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.

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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.'"

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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

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

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.

Like many Never Trumpers and other people with a public profile, I have been on the receiving end of death threats for years just for speaking my mind. No one in America should risk being killed for exercising their right to speak, no matter how despicable you think their views might be.

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again. #quote Ellen Bass

“It is those of us who, despite seeing destruction and despair in ourselves and in the world, still find a way to forge meaning and discover beauty. It is those of us who weave love into the fabric of our being, into our existence, who truly transform the world around us.” #Quote James Baldwin

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

There are US citizens across the globe who would be disenfranchised by this action. Some of us serve in the military or diplomatic service. Some have jobs that support the US economy. Some are learning skills we plan on bringing back home. We pay taxes. We have the right to vote!

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. —Goethe #quote

The truth will always be seen as a threat to those who profit from propaganda and whose power is built on lies.

Never before in the Nation’s almost 250 year history has America’s present and future depended more on the free press than it does today.

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What Frederick Douglass said of slaveholders applies to today’s authoritarians. “For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.” teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

The first #poet in a series of contemporary women of color before I started using the tag #highlightedpoet —Joy Harjo How to Write a Poem in a Time of War

“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” Pass it on.

America.

independence day this year’s firecrackers all duds #senryu

It is moments like this that you begin to understand why so many have demonized empathy and compassion. They want us to care so little for others that we will ignore injustices being carried out against them. It is in moments like these that love for others is revolutionary.

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