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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 16h

My pleasure! Such great poems ...

Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 19h

"A city grows in my left palm.
The people teeter on curved lines.
The subway wraps around my finger like a promise."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Amplification by Elena Zhang (@ezhang77.bsky.social) (2025 @havehashad.com)

Amplification by Elena Zhang

Amplification A city grows in my left palm. The people teeter on curved lines. The subway wraps around my finger like a promise. I like to send endings to myself and forget who wrote them. When the…

www.havehashad.com

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 3d

#TodaysPoem: Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful #poem about his sisters, published for the first time:

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... @IrishTimes

#SeamusHeaney #poetrycommunity #poetry

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time

The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

www.irishtimes.com

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 1d

#TodaysPoem (s)

One day the earth will shudder.
Savour what does not fall.

www.lornedaniel.ca/poems

Poems | Lorne Daniel

Selected poems by Lorne Daniel. New collection of poetry coming in 2025.

www.lornedaniel.ca

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 1d

My pleasure, Blair!

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 1d

"Across the city someone wraps
a lit apartment around their shoulders,
reads a book until
the last word is sleep."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Time Lapse of a City by Blair Trewartha (@btrewart.bsky.social) in Easy Fix (2014 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) michaeldennispoet.blogspot.com/2014/11/easy...

Easy Fix - Blair Trewartha (Palimpsest Press)

Michael Dennis Poet from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

michaeldennispoet.blogspot.com

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 2d

"The only thing growing taller, growing greener,
than your memory of being a forest is the awareness you will be a forest again."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
from The Forest by @paulvermeersch.bsky.social in NMLCT (2025 @ecwpress.bsky.social) ecwpress.com/products/nmlct

The poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch (ECW Press) is perched on a tree branch, with morning light showing through the leaves.

Handwritten transcription of part of the poem "The Forest" from the poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 3d

#SundaySentence from The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 3d

"In the pathology of nervous diseases, a doctor who doesn't talk too much nonsense is a half-cured patient, just as a critic is a poet who has stopped writing verse and a policeman a burglar who has retired from practice."

#SundaySentence by Marcel Proust campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab...

The Guermantes Way – Modernism Lab

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 3d

"And there were clustered bluebells everywhere
Of that deep blue of the dying of the day

That knows how much of it the eye can bear
In carpeting the green."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Rhiannon by John Fuller (2019 Wild Court) wildcourt.co.uk/2324/

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Jennifer Messner @occasionallyzen.bsky.social · 3d

We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
#sundaysentence #booksky

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 4d

"In a Sufi proverb, the bear must deal with 20 obstacles,
each one of them involves pears
because the bear adores pears."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
October 1 —- The Dow Closes Down 9509 by Susan Briante (@utopiaminus.bsky.social) (2014 Terrain.org) www.terrain.org/2014/poetry/...

Terrain.org - Online Environmental Magazine of Literature and Place

Terrain.org is an online environmental magazine of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, editorials, interviews, reviews, Unsprawl case studies, and art since 1998.

Terrain.org

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 4d

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#TodaysPoem

night drapes
stars emit light
around the north star-fire
stars journey
in their wake
stories extend

~Manny Loley

star poem

night drapes stars emit light around the north star-fire stars journey in their wake stories extend Translated from the Diné by the author

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 5d

"Mist is when the sky is tired of flight
and rests its soft machine on ground:

then the world is dim and bookish
like engravings under tissue paper."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Craig Raine (1979) www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-mart...

Poetry By Heart

www.poetrybyheart.org.uk

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 5d

... and yet devastating at the same time ...

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 7d

#TodaysPoem

"the promise of a stillness, which is more like hovering,
the way a hummingbird hovers"

~Seni Seneviratne
poetryarchive.org/poem/the-hab...

The Habit of Hope - Poetry Archive

Though it’s sometimes nurtured by the naming of birds, mine’s not “a thing with feather’s”, but more like measured footfall on a slow walk to the hide, the moon a crescent in morning sky, putting on...

poetryarchive.org

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 6d

"Has anyone done that for you, lately
or ever? Come over, torn open the sky
and let the snow fall in the wrong month
to show there's a rip in the face of the world?"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Rending the Garments by @ronnabloom.bsky.social
In a Riptide (2025 Brick Books) the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/21/v...

Poetry collection In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom (Brick Books), nestled amidst dried flowers and stalks in a garden

Poem "Rending the Garments" from the poetry collection In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom, held before dried flowers and stalks in a garden

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Rending the Garments" from the poetry collection In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom

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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 12d

#TodaysPoem #MECFS

In lieu...
Of radiance, of wind
Of crisp autumn air —
Petals of sun cast a wholesome glow
In slanting shafts, in shadows
Not there
But here.

Vase of dwarf sunflowers, courtesy of my wife.
My photo.

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 10d

scifiku #TodaysPoem

don’t be alarmed
produce on Tridorn
squirms when eaten

Richard E Schell

www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-...

www.hiraethsffh.com

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 9d

#TodaysPoem

So gently I offer my hand and ask,

Let me find my talk

So I can teach you about me.

~Rita Joe

poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/i...

I Lost My Talk | Poetry In Voice

I Lost My Talk by Rita Joe I lost my talk The talk you took away. When I was a little girl At Shubenacadie school. You snatched it away: I speak like you I think like you I create like you The scram...

poetryinvoice.ca

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 7d

"How I wait, knowing, for now
she comes to me,
her small feet wet with dew,
white as stars
in these last hours."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Stars by Patrick Lane from Too Spare, Too Fierce (1995 @HarbourPublishing.bsky.social)

Stars by Patrick Lane - Your Daily Poem

StarsbyPatrick Lane

www.yourdailypoem.com

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 8d

"the scarecrow loving puppet put a pop gun to the head of the soundman’s lamb."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
liftoff by @BartonSmock.bsky.social (2024 Mercurius Magazine)

Barton Smock Surreal-Absurd Sampler — Mercurius

Eight surreal and absurd poems from Barton Smock, complete with a mini-essay on the genre and form.

www.mercurius.one

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 9d

Oh ... Will you be reviewing it?

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Ronna Bloom @ronnabloom.bsky.social · 9d

The host of Fresh Air on CBC Radio, Ismaila Alfa, and I had a conversation about poetry and I prescribed him some poems!

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 9d

"Enough, I said, and threw my sight
away. Like hope. Like all I’d ever wanted, lost.
The unforgiving ground."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
sighted by Carolyn Smart (2025 The Litterisee Project) thelitteriseeproject.com/2025/09/27/s...

sighted

The plastic petal, a perfect drop of blood upon the ground. One lens snapped, the other whole. The frame in tatters. Is it light that blinds us? Or the knowledge of that light? You were with me for…

thelitteriseeproject.com

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