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‘walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch’
-Billy Collins
Feeling my way into meaning makes sense to me
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‘Let compassion grow rampant, like sunflowers along the highway.’
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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A Monday in the Year We Have It’s a normal morning in the world. First, the pink light on treetops. Next, the news of a new doom. Well, no, not a doom, just part of a doom. We could make jokes and say “This doom has legs but no head.” If we found it at all amusing.
#Poem #Poetryhelps -- A Monday in the Year We Have
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In @antiheroinchic.bsky.social February issue just out:
heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-...
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#Poetryhelps So happy to share that my publisher, @subpresspoetry.bsky.social has a new website!
www.subpresscollective.com
Along with (ahem) Becoming Altar, I can recommend Spider Drop and Walking Among Them.
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Another Death Poem It's everywhere I look: leaf fall, roadkill, sleeping with swords. To sleep with swords means a dive beneath danger, lying still, camouflaged like a bug. Statued like a rabbit, let the threat move first. Time will tell what it tells; you can't count on that either. Hard ground's a fabric woven all through with lies that truth outlasts. It's trust that or go with the lies wholly? Navigate rust and decay. But who's who? Cling to the whole fabric, pick and discard. Impossible. Necessary. Not a trap. Choose just a few lies for seasoning. Bee stings. Birdsong. Foothold.
#Poetryhelps. This one seems appropriate for the moment.
Another Death Poem, originally published by @thebrokenspine.co.uk in *Surviving Death*, now collected in *Becoming Altar*.
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Military Grade Heart It’s useful to have. Like this: Withstand. Hold fast. Sway. Stay. And so I think. Therefore I tree, I upside-down, I rain, I call forth numbers, words. Highly going along. Sky. Ground.
#Poetryhelps -- Military Grade Heart
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Book cover is blue with yellow type. Becoming Altar, New and Selected Poems by Kyla Houbolt.
Daily Riffs in the limited realm of the candle there are few choices, and who makes them? burn, melt, drip, or don't. I woke just as it started to rain so listened to that for a little while. exactitude sits on the day like a thick heavy hat, one that's a size too large and keeps falling down to cover the eyes. oh season! how long are you going to be? the game board is getting dusty but does anyone care? no. let's go outside. it's raining or isn't. animals are waking up. a bird has something to say.
#Poetryhelps. If you are wanting some soul nourishment to support your travels during this rough and perilous time, may I offer my poetry. It helps! A signed copy of *Becoming Altar* for just the cover price, I pay shipping. Send DM if interested. And, stay groovy. 📚 🎶 💞
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Cover pic of Becoming Altar, New and Selected Poems, by Kyla Houbolt. Cover is blue with yellow type and white type on the spine.
Not shy here. Book of poems for sale, either signed from me direct for cover price (I pay postage -- send me a DM) or from the distributor, asterismbooks.com, which will bump up the numbers nicely.
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A total privilege to spend the afternoon learning about Ekphrastic poetry with the genius Nick Makoha - he shared a number of poems from his new collection which is fantastic.
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The programme this year is better than ever - check it out !
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This is so beautiful and heartbreaking - poetry can say so much with so few words. Another fab poem from brilliant The Aftershock Review
#PoetryHelps #socialwork
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‘The story doesn’t end here. It ends
when you stop listening.
You are not alone.
Keep listening.’
- Max Wallis
From the brilliant Aftershock Review
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‘Each of us bears the imprint
Of a friend met along the way;
In each the trace of each.’
-Primo Levi
Thanks for reminding me of this @robertbohan.bsky.social
Much needed #PoetryHelps
allpoetry.com/poem/1437312...
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A brilliant meditation on what it feels like to be othered from this wonderful collection #PoetryHelps
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Been very sick with Covid the last few days. My doomscrolling has got a bit out of hand. So I turned to the wonderful Sharon Olds this morning and she did not disappoint. #PoetryHelps
To more of ‘what goes with, and makes complete, from above, and does not dominate, but smoothes, strengthens’
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‘I am trying to figure out a song to get them back, to get us all back’
- Joy Harjo
#PoetryHelps #singusbackintolove
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‘as with the moon, so with our mothers
it is what we make with the fallout that matters’
Matter by Daisy Lafarage
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‘I guess that the lightness in the throat
and the tiny cascading sensation
somewhere inside us both are part of that sense of being something else.’
- Simon Armitage
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‘When the heart
Is cut or cracked or broken
Do not clutch it
Let the wound lie open’
-Michael Leunig
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‘O dirt,
help us find ways to serve your life,
you who have brought us forth, and fed us,
and who at the end will take us in
and rotate with us, and wobble, and orbit.’
- Sharon Olds
#NatureIsNurture #PoetryHelps
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Ah yes the genius of Shel Silverstein- he got me hooked on poetry - thanks to my Grandma Bev who bought me Where The Sidewalk Ends. Been reading poetry ever since #PoetryHelps
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‘Poetry (here I hear myself the loudest)
Is the human voice,
and are we not of interest to each other?’ - Elizabeth Alexander
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