Every star
A prayer,
And you are
The answer.

#poetry

You are yet
Another
Constellation
Burning bright
Against
The horizon.

#poetry

@futurebird
Pica, Pica,
Purrfect Provider
and brave protector
Saves us from Shelob
And Ungoliant

#poetry

The distance
Between life and
Death is vast,
But love draws a
Map.

#poetry

#haiku by Timothy Daly
( X/Twitter: philalz ). Dr. Timothy Daly was born in the British Isles & reborn in Paris. He now lives in Italy. He juggles life as an Alzheimer’s disease researcher, a teacher of language & philosophy, and a writer of short-form #poetry & prose. #sky #clouds #blue

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Against a white background with sky-blue rectangle in the upper-right corner, this #haiku by Timothy Daly ( X/Twitter: philalz ), reads cloudy sky the patches of blue in our future Dr. Timothy Daly was born in the British Isles & reborn in Paris. He now lives in Italy. He juggles life as an Alzheimer’s disease researcher, a teacher of language & philosophy, and a writer of short-form #poetry & prose. #sky #clouds #blue

Raze my
Heart,
There will
Be roses
Where there
Was ruin.

#poetry

#haiku / #senryu by Anne Fox (IG: @annefox333 ) of Broomes Island, Maryland, USA.
#poetry #geese #maryland

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Against a plain black background, a #haiku / #senryu by Anne Fox (IG: @annefox333 ) of Broomes Island, Maryland, USA, reads: departing geese an old hippie flips me the peace sign #poetry #geese #maryland

We are all
Points of
Light falling
Sightless
Through the
Dark

#poetry

To tend
Toward
Disorder
Is an act
Of worship
To an
Indifferent
Universe.
Entropy
Only increases,
Amen.

#Poetry

Mushrooms this morning
Mushrooms this evening meeting
On the Astral Plane

#dailyhaikuprompt Mushrooms Evening
#haiku #poetry #senryu

I am the sum
Of a thousand
Oblivions,
No stranger
To beginning
Again.

#poetry

General introduction...

I'm a longtime Diaspora and not quite so long Friendica user. I write poetry, have a taste for the bizarre and silly. Greek learner, but from Wales.

This was meant the a backup to allow me to keep up with Mastodon contacts when my Friendica instance had indigestion, but Friendica is now the backup instead.

Following: #poetry #poems #haiku #senryu #PoetryCommunity #greek

I will post using #SJAshcroftsPoems #MyWordsMyWork #SJAshcroftsPhotos

@futurebird
the numbers stagger
when the step function
becomes stochastic
the numbers wobble
when the hysteresis
breaks down
and when the tipping point
is transgressed
the numbers fall down

#poetry

Darkness
Holds memory
The light
Forgets.

#Poetry

#monoku by new contributor, Adele Gallogly (IG:@AdeleGallogly).

Adele is a new writer of #haiku and its related forms. Her work has appeared in several other fine publications. #poetry

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Against a white background, this #monoku by new contributor, Adele Gallogly (IG:@AdeleGallogly), reads, sunset passing on the river otter rumors Adele is a new writer of #haiku and its related forms. Her work has appeared in several other fine publications. #poetry

#monoku by returning contributor, thomas david (IG: @thomas.david575 ).

Thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His #haiku and senryū have appeared here before and in many other fine publications. #poetry #daisychain #England

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Against a white background, this #monoku by returning contributor, thomas david (IG: @thomas.david575 ) reads, daisy chain stringing me along Thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His #haiku and senryū have appeared here before and in many other fine publications. #poetry #daisychain #England

#shahai / #tanka - #art by long time contributor, Reid Hepworth (IG: @reidhepworth ).

Reid lives in a small cottage in Georgian Bay, Ontario where she spends her time listening to trees, talking to all manners of wildlife and writing short form #poetry. #haiku #photo #canada

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In this #shahai / #tanka - #art by long time contributor, Reid Hepworth (IG: @reidhepworth ), a color photo shows a moth, perched in daylight, on an angular-shaped stone, striated and giving the impression of a cut log. A rounder glob of granite sits atop the “log-stone,” next to the moth. Ferns occupy the background at the left edge of the photo.. The accompanying tanka verse reads: how the wind lays bare her hidden depths standing in front of the full-length mirror she disrobes with one eye closed Reid lives in a small cottage in Georgian Bay, Ontario where she spends her time listening to trees, talking to all manners of wildlife and writing short form #poetry. #haiku #photo #canada

from "Advice to a Lady in Autumn" by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1763

The poem has crisp autumn imagery, like this:

"At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year,
the sun, like your wit, is as mild, as 'tis clear:
But mark in the meadows the ruin of Time;
take the hint, and let life be improv'd in its prime."

