"All days would be today, I thought but even that day didn’t last." — from "Wild Strawberries" (published in Anomaly https://f.mtr.cool/pvyphwyoit 📸: my own #poetry #poem #spring #naturephotography

A final post for #nationalpoetrymonth : #EmilyDickinson   "A WORD. A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day." -Emily Dickinson #npm2026 #poetrylovers #poem #poetry

Another post for National Poetry Month:  "The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough,  may last." -- Louise Glück #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #npm2026 #quotes #quotesoftheday #poetrylovers #LouiseGlück #poem

In light of April being poetry month: “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #npm2026

These geopolitical days has me thinking of my poem "Has the West Always Been Uncivilized?" published last year in @poetrysuperhwy.bsky.social last year (https://f.mtr.cool/jfvfxpfrmw)  #peaceful #coexistence

So grateful to be in included in the inaugural issue of "Only Human: English Language Senryu" ! @onlyhumansenryu.bsky.social  Many thanks to AJ Wentz and David Oates for including 2 of my poems. #senryu

"islands: / gardens / of wintry dust" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #snow

"the soft blue light, a shoreline against the sky" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #mist

"a parting from all that accumulated weight embraced through time" (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #winter #mist #BlueskyPoets #Ottawa #nature #writingcommunity #canada

"a tender release from expectation like a skin of frost scrapping air" (from on of my untitled poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #winter #frost #BlueskyPoets #Ottawa #nature #writingcommunity #canada

"Missteps as I learned to father and to husband" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #birds

"Every wave a new line; every wag a punctuation of joy." (a little more of a tongue-in-cheek piece - Happy Birthday Rosie) 📸: my own #poetry #Atlantic #CapeBreton #Ocean #Dog #dogsofbluesky

These words are... insufficient. Miss you dad.  📸: my own #nature #art #photography #naturephotography

"We are built of the spaces we no longer fill." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude

"How do you wound a memory? " (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #memory

"If silence had texture, it would feel like this" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude #ottawa

"I’d be the physics of no edges,  of haze from afar and clarity up close" #poetry #fog #nature #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own

“All days would be today, I thought  but even that day didn’t last.” Missing you a little extra today. Happy birthday, Dad. (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #Poetry #WritersOfBluesky #GriefJourney #NaturePhotography

"everywhere only white everywhere. The wind your only friend.” (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude

"grief settles the way snow does: soft,  and suddenly everywhere" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #memory #winter #naturephotography #ottawa

"...you are walking toward what you cannot see, and you are leaving behind what you cannot save..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #writingcommunity #nature

"....all memory is a door that only opens in, and no amount of force will breach the lock...." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #forest #writingcommunity #nature

"...I walk, but my shadow walks further, always leading the way ... it is the only thing I have left that exceeds me..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #fall #writingcommunity #nature

"...a river's chorus, lamenting our loneliness. Today, it sings of fire. Soon, of ash..."  (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #fall #autumn  #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #forest #solitude #writingcommunity #nature

"...the old skin, sliced off. New purpose, waiting in the bone...." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #Autumn #Duality #Fornever #Poetry #Solitude #writingcommunity #fall

"...the quiet, soft gloom of it all, and understand how beauty mourns more true than any word..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #grief #fieldnotes #poemfragment #naturepoem #BlueskyPoets #NaturePhotography

"You said you lived a good life....to love is to accept shadows..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #moon #solitude #poemfragment #writingcommunity #night

"a river of stars  shares the silence  as we flicker on the shore" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #Poetry #NightSky #Photography #Canada #nature #writingcommunity

"the sharp edges of shifting winds slice off the old skin" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #PoetryCommunity, #PoetryOfCanada, #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Photography #Canada #nature

Honoured to have my poem “Abandoned Boyhood” published in Canada Poetry Magazine (@ Wax Poetry & Art). You can read it here: https://f.mtr.cool/nofiawotav #Poetry #LitMag #PoetryCommunity #CanadianWriters #AmWritingPoetry

