Hold fast to
The fragile flame
Of hope
Inside of you
Even though
It flickers.

#poetry

Summer weddings!

One For Life: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/one-for-life-marriage-art-sharon-cummings.html

#love #weddings #wedding #marriage #loveislove #engagement #savethedate #anniversary #weddinggift #fedigiftshop #poetry #poet #poem #poems #poets #SharonCummingsArt #relationships #relationship #relationshipgoals #buyintoart

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Two beautiful enchanted blue and green hearts with mandalas and a poem for marriage and weddings by artist and poet Sharon Cummings.

A thousand joys
Wait to greet you
On the other side
Of pain.

#poetry

How Robert Frost summoned a classic from life’s timeless moments

Perhaps the most famous work by the US poet Robert Frost, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ (1923) exemplifies his style with its vivid scenery and accessibility.

https://aeon.co/videos/how-robert-frost-summoned-a-classic-from-lifes-timeless-moments?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a5fbf00b6b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Frost at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1091

#books #literature #poetry

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Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing forward. From the Library of Congress collection, the image captures the young Frost during the period when he wrote some of his most celebrated poems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_by_Woods_on_a_Snowy_Evening#/media/File:Robert_Frost,_1910s.jpg

There are a
Thousand
Galaxies to
Be found in
Your eyes,
If you can’t
See the sky,
Look in the
Mirror.

#poetry

There will be
Alms in the
Afterwhile,
Hold on
Until now
Becomes
Them.

#poetry

They’re still
Trying to prove
Einstein wrong,
And my love,
I have never
Been right.

#poetry

#haiku by Tuyet Van Do, of Melbourne Australia. Tuyet’s poetry has been widely published in various journals & was nominated for a Touchstone Award for Individual Poems in 2022. #poetry #mother #sun #micropoetry #haiku #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #Australia #Melbourne

Tonight is a good night to revisit David Hinton’s lovely translation of Li Po’s remarkable poem, “Ch’ang Kan Village Song.” 🧵 #poetry #bookstodon

It’s not exactly a #shahai but let’s call it #verseart or #photoverse by returning contributor, naomi olivia. naomi is a proud Transgender poet from st. louis/central florida. find naomi on instagram: @moth.carcass.coat (a collaboration with best friend & editor erin vastola). #poetry #florida #stlouis #autumn #poetrylovers #leaves #poetrycommunity #haiga

#haiku by new contributor, M. R. Pelletier. M. R. Pelletier lives in Kansas, but his haiku #poetry travels the world. #poetrylovers #flocks #poetrycommunity #fields #kansas #micropoetry

#haiku by new contributor, Ash Evan Lippert. Ash is an emerging queer writer from South Carolina. Widely published in journals , both online and in print, their debut chapbook, “god of the body”, is available through Yavanika Press. Find them on Bluesky ( @wanderstruck.blog ) & Instagram ( @wanderstruck_haiku ). #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrylovers #micropoetry #snow #night #pines

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is all about mothers

Mothers don’t normally belong in Latin epics, which were meant to be devoted to warriors and warfare.

by Frances Myatt

https://theconversation.com/ovids-metamorphoses-is-all-about-mothers-266383?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859+CID_dd5bfffedf1c121cf798264446dd13b0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Ovids%20Metamorphoses%20is%20all%20about%20mothers

Metamorphoses at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765

#books #poetry #literature

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Page from the edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497. A 1497 Venice printed page from Ovid's Metamorphoses, published by Lucantonio Giunti. Features elaborate Renaissance border decoration with mythological scenes, ornate floral patterns, decorative initial letters, and Italian text in two columns beneath a woodcut illustration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses#/media/File:Ovidius_Naso_-_Metamorphoses,_del_MCCCCLXXXXVII_Adi_X_del_mese_di_aprile_-_1583162_Carta_a1r.jpeg

Let me be
Gravity,
Hidden in
The weight of
Things,
Pulling time
Out of nothing

#poetry

#haiku by new contributor, Tony Williams. Says Tony, about himself. “I’ve been writing haiku for 5 years now and been published widely. I’ve been fortunate to have won awards in several of the major competitions. I like nature, I like science, I like chai! #sinewave #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #micropoetry #autumn #beach

I will
Continue
To fight
Until they
Take my body
To the crematory.
Until all the
Stars in me
Go out.

#poetry

Tell all
The darkened
Hearts
They’ll burn
Before they
Take the
Stars from
You.

#poetry

Each poem is
A cathedral
To a moment,
These words
Greet you
From time
That no longer
Exists.

#poetry

Like the
Night sky,
A myriad of
Stars find
Home in
You, and
I will wish
Upon them.

#poetry

Sorrow knows me
Better than most,
All the amber
Bottles with my
Name upon them,
But joy seethes
Between heartbeats,
And measures
Hope by the dose.