But the whole poem is really a passive-aggressive rant that she (the Lady) shouldn't have rejected the author's romantic interest, as hinted in the last line above. Another example:

"At nine [a.m.] stretch your arms, and oh! think when alone, there's no pleasure in bed 😏
— 'MARY, bring me my gown.'
Slip on that ere you rise;
let your caution be such;
Keep all cold from your breast ...
there's already too much."

Okay, Phil, I admit that compared to some dudes, you express your disappointment in a healthy way. But there's no need to dwell on it. It's her loss! Move on, bro!

https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5152-w0400.shtml

#poetry #poem #men #quote #quotes #emotionalintelligence

Death
Cannot
Dull love,
It only
Sharpens
it.

#poetry

#haiku / #senryu by long-time contributor, Debarati Sen (IG: @debarati_poetry), of India.
#poetry #maternity #moon

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Against a night-black background, this #haiku / #senryu by long-time contributor, Debarati Sen (IG: @debarati_poetry), of India, reads, maternity ward — the moon and I awake all night #poetry #maternity #moon

Every breath
Becomes
A bravery,
Every thought
A wildfire.

#Poetry

Hey. I am on 13,96 in #PixelArea.

Here:

https://pxlarea.com/x13y96

I beg the guy should add two tags, #poetry and #philosophy :D

#smollweb #smallweb #indieweb #blog #blogging #writing

The eldest
God is
Starlight.
Every wish
A prayer.

#poetry

#haiku by FreshOut newcomer Siniša Avramov.
Born in 1974, Siniša lives in Bečej, Serbia.
#poetry #woods #autumn #serbia

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This #haiku by FreshOut newcomer Siniša Avramov, reads in the woods the lichen reflects the light – and again Born in 1974, Siniša lives in Bečej, Serbia. #poetry #woods #autumn #serbia

#poetry #haiku

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Haiku: ERROR 404 YOUR HAIKU CAN NOT BE FOUND TRY AGAIN LATER

When I’ve
Finally
Forgotten,
I will be
Free.

#Poetry

Darkness
Hollowed you
So that when
Dawn came
You could
Be filled with
Light.

#poetry

When the fuel runs out
Result will strand the harvest
Abroad in the fields

#dailyhaikuprompt Harvest Strand
#haiku #senryu #poetry
#poetrycommunity

Strand the victuals
May seem like a kerfuffle
To harvest #hunger

#dailyhaikuprompt Harvest Strand
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity

Yet we still move
Out and away
From the
Singularity,
All our lives
Inside an
Explosion.
Love and
Death on
Fire.

#poetry

Issue #3 of Swampgas is live! I have a short story, poem, and some art in this issue! Check it out for free at the link below!

#Poetry #ShortStory #Art #Zine

https://quietmeow.itch.io/swampgas-3-zine

excerpt from "To a Sad Daughter" by Michael Ondaatje
#fatherhood #poetry

One afternoon I stepped
into your room. You were sitting
at the desk where I now write this.
Forsythia outside the window
and sun spilled over you
like a thick yellow miracle
as if another planet
was coaxing you out of the house
— all those possible worlds! -
and you, meanwhile, busy with mathematics.

I cannot look at forsythia now
without loss, or joy for you.
You step delicately
into the wild world
and your real prize will be
the frantic search.
Want everything. If you break
break going out not in.
How you live your life I don't care
but I'll sell my arms for you,
hold your secrets for ever.

#poem #parenting #quote #quotes #canada

Your tragedy
Is armor,
Not a grave.

#poetry #smallpoems

We are
Dizzying
Eternities
In a handful
Of dust.

