erasure poem with collage from "Classic Crimes"

"April is one of the / broken folk"

a poem from Classic Crimes for #smallpoemsunday
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‪"Often, catching sight of something or other—a drop of water, a shell, a hair—you stopped, stood quite still, your gaze transfixed, your heart opened" — Gustave Flaubert, qtd. in "Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment"

#SundaySentence

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life, by Helen Whybrow:

“I am reminded, as I often am, how nature is invisible to us until we start to notice, and how this noticing is both a source of wonder and undoing, of transcendence and grief.”

#SundaySentence

In many ways the 21st century is not that different from the thirteenth century. Both will be recorded in history as times of unprecedented religious clashes, cultural misunderstandings and a general sense of insecurity and fear of the Other.
- Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
#sundaysentence

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Henry David Thoreau The life and work of Henry David Thoreau still inspire and resonate with people today.

I’ve set my PVR to record a documentary about Thoreau on @pbs tonight! share.google/N4PfxhhitwCS... #ILovePBS

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.“

Henry David Thoreau.

We are torn between the desire of knowing and the despair of having known.

-- Rene Char, Notes from the French Resistance, 1943–44
#SundaySentence

“I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies.”

#SundaySentence from “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” by Noor Hindi (@noorhindi.bsky.social)

Via Read a Little Poem on Facebook. @readalittlepoem.bsky.social

#SmallPoemSunday
#Poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #poem

Alice and Vivian
Sharon Cave
2021

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)

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Cedar?

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Grey sky, snowy deciduous trees, snow covered ground.

The #FirstDayOfSpring in my backyard. Sun is shining, birds are singing, bees are buzzing, butterflies are flitting! If l close my eyes. #NLwx #Spring

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Happier than ever? Billie Eilish is set to star in a new adaptation of The Bell Jar. In a weirdly serendipitous bit of cinema news, Billie Eilish—queen of melancholy pop—is turning her sad eyes to Sylvia Plath. The Oscar-winning auteur Sarah Polley has tapped Eilish to lead a new a…

Billie Eilish to star in The Bell Jar

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Same here. Currently: 12, rain and high winds. Weekend: 15 cm of snow forecast. Body does not like the swings.

PSA: If you can, support your local Library!

Thanks 💙📚 #BookSky

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March is #ReadingIrelandMonth
I plan to read 5 novels & listen to 2 audiobooks that are set in Ireland. Are YOU participating this year? #IrishFiction #IrishLiterature #booklovers #bookbloggers #BookSky #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishAuthors

March is Reading Ireland! #readingirelandmonth26 #begorrathon26 Reading Ireland Month (or The #Begorrathon as it is affectionately known) will return for the 12th year during March 2026, although this will only be the 6th year I have participated. It is hosted by Cathy @ 746 Books. Cathy is a supporter of everything Irish and a promoter of Irish culture. Check out her page for suggestions of what to read and listen to some wonderful Irish music from her spotify list.

March is Reading Ireland! #readingirelandmonth26 #begorrathon26

Reading Ireland Month (or The #Begorrathon as it is affectionately known) will return for the 12th year during March 2026, although this will only be the 6th year I have participated. It is hosted by Cathy @ 746 Books. Cathy is a…

f the poem. The text reads: The Clothes Shrine It was a whole new sweetness In the early days to find Light white muslin blouses On a see-through nylon line Drip-drying in the bathroom Or a nylon slip in the shine Of its own electricity - As if St Brigid once more Had rigged up a ray of sun Like the one she’d strung on air To dry her own cloak on (Hard-pressed Brigid, so Unstoppably on the go) - The damp and slump and unfair Drag of the workaday Made light of and got through As usual, brilliantly. From Electric Light (2001)

“The Clothes Shrine” by Seamus Heaney.

Source: Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again on Facebook.

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Eating chocolate cake in the bath during a snowstorm while listening to Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito narrated by Anna Burnett 🎧 with the @libbyapp.com. As one does. #AmReading #AmListening #VictorianPsycho

Purr-fect casting: is Orangey the most important movie cat ever? A new retrospective celebrates the work of the cat credited with roles in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Comedy of Terrors and Rhubarb

#Caturday #Orangey 🏆🐈

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We have power and power is its own excuse!

It Can't Happen Here
~Sinclair Lewis

#SundaySentence

Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents' dementia | Jo Glanville It was hard to communicate with my mother or father, until reading a book out loud led to a discovery, says journalist and radio producer Jo Glanville

Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents' dementia | Jo Glanville

The book is beautifully written. And heartbreaking.

Hadn’t heard of that game before, just gave it a go.

Connections
Puzzle #956
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#TodaysPoem
“The Problem with Early Warnings” by Charles Rafferty @southernreview.bsky.social

Right up there with “what is that smell?… who stuffed a dirty diaper down back of that shelf?” type of days.