#poetry

The most
Ancient god
Is love, our
Prayers
Answered
In each
Other.

#poetry

Our lives
Meteoric,
So brilliant
And brief,
A flash in
The sacred
Dark.

#poetry

Chord

When the music dies
and there's nothing left to sing,
when voice fades to night...
in absence of words worthy
of melody, what is left?

Breath, alone, is vain,
and poetry's want becomes
the soul's starvation;
waiting, in tuneless wonder,
watching the death of beauty.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

#SJAshcroftsPoems #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #MyWordsMyWork
Each verse a #tanka

#OTD in 1875, poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke is born

Rilke "was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke

Rilke at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/846

#books #literature #poetry

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Photograph of Rilke

Ogden Nash makes a splash

Ogden Nash found success after The New Yorker hired him in 1930, launching a long career of humorous, playful verse. His earliest published poems enter public domain pretty soon.

By John Mark Ockerbloom

https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/03/ogden-nash-makes-a-splash/

#books #poetry #publicDomainDayCountdown

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Photo of panelist Ogden Nash and Dagmar from the television game show Masquerade Party. This 1950s photo shows poet Ogden Nash with actress/TV personality Dagmar on the game show "Masquerade Party." Nash, wearing glasses and bow tie, sits at a panel desk while the glamorous Dagmar stands beside him. via ABC Television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash#/media/File:Ogden_Nash_Dagmar_Masquerade_Party_1955.jpg

Let my epitaph
Be every poem
I’ve forgotten
In the hours
Without sleep,
Amen.

#poetry

Let go
All pretense,
And remember
Who you were
Before they
Told you who
You were going
To be.

#poetry

I’m taking it easy this afternoon. Shots went ok, lots more of that type of stuff ahead. I am reading Michelle’s book of poetry, Threnody. Every poem could serve as a meditation; her writing reaches deep within the reader. I love her work. #poetry #poetryisnotdead #poem @Aphelion

I will not
Forfeit my
Fire for
Apathy,
I will burn
It down
Instead.

#poetry

Entropy only
Increases in
A closed system.
To bloom is to decay.
The older I get,
The more I realize
This is a kindness.

#poetry

The stars
Spoke an omen
Over our bones,
Made us dream
Of love without
Wounds.

#poetry

#tankaprose by new contributor Vaishnavi Ramaswamy of Chennai, India @haiku_vaishnavir #poetry #tanka #poetrylovers #cat #micropoetry #haiku #india #prose #amwriting #moon #poetrycommunity

Suffering gladly
The wounds left by
The arrow of time.

#poetry

All things of
Great beauty
Are riddled with
The shrapnel
Of broken things.

#poetry

"However, researchers did share a poem about cake that contained a similar, unpredictable structure to the ones they composed. That poem reads:

“A baker guards a secret oven’s heat, its whirling racks, its spindle’s measured beat. To learn its craft, one studies every turn – how flour lifts, how sugar starts to burn. Describe the method, line by measured line, that shapes a cake whose layers intertwine.”"

#poetry #adversarialpoetry

The Guardian: AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds

Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/30/ai-poetry-safety-features-jailbreak

#adversarialpoetry #poetry #AI #LLM #GPT #cybersecurity

#haiku by Dr. Randy Brooks, Prof.Em. of English at Milikin U. in #Illinois #rain #poetry #autumn #poem #poetrylovers #deer #poetrycommunity #mist #micropoetry

100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

His 1925 poem "The Hollow Men," published 100 years ago, bridges the nihilism of "The Waste Land" (1922) and his spiritual rebirth, reflecting his evolving faith journey.

by Luke Johnson

https://theconversation.com/100-years-on-t-s-eliots-the-hollow-men-is-a-poem-for-our-populist-moment-269487

Eliot at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/599

#books #literature #poetry

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T.S. Eliot with his sister and his cousin by Lady Ottoline Morrell vintage snapshot print, 1934 The photograph is a vintage black-and-white snapshot from 1934, taken outdoors in what appears to be a garden or courtyard with tall brick buildings in the background. Three people sit at a table set for tea. On the left, Eliot in a suit sits facing the camera, hands resting on the table. In the center, Eliot's cousin wearing a dark coat and hat sits slightly turned to the side, holding a cane. On the right, Eliot's sister in a patterned dress looks downward, her expression quiet and reserved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot#/media/File:Thomas_Stearns_Eliot_by_Lady_Ottoline_Morrell_(1934).jpg

The more
You listen
To the voice
Inside that says
“Hope lives,”
The louder
It gets.

#poetry

If you were
Truly free,
You wouldn’t
Feel the need to
Answer my pain
With your nothingness.

#poetry

Bound by
Gravity,
We fallen
Stars reach
Back to the
Sky, burning
Still.

#poetry

We ache our
Lives away
While
These mortal
Atoms wait
Patiently
To bloom
Again
In flames.

#poetry