#Poetry

#monoku by Laurence Stacy. Laurence teaches English & literature courses at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA. He is the recent coauthor of “Before the Earth: Haiku and Haikai.” In addition to studying poetics, he is a longtime martial artist, interested in connections between the disciplines he enjoys. #poetry #haiku #autumn #Georgia

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Against a background and in a handwritten-style script, both of vaguely autumnal colors, this #monoku by Laurence Stacy, reads, Autumn I too decide to let go Laurence teaches English & literature courses at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA. He is the recent coauthor of “Before the Earth: Haiku and Haikai.” In addition to studying poetics, he is a longtime martial artist, interested in connections between the disciplines he enjoys. #poetry #haiku #autumn #Georgia

if you don't attend
your #passion no one else will
even feel its breeze

#dailyhaikuprompt Breeze
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetry #poetrycommunity

Monitor balance
Just another equinox
#Embark into dark

#dailyhaikuprompt Equinox
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity

To be
Sharpened,
One must
Surrender
To the
Stone.

#Poetry

In spite of
All that has
Befallen me,
I will begin
Again.

#Poetry

Dirty bloody hands
Stuffed in till up to elbow
Wealthy wind fall storm

#dailyhaikuprompt Wind Storm Till
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

The stars
Are a sieve
Through which
All life pours.

#poetry

#haiku by Ron Scully. Ron (IG: @ronaldjscully ) is a very retied bookseller. After half a lifetime on the road, an authentic Willy Loman only funnier, he has repaired to the Pacific Northwest to read and write. He practices haikai daily and has published widely in the short form journals, the latest of which is The Cost of Living by Yavanika Publishing 2026. Currently he is working on a play. Otherwise the grandkids keep the neurons firing. #poetry #washington #fish #marriage

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This #haiku by Ron Scully reads, two angel fish not an inch apart for better or worse Ron (IG: @ronaldjscully ) is a very retied bookseller. After half a lifetime on the road, an authentic Willy Loman only funnier, he has repaired to the Pacific Northwest to read and write. He practices haikai daily and has published widely in the short form journals, the latest of which is The Cost of Living by Yavanika Publishing 2026. Currently he is working on a play. Otherwise the grandkids keep the neurons firing. #poetry #washington #fish #marriage

#collaborative #rengay by long time FreshOut contributors Hifsa Ashraf (IG: @hifsays ) of #Pakistan and Arvinder Kaur (IG: @arvinderk8 ) of #India #poetry #haiku

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This #collaborative #rengay by long time FreshOut contributors Hifsa Ashraf (IG: @hifsays ) of #Pakistan and Arvinder Kaur (IG: @arvinderk8 ) of #India titled “Old Haveli,”reads in alternating verses beginning with Arvinder, Old Haveli sleeplessness a round of riddles on the terrace naming constellations after fairies filigree window light and shades on her cherubic face afternoon haze roasting peanuts in the sand haveli pathway grandpa’s footsteps fade broken wooden fence covered with the ripe grapevines Arvinder Kaur, India Hifsa Ashraf, Pakistan #poetry #haiku

The stars
Show us
What beauty
Can be found
In collapse.

#poetry

New #blog post.

#poetry #poem #song

https://polydactica.neocities.org/posts/2026-09-19-Yore

On my knees
Begging ghosts
To carry the
Parts of me
That died
Into the
After.

#poetry

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;..."
Opening lines

#OTD in 1819.

After walking along the River Itchen in Hampshire, England, the 24-year-old poet John Keats composed what would become one of the most beloved fall poems in the English language: the aptly titled “To Autumn.” via @lithub

To Autumn is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/23684/pg23684-images.html#Page_137

#books #literature #poetry

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Posthumous portrait by William Hilton, c. 1822. Keats rests his chin on his hand, gazing thoughtfully into the distance, with an open book before him.

You taught me
Constellations,
But not how to
Live without you.

#poetry

A leaky full moon
Drips cheese over broccoli
Yummy lunar sauce

#dailyhaikuprompt Leaky Full Moon
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

planets envy our
leaky gravity full moon
offered to #explore

#dailyhaikuprompt Leaky Full Moon
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity

“Divine” from Library on Fire, SOLD OUT

Thank you for supporting an independent poet! 🖤✨

#poetry #books #independent

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A page from the book Library on Fire by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe, it is a poem that reads: Divine Bloody fingered I divine A place of Meaning Out of time, Marked in Stone.

When the grief
Gets too heavy,
Let it carry me
Instead.

