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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs

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David Wiggins is an English moral philosopher, metaphysician, and philosophical logician working especially on identity and issues in meta-ethics.

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 1d

∴ salted caramel
honestly, it’s research
smelling beignets
·
skeletal verve shook
crumbs tempt the edges of will
i inch closer still ∴

#vss365 #haikufeels #daughtersbreakfast #senryu #beignet

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 1d

finding seeds
amongst the stubble
next summer's skylarks

#DailyHaikuPrompt (straw)

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 1d

no worries then— i gotchu! 🤐

your words instantly reminded me of an old friend, years ago, dubbing me the きにしないで (ki ni shinaide, “no worries”) guy 😆

thanks for the encouragement with my writing ✌️🙏

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Pippi 💕 @pippilngstkg.bsky.social · 1d

thoughts, swept away—

in a waterfall's thundering verve
a cauldron of swirling froth

i inhale, pausing
reflect on the tranquil currents

meandering around rocks
settling in a tranquil sun-dappled pool

distillation of experiences,
we know the work, the art of stillness

silver breath rising —

10/10 morning walk- a shaded waterfall settling in tranquil pool of dappled light

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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 1d

The primeval dirge of change.

#7syllablesentence #dirge #blueskypoets #zen #sunset #photography

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Marcía Lynn Paul - Author/Poet @marcialynnpaul.bsky.social · 1d

MARKS

Brave write instance of
strokes, cursive on whispering
leaves, fatigued fingers.
With verve, expressed promises
in the wind. Her life’s oeuvre

#vss365 #verve
#emoetry #fatigued
#blueskyrelay #oeuvre
#2wordprompt #write #instance
#OurPoetryX #whisperingleaves
#moonmystic #promises_in_the_wind

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Lady3jane @plinkfm.bsky.social · 1d

I’m left-handed & cannot #write in spiral bound notebooks as efficiently as in soft cover ones. In the age of typewriters, telex machines & landlines, I had a #leather bound 8x5 notebook for my notes. Even though that #instance in time is long gone, I can still refer to it.
#vssdaily #2wordprompt

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 1d

primped in moss bed
mushroom caps tilt and sway
pulling at the moon

Image: OpenArt.com

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely!

’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 1d

holy!

love love the alliteration!

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 1d

thank you, my Mountain-friend!

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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 1d

Hollow/ed hours
heave heaviness
heatedly howling
harnessed hows
hope hovers

#Poetry

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 1d

thanks, David! i dig that you dig it. means a lot. peace, friend

a black and white photo of a man singing into a microphone with the hashtag #fallontonnight

ALT: a black and white photo of a man singing into a microphone with the hashtag #fallontonnight

media.tenor.com

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 1d

coffee’s bitter bliss
and the sweetness of her lips
set my heart racing

#Photography Albert Ibars
@albert-ibars.bsky.social Aaa

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 1d

sun-catcher the verve of a hummingbird’s wing
#vss365 #monoku

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 1d

📸 👏👏👏

too many choose from but… 🤔 the finale of Sibelius’ 5th Symphony? 🤓

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 1d

each fern unfurls
a slower version
of my breath
#haiku #poetry

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 1d

holy, hauntingly visceral

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 1d

For #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe ✨

for @thebrokenspine.co.uk
& @alanparrywriter.co.uk

I apologize for the ungodly length and extend my sincerest gratitude to everyone who still endeavors to read it. Thank you.

$Mirror, Mirror A spell gone wrong. The fairy godmother quit, left the fire for a cigarette break. My dress is as chintzy as lollipop shivers, as cheap as no-fucks-given first love and even that I could never afford. A broom dressed in a rag, owl-grown on eyelash wishes. A wish is something my heart makes when you sing about how the light weeps through the gauze of the leaves when it falls, like a prayer through stained glass, or a girl’s head through the open mouth of her mother’s medicine cabinet. We all know that things are purified by their falling, by how low they can go before they snap. A wish is the insistence to fall like this just a little bit longer, to sweeten the pulp of my ruin once I collapse into smoke. A dream, however, is a different beast: A dream is something tenebrous that lives in the fractures and marrows, that comes for me like a gorge of gray wolves, ubiquitous and bigger than a life, or a couldn’t, or a death. It makes me think about your teeth, how they tear a signature of grief into my wrist, how I mistook a maw for a sparrow’s beak, and blood for godly devotion. You ask what has touched me without leaving a bruise. Nothing. The brittle hair brown as the mud- crested belly of a fox, hunted, tangled in lilac and bramble, keeping watch over what remains of us and what doesn’t when no one is looking too close. Rings of salt around my eyes where at midnight the crows come and pick apart the waning embers until things lose their focus and become mercurial rivulets of maybe and fever. The olanzapine body, fed too sad on gingerbread and delusions; the one that I carry like a coffin or that in turn shoulders me like a cross, because it has to, because it knows no other way. The flesh-simmering hunger to be not only seen but felt. That deaf violent resistance to any threat or touch of disenchantment.$

And there it is,
the seam that is always giving, where the doctor did
his stitches like someone drunk on the moon. Touch it:
It tells a cicatrized story, one that the sortilege of speaking
could not. I am not only an imperfection but a curse, baptized
in a river’s edge that knows neither map nor ending.
Lids and lips dusted with a summoning of need the color
of last year’s rotten apples; as if there was a ballroom I was going to
instead of a padded cell, as if I had lost a shoe of glass
instead of my agency and sense of self.

All this sorcery, just for that one moment.

Because you promised me an elsewhere and another
time, where truth was untrue and real was only a word
that held as much weight as a twig. Where I could go
and be not prophecy but promise; peach, plum, and palms unread
but understood in the unutterable language of fate.
Where I could be held by a world that does not ask of me
to prove it. But you just made me up, didn’t you, divined my name
in some lapse of reason amidst seal-skinned sirens and antlered
hares. Something to rain away the hours, insubstantial and hidden
behind the veil of absurdity. I come alive in your glimpse only,
in that one wisp of splintered impossibility
and just as soon as you close your eyes, all my fake
bones shatter and crumble.

Looking back, I will then be made to wonder
if I have ever been really here at all.
Did I die or did I vanish
or did you just forget to continue to have faith
in my fabled existence, in the frailty of my
mythology?

Because nothing’s more fatal to a dream
than those who do not believe in it.

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 1d

misty garden light
the rabbits are wearing
raincoats of dead leaves

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Rachel @rachelnewcombe8.bsky.social · 1d

When my zest

runs

l
o
w

you always step in

to share your verve.

#vss365 #verve

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 1d

redux—the formatting was a bit off when i PDF-ed it! later on, friend. cheers then

drive.google.com/file/d/13lXO...

Buttered Beere (1588).pdf

drive.google.com

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 2d

thanks!

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 2d

thank you!

’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 2d

welcome, M! same to you!

’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 2d

∴ libertines haze
fools flock for hollow thrones
the self-anointed
·
mad mouths mutter
mustered mandates ~ felle masses
lotus lanterns bloom ∴

#vss365 #haikufeels #bethelotus #haiku #senryu #poemspell #naturephotography #flowers #avidya #bodhicitta

lotus @ Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 2d

you have the nicest backyard!

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 2d

ha! <snort>