What if, says a small child to me this afternoon,
We made a poem without using any words at all?

[.....]

https://www.christiancentury.org/artsculture/poems/best-poem-ever

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In a society
Obsessed
With the dirt
Of the world,
Looking up
At the stars
Is a revolutionary
Act.

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Your wooden
Words are
Symmetrical,
Branches from
A sturdy trunk,
Towering,
Dense canopy.
Mine are
A forest
Fire.

#poetry

Into the cathedral
Of night
To be baptized
By ancient
Starlight
And made
Whole.

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I find myself
Alone with
The shimmering
Stars,
And silence
Sounds like
Music
At last.

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Dressed in
This flesh,
Our bones
Know the
Meaning
Of patience.

#poetry

Never apologize
For setting fire.
It is a consequence
Of bleeding stars.

#poetry

There is
A swarm
Of bees
In my chest
That I call
Anger,
And if I open
My mouth
They’ll come
Out in droves
And blacken
The sky.

#poetry

Our lives
Like plum
Blossoms
Blooming and
Fluttering
Into oblivion.
I should have
Said no more
Often.

#poetry

We all find
A way to
Turn ache
Into art.
Just look
At what
Stars can do
When they’re
Given a heart.

#poetry

We leave
Some of our
Light inside
Everyone we touch.
Luminous beings
In the breach
Between dreams.

#poetry

You are
Not without
Hope:
You are
Strong
Enough to
Carry your
Heart.

#poetry

I’d break
The bones
Of tyrant time
Just to hear
A fraction
Of your laughter
Again.

#poetry

Ygdrasil is the first online literary journal, first published in 1993.

You might find the editor on Facebook and at Academia.edu.

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I never felt
So lonely
As when
I learned
Your name

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I never confuse
A flurry of actions with
Productivity

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'Huit! Huit! Huit!'
the blackbird's knowledge of French
stays limited

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"No Way To Remember A Man" #writing #poetry #memory

Alt...

My great-grandfather survived a train wreck. Then lived another 30 years. To die in a hospital bed. Covered in tubes. My family gathered in his room. The young and the old. And we waited. We all have our memories. All want our closure. But that was no way to remember a man.

my lifetime spent on
a painful pilgrimage to
the next place to sit

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From the light of freedom to a concrete tomb,
The fall was great and swift.
My soul cried out in a mighty boom,
How could it come to this?

Clamped down, trapped stuck,
Paralyzed in a tiny cage.
Had fate left me not a drop of luck?
Was there reason for this rage?

Told to lay down and die,
Something deep inside me stirred.
I can’t be caged I have to fly!
Not yet am I interred.

They can take my body, tie me down,
It matters not a bit.
My spirit still runs wild and free,
So in freedom here I sit.

~ Ross Ulbricht
Apr 30, 2024

It seems his artistic vision finally became reality.

sources

https://freeross.org/uncageable/

https://rossulbricht.substack.com/p/uncageable-poem-and-drawing

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Alt...

Hand drawn image of a man interred in prison. He is kneeling in his cell between the bunk and desk cabinet, envisioning a scene above his head of a couple holding hands and giving thanks over food and a crowd seated together and a couple in the distance holding hands.

The sun:
how boldly does it burn
when dreaming?

Prompt word: burn

From: https://www.threads.net/@natasha.yentrouc.author/post/DFsH1T3uBsO

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Daily Haiku Prompt for February 5, 2025: thin ice (North)

Thin ice
looking for its shadow
a bird

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the years it took
to become friends
with myself

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