#poetry

Untitled poem from Disremembering, my first volume of poetry now available for pre-order at http://nihtgengapress.com!

Books arrive Saturday and will be shipped first thing Monday!

Thank you for supporting an independent poet 🖤✨

#Books #Poetry #Independent

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A poem from the book Disremembering by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe It reads The dead don't Haunt the living, The living Haunt the dead. While time is a hell That haunts itself.

All memory is
A summoning
Of ghosts.

#poetry

Brought
Forth from
Stellar corpses,
We know that
Death is only
A new beginning.

#poetry

Deer in headlights freeze
#Commence the circle again
Unbroken transit

#dailyhaikuprompt Deer
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity

#monoku by Patricia Hawkhead of Bradford-upon-Avon, UK. Patricia has been submitting Haiga, shahai and #poetry to FreshOut for several years and her work appears widely in many other fine publications. Find her on IG: @boujolais8 #flowers #haiku #UK

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Against a white background, this #monoku by Patricia Hawkhead of Bradford-upon-Avon, UK, reads, cut flowers a study in still death Patricia has been submitting Haiga, shahai and #poetry to FreshOut for several years and her work appears widely in many other fine publications. Find her on IG: @boujolais8 #flowers #haiku #UK

I turned to speak to God
about the world's despair
but to make bad matters worse
I found God wasn't there.

God turned to speak to me
(Don't anybody laugh)
God found I wasn't there
at least not over half.

Robert Frost, 1926

#poem #poetry #religion #atheism #quote #quotes #quotation #robertfrost

“Evergreen” from Threnody, my second volume of poetry available now for pre-order at http://nihtgengapress.com

Books are coming in on Saturday and will be mailed out first thing Monday!!!

Thank you so much for your support of an independent poet! 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

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A page of the book Threnody, by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe. It is a poem that reads: Evergreen You are Evergreen Burgeoning With feral Offerings Of incandescently Laughing Light.

Storm Frog rushes in
The first one through breached doorway
The first one to croak

#dailyhaikuprompt First Storm Frog
#haiku #poetry #senryu #poetrycommunity

You slipped
Through
Their fingers
Because
They couldn’t
Hold light.

#poetry

#haiku by FreshOut newcomer Kila Lim ( IG: @KilaTalkStory ). Kila Lim is a poet from Manila, Philippines. She feels lucky to have found the world of haiku in 2024. Her poetry has appeared in various publications ever since. #poetry #blue #sky #philipines

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Against a white background, hashed intense sky blue, this #haiku by FreshOut newcomer Kila Lim ( IG: @KilaTalkStory ), reads, when we believed the blueness of the sky Kila Lim is a poet from Manila, Philippines. She feels lucky to have found the world of haiku in 2024. Her poetry has appeared in various publications ever since. #poetry #blue #sky #philipines

when Cascade Chill drove
his Caddy he was so cool
he stopped for green lights

#dailyhaikuprompt Cascade Chill
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

#Jadaliyya | We Are Still Here: Voices of #PalestinianStudents From #Gaza

featuring student contributors to the book #WeAreStillHere, edited by Jacob Norris and Zahid Pranjol

co-moderated by Anisa Haddadi and Zahid Praniol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDMHSufeGz0

v. also https://darajapress.com/publication/we-are-still-here/?srsltid=AfmBOorOf6-FXa7OqhNrkcdK1yGpzzNGAjaRSBof8vJOKp9kEEaHPW7e

#Palestine #GazaGenocide #colonialViolence #PalestinianYouth #oPt #books #poetry #essays #shortStories #anthologies @bookstodon

There are
Nebulae
That know
Your every
Atom and
Call each
Of them
Home.

#poetry

#haiku by Adele Evershed (IG: @ad_libby ).
Adele is a Welsh writer who swapped the valleys for America’s East Coast. She has 2 #poetry collections: “Turbulence in Small Spaces” (Finishing Line Press) & “The Brink of Silence” (Bottlecap Press). Her 3rd, “In the Belly of the Wail” is upcoming from Querencia Press. She has published 2 novellas in flash, “Wannabe” & “Schooled” (Alien Buddha Press), & has an upcoming novella, “A History of Hand Thrown Walls,” with Unsolicited Press. #warbler #fathers

