"We’ll have to wait until the next time
an angel comes rapping at the door
to rejoice docently."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Honestly, by John Ashbery (2015 @POETSorg.bsky.social)
Five poems Salem Paige same fish, bigger pond I've grown! I've grown! and how terrifying and how exciting how open the world is to me now, how limitless, how without limit, how far the horizon stretches now that I know what lays beyond - and I also don't, and how exhilarating that is, the not knowing. the wanting to know. the needing it, needing to stretch my fins and acclimate to this new pond or even swim to a bigger one, now that I know how limitless I have grown to be.
#TodaysPoem by Salem Paige from Touch the Donkey, issue 49. a wild feral issue of distinct voices.
I love that tunisian crochet seems to combine the best of knitting and crocheting, and is so versatile. Have fun with it! Be in touch with whatever you end up trying out ...
Yes! I love tunisian crochet!
Hi again! Not sure if this picture shows it clearly enough, but this is how I cast stitches on one afghan piece to continue with the next ...
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"write down everything you said to the bird
what you said about its feet, its belly, its soft red feathers
that is the beginning of the newest thing"
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
there is a deer grazing too close to highway 3
@SueGoyette.bsky.social 2026 www.instagram.com/p/DXZYDk5jic8/
"... these are poems that refuse to remain still. If you know someone who wishes to begin with poetry, or has begun and not gone far, this might be the perfect volume."
@robmclennan.bsky.social re: On Occasion, ed. Sina Queyras (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social) robmclennan.substack.com/p/poems-on-o...
😀
"The stage is flat, and everything worth watching
will happen where Zamboni spreads the world
to all four corners of its map."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Zamboni by Richard Harrison from 25: Hockey Poems (2019 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/25-...
What a sweetheart!
Wonderful!!! Our Mavis is named after Mavis Staples.
Oh, is this Mavis? :)
Thanks! 😀
Oh, "wonderful splashes of joy" ...thank you for that delightful moniker! I attach as I go. In fact, I cast the stitches onto the side of a previous piece, if that makes sense. (When I do that next, I'll take a picture to show you what I mean.) I would be so excited to see what you decide to create!
Mavis and her toy Chicken present a new, colourful wacky crocheted afghan
Close-up of details of a colourful crocheted afghan
Close-up of details of a colourful crocheted afghan
With Mavis' and Chicken's blessings, I'm excited to be donating this latest wacky afghan to be used as a raffle fundraiser for the lovely church that hosts our weekly knitting circle gatherings. #AfghanCrochet #Crochet
"A lecture about compartmentalization is more than a bit rich coming from someone who keeps her sex trapeze in a spare room drawer."
#SundaySentence from Definitely Thriving by Kerry Clare (@HouseofAnansi.bsky.social Press) miramichireader.ca/2026/04/defi...
"if i must fade
let it be like stars
dimming
for the sake
of morning" - Francesco Mastrangelo
#sundaysentence
"But regret is not a skill
that I can teach, but theirs to learn
like whistling, or grief."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
In the Wild by Jennifer Bowering Delisle (@jenbdelisle.bsky.social) (2025 League of @CanadianPoets.bsky.social) poets.ca/in-the-wild-...
Isn't it just? Lisa's words go straight to the heart ...
Poetry collection Nighthawks by Lisa Martin (University of Alberta Press) sits on a dining room table with an all-dressed bagel and cup of coffee
Handwritten transcription of the poem "Poem at the Closing of a Door" by Lisa Martin from the poetry collection Nighthawks, with plate with bagel seeds on it
Close-up of handwritten transcription of the poem "Poem at the Closing of a Door" by Lisa Martin from the poetry collection Nighthawks
"So, change arrives,
milliseconds at a time. Once
we notice, a door slams behind."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Poem at the Closing of a Door by Lisa Martin from Nighthawks (2026 @ualbertapress.bsky.social) ualbertapress.ca/978177212855...
"And yet all this comes down when the job’s done
Showing off walls of sure and solid stone."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 (1998 @fsgbooks.bsky.social) poets.org/poem/scaffol...
"Because as long as there are words on a page, there is still hope for an unfinished exit to find its proper
ending."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Unfinished Exit by Claudia Wysocky (2025 @midlvlmag.bsky.social) midlvlmag.com/claudia-wyso...
Poem text: There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white, Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
“There Will Come Soft Rains (War Time)” by Sara Teasdale (1884 –
1933)
poets.org/poem/there-w... #TodaysPoem #NationalPoetryMonth #Spring #poem #poetry
Poetry collection The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove (Bookhug Press), with cover with intriguing imagery, sits on a mottled countertop
Poetry collection The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove, open to the poem "T- helps me stack the firewood", with colourful Bookhug Press bookmark on the opposite page
"Nearby poplar rattle, either
in rapport or warning. Pluck the smallest
for kindling; the largest, caution the pitch."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
T- helps me stack the firewood by @JenniferLoveGrove.bsky.social from The Tinder Sonnets (2026 @BookhugPress.bsky.social) bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...
"We were reading our books upside down
and looked out of our dirty jackets’ eye holes."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
[untitled] by Olivia Cronk (2026 Sunday Prompt via @neonpajamas.bsky.social)
My handwritten version of Gary Barwin's poem AFTER, sitting on the laptop keyboard, with the Facebook version on the screen
"I
put
on my shoes
and stand just
above
the earth"
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
AFTER by @GaryBarwin.bsky.social (2026) www.facebook.com/moribund.fac...
