A snowflake.

I grew up in a little English town thinking that you needed a magnifying lens to see snowflakes in all their intricacies..then I came to know Canada Winters… other half took this photo…❄️✨

had we the choice
we may have stayed stardust
not even the sorrows
nor shadows darkening
the corners of mouths
we dwell here
inside the hours
breathing before dawn
for we are weary of hate and fear

#micropoetry #poet #poetry #writerslife

𝙹𝚃 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼

☁️☀️☁️🌩️

𝙻𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚑𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚍𝚘𝚘𝚛..

𝚃𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗,
𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚑,
𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚝

𝙱𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍,𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝙸 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔—
♥️⋰⋱⫷⫸

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚒𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛.

#Sun
#Photography

early spring prickly pear flowers in the desert

walked the four corners
of the sprawling land today
old bones jagged rocks smooth silt
swarming bees razor wires prickly pears
dry creeks lost youth new growth
still the most impressive part
is the quiet you can hear
~
#vss365 #poetry #desert
#photography #nature
#bloomscrolling

Morning @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk My #PoemsAbout #Consent didn’t even get to my bugbear! 😂 I decided there was enough for another poem/tome. So just in time for Mother’s Day…😬
#poetry

✨ 👏👏👏

#OurPoetryX | #inseparable
#foxprose | ask me once, maybe twice
#freeverse #poetry

in complete silence
I hear the sound of flowers
blossom in her heart

#photography wynterrayven
@wynterrayven.bsky.social

Cloud covers moon in milky cataract, her stars hung loosely on a night threaded lanyard. We are a tiny thump of a heart beneath incomprehension. Mysteries above us that we can only throw wishes at. Time already passed, we are a hope with one step in the future.

#vssdaily lanyard
#vss365 cataract

Window views. Not always reflective, not always welcoming and definitely each one, unique. Cobwebs of life trail on us all, don't they?

📷by me
#poetry #photograhy

B&W photo captured on the lunch break this week. An old leafless tree growing out of a rock outcropped overhang. Standing tall next to a brand new pine - two beautiful silhouettes against the foggy forest backdrop.

Gestures on the foggy front lines..
🩶

📷: by me

m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJmb...

#ForestFriday #BWFriday
#scape #jobsitetunes #shinelikethesun
#beastieboyslightenup

#BlueSkyArtShow #Flowing

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🤎🖤

The origin of being does not yield itself to the voice that proclaims it.

Within it, minds arise and begin weaving meanings…
Stars ignite and collapse into silence,
the ancient question of why there is anything at all continues to echo.

What dissolves when it notices it cannot stand outside it.

♥️

I was drawn to the shadows and warm tones along the Red River. “Winter Along the Red” is based on a photo taken at Lindenwood park in Fargo, ND. 🙏🏻 #watercolor #watercolorpainting

Hanging on a crimson red wall in a restaurant’s bathroom. Photo of Anthony Bourdain lounging on some beat up furniture along a beautiful coastline in B&W. (Photographer unknown)

Captured on a restaurant’s bathroom wall. Framed quote signed by Anthony Bourdain. Reads: “Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride.”

“Eat at a local restaurant … Go somewhere you’ve never been… Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends & yourself..Enjoy the ride” AB

#WallsonWednesday #RedWed
#ECK

after cloudburst—
the arroyo
sorting bones of trees
#haiku #poetry

nest egg
we set our sights upon
a bonny cottage
#vss365 #senryu

I am so honoured and humbled to be invited to speak about The Starbeck Orion and my poetic journey in Sheffield during May or June this year.
I am also, running a two hour introductory session on the poetry (in translation) of Nobel Laureate,
Czeslaw Milosz this coming Monday.

I call them the two sisters. They listen well when you need to vent and teach you about the seasons should you ask. That's the thing about nature, people seldom ask and yet trees are always willing to answer.

#poetry #photography
📷 by me

loss of resonance
absence of tone
and tenor

flattened notes
world out of tune

dissonant chords
played on hardened
heart strings

lost harmony
i struggle to find
the key

#vss365 #harmony

written Aug 2024

What a beautiful cover by Rachael Taylor for the Heads, Shoulders, Spleen and Nose edition of @littthoughtspress.com @clairemtaylor.com 🤩
So happy to be a part of it! 😊 #poetryforkids #kidlit #storiesforkids
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mirrored moves
and bodies writhing
passionate dance
without scandal
such bittersweet splinters
the plank and the muse

#Dancer #Micropoetry #Poetry

thank you!

And oh so beautiful in their meanderings

🏴‍☠️🌱✊
brilliant write—thank you Raven!

i know the best place to paddle to get more, too

a seed awakens
defying the cold dark soil
a small mutiny

#Photography david wiggins
@wordingway.bsky.social

there's #harmony in each nail as it's forced between fibres of deadwood, and the splinters of hope-giving light are extinguished. there's acceptance in the notes of #brick clay, and finally giving up, that penetrate like darkness through lifelessness

#vss365
#emoetry #lifeless
#wildwalkprompt

spring rain—
the plow
without its mask

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt