
flat faces centered
on hearts of gold,
small bodies green
with irresistible lifeforce —
pansies

photograph

Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

Just look out around us
People fightin' their wars
They think they'll be happy
When they've settled their scores
Let's lay down our weapons
That hold us apart
Be still for just a minute
Try to open our hearts

#poem 2/3

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

There's a silence between us
And there's so much to say
You're my strength, you're my weakness
You're my faith, you're my doubt
We gotta meet in the middle
To work this thing out

#poem 1/3

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods,

And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,

And night by night the monitory blast

Wails in the key-hold ...

🌙🍁🍂

#poem excerpt: William Allingham
#art Seattle Arboretum:
Kevin McNeal

still
beyond the gray stone
of the path
& the low bridge,
beneath the blaze
of Autumn's leaf-theater,
still
the greens of rainforest
mosses
abides

photograph

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 12h

An old poem in four verses:

still the nearest I can come to the truth of my heart.

Pain everywhere,
for everyone.

My prayer for peace.

#resist

Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

Reading Israel

In the deep of the night
from the safety of
this quiet room,
I travel again the crooked road.
The map is torn and stained,
way-posts hang crazily in the wind.
Who can guide me?

#poem 1/4

a ridge of bare tan stone
lit in bright sun against
gray storm clouds, foreground a
ridge of bare brown earth

photograph

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1d

a whale
swims in the sky
rain cloud

#haiku

Fireflies' Light, Missouri Baptist University
Issue 23, June 2021
#micropoetry

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1d

another afternoon
of empty mailboxes,
not even a pigeon
to write its message
in this sky

—M. Kei

#TankaThursday message
#5lines #micropoetry #tankapoem

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 1d

Orcas and the price of consciousness – lessons in love and loss from Earth's most successful predator www.themarginalian.org/2025/08/21/o...

Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator

Marbling the waters of every ocean with their billows of black and white, orcas are Earth’s most creative and most successful apex predator. Although they are known as killer whales, they are…

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1d

The knell of loneliness tolls.

The #7syllablesentence prompt for October 9 is #knell

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

Outside in the damp, forgiving dark
the bright boat of the moon
rocks, patient as a lullaby.
I close my eyes and feel those dry hills
rough as braille under my fingers;
blindly I reach and reach
to ease our way.

☀️🌙🌿

#poem 4/4 L.C. Goodwin
#art Israeli Desert:
Alex Auer

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

A tablet, a wall, a dome
can live as long as a grievance,
persistent as the memory of pain.
In that stark desiccant air
constructions show the hard beauty
of perseverance, the effort
it takes to build belief.

#poem 3/4

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

In the desert
stone, clay, parchment
seem never to decay—
there is no kindly moisture
to blur the edge of narrative,
to break down attitude or habit
with the green insistence
of small live things.

#poem 2/4

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

Reading Israel

In the deep of the night
from the safety of
this quiet room,
I travel again the crooked road.
The map is torn and stained,
way-posts hang crazily in the wind.
Who can guide me?

#poem 1/4

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

The night will never stay,
The night will still go by,

Though with a million stars
You pin it to the sky;

Though you bind it with the blowing wind
And buckle it with the moon,

The night will slip away
Like sorrow or a tune.

🌙

#poem Eleanor Farjeon
#micropoem
#art David Nunuk

#resist

Crescent moon & earthshine
above a cloud layer &
the Milky Way —
near the center, Jupiter

photograph

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

Again. Again.
Is there nowhere
that is not pain?

Only the hope of peace shines
silent
through the brutal dark.

🔥🌿

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Shalom (Peace):
Sharon Cummins

the Hebrew word
Shalom
in marbled blue-greens
against black

illustration

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

And the moon?
Who among us does not wander,
and bow to the ground?

Who does not
stand open
if only in secret

taking heart in the ripening of the moon?

🎑

#poem 2/2 Margaret Gibson
#art Autumn Grasses Screen:
Shibata Zeshin

#resist

two-paneled Japanese screen in gold, & carved
wooden frame
grasses, leaves, full moon

painting on silk

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

Autumn Grasses

In fields of bush clover and hay-scent grass
the autumn moon takes refuge
The cricket's song is gold

Zeshin's loneliness taught him this

not-knowing
knows the way

#poem 1/2

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

morning sun
not a moment to spare
on hate

☀️

#poem Jane Ross
#haiku #micropoem
#art Tahoma Morning:
Chuck Kime

#resist

Tahoma, The Mountain That Was God
gold in the morning
above dark pines &
icy blue waters

photograph

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 1d

skein of geese
woven together by fate
night sky’s silver needle

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

just as before
bees drone peacefully
on the cool veranda,

plum preserves turn cold
& over sleepy gardens
quietly, the end of summer bathes in the sun.

Among the leaves
the morning writes
slow shadows—

All this could happen
The moon is so round today!

🍁

#poem Miklos Radnoti
#art Takk B

#resist

full moon
golden
autumn leaves

photograph

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