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Posts by River Ripa

White iridescent jellyfish with thin wispy tentacles under a blue sea

White iridescent jellyfish with thin wispy tentacles under a blue sea

As the farmer knows the sediment,
and the jellyfish knows the sea,
as the harp strings know the air,
and migratory birds, chemistry,
direct dimensional instruments,
return in ionic play

#poetry #bskypoetry #bskypoets #amwriting #excerpt #nature #photography #jellyfish #poet

📸michelejennae

1 day ago 7 0 0 0
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Have you heard the
silence
that washes sound
from your ears
and brings you
where nothing
has yet
been spoken?

#poetry #nature #photography #bskypoets #amwriting #micropoetry

1 day ago 16 1 0 0
Orange sunrise over an ocean of gentle waves

Orange sunrise over an ocean of gentle waves

What a shame the hate men don’t see how special this life is,

If they did, they’d be incapable of their cruelty.

#poetry #bskypoets #poet #ocean #oceanphotography #photography #naturephotography

2 months ago 74 3 0 1
Full moon light framed by trees with a wispy cloud

Full moon light framed by trees with a wispy cloud

Bound together,
earth and cloud and
me to that moon,
our centers stupor,
in sweet gravity.

#poetry #excerpt #amwriting #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poetsofbsky #photography #nature #moon #fullmoon #poetrycommunity #moonlight

4 months ago 23 2 0 0
Near full moon beyond a spackling of clouds at the edge of the pine forest

Near full moon beyond a spackling of clouds at the edge of the pine forest

The feeling of this vision
Replaces thought, misery, misfortune
With the tiny reminder that
Only this is real
Only this holds you
In exuberance

#poetry #bskypoetry #amwriting #nature #moon #fullmoon #photography #art #divine #poet #bskypoets #skygazing #micropoetry

4 months ago 18 0 0 0
Shag hickory tree in winter, photo by Famartin. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Shag hickory tree in winter, photo by Famartin. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

They say hickory nuts are not worth it
Too much effort for too little meat
But this sustenance falls to our feet
Fills our palms, fills our bellies
Hickory milk, buttery sweet
Omegas, magnesium
Survival through winter
How is that not worth it?

#poetry #bskypoets #nature #hickory #survivalist

4 months ago 8 0 0 0
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Grateful to be featured in this event this evening starting at 7pm ET. Zoom event open to all if you’d like to tune in 🧡 I’m kicking it off.

Register here for a link: bit.ly/3JFPb5X

#poetry #openmic #poetryshare #poetryzoom #poetryevent #virtualpoetry #poet #expression #sharing

6 months ago 7 1 0 0
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Hand against a large stone overlooking the ocean

Hand against a large stone overlooking the ocean

I’m transmitted its light-spun memories
Coursing from stone to spine to soul
It holds the wisdom of a thousand grandmas
This earthen elder, keeper of steadiness

#poet #poetry #excerpt #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #photography #nature #light #sky #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poeta #amwriting #stone

6 months ago 12 0 0 0
Purple and pink clouds at sunset

Purple and pink clouds at sunset

When you accidentally smudge your imagination across the sky

#poetry #bskypoets #quoteoftheday #photography #sky #art #color #imagination #poet #poetrycommunity #ctpoets #clouds #expression #micropoetry

7 months ago 22 2 0 0
Blue orange and pick sunsets in an enchanted cloud sky reflecting on a lake

Blue orange and pick sunsets in an enchanted cloud sky reflecting on a lake

The dragons become whales
My mind becomes water
Unclouded by the clouds
Unearthed by the color
Beneath sky, only hope

#poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poetry #photography #sunset #sky #nature #clouds #lake #writer #bskyauthors #bskywriters #art

7 months ago 33 1 0 0

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7 months ago 1 0 0 0
Mountain front range in the sunlight across a big field grass field

Mountain front range in the sunlight across a big field grass field

I laid on the grass,
heart to ground,
ear to earth,
and remembered,
everything.

#poetry #poet #naturepoetry #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #earthpoetry #photography #mountains #nature #sunlight #writer #author

7 months ago 19 1 1 0
Light blue sky with soft clouds through the treetops

Light blue sky with soft clouds through the treetops

How wide the sky when I let it be…

#presence #awe #poetry #poet #quoteoftheday #beherenow #awareness #bskypoets #ctpoets #ctpoetry #amwriting #micropoem #photography #nature

8 months ago 6 0 0 0
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Five Poets Recite (David Berner, Desma Sheerer, Nicole Dalcourt, River Ripa, Laurie Kuntz) Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast · Episode

Sharing a podcast that one of my poems was featured on this past Monday. Tune in 🙏✨

Excerpt:

summon
strings of
language
so absurd
they can’t be
apprehended

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poem #poetrypodcast #bskypoets #amwriting #writer #expression #art

@viewlesswings.bsky.social

8 months ago 10 1 1 0
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Flowing waterfall in a green forest