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Against a plain white background, this #haiku by Adele Evershed (IG: @ad_libby ), reads, hooded warbler — dad’s voice trembles over my new name Adele is a Welsh writer who swapped the valleys for the American East Coast. Adele is a Welsh writer who swapped the valleys for America’s East Coast. She has 2 #poetry collections: “Turbulence in Small Spaces” (Finishing Line Press) & “The Brink of Silence” (Bottlecap Press). Her 3rd, “In the Belly of the Wail” is upcoming from Querencia Press. She has published 2 novellas in flash, “Wannabe” & “Schooled” (Alien Buddha Press), & has an upcoming novella, “A History of Hand Thrown Walls,” with Unsolicited Press. #warbler #fathers

“Devour” from Threnody, my second volume of poetry, available for pre-order at http://nihtgengapress.com

Thank you for supporting an independent poet 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

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A page of a book called Threnody by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe. It contains a poem that reads: Devour Pick my Bones clean, Hope's gleaming Teeth, And devour All doubt.

They may leave
You feeling empty,
But, lo, you are
Full of stars.

#poetry

Near FreshOut headquarters, deep in the American South, summer - even late summer, fall and early winter, can bring the sounds of frogs over any body of water, deep or shallow, overgrown or clear. Often one may be awakened during the night by them. Here, to note that, against a black background, is a #monoku by Adele Gallogly (IG:@AdeleGallogly).

Adele is a new writer of #haiku #poetry and its related forms. Her work has appeared in several other fine publications. #bullfrog #summer

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Near FreshOut headquarters, deep in the American South, summer - even late summer, fall and early winter, can bring the sounds of frogs over any body of water, deep or shallow, overgrown or clear. Often one may be awakened during the night by them. Here, to note that, against a black background, this #monoku by new contributor, Adele Gallogly (IG:@AdeleGallogly), reads, cottage sunday a bullfrog organ song Adele is a new writer of #haiku #poetry and its related forms. Her work has appeared in several other fine publications. #bullfrog #summer

Kolaswv
Esetv koleppa
Ofc fune
Fenke
Hvyayvketv ofv
Sutv
Yvmvsectve tokv
Vnokectv

Large stars,
Fireflies to catch
To have flame
Inside bone,
To shine like
The fire
In the sky.

#poetry #Mvskoke

It’s been a rainy weekend at FreshOut headquarters, deep in the American South. It’s still summer but fall is right around the corner. To celebrate, here, against a white background, is a #monoku by Melissa Dennison @melissa.dennison.54 of the UK.
#poetry #rain #haiku #summer

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It’s been a rainy weekend at FreshOut headquarters, deep in the American South. It’s still summer but fall is right around the corner. Here, against a white background, this #monoku by Melissa Dennison @melissa.dennison.54 of the UK, reads, rain on the roof a snail exhales #poetry #rain #haiku #summer

In my
Unraveling,
I became
Completely
Free.

#poetry

Nirvana submerged
Oral #eloquence supplied
Orient to please

#dailyhaikuprompt Nirvana
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity

An untitled poem from Disremembering, my very first volume of poetry, now available for pre-order at http://nihtgengapress.com

Thank you for supporting an independent poet! 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

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A poem from Disremembering by Michelle Joy Gallagher soffe. It reads: The gaps within atoms Vast oceans where Electrons spin and Waves upon waves crash, The trick to make it matter. All that you've ever Touched Were simply phantoms Created in this space And oh, my love I'd rather I'd never.

A waning blood moon
Coagulates no loose beams
In dusty craters

#dailyhaikuprompt Waning Moon
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

Sip #naïveté
The daily grind ground me down
More Wild Irish Rose

#dailyhaikuprompt Wild Rose
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity

You are the
Light that seeps
Through my eyelids.
I can’t help but
See you.

#poetry

Time will
Be unkind
Enough,
I will not
Be.

#Poetry

The stars
Forgive us
Our needful
Glances.
They are
Homesick
For us, too.

#poetry

"But beauty is set apart,
beauty is cast by the sea,
a barren rock,
beauty is set about
with wrecks of ships...."

Hymen (ed. 1921)

~H.D. was born #OTD in 1886.

Books by H. D. at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33478

#books #literature #poetry

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Photographic portrait of American writer Hilda "H.D." Doolittle (1886–1961), taken by Man Ray circa 1917. From Tendencies in Modern American Poetry by Amy Lowell. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917, p. 233. Shown seated, in dark clothing, downcast gaze, dark bobbed hair with bangs, against a patterned wallpaper.

