What if emotion IS knowledge?
@khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS makes the case that “poetry exists as a valuable tool for understanding,” not despite its emotional resonance, but precisely because of it.
press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi...
@uofmpress.bsky.social
#Poetry #Books #RadicalPoetics
@khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS makes the case that “poetry exists as a valuable tool for understanding,” not despite its emotional resonance, but precisely because of it.
press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi...
@uofmpress.bsky.social
#Poetry #Books #RadicalPoetics
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What if emotion IS knowledge?
@khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS makes the case that “poetry exists as a valuable tool for understanding,” not despite its emotional resonance, but precisely because of it.
press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi...
@uofmpress.bsky.social
#Poetry #Books #RadicalPoetics
@khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS makes the case that “poetry exists as a valuable tool for understanding,” not despite its emotional resonance, but precisely because of it.
press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi...
@uofmpress.bsky.social
#Poetry #Books #RadicalPoetics
fierce flower goddess
singing blooms in rainbow soul
defiant spirit
subverting expectations
raising herself from the dead
#emoetry defiant #poetry #poetrycommunity #tanka
* gif from tenor
singing blooms in rainbow soul
defiant spirit
subverting expectations
raising herself from the dead
#emoetry defiant #poetry #poetrycommunity #tanka
* gif from tenor
a pixel art of the aurora borealis over a snowy forest
Alt: a pixel art of the aurora borealis over a snowy forest
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
fierce flower goddess
singing blooms in rainbow soul
defiant spirit
subverting expectations
raising herself from the dead
#emoetry defiant #poetry #poetrycommunity #tanka
* gif from tenor
singing blooms in rainbow soul
defiant spirit
subverting expectations
raising herself from the dead
#emoetry defiant #poetry #poetrycommunity #tanka
* gif from tenor
✨️🌬🌴🌊🌴🌬✨️
apogee
of gentle wind
s a t i n t i d e s
#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings
#EastCoastKin
#vss365 Apogee
#haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Beach #StJohn
apogee
of gentle wind
s a t i n t i d e s
#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings
#EastCoastKin
#vss365 Apogee
#haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Beach #StJohn
December 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
✨️🌬🌴🌊🌴🌬✨️
apogee
of gentle wind
s a t i n t i d e s
#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings
#EastCoastKin
#vss365 Apogee
#haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Beach #StJohn
apogee
of gentle wind
s a t i n t i d e s
#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings
#EastCoastKin
#vss365 Apogee
#haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Beach #StJohn
The pines whisper...
So let it be. 🌲
We are torn,
Twined,
Tumbling,
Towards eternity.
The pines whisper...
Let the waters rage
On
Towards the endless sea.
#ForestFriday #Scape #BWFriday #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #photography #PhotographersofBlueSky #poetry
#microcontroller #nature
So let it be. 🌲
We are torn,
Twined,
Tumbling,
Towards eternity.
The pines whisper...
Let the waters rage
On
Towards the endless sea.
#ForestFriday #Scape #BWFriday #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #photography #PhotographersofBlueSky #poetry
#microcontroller #nature
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The pines whisper...
So let it be. 🌲
We are torn,
Twined,
Tumbling,
Towards eternity.
The pines whisper...
Let the waters rage
On
Towards the endless sea.
#ForestFriday #Scape #BWFriday #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #photography #PhotographersofBlueSky #poetry
#microcontroller #nature
So let it be. 🌲
We are torn,
Twined,
Tumbling,
Towards eternity.
The pines whisper...
Let the waters rage
On
Towards the endless sea.
#ForestFriday #Scape #BWFriday #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #photography #PhotographersofBlueSky #poetry
#microcontroller #nature
December 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#Poet Emily Dickinson was born #OTD in 1830.
She wrote ~1,800 poems & only 10 were published in her lifetime (& heavily edited by publishers to be "normal"). Unrecognized in her time, Dickinson was known later for her innovative use of form & syntax and influence on #poetry styles like free verse.
