Sapling The bending of trunkAnd branches in the spring windsStrengthens the saplingTo walk through a stormYou must lean into the windAnd learn its lessonsDo not fear the galesTheir circling forms the rings…

Sapling: 3 haikus about experiencing life’s storms
#Poetry #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoets #Haiku

This Is Prayer Photo by Polina Tankilevitch on Pexels.com Kneeling On the floor of the bedroomListening to Nick Cave sing Of an end to sorrow and I amFolding my daughters’ clothesRemembering a time when This T-sh…

Sometimes, prayer is listening to Nick Cave and folding laundry
#NewPoem #Poetrysky

The Plum Tree Photo by Liudmyla Honcharova on Pexels.com There is a plum tree at the end of the roadThat, whilst other trees are slow to bud,Stands in full flourish of blossomBright white emblems of future fruit…

It's been a while since I've published a #poem. Here is The Plum Tree. A poem of hope inspired by a tree I pass every day whilst walking the dog, and written primarily for myself. May it bless you too #poetry #poetrysky

Live by the bomb, die by the bomb.
We just keep doing it over and over again, believing the lie that violence will bring peace.

Deliver us, Lord, from our addiction to war.

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Jonathan Heward Poetry Processing the world around me and within me through poetry

This whole thread brings me so much joy and restores a little of my faith in humanity!

My art is poetry. Not for sale, just to help me process the world inside and outside my head

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British.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Grateful for these responses collated by Sunder.

30 September 1928 | Elie Wiesel was born in Romania. A Jewish writer, Auschwitz & Buchenwald survivor, Peace Nobel Prize laureate.

"Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

Rejuvenation Let me sit beneath the tree with the daffodilsMy back resting on its ancient twisting trunkMy breathing slowed to the rhythm of the seasonsLet the crows fly and nest as their grandmothers didSingin…

A new poem by me!
#poetry

A Mother’s Day illustration. In the middle is the headline in writing text saying ‘Sending Love to those who…’. Around the perimeter are five different hands, holding different coloured flowers. From top left (clockwise)_ long to be mothers (hand holding yellow flower) have difficult mother/child relationships (hand holding red flower) have lost children (hand holding pink flower) don’t know their mothers (hand holding white flower) have lost mothers (hand holding blue flower) Bottom right is the insta handle: @ellaharding.illustrates

Mother’s Day can be painful for so many reasons. We send our love and support to all of you struggling today 💙

Thanks so much to @ellaharding.illustrates (insta) for her lovely illustration.

Seven black headed gulls sat on top of a lamppost in front of a grey overcast sky

These guys caught my eye on my walk to work yesterday. Had to stop and grab a photo #birds

Can we play all our games on Monday nights?
Not sure about this new handicap system of giving the opponents a goal head start, but it seems to be working! #lufc

One Wild And Precious Life We take a walk along the streetPaying no attentionTo the ground beneath our feetUntil we glimpse amidst the greyA vibrant blaze of yellowIts light enlivening our way And with astonished awe we seeA…

New poem of mine about flourishing in hard circumstances #poetry

A Christmas Brachiosaurus (to be sung to ‘I Saw Three Ships’) Jurassic Santas’s sleigh’s pulled byA dinosaur, a dinosaur Not Stegosaurus nor T RexA Christmas BrachiosaurusT Rex can’t decorate the treeHis arm’s t…

Here’s a silly poem I wrote last year called ‘A Christmas Brachiosaurus (to be sung to ‘I Saw Three Ships’). Merry Christmas! #Poetry #Christmas

Florence (3) drew a picture of a cat for Esther (1) because Esther likes cats

(Yes, it’s an empty tissue box. We needed a quick distraction and Lottie convinced Florence it looked like a picture frame!)

O Holy Night worst rendition ever FUNNIEST SONG ON EARTH YouTube video by noveltysongs

Closely followed by this one…

Sufjan Stevens - O Holy Night [OFFICIAL AUDIO[ YouTube video by Sufjan Stevens

This is my favourite version of O Holy Night

Burgundy, Pink, and White Carnations in a glass vase on a table

Yesterday, Florence (3) surprised me at work with donuts (not pictured, eaten) and these flowers, because “you do everything to me”. My heart melted! We must be doing something right
#parenting

Jonathan Heward Poetry Processing the world around me and within me through poetry

One of my hobbies (when I have the time and inclination) is to write #Poetry

You can find my attempts on my @wordpress.com blog

Hello world! I’m jumping on the @bsky.app bandwagon. Seems nice so far…