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Tiene Chine
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Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
Is iomaí cor sa saol
so world is a leaf so a tree is a bough
(and birds sing sweeter
than books
tell how)
so here is away and so your is a my
(with a down
up
around again fly)

Words: e.e.cummings
Photo: mine

#birds #poetry #photography #poetryinmotion #nature #e.e.cummings #birdsofbelgium
December 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
“may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living"

Words: e.e. cummings
Photo: mine

#birds#photography#nature #eecummings
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Sometimes you look
Like a human scribble
Like a two year old
Has colored you in
Like you’ve got
Too many feelings
To fit inside of the lines
Of your own skin

#andreagibson #poetry #poetryinmotion #photography

Words: Andrea Gibson
Photo: mine
July 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
You know who you are
You’re not broken, just rattled
Scared of the stars
Unreachable, scattered
But there in the dark
You’re secretly flattered
‘Cause light always leaks
And you know that you matter

#poetryinmotion #lucasjones #photography
June 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Do you ever just wanna give up
Well, me too
Are you shocked by what people get
Get used to
Do you wake up in a cold sweat?
Well, that's sane
Least you got a little brain left
You've got a little brain

#birds #anidifranco #birdsofsouthafrica #nature #photography
May 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
now all the fingers of this tree(darling)have
hands, and all the hands have people; and
more each particular person is(my love)
alive than every world can understand

Words: e.e. cummings
Art: Madeleine Bialke

www.mbialke.com

#poetry #e.e.cummings #artfortheheart #poetryinmotion
May 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
the moon is hiding in
her hair.
The
lily
of heaven
full of all dreams,
draws down.

Words: e.e. cummings
Art: Fan Jing

#poetry #artfortheheart #e.e.cummings #fanjing #HdMGallery
April 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
“Birds cry like children, grunt like pigs,meow like cats, and sing like divas”

Words: Jennifer Ackerman
Photo: mine

#birds #photography #nature #travel #birdsofsouthafrica
April 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
as small as a world and as large as alone.

#birds #photography #poetry #e.e.cummings
April 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a little tired now;
Tired of things that break, and —
Just tired.
So am I.

Words: e.e. cummings
Photo: mine

#poetry #e.e.cummings #photography #artfortheheart
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

Words: e.e. cummings
Art: Léon Spilliaert

#artfortheheart #poetry #e.e.cummings #spilliaert #oostende
April 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
who are you,little i

(five or six years old)
peering from some high

window;at the gold

of november sunset

(and feeling:that if day
has to become night

this is a beautiful way)

#poetry #e.e.cummings #photography #poetryinmotion

Words: e.e. cummings
Photo: mine
March 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I’m sorry you couldn’t find me, I’ve been in the woods. I put myself there because I couldn’t be good. I have been running with foxes and running with crows and I have found myself a home where no one goes.

Words: Florence Welch
Photo: mine

#photography #poetryinmotion #birds
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look

Words: e.e. cummings
Photo: Martine Franck

#poetry #photography #poetryinmotion #martinefranck #e.e.cummings #spring #artfortheheart
March 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
You wouldn’t believe what once or
twice I have seen. I’ll just
tell you this:
only if there are angels in your head will you
ever, possibly, see one.

#maryoliver #poetry #davidgaverle #photography #poetryinmotion

www.davidgaberle.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Life leans towards living
And, while death claims all things at the end
There were such precious times between
In which everything was radiant
And we loved, again, this world

#poetry #tomhirons #art #anselmkiefer #artfortheheart #sichelschnitt #museumvoorlinden
March 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
There is a bird and a stone in your body. Your job is not to kill the bird with the stone.

Words: Victoria Chang
Art: Xu Zhen, Eternity - Poseidon, Pigeons
Photo: mine

#photography #art #artfortheheart #xuzhen #poetry #victoriachang #theseathesea #dehaan
March 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled -
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.

#maryoliver #poetry #birds #poetryinmotion
March 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.

#maryoliver #poetry #birds #poetryinmotion #photography #birdsofsouthafrica
March 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
In this little night-covered world with you, I hope to find what I long for; a clue, a map, a bird flying south, and when the light comes we will get dressed together and go.

Words: Jeanette Winterson
Photo: mine

#addBirder #birds #poetryinmotion #nature #plettenbergbay
March 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.”

Words: Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Photos: mine

#nature #southafrica #poetryinmotion #photography
#botlierskop
March 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Let me ask you one question: is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness, do you think that it could? I think you will find, when your death takes its toll, all the money you made, will never buy back your soul.

#bobdylan #bernardbuffet #lesoiseaux #art #artfortheheart #poetryinmotion
March 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The way the single fish
outwits a shark
by sticking with its school,
The way the crescent moon
outspins its dark
to once again be full,
Even winter –
given long enough
begins to lose its cool

Words: Harry Baker
Photo: mine

#poetry #photography #mushroom #nature #artfortheheart #harrybakerpoet
March 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole

Words: Louise Bourgeois
Art: Vanessa Baird

#art #artfortheheart #poetryinmotion
March 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I beg of you,
do not walk by
without pausing
to attend to this
rather ridiculous performance.
It could mean something.
It could mean everything.
It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:
You must change your life.

#poetry #photography #nature #battenbroek

Words: Mary Oliver
Photo: mine
February 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM