#visual #haiku by Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon) poet, visual poet, anarchist, occultist from #Hungary. Earlier books: „(szellem)válaszok”, „A Nap és Holderők egyensúlya”, „Kiterített rókabőr” His new books are: “Delirium &...The Seven Haiku” (Published By DEAD MAN’S PRESS INK ALBANY, NY 2023), „Sacred anarchy! Poems and Visual poems” (Nut Hole Publishing 2024). He explores the relationship between magic...

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They’ve got
Telescopes
That map
The dark matter
In the cosmos,
But your
Heart is
Still a
Mystery.

#poetry

When surrounded
By murderers,
It is revolutionary
To live.

#poetry

Should the
Darkness
Surround you,
Remember:
You are knit
Together by
The light of
A billion
Dawns.

#poetry

Amanda Gorman is the best of us.
#Poetry #AlexPretti

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For Alex Jeffrey Pretti Murdered by 1.C.. Jannary 24, 2026 by Amanda Gorman We wake with no words, just woe & wound. Our own country shooting us in the back is not just brutality, it's jarring betrayal, not enforcement, bat execution. A message: Low your people you will die. Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within. Fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark bortor for today & a profound, dating hope for tomorrow. We can feel we have nothing to give, & still belove this world wait ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may we find the will, if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open ourselves like doors, hay our neighbor, & save one more bright, impossible life.

Flowers will
Grow from
The dirt they’ve
Made you
Swallow,
And that will
Be your
Testimony.

#poetry

They will
Weep lead
At our empathy,
Common decency,
In their antipathy
They will kill
Bodies,
But never
Souls.

#poetry

Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of Scots: how the poet shaped the enduring cultural legacy of the executed monarch

The queen was the source of much debate among 18th-century thinkers.

by Kate Kane

https://theconversation.com/robert-burns-and-mary-queen-of-scots-how-the-poet-shaped-the-enduring-cultural-legacy-of-the-executed-monarch-273950?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321&utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321+CID_43c6452557555cbd4df21443bb065cc9&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk

Robert Burns at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/583

#books #literature #poetry

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Portrait of Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. This half-length portrait of Burns, framed within an oval, has become the most well-known and widely reproduced image of the famous Scottish poet. Nasmyth's painting, commissioned by the publisher William Creech, was to be engraved for a new edition of Burn's poems. He is shown fashionably dressed against a landscape, evoking his rural background in Alloway, Ayrshire. Burns and Nasmyth had become good friends, having been introduced to one another in Edinburgh by a mutual patron, Patrick Miller of Dalswinton. Nasmyth, pleased to have recorded Burns' likeness convincingly, decided to leave the painting in a slightly unfinished state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns#/media/File:PG_1063Burns_Naysmith.jpg

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François Clouet - Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87) Mary wears a pink gown decorated with vertical gold striping and small jeweled embellishments. The bodice is tightly fitted and fastened down the center with a line of pearls or gemstone buttons. A crisp white ruff collar frames her neck. Her sleeves are full and carefully tailored. Her hair is light brown and drawn back smoothly, partially covered by a jeweled headband adorned with pearls. She wears modest jewelry, including a pearl necklace, small earrings, and a ring. Her hands are delicately posed at her waist, fingers gently touching. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots#/media/File:Fran%C3%A7ois_Clouet_-_Mary,_Queen_of_Scots_(1542-87)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Today is Burns' birthday, let's celebrate!

'There's no other poem like it': Why this Robert Burns classic is a masterpiece

Tam O'Shanter is a rip-roaring tale of witches and alcohol, but it has hidden depths. On Burns Night this Sunday – and 235 years after the poem was published in 1791 – Scots everywhere may well be treated to a masterwork with a unique, universal appeal.

By Nicholas Barber

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260122-why-this-robert-burns-poem-is-a-masterpiece

Tam O'Shanter at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25733

#books #literature #poetry

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Fronstispiece of the book Tam O' Shanter. by Robert Burns. Decorations by Harry L. Miller. Published by The Saalfield Publishing Company. The artwork is done in a highly decorative, ornate, and gothic style, with intricate linework. The entire page is framed by a border made of twisting thorny branches, leaves, and vines. The illustration has a dark fairy-tale and folkloric atmosphere. The border contains small human and supernatural figures, animals, and symbolic elements: A small seated figure near the top left; Hanging figures or effigies suspended from branches; Witch-like and goblin-like creatures placed around the frame; Small animals such as cats or owls, enhancing the eerie tone; The thorny branches curve around to form an elaborate rectangular frame. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25733/pg25733-images.html

#Winter has fully engaged at FreshOut’s headquarters, in the American South. To celebrate, here’s a playful #verse by Jenni Wyn Hyatt. @siffrwd (Of note: it’s the first iambic pentameter submitted to FreshOut in quite a few years! More please?) Jenni was born in Wales, but now lives in #Derbyshire. #poetry #poetrylovers

Classic LPs for vinyl returnees No.42

Poet & The Roots. Dread Beat & Blood

To some extent British reggae has always been political in one way or another, but its epitome is this album showcasing (for the first time) Linton Kwesi Johnson's poetry against a dub-inflected backing. Its not comfortable listening but as a document of how politics can make music compelling there are few better examples. Its a reminder that music has meaning! Vital stuff!

#VinylCoreCollection #music #reggae #poetry

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Cover: Poet & the Roots, Dread Beat & Blood, cover has cartoon of protestors confronting in the distance a line of police, framed with a black border carrying the LPs name & artist

We cannot
Stop the bleeding,
But we can give
The wounds
Meaning.