“Eons” from Library on Fire, my third volume of poetry, available (along with my first two) for Pre-Order now at http://nihtgengapress.com

Thank you for supporting an independent poet! 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

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A poem from Library on Fire, a book of poetry by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe, It reads: Eons Only eons know The poetry of What water Asks of stone And what the Stone gives.

Close your eyes.
The darkness
Inside is a
Cathedral.

#poetry

Unforgotten

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#SJAshcroftsPoems #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #MyWordsMyWork

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Unforgotten Let none think today will answer for past faults, nor dry the tears of the unrepentant, or the unaware. Look within, and count the fingers pointing inwardly. In aching guts, unscried, unpurged, lies sickness none dare treat, because it forces flashing eyes to peer into a darkness more real than any may imagine. The brightest heart lives in shadow deeper than it admits. Look to the clouds, that swab an injured sky; the wind that calls its anguish; the weeping rain that falls from wounds unhealed. Look, and tell me, do you dare to think you know my heart? To believe the unjudged may sit in judgement? Heal, and watch, and do not presume. Then, only then will wisdom know to speak. © Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#shahai by regular contributor, Jerome Berglund ( @Berglundjeromehaiku ).
Jerome currently hails from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, where he produces fine poetry and art featured here many times and in many other publications.
#poetry #haiku #photo #NOLA

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In this #shahai by regular contributor, Jerome Berglund ( @Berglundjeromehaiku ), a black and white photograph shows a very full, colorless blossom, nested in its own foliage. In the top left corner, an accompanying haiku reads, wild iris one of the slats bent back at an angle Jerome currently hails from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, where he produces fine poetry and art featured here many times and in many other publications. #poetry #haiku #photo #NOLA

To keep a fire
Beneath the ribs,
One must be willing
To swallow the sun.

#poetry

Willow leaves the scene
On gusty #moonglade breezes
To employ magic

#dailyhaikuprompt Willow Leaves Gusty
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity

#monoku by new contributor Martina Matijević.
#poetry #haiku #summer #tide

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Against a white background, this #monoku by new contributor Martina Matijević, reads marsh ride the crumples of a tissue #poetry #haiku #summer #tide

#haiku by Deborah A. Bennett. Deborah (IG: @d.a._bennett ) draws her inspiration from the teaching of ancient religious philosophers & haiku poets who were also riveted by the purity & beauty of #nature #poetry #poetrylovers

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Against a white background, this #haiku by Deborah A. Bennett reads, child’s dime sinking in the fountain water damselflies Deborah A. Bennett @d.a._bennett draws her inspiration from the teaching of ancient religious philosophers & haiku poets who were also riveted by the purity & beauty of #nature #poetry #poetrylovers

I love all films that start with rain:
rain, braiding a windowpane
or darkening a hung-out dress
or streaming down her upturned face;

one big thundering downpour
right through the empty script and score
before the act, before the blame,
before the lens pulls through the frame…

—Don Paterson, “Rain”
Published in RAIN (Faber, 2010)

5–6 September is National Cinema Weekend 🎥🎬🍿

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571251742-rain/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #cinema #film #NationalCinemaWeekend

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Don Paterson Rain I love all films that start with rain: rain, braiding a windowpane or darkening a hung-out dress or streaming down her upturned face; one big thundering downpour right through the empty script and score before the act, before the blame, before the lens pulls through the frame to where the woman sits alone beside a silent telephone or the dress lies ruined on the grass or the girl walks off the overpass, and all things flow out from that source along their fatal watercourse. However bad or overlong such a film can do no wrong, so when his native twang shows through or when the boom dips into view or when her speech starts to betray its adaptation from a play, I think to when we opened cold on a starlit gutter, running gold with the neon of a drugstore sign and I’d read into its blazing line: forget the ink, the milk, the blood – all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters the fallen rain’s own sons and daughters and none of this, none of this matters.

Though life
May try,
It cannot dull
The light in
Your eyes.
The stars
Don’t diminish
When we wish
Upon them.

