The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Thought-provoking thread. @terrydresbach.bsky.social

@completethehaiga.bsky.social #completethehaiga 145 #haiga #haiku #senryu

one sunny day blooms after a week of clouds #haiku #spring

Many thanks to @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social for including my haiku collection from NaHaiWriMo in their latest issue! So many wonderful verses from haiku writers around the globe in this, and every, issue. ❤️ Here are two I hope you like:

@completethehaiga.bsky.social #completethehaiga 144 #haiku #haiga #senryu

family reunion the slow dissolution of adulthood #completethehaiga 143 #haiga #haiku #senyru

From James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time #booksky 💙📚

spring heat — frying an egg on my snow shovel #haiku #poetry #climate

Happy spring equinox to those of us in the north! This day always makes me think of this poem by e.e. cummings

Would love to see more excerpts of Democrats speaking! Thanks for posting, Aaron.

tadpoles explore the novelty of limbs — drivers' ed #dailyhaikuprompt tadpole #haiku

@completethehaiga.bsky.social #completethehaiga 142 #haiku #senryu #haiga

The best reason to become a poete ys that you will make more moneye than you kan figure out what to do wyth. All those poetes flyinge arounde yn their private jets. Sittinge yn private booths at concertes. Addinge yet anothir pool to their thirde vacacioun hous. Poetrye: do it for the moneye.

#completethehaiga 141 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu @completethehaiga.bsky.social

Many thanks to guest editor Nancy Brady for including my haiku in her long list of #haiku on domestic creatures. thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

early spring drones on — blood moon #haiku #senryu #poetrycommunity

fighter jets— rattling plates in the soup kitchen #haiku

Redaction #haiku #epsteinadministration #Basho

early morning walk — robins already on break #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt - robin #poetrycommunity

winter wind sparrows feast beneath the cedars #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt -seeds

strip of plastic woven in a winter nest making do #haiku #poetrycommunity

It ys a moost terrible tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum unpredicted moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir, that doth helpe you thrugh. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.

now leap from the top of the swing #senryuslam #poertyslam

tinnitus quasimodo rings my decibels #senryuslam

diva final walk on the red carpet #senryuslam #completethehaiga

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

All these CEOs stompinge around graspinge for moneye and biohacks and powere but the best way to lyve forevir ys to make people laugh and be part of unforgettable storyes that make them feel less alone. Love and art and comedye are cosmic and eternal. The worlde will remembir the true stars.

Please share this far and wide. No matter how far away you may be from Minnesota…you can help!!!

Today's Poem brought to you by the great and wise Octavia Butler:

her first try at feathery biscuits dental visit #feather #PJJournal #prompt 10 #poetrycommunity

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. —Martin Luther King Jr. #quote #MLKDay

Remembir everye daye ys a goode daye to reach out to a friende and tell them how much you love them. Maybe buy them a booke. Bringe up an olde inside joke. All the sillye thinges and the serious thinges about friendeshippe, thei are all infinitelye valuable. Tyme spent thus wil nevir be regrettid.

This from @hcrichardson.bsky.social ---> open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... "'From the In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count.'"

Oil and distraction Trump attacks Venezuela anntelnaes.substack.com/p/oil-and-di...

Thomas Merton 1961

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Maybe instead of making the debate about whether one supports birthright citizenship, we should frame it as whether we support allowing the president to unilaterally decide which constitutional rights to honor.

Poetrye ys the technologye of hope

Fabulous perspective.

Groceries vs. Ballrooms

… #TrickOrTreat O LOOK! it’s the fun size “early in her career” #Adele and the 4th doctor #TomBaker ! 🎃✨🧡🖤🍭. #HappyHalloween

A reminder that Trump and his supporters violently attacked the seat of our democracy in 2021. Same people who are trying to frame "No Kings" protesters as the hate America crowd.

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.

Genius satire.

8/ This surge in political attacks isn't the only existential threat to our democracy. It feels like our experiment is under threat from multiple fronts. Which is why Democrats and Republicans need to start showing more allegiance to our democracy than to party.