“A lake holds its breath, while the sky rehearses” (Yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) Photo : my own #Poetry #NightSky #Photography #Canada #nature #writingcommunity

“Some treasures can’t be carried, only stood upon.…” (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #grief #forDad #fieldnotes #lightandloss #poemfragment #naturepoem #remains #BlueskyPoets #HikingWithDogs #NaturePhotography #WildernessViews #DogsOfBluesky #AdventureDog

“…what remains / still leans into the light” —for Dad (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #grief #forDad #fieldnotes #lightandloss #poemfragment #naturepoem #remains #BlueskyPoets

“Somewhere deeper in, we find the walls we didn’t know we built.” (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #forest #solitude #poemfragment #writingcommunity #nature

" Spores drifting — dust becoming life again." (from one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #micropoem #forestpoetry #mushrooms #canada #nature #poetrycommunity

"The calm calls: mirrored fog, all thoughts unfinished." (from my untitled poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #dock #mist #BlueskyPoets #OttawaPoet #nature #writingcommunity #canada

"The places where shadows never stop nestling,” (from a recent poem I am still working on.) 📸: my own #poetry #blueskypoets #canlit #moonlight #naturepoetry #poetsofbluesky #originalpoetry #landscapephotography #selfshot #poetryandphotography #moon #nature

Honoured to be featured this week as a Poet of the Week at Poetry Super Highway. Two of my poems—"Has the West Always Been Uncivilized?" and "A Beautiful Life of Loneliness"—are up now: 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/gajtcojzoc #poetry #PoetOfTheWeek #WritingLife @poetrysuperhwy.bsky.social

Dangling, bewildered / in golden rays. Rosie, the watcher of dusk. 📸: my own #Poetry #Dust #Sunset #NatureVerse #GoldenHour #DogsofBluesky #ecopoetry #poetrycommunity #canada #landscapephotography #nature

The gloamy morning frays into day as we linger in our awe (from a poem about a deer) #poetry #mistymorning #ecopoetry #smallpress #writersky #poetrycommunity #writersky #bluesky #photography #art #reflectoin #fall #poem

Some say they no longer see me, others flee my silence. (from a poem where shadows say more than light) 📸: my own #poetry #concretepoetry #urbanstillness #shadowplay #poetrycommunity #guilt #writersky #bluesky #photography #art #OldCity #poems #poem

My lungs grew strong and grew used to the briny mist. (from a poem about heat, grief, and the body's memory of water) 📸: Taken on the shores of PEI — a place that still breathes in me. #ecopoetry #poetrycommunity #smallpress #PEI #canada #naturepoetry #blueskywriters #landscapephotography #nature

Each breath drew three roots—water, air, earth—in concert. From a poem about heat, grief, and the body's memory of water. Still unpublished — part of a growing collection. #poetry #ecopoetry #smallpress #writersky #photo

Whispers of Dawn — this Quebec lake holds its breath as the first light brushes the trees and mist. A soft, golden morning in the wild. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Sunrise #MistyMorning #GoldenHour #LakeView #Reflections #PeacefulMoments #LandscapePhotography #Wilderness #quebec #canada

Stillness in the Mist — a quiet morning where the world feels suspended between water, sky, and memory. Taken during a foggy sunrise over a still lake in Ontario. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Fog #LakeLife #Serenity #Minimalism #MistyMorning #Stillness #Peaceful #LandscapePhotography #canada

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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” John Keats #photography #nature

This does not bode well

This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.

In case you missed it, as of Feb. 22, 2025: * Arctic sea-ice extent: lowest * Antarctic sea-ice extent: 2nd lowest * Global sea-ice extent: lowest * Global mean surface temperature: 4th highest * Global sea-surface temperature: 2nd highest * 36-month albedo: lowest * Collapse of everything: highest