#poetry

The encroaching dusk
Envelops all it touches
Low Tide marketing

#dailyhaikuprompt Dusk Low Tide
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

Let's see... can I do this without backspace and delete, lol. #poetry #poem #typewriter

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A poem composed on a free typewriter How many words can words appear on a printed page? Way too many I fear In the computer age. And who bother penning their own rhyme If the computers Can do it in half the time It's too hard, I'm no good The youth they do exclaim The hard way is the right way That is what I explain.

We wait
Eons
For an
Iota of
A life.
Don’t
Flinch.

#poetry

#shahai by returning contributor, Biswajit Mishra.

Biswajit Mishra is a bilingual poet writing mostly in English and occasionally in Odia. Born in India and having spent a few years in Kenya, Biswajit and his wife Bharati currently live in Calgary, #Canada #poetry #photography #haiku

@biswajitmishra.ig
biswajitpoetry@biswajitca.bsky.social

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In this #shahai by returning contributor, Biswajit Mishra, a cloudy sky of many colors is seen above power lines and traffic signs. The accompanying #haiku reads, unspoken words the potential clouds my day Biswajit Mishra is a bilingual poet writing mostly in English and occasionally in Odia. Born in India and having spent a few years in Kenya, Biswajit and his wife Bharati currently live in Calgary, #Canada #poetry #photograp

“Fables” from Threnody, now available for Pre-Order on http://nihtgengapress.com, along with my two other volumes of poetry.

Thank you for supporting an independent poet! 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

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A poem from the book Threnody by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe It reads: Fables What fables The stars Speak, The make Believe that Light and Warmth Are endless.

If god is
Entropy,
Breaking is
A form of
Prayer,
And I am
Devout.

#poetry

bamboo shoots under
fingernails till election
then the fun begins

#dailyhaikuprompt Shoots
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

The sky
Gives us
Constellations
When we
Can’t recognize
Ourselves.

#poetry

It was in
The presence
Of death that
Life shone
Brightest.

#poetry

Splendid and fertile
The imaginary soil
In dark matter brain

#dailyhaikuprompt Splendid Soil
#haiku #poetrycommunity #poetry

Make the #elixir
From sprouts of splendid soil
Fan the harvest flames

#dailyhaikuprompt Splendid Soil
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity

RE: https://hear-me.social/@SPF/113704837624293284

Farmer and poet Wendell Berry has died at 92. I wish I'd come across his books earlier in life. A great American, who wrote his own best eulogy:

"The old, whose bodies encrust their lives, die, and that is well.
They unhinder what has struggled in them.

"The light, painfully loved,
that narrowed and darkened in their minds
becomes again the sky.

"The young, who have looked on dying, turn back to the world, grown strangely alert to each other's bodies."

#death #wendellberry #poetry

“Rise” from Library on Fire, now available for Pre-Order, along with Disremembering and Threnody at http://nihtgengapress.com

Thank you for supporting an independent poet! 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

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A poem from Library on Fire by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe. It reads: Rise The sun, Halfway Through its Litespan, Burning Through its Hydrogen, Still rises And so Will I.

You are
The cosmos
Pretending
To be a
Person.

#poetry

In the beginning
Water wasn't all that clear
Covalent bondage

#dailyhaikuprompt Clear Water Beginning
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

Weeping has
Always been
A war cry.

#poetry #SmallPoem

Let the
Stars of morning
Remind us how
To survive
The night.

#poetry

#Empathetic gift
Put my back into mauling
The mulberry spice

#dailyhaikuprompt Spice Mulberry
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels #senryu
#poetry #poetrycommunity

#haiku by returning contributor,Joseph P. Wechselberger (IG: @jwech15 ). Joseph has been writing haiku since 2018. His work has been Touchstone-nominated / long-listed many times and widely published and anthologized across the web. #haiku #poetry

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Upon a white background, this #haiku by returning contributor,Joseph P. Wechselberger (IG: @jwech15 ), reads, a mallard’s eggs beginning to hatch swamp pinks Joseph has been writing haiku since 2018. His work has been Touchstone-nominated / long-listed many times and widely published and anthologized across the web. #haiku #poetry

#senryu by new contributor, Vikram Kolmannskog, marking the recent (Aug. 28) passing of champion of gay rights and inclusion of all kinds, Norway’s King Harald V. Vikram is a queer-of-colour poet, psychotherapist and professor living by the forest outside of Oslo, Norway. Find more at his website: www.vikram.no
#poetry #haiku #Norway