She wrote ~1,800 poems & only 10 were published in her lifetime (& heavily edited by publishers to be "normal"). Unrecognized in her time, Dickinson was known later for her innovative use of form & syntax and influence on #poetry styles like free verse.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
in the midst of
the global warming
this world became colder
much colder than it had been
for a long time
people shiver and voices tremble
their hesitation
to think about
a so-called future
#poetry
the global warming
this world became colder
much colder than it had been
for a long time
people shiver and voices tremble
their hesitation
to think about
a so-called future
#poetry
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
in the midst of
the global warming
this world became colder
much colder than it had been
for a long time
people shiver and voices tremble
their hesitation
to think about
a so-called future
#poetry
the global warming
this world became colder
much colder than it had been
for a long time
people shiver and voices tremble
their hesitation
to think about
a so-called future
#poetry
As we move into the season of excess, I love Millay’s quiet and smiling refusal at restraint.
At first glance, the poem seems almost flippant but beneath the surface is provocative tone.
Much like Jack London’s thought ‘I would rather be ashes than dust…’
#poetry
#poemoftheday
At first glance, the poem seems almost flippant but beneath the surface is provocative tone.
Much like Jack London’s thought ‘I would rather be ashes than dust…’
#poetry
#poemoftheday
December 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
As we move into the season of excess, I love Millay’s quiet and smiling refusal at restraint.
At first glance, the poem seems almost flippant but beneath the surface is provocative tone.
Much like Jack London’s thought ‘I would rather be ashes than dust…’
#poetry
#poemoftheday
At first glance, the poem seems almost flippant but beneath the surface is provocative tone.
Much like Jack London’s thought ‘I would rather be ashes than dust…’
#poetry
#poemoftheday
After a night spent
writing poetry,
one is almost happy
to hear the milkman
at the door.
Wallace Stevens, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #Writing #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #Milkman #Masculinity #Gender #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
writing poetry,
one is almost happy
to hear the milkman
at the door.
Wallace Stevens, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #Writing #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #Milkman #Masculinity #Gender #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
December 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
After a night spent
writing poetry,
one is almost happy
to hear the milkman
at the door.
Wallace Stevens, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #Writing #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #Milkman #Masculinity #Gender #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
writing poetry,
one is almost happy
to hear the milkman
at the door.
Wallace Stevens, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #Writing #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #Milkman #Masculinity #Gender #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
I Don’t Recall
A studied no recall,
Declared with conviction.
A deliberate fall.
When the misled defend
The one who crafted lies.
The ruse achieves its end.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
A studied no recall,
Declared with conviction.
A deliberate fall.
When the misled defend
The one who crafted lies.
The ruse achieves its end.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
December 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I Don’t Recall
A studied no recall,
Declared with conviction.
A deliberate fall.
When the misled defend
The one who crafted lies.
The ruse achieves its end.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
A studied no recall,
Declared with conviction.
A deliberate fall.
When the misled defend
The one who crafted lies.
The ruse achieves its end.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
old log cabin…
charming like a snowflake,
weathered by the elements
#dailyhaikuprompt #snowflake
#haiku #poetry
#nature #scape
#ForestFriday
#eastcoastkin
#photography
photo: pic of our family’s old cabin in the woods, being romanticized by a soft snow cover that’s masking its weathered bones.
charming like a snowflake,
weathered by the elements
#dailyhaikuprompt #snowflake
#haiku #poetry
#nature #scape
#ForestFriday
#eastcoastkin
#photography
photo: pic of our family’s old cabin in the woods, being romanticized by a soft snow cover that’s masking its weathered bones.
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
old log cabin…
charming like a snowflake,
weathered by the elements
#dailyhaikuprompt #snowflake
#haiku #poetry
#nature #scape
#ForestFriday
#eastcoastkin
#photography
photo: pic of our family’s old cabin in the woods, being romanticized by a soft snow cover that’s masking its weathered bones.
charming like a snowflake,
weathered by the elements
#dailyhaikuprompt #snowflake
#haiku #poetry
#nature #scape
#ForestFriday
#eastcoastkin
#photography
photo: pic of our family’s old cabin in the woods, being romanticized by a soft snow cover that’s masking its weathered bones.