Flowing waterfall in a green forest

I smell the waterfall in my hair
Minerals, air, moss stone

#poetry #nature #naturepoetry #poem #poetsofbsky #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #photography #waterfall #forest #ctpoetry #ctpoets

8 months ago 134 11 0 1

Thank you 🙏🌙

9 months ago 1 0 0 0
Blue damselfly with green blue metallic body and black feathery wings in a green plant

Blue damselfly with green blue metallic body and black feathery wings in a green plant

I follow the blue damselfly
its black feathery wings
heart goes so light I lift, too
along the narrow pass
the colors in me show
dull purples, shy golds
an effort of a human

#poetry #poet #nature #photography #poem #bskypoets #poeta #quote #dailyquote #naturepoem #writer #art

📸Bonnie Nielsen

9 months ago 33 3 2 0
Waterfall across the stream through the green forest pass

Waterfall across the stream through the green forest pass

Heart stays soft with earthly strength

#poet #poetry #poem #bskypoets #nature #photography #waterfall #quote #dailyquote #motherearth #writer #amwriting

9 months ago 15 0 0 1
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What can we cultivate, if not our spirits?

#poetry #poet #poem #quote #dailyquote #bskypoets #photography #flower #nature #spiritality #meditation

9 months ago 32 3 2 0
The blue sky with wispy clouds peeking between the tree tops

The blue sky with wispy clouds peeking between the tree tops

“It’s not your job to be ecstatically happy,” The shifting sky said. “It’s not your job to be inconsolably sad, either. It’s your job to be deeply aware. And to be deeply aware is to be peace.”

#poet #peace #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #bskypoets #ctpoetry #nepoetry #spreadpeace #love #empathy

9 months ago 12 0 0 0
Beautiful tree with lush moss by a river

Beautiful tree with lush moss by a river

The heavy in me
the electric in me
the moon rings that reach
To the forest in me
The wine that’s in me
The truth that’s in me
The hope that slow grows
On the dying in me

#poem #poetry #poet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #nypoetry #tree #nature #photography #moss #writer

9 months ago 27 0 0 0
Bunny in Forest backyard by hammock

Bunny in Forest backyard by hammock

How do I explain to the bunny — enblissed in his sunset leaf dinner, surrounded by fireflies, brutally interrupted by thunderous explosions — that the fireworks will not kill him?

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #nature #photography #bunny #writer #quote #poem #amwriting #compassion #nofireworks #poeta

9 months ago 11 0 0 0
River coursing through a lush green forest

River coursing through a lush green forest

The water that’s coursed for billions of years courses through us.

How ancient we are, how big our family. We recognize every stream from the water within.

#poetry #poet #bskypoet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #quote #dailyquote #photography #river #waterislife #writer

9 months ago 29 1 0 0
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Moon out the window and candle on altar glowing in the night

Moon out the window and candle on altar glowing in the night

More often than not
the word glow appears
on my page first
I write it mindlessly
breathe it fully
what’s more beautiful
than to glow

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #poem #excerpt #glow #photography #moon #candle #author #writer #amwriti

9 months ago 20 0 0 0
River flowing through a mossy forest

River flowing through a mossy forest

When did my one word wishes
Become pages of prayers
Soliloquy by the stream
Voice becomes rivulet
Becomes voice again
The only place
I can verbalize

#poetry #poet #poem #writer #amwriting #bskypoets #bskypoetry #ctpoetry #poetrycommunity #river #photography #art #peace #unity

10 months ago 24 0 0 0
Golden sunrise over the ocean

Golden sunrise over the ocean

Where colors
are conscious
inner to outer
to inner
imaginings
of truth
never to be
discovered
but to be painted
again and
again

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #photography #sunrise #ocean #imagination #art #creativity #amwriting #ctpoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

10 months ago 58 2 0 0
A sunrise dimmed by the dust storms of the Sahara rising over the aquamarine ocean of south Florida

A sunrise dimmed by the dust storms of the Sahara rising over the aquamarine ocean of south Florida

The sunrise wraps
round and round
the dust of Sahara
storms its soul
across space
feeds the forests
sustains the sea
quells the colors
chokes the humans
knows just what to do

#sunrise #poetry #poem #saharandust #poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #photography #ocean #art #duststorm #ctpoetry

10 months ago 74 2 0 0
Little white and yellow flowers in a sea of green

Little white and yellow flowers in a sea of green

“It looks like the universe,” they said in the same breath.

#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #quote #flowers #photography #ctpoetry #nepoetry #connecticutpoetry #newenglandpoetry #amwriting #art #presence

10 months ago 29 1 0 0
Woman and trees reflection in a puddle

Woman and trees reflection in a puddle

Sweet humans, may we join our hearts, pool our love and wash away these monsters.

#poetry #poet #lovewins #love #quote #dailyquote #compassion #unity #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #nonviolence

10 months ago 5 0 0 0
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summon
strings of
language
so absurd
they can’t be
apprehended

#poetry #selfexpression #poet #ctpoetry #ctpoet #connecticutpoetry #nepoetry #poeta #writer #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky #nature #photography

10 months ago 22 0 0 0