"The taste speaks to some darkness deep in my soul where a sleepwalker stands bathed in the light of an open
refrigerator, swigging the sticky liquid, like bourbon, straight from the bottle."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Maple by Elaine Equi from Out of the Blank (2025 Coffee House Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdptyeve
Untitled (John Whalen-Bridge)
The words of children
splash in grandmother’s mind
and ripple to now.
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At Poetry Magazine, w/a translation into Chinese by Chun Yu:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1661252/untitled-wu-ti
"A bird that sings all day
a poet hears at night and
thinking nightingale
composes some didactic verse
more about himself
than what is most likely
a robin"
#TodaysPoem #poem @poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Poem by Bardia Sinaee from Intruder (2021 House of Anansi Press) http://bit.ly/3lwUIeR
If I am vanished
https://subspacewagon.systems/if-i-am-vanished/
If I get vanished due to my disability can someone please save or backup my poetry. It is all I really care about, as long as I can remember. I have been writing poetry for over 30 years. I don’t care if I suffer or die. I just want my poetry to live on. Even if that means that only two people think it is any good. [...]
#Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #Academia
"A fox axes red through the forest. An ox foxes the plough. Badger, you bade me bide time till spring when the buds burst, small fists punching pollen, knocking bees into honeyed senselessness."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
The Sum of my Badgers by Gary Barwin and Lillian Necakov (2025 periodicities) https://tinyurl.com/3eh7n2av
"Revolution" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
"there they were, singing and showing up despite,
and this was the moment that made me believe
in the path—not just the grand marches toward freedom,
but also the thin trails marked with courage and creativity,
small moments I can follow like bread crumbs
till this country again feels like home."
"I will come to you, when you are tired
when you need rest and reassurance
like a bed of well-earned pearls, and dancing
I have seen you dance"
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
A Conversation With a Musician and a Forest by Richard J Tilley (@richard) https://tinyurl.com/nerztdun
A Pale Bordering Wail
https://subspacewagon.systems/a-pale-bordering-wail/
The birds are obviously God
Orchestrating with each other
Across the temporal globe
Like neurons in mid-sentence
And like a painter’s brush
Against a pale bordering wail
Of carefully constructed syntax
For colorful evening tenures
"but you are
my guest here under
these gusts of wayward
blows and what I meant to say
under this evolution of blue is that I will make
up as much as I can from scales to feathers for you."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
On the Origins of the Specious: by Kevin Spenst from A Bouquet Brought Back From Space (2024 @anvilpress) https://tinyurl.com/2aa5krr2
"I machine
sadness widgets."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Sad Times at the Ol' Sadness Factory by @juliancday (2025) https://tinyurl.com/mrykbm9c
"She hated a *mown lawn*. Maybe that was because *mow* was the
reverse of *wom*, the beginning of the name of what she was—
a *woman*. A *mown lawn* had a sad sound to it, like a *long
moan*. From her, a *mown lawn* made a *long moan*."
Excerpt from Lydia Davis, "A Mown Lawn"
Full (short!) prose-poem here:
https://orb.binghamton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1098&context=harpurpalate
[Using asterisks to italicize, since some of our instances play nice with Markdown]
A poem I wrote quickly/unedited yesterday, sparked by one of Philadelphia poet Todd Dillard's prompts for National Poetry Month.
Our poor dead
gaze at us with their
empty eyes
and see everything to come—
but even they can’t help
or warn us,
since neither war nor peace
has taught us much.
-- 'Not Much' by Ryszard Krynicki, trans. Clare Cavanagh from 'Magnetic Point'
#VerseThursday #TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
(Art credit: Jacoba van Heemskerck)
"The world falls through my forehead
resistlessly as rain"
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Dark by Pat Lowther from A Stone Diary (1977) https://patlowther.ca/
"Let's find out what happens
when the mind forests: does it filter heavy
metals like cattails in the marsh, does it
gargle emeralds in the throat."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Unseasonable by Bren Simmers (2025 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/2dd5zzuw
I love trees. "April Prayer" by Stuart Kestenbaum celebrates what they're up to this time of year in my part of the world. An excerpt from https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/04/stuart-kestenbaum-april-prayer.html
"Just before the green begins there is the hint of green
a blush of color, and the red buds thicken
the ends of the maple’s branches and everything
is poised before the start of a new world,
which is really the same world"
"The pines persisted in mid-winter's bite,
its bitter wind. The pines insisted they
were back another day, and that they seemed
another way of living with the wind,
the frozen sky, the brief mid-winter sun,
not just as broken line, some darker bright."
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Excerpt from "Bill Richard's Boy" by R.F. McEwen
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496242495/old-rags-and-iron/
"Now sorrow's almost already gone.
I'm alone when the mask cracks showing
my face again, aging and ageless."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
by Dale Martin Smith from The Size of Paradise (2024 knife | fork | book) https://tinyurl.com/2xetkkva
Captured thoughts on March delights in my life, which are there even through all the what's-is exploding around us. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-delights.html