I'm just sitting here
watching the wheels
go round and round
I really love to
watch them roll
No longer riding on
the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
John Lennon, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
watching the wheels
go round and round
I really love to
watch them roll
No longer riding on
the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
John Lennon, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
December 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I'm just sitting here
watching the wheels
go round and round
I really love to
watch them roll
No longer riding on
the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
John Lennon, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
watching the wheels
go round and round
I really love to
watch them roll
No longer riding on
the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
John Lennon, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Boundaries
Nationalism's creed,
Land eternal, men are brief.
Soon discarded, like mere chaff.
Nationalism’s writ,
Bounds are holy, charts are law.
Those without are blotted out.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
Nationalism's creed,
Land eternal, men are brief.
Soon discarded, like mere chaff.
Nationalism’s writ,
Bounds are holy, charts are law.
Those without are blotted out.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
December 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Boundaries
Nationalism's creed,
Land eternal, men are brief.
Soon discarded, like mere chaff.
Nationalism’s writ,
Bounds are holy, charts are law.
Those without are blotted out.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
Nationalism's creed,
Land eternal, men are brief.
Soon discarded, like mere chaff.
Nationalism’s writ,
Bounds are holy, charts are law.
Those without are blotted out.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Bird on a Wire” :
Gone With the warm days,
Waves of melancholy … with-
Nary a Warble ~
#senryu #haiku #nature #poetry
#haikuchallenge #poets @bleuowl.bsky.social
Warbler* Warm* Wave*
(Painting : @Etsy.com)
Gone With the warm days,
Waves of melancholy … with-
Nary a Warble ~
#senryu #haiku #nature #poetry
#haikuchallenge #poets @bleuowl.bsky.social
Warbler* Warm* Wave*
(Painting : @Etsy.com)
December 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“Bird on a Wire” :
Gone With the warm days,
Waves of melancholy … with-
Nary a Warble ~
#senryu #haiku #nature #poetry
#haikuchallenge #poets @bleuowl.bsky.social
Warbler* Warm* Wave*
(Painting : @Etsy.com)
Gone With the warm days,
Waves of melancholy … with-
Nary a Warble ~
#senryu #haiku #nature #poetry
#haikuchallenge #poets @bleuowl.bsky.social
Warbler* Warm* Wave*
(Painting : @Etsy.com)
We are absorbed entirely
into our own conceptions
thrown out projections
discarded and rejections
from non-existent algorithms
a drop in the ocean
an atom in a sky
and while ever poetic
it burns faces to cry
so as I turn away
across the coming days
remember that I tried
#poetry
into our own conceptions
thrown out projections
discarded and rejections
from non-existent algorithms
a drop in the ocean
an atom in a sky
and while ever poetic
it burns faces to cry
so as I turn away
across the coming days
remember that I tried
#poetry
December 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We are absorbed entirely
into our own conceptions
thrown out projections
discarded and rejections
from non-existent algorithms
a drop in the ocean
an atom in a sky
and while ever poetic
it burns faces to cry
so as I turn away
across the coming days
remember that I tried
#poetry
into our own conceptions
thrown out projections
discarded and rejections
from non-existent algorithms
a drop in the ocean
an atom in a sky
and while ever poetic
it burns faces to cry
so as I turn away
across the coming days
remember that I tried
#poetry
My heart is low,
my heart is so low,
as only a woman's heart
can be.
As only a woman's,
as only a woman's,
as only a woman's heart
can know.
Eleanor McEvoy, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
my heart is so low,
as only a woman's heart
can be.
As only a woman's,
as only a woman's,
as only a woman's heart
can know.
Eleanor McEvoy, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
My heart is low,
my heart is so low,
as only a woman's heart
can be.
As only a woman's,
as only a woman's,
as only a woman's heart
can know.
Eleanor McEvoy, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
my heart is so low,
as only a woman's heart
can be.
As only a woman's,
as only a woman's,
as only a woman's heart
can know.
