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Adorno famously wrote that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” This piece asks: What happens when we stop writing the poems? What language is left when the world burns again?
#poemsabout #NeverForget @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

The world needs more poems like this. So powerful and honest

Never Forget There's a disquiet, quieting muffled voices That cry 'genocide' inside a vacuum And you have to scroll, twice for yesterday's death toll, While elsewhere they make plans and shake hands Over other lives - a consequence History doesn't repeat, it rhymes* *after Mark twain

Because we mustn't forget. This week's #PoemsAbout is #NeverForget. Thanks for the prompt @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social

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A very literal interpretation this week. #Green #PoemsAbout It’s been so beautiful out there at 6am. Thanks @brokenspinearts.bsky.social and @alanparry83.bsky.social Happy Friday!

This is wonderful, you deserve a day off!

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Jewel of Ukraine: Heliodor A gift from Helio, you radiate sun god rays from the solar plexus of a country invaded by parasites. Your light olive-green nature crystallizes clarity of purpose for a people fighting to keep precious freedom alive. Sunshine stone talisman of determination folk remedy for infections antidote to darkness, you are a gem found only in coarse-grained rock and celestial benevolence. Karen Pierce Gonzalez

A #USA & #Ukraine minerals 'deal' was just announced. Luckily this #EasternEuropeanJewel isn't on the 'critical' minerals & natural resources list. May this remain so. #PoemsAbout #Green #Folklore #KeepCreative #PoetsofBlueSky #Comment/Repost 🙏 @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Beyond new leaf and dewy blade, The morning sun straining to lift, The humid air where pollen drifts, Among branches dampened with shade. A lake; your footprint’s sunken ground Stamped out, and willow twines Hang lithely from your gaping Mouth, distant drums begin to sound. Followed arm-in-arm, the Woodwose Towards a brighter light ascends, Birds mimic him, till twilight ends A proud pageant, garlanded home. And little eyes, so awed by Jack, The Green Man, softly smiling back.

Sown by pale and fragile hands, a tapestry of future colour, carefully buried; patted and watered. Wait for the patient Beltane sun. Birthed into brave viridescence, glow beneath a chill wind; emerald girl to change the tide and carry home a new moon. Aurora breathes her green sigh, she whispers, ‘soon’. Forget time. The dandelion, almost bare, leaves its future to the air. Entrusting in the artist’s use, of yellow against the chartreuse.

This week's #Poemsabout prompted me to look back on one I wrote this time last year when I was (very) pregnant with my second daughter. Both my girls are May babies - this one is for them 🍃 #Green @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social

Nirvana silence echoes silence echoes silence stop with your back to the world acquiescence surrounding you as sharp light through closed eyes unblemished by the sight of nowhere the glow slips warm and soft to your bowels deep deep and silent except the sounds outside of it muffled by breath waves breaking on your chest steeped in pranayama darker and darker comes the light brighter and brighter the acceptance

#vss365 #Nirvana #poetry

Wow, there is some really powerful imagery in this piece!

There is wonderful progression in this poem, 'so everyone sees me barefoot' showd the relatable vulnerability of the narrator

The dark humour here is so compelling. 'Mr Fluffytums' really got me 😂

Here's my first #PoemsAbout contribution on BlueSky, thanks for the prompt @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

#WolvesAtTheDoor

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