#poetry

The flexing fingers
Squeeze the dignity
From your pores
And leave you
Breathless
Without the weight
Of your personal
Gravity.

#Poetry

I thought I might give this a try again. The occasional improvised poem. It's been a long time, but someone here has me inspired.

I wield the
Spell of
Softness
Against a
World that
Would break
My bones.

#poetry

There are
Enough stars
In your veins
To ward off
The coming dark.
Just being alive
Is resistance.

#poetry

“No.” is an
Incantation
To protect
Your peace.

#poetry

When the
Flames finally
Reached us,
You only
Vitrified
As I burned.

#poetry

Photons
Are untouched
By time,
And experience
The beginning
And the end
Simultaneously.
It felt that way
With us.

#poetry

The nuclei
Of atoms might
Deform in
The direction
Of time,
Making it
Immutable,
Woven into
The very fabric
Of being.
I wish my
Heart knew
That.

#poetry

It seems
In suffering
We learn
More about
Joy than
Joy itself
Could ever
Teach us.

#poetry

I’ve held
Stone
Warmer
Than your
Words,
Softer than
Your intention.

#poetry

When falters
The starlight
Your eyes
Will do.

#poetry

Call and response,
Your heart
In perfect darkness.
The altar where
One hundred thousand
Prayers are asked
And answered.

#poetry

#senryu by Jennifer Gurney. Jennifer lives in #Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her #poetry is widely published, two of her #poems have won international contests and one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has published nine books of poetry. #trees

My atoms
Knew yours
Before
Coalescence,
Before the
Stars we
Were born
From had
Mass.
Forever is
Everything
And nothing
At all.

#poetry

Take the
Catastrophe
Of my bones
And remind me
Of the fire
Inside of them.

#poetry

Grief is
Transmuted
Love,
The mourner
An alchemist.

#poetry

Lost Trails

My second book of haiku / senryu, completing the collection of verses written up to the end of 2024, is available on Amazon (paperback and e-reader) and Rakuten Kobo (e-reader)

UK links here:

https://tinyurl.com/Lost-Trails-AmazonUK

https://tinyurl.com/Lost-Trails-Kobo

#indie #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #haiku #senryu

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Front cover of Lost Trails, Simon J Ashcroft, showing an image of a pathway into woodland, with sunlit foliage in the distance seen through tree trunks

Collaborative #shahai with #haiku by longtime contributor, Rupa Anand, in New Delhi, India (IG: @rupa.anand.775 ) and #photo by Mehul Vyas, in the USA. Rupa Anand is a spiritual seeker turned poet. She lives in New Delhi, finding peace in writing for & about cancer, & of course the wildlife she encounters in her environment. #poetry #universe

I am a codex
Of forgotten
Joy and
Remembered
Sorrow.

#poetry

You feed
On the
Black lungs
Of despair,
As if it’ll
Help you
Breathe.
The air is
Clean,
But you
Are not.

#poetry

Hold me
Like the
Fabric of
Space cradles
Heavenly
Bodies,
Give me
Gravitational
Pull.

#poetry

May my
Scars read
Like a lost
Language
Only you
Can decipher.

#poetry

Somber #senryu by returning contributor. Tony Williams @famwill2019 Tony Williams has been reading, writing and publishing haiku and senryu since 2020. Every day is a haiku day! #stroke #haiku #seasons #poetry

Let her sleep,
For she has razed
Mountains,
For she has raised
The sea,
And in her dreams
She moves the
Stars.

#poetry

I broke cleanly,
At a fracture.
Now, I’m one
Sharp edge
Against the
Skin of the
Earth.

#poetry

These sorrowed
Bones remain
unbroken,
And when
I cannot stand,
I will crawl
Ever toward
The light.

#poetry
#poem
#smallpoems
#micropoetry
#poetrycommunity
#poetrylovers

And in the
Next life,
I’ll know you
By the light
In your bones,
You’ll know me
By the curse
In mine.

#poetry

Paperback covers of my 3 volumes of poetry, also for e-readers:
1. Remnants (haiku / senryu)
2. A Deeper Sky (longer poems)
3. Lost Trails (haiku / senryu)

All available via Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/fc3njxup) & Rakuten Kobo:
https://tinyurl.com/3vu3yr86
https://tinyurl.com/DeeperSkyKobo
https://tinyurl.com/Lost-Trails-Kobo

#Indie #author #haiku #senryu #poetry

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Image of covers of 3 paperback books, "Remnants", "A Deeper Sky" & Lost Trails". Two volumes of haiku / senryu and one of longer poems.

Let love be
The core of
The Sun,
Let it destroy
Me to create
Light and
Heat.

#poetry

Starlight travels
Billions of miles
To terminate
Behind your eyes,
And you still find
Yourself unworthy?

#poetry

For someone
Who has
Rejected god,
You sure know
How to put
Yourself on
The cross.

#poetry

#senryu by returning contributor, Teji Sethi. @tejisethi13 Teji is a poetry disciple from #India who loves concocting blends of chai & haikai. By day, she’s a therapeutic nutritionist; by dusk, she wanders into the nostalgic lanes of her childhood, gathering verses from memory. Teji has dedicated the past 4 years to curating Triya, a bilingual space for #haiku, tanka & #micropoems. #poetry

I told myself
“Remember this
Moment,”
But all I can recall
Is the desperation
In my voice
When I said it.

#poetry

#haiku / #senryu by new contributor, Lucas Weissenborn (IG: @luque_mit_q ). Lucas is a researcher, musician, and poet based in #Norway. His haiku and senryū have appeared in various journals, including Science. He was also once unintentionally appointed an expert on squirrels by a university in Russia. #poetry #china