Eleanor McEvoy, 20th century
#Photography #Poetry #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
I mother
my mother
through winter’s fog…
her hands, now the tiny ones,
light as falling snow
#tankathursday (burden)
#tanka #haiku #poetry
*using a haiku I wrote earlier this year
my mother
through winter’s fog…
her hands, now the tiny ones,
light as falling snow
#tankathursday (burden)
#tanka #haiku #poetry
*using a haiku I wrote earlier this year
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I mother
my mother
through winter’s fog…
her hands, now the tiny ones,
light as falling snow
#tankathursday (burden)
#tanka #haiku #poetry
*using a haiku I wrote earlier this year
my mother
through winter’s fog…
her hands, now the tiny ones,
light as falling snow
#tankathursday (burden)
#tanka #haiku #poetry
*using a haiku I wrote earlier this year
There’s a door in me you almost opened. I’m still standing on the threshold.
Read the expanded version →
shorturl.at/mWBfu
Words & photos:
Christian Paul Kusch © 2025
#poetry #photography #substack
Read the expanded version →
shorturl.at/mWBfu
Words & photos:
Christian Paul Kusch © 2025
#poetry #photography #substack
December 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
There’s a door in me you almost opened. I’m still standing on the threshold.
Read the expanded version →
shorturl.at/mWBfu
Words & photos:
Christian Paul Kusch © 2025
#poetry #photography #substack
Read the expanded version →
shorturl.at/mWBfu
Words & photos:
Christian Paul Kusch © 2025
#poetry #photography #substack
Poll-tested Hope
False hope, a cruel palliative,
A base, addictive substance,
Offered by states to placate.
For despair does poll poorly,
A polished substitute shown,
Clutched by yearning multitudes.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
False hope, a cruel palliative,
A base, addictive substance,
Offered by states to placate.
For despair does poll poorly,
A polished substitute shown,
Clutched by yearning multitudes.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Poll-tested Hope
False hope, a cruel palliative,
A base, addictive substance,
Offered by states to placate.
For despair does poll poorly,
A polished substitute shown,
Clutched by yearning multitudes.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
False hope, a cruel palliative,
A base, addictive substance,
Offered by states to placate.
For despair does poll poorly,
A polished substitute shown,
Clutched by yearning multitudes.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art
INTROVERT 🗣️🎙️
#poetry
#prompt
#vssdaily dish
#whistpr weasel
#Solseed Wintry
#emoetry elated
#vss365 successor
#moonmystic If_ever
#blueskyrelay whiff, wisp
#OurPoetryX night_singing
#2wordprompt state, harvest
#RetroArtPrompt reaper, gale
#foxprose a_drumbeat_thrums
#firewords280 hastily, deposited
#poetry
#prompt
#vssdaily dish
#whistpr weasel
#Solseed Wintry
#emoetry elated
#vss365 successor
#moonmystic If_ever
#blueskyrelay whiff, wisp
#OurPoetryX night_singing
#2wordprompt state, harvest
#RetroArtPrompt reaper, gale
#foxprose a_drumbeat_thrums
#firewords280 hastily, deposited
December 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
INTROVERT 🗣️🎙️
#poetry
#prompt
#vssdaily dish
#whistpr weasel
#Solseed Wintry
#emoetry elated
#vss365 successor
#moonmystic If_ever
#blueskyrelay whiff, wisp
#OurPoetryX night_singing
#2wordprompt state, harvest
#RetroArtPrompt reaper, gale
#foxprose a_drumbeat_thrums
#firewords280 hastily, deposited
#poetry
#prompt
#vssdaily dish
#whistpr weasel
#Solseed Wintry
#emoetry elated
#vss365 successor
#moonmystic If_ever
#blueskyrelay whiff, wisp
#OurPoetryX night_singing
#2wordprompt state, harvest
#RetroArtPrompt reaper, gale
#foxprose a_drumbeat_thrums
#firewords280 hastily, deposited
December 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Combining
#FromOneLine : Prompt 397 “We should have stopped”
with:
#PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poetry
Thanks for Stopping by! 🙏🫶🙏
#FromOneLine : Prompt 397 “We should have stopped”
with:
#PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poetry
Thanks for Stopping by! 🙏🫶🙏
December 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Combining
#FromOneLine : Prompt 397 “We should have stopped”
with:
#PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poetry
Thanks for Stopping by! 🙏🫶🙏
#FromOneLine : Prompt 397 “We should have stopped”
with:
#PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poetry
Thanks for Stopping by! 🙏🫶🙏