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Against a plain white background, this #senryu by new contributor, Vikram Kolmannskog, marking the recent (Aug. 28) passing of champion of gay rights and inclusion of all kinds, Norway’s King Harald V, reads, late summer bouquet boys who love boys and the king has died Vikram is a queer-of-colour poet, psychotherapist and professor living by the forest outside of Oslo, Norway. Find more at his website: www.vikram.no #poetry #haiku #Norway

The grapes of ICE throw
blatant injustice into
nations melting pot

#dailyhaikuprompt Grapes Ice
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

“Wake” from Library on Fire, now available for pre-order, along with my first and second volumes of poetry at
http://nihtgengapress.com

#Poetry #Books #Independent

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A poem from a book called Library on Fire by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe. It reads: Wake Wake the Sleeping Violets. The end Has whispered New beginnings Into being, And for that You'll need To borrow Their bravery.

Let the darkness come.
It is a harbinger for
A time of stars.

#poetry

#haiku by returning contributor, thomas david (IG: @thomas.david575 ). Thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His haiku and senryū have appeared here before and in many other fine publications. #poetry #oldpond #frog #England

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Against a white background, this #haiku by returning contributor, thomas david (IG: @thomas.david575 ) reads, empty pond the frog in my throat Thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His haiku and senryū have appeared here before and in many other fine publications. #poetry #oldpond #frog #England

You used your
Sentiment
Like a blade,
And instead of
Being bled
I sharpened it.

#poetry

The valley is
Mine, and so
Is the shadow.
I do not fear
Death.

#poetry

Spud the mean old crow
Tried to pass as a raven
Peeks at the beaks tell

#dailyhaikuprompt Potato Crow
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

urban camouflage
carved potato crow stands watch
from street corner shrub

#dailyhaikuprompt Potato Crow
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

If you can’t wait til the books come in, you can now pre-order your copy at http://nihtgengapress.com!

Disremembering, Threnody, and Library on Fire will ship in about 2 weeks 🖤 thank you for supporting an indie poet
#Poetry #books #PreOrder #Indie

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Screenshot of the website Nihtgengapress.com. It shows four items for sale. Disremembering, threnody, and library on fire poetry books as well as a sticker that says “what choice do I have in the deepest dark but to become the stars?” It is a black and white theme with the title Nihtgenga Press in large type at the top.

This poem is 10 years old

#poetry #throwback

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A black and white picture of a lined piece of paper. In it is a poem that reads: l am all thorns in a world made for Roses

Stay soft,
But ready.
You have
To make
A fist
To hold
Flowers.

#poetry

Keyboard Lord

I am lord
of my keyboard.
A keyboard lord
is like a budget
radio Rambo.
Instead of
pulling the trigger
I toggle keys.
I take aim
with my mouse
and fire a missive.
Instead of cutting
with survival knife
I wound with words.
My grand hand
raps like a rooster
pecking the eyes out
of little letters;
pecking patches
of shadowy serifs.

#poem #poetry #PoetsOfMastodon

From the water
And the stone
We learn
The art of
Disappearing

#poetry

Full moon light highlights
In dark grove with swale sparkle
Night magic music

#dailyhaikuprompt Full Moon Grove
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

#digital #haiga by regular contributor, Mark Meyer at 3dot studio in Mercer Island, Washington, USA. #poetry #art

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#digital #haiga by regular contributor, Mark Meyer at 3dot studio in Mercer Island, Washington, USA. #poetry #art The image depicts concentric circles that grow more diffuse as they progress outward from the center, reminiscent of planetary rings (e.g.Saturn). Within this ring system, several clear bubbles distort the continuity of the shape. Beneath that, the accompanying #monoku reads, “forever blowing bubbles one universe after another “

diffuse full moon light
on heavenly pleasure grove
#tissue issue tier

#dailyhaikuprompt Full Moon Grove
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity

#haiku 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 & one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has 10 books of poetry. #stones #colorado #poetry #river

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Against a plain white background, this #haiku by Jennifer Gurney, reads, who molds these heart-shaped stones the river or my tears Jennifer lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her poetry is widely published. Two of her poems have won international contests & one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has 10 books of poetry. #stones #colorado #poetry #river