I sprout tendrils, vines
reaching out and downwards, roots
grasping for water
diving for soil, only
to find soil turned to sand.

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elemental dreams

elemental dreams

how could i be
lucky
enough to fall
together from particles
here
with you

from all that is
above, so cold
in probabilities
that you might be
here too

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The beach is like this
With a bucket and a spade
Not pebbly - SANDY

👁️ A closeup of a family tomb’s neo-Gothic stone archway 📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf 📅 1 Apr 2026 📸 Nikon D5600 ⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G 🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ5, -0.7 ev, 1/50s

Vigil
A #poetry thread

i.

A portal with a warning line,
this cave’s mouth made of blackened stone.
A journey split from mortal time —
into the black. Cries, echoes, groans.

🧵👇🏼

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Flowers By Wendy Cope Some men never think of it. You did. You’d come along And say you’d nearly brought me flowers But something had gone wrong. The shop was closed. Or you had doubts — …

It made me smile and hug you then.
Now I can only smile.
But, look, the flowers you nearly bought
Have lasted all this while.

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Barbecue season is here
We don’t want to hear you all whinge
The difference in cooking outside
Your kitchen won’t stink of the SINGE

👁️ A closeup of a family tomb’s statuary portraying a cloaked man with a snake 📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf 📅 1 Apr 2026 📸 Nikon D5600 ⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G 🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ2,2, -0.7 ev, 1/80s

Limbus
A #poetry thread

i.

Tree trunk, stripped bare.
Crossbar, damp air.
Black clouds, crows caw,
perched on nails — gone.

🧵👇🏼

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Ice Storm poem - Robert Hayden Unable to sleep, or pray, I stand by the window looking out at moonstruck trees a December storm has bowed with ice. Maple and mountain ash bend under its glass...

The trees themselves, as in winters past,
will survive their burdening,
broken thrive. And am I less to You,
my God, than they?

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NaPoWriMo Day 3 – What the Fire Really Is

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When you drive - take care!
Look when taking over
do not drive if drunk
It’s hard enough when SOBER

👁️ A closeup of a headstone’s carved roses 📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf 📅 1 Apr 2026 📸 Nikon D5600 ⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G 🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ2,2, -0.7 ev, 1/80s

Mandé
A #poetry thread

i.

An evening meal with an old friend
who told us he’d cross a stony bridge,
its span a trial, then he’d descend
to wade into black waters’ edge.

🧵👇🏼

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For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of ...

But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.

#NationalPoetryMonth #PoemADay #TheCruelestMonth

#WordlePoem #PoemADay #Wordle1747

There was a young woman called Izzy
Got herself in a bit of a tizzy
She felt a bit drunk
Fell asleep in her bunk
All because she had drunk too much FIZZY 🥂

I wrote about what 30 daily poems taught me. Links below!

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AP Lit wraps up in a few days.

After our #poemaday from Ariel Francisco, I invited them to sketch two minute tattoo designs that would (hypothetically) get to remember the class.

Well, well, so many inside jokes and jabs at me😆😂

👁️ A closeup of a tombstone that has fallen over 📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf 📅 1 Apr 2026 📸 Nikon D5600 ⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G 🎞️ ISO 160, ƒ4, -0.7 ev, 1/80s

Dust

Headstone,
fallen,
facing sky,
waiting,
forgot,
someday I —

#poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #nature #cemetery #photography

Thank You If you find yourself half naked and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing, again, the earth's great, sonorous moan that says you are the air of the now…

your small voice against it. And do not
take cover. Instead, curl your toes
into the grass, watch the cloud
ascending from your lips. Walk
through the garden’s dormant splendor.
Say only, thank you.
Thank you.

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#WordlePoem #PoemADay #Wordle1746

It’s a nightmare - where am I?
This is such a dump
Feet are wet, it all stinks
I’m stuck in a SWAMP 🤢

👁️ A young woman sits on the steps of a neoclassical folly and telephones 📍 Belvedere on the Klausberg, Park Sanssouci, Potsdam 📅 22 Mar 2026 📸 Nikon D5600 ⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G 🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ5, -0.7 ev, 1/1250s

Mirror
A #poetry thread

i.

Lawn creased by shadows sun has set
in springtime. Flower bulbs abound.
Young woman sits on warm stone step
and pays no heed to songbirds’ sounds.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #monochrome #photography

hello moon

Too long again to post here, so here's the link:

#poetry #poemaday

hello moon

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Butterflies Parade A lyrical poem longing for summer, butterflies, sunshine and nature’s beauty, celebrating freedom and a peaceful connection to the earth.

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Icy Solar System body
Like a cool-tailed rocket
elliptical paths in the sky
It’s a little COMET ☄️

👁️ A cluster of bright red early spring flowers with a neoclassical folly in the background 📍 Paradise Garden, Klausberg, Park Sanssouci, Potsdam 📅 22 Mar 2026 📸 Nikon D5600 ⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G 🎞️ ISO 500, ƒ22, -0.7 ev, 1/200s

Fire on the mountain

Green hill, stone temple,
meadow thick with fire-flowers —
burning bush of spring

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #photography

Nightmare cut open
from sacrum to sternum, sawing
ever so gently,
bone snow afterbirth resting
on pillows, where dreams should be.

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A gift of a poem this is
About someone I’d like to thump
Or maybe Americans say
‘It’s time that he went to the dump’
He’s causing a nasty world war
It’s just because he has the hump
It’s money that drives him along
it’s horrible President TrumpCHUMP

👁️ A cluster of purple crocus with bright orange stamens rising out of brown and green grass in early spring 📍 Paradise Garden, Klausberg, Park Sanssouci, Potsdam 📅 22 Mar 2026 📸 Nikon D5600 ⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G 🎞️ ISO 500, ƒ8, -0.7 ev, 1/400s

Hocus crocus

Golden scepter lifts
from her cloak of purple silk —
dewdrop diadem

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If you’re into metric measurements
That in your sums you put
Something may confuse you
As you wonder what’s AFOOT

We're free-form sketches
of belonging, of protest
resistance, and hope.
No one asked us to rise up,
we did it because we had to.

#banterbabes #tanka #tankaboutit #haiku #senryu #micropoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry #poemaday #resist #protest #nokings

👁️ A closeup of a cluster of blue Lucile's glory-of-the-snow (scilla) flowers 📍 Paradise Garden, Klausberg, Park Sanssouci, Potsdam 📅 22 Mar 2026 📸 Nikon D5600 ⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G 🎞️ ISO 500, ƒ8, -0.7 ev, 1/800s

Glory

Silk snowmelt sun
pokes up in pale sky.
Blue scilla buds spun
from frost's last dye.

#poem #poemaday #poetry #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #macrophotography #imagism #photography

#WordlePoem #PoemADay #Wordle1742.

Nellie the elephant
Stuck in a Circus
Packed her bags
Not the end of her story.
Went back to the Jungle
Shot by a hunter
Just for her tusks
And desirable IVORY 🐘