Looking hone your poetry craft ? Join for weekly mini-lessons and prompts. #amwriting #writingcommunity #poetry #poet #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #poetryworkshop open.substack.com/pub/howthepo...

The minutes before me are set aside for such creating. So consecrate this space and these moments, O Christ. Meet me in this hour as I hover over this chaos of raw materials and unrealized ideas. ~From “A Liturgy to Begin the Day’s Creative Labors” #amwriting #writingcommunity

Happy #Stunday and #smallpoemsunday Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection. -Wendell Berry

#poets Join me for the first installment of “How the Poem Means” as I try to emulate “Days” by Billy Collins and improve my craft! open.substack.com/pub/howthepo... #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #writingworkshop #poetry

What writing habits are you committing to this summer to help advance your goals? #writingcommunity #blueskywriters #poetsofbluesky

I started a free newsletter on Substack where I teach mini-lessons on poem craft with a prompt or challenge for the week. Feel free to join me! open.substack.com/pub/howthepo... #poet #poetry #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #writingworkshop #writersofbluesky #poetryworkshop

Happy #stunday. “Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled— to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.” #MaryOliver “The Ponds” #smallpoemsunday

Happy #Stunday! And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? And have you changed your life? #MaryOliver

Just arrived from thriftbooks.com What are you excited to read this weekend ?? Share your photo #blueskypoets

I had a spinal fusion in January and wrote a poem about it! #spinalfusion #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets open.substack.com/pub/michelle...

We cannot truly welcome light until we've lived a darkness deeper than what nightly covers the land with its dusky blanket. Luci Shaw #stunday

substack.com/@michelledis... Consider joining my publishing journey as I map out several writing projects for the future !

I’m excited to share that I will have a full-length book of poetry published with Kelsay Books this upcoming fall. This is a major milestone I’ve been working towards, and hopefully the first of many! #amwriting #blueskypoets #writersofbluesky #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #poetry

“I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.” --Mary Oliver, “Lead” #smallpoemsunday #stunday #palmsunday

#mountainmonday #monochromemonday #blueskymonday #blueskyartshow #stunday

Slanted figures moved up and down the rolling ridge line. I turned a corner and the birds hidden in the field scattered as if I had disturbed a secret meeting. I held out my hand for the butterfly, but he was interested in everything else. #stunday #smallpoemsunday #amwriting

#poemsabout #spent

I live by increments, single breaths of an ambient air, marking off hours, days. -Luci Shaw #thicktrunktuesday #photography #forest #blueskyartshow

Another morning and I wake with thirst for the goodness I do not have. I walk out to the pond and all the way God has given us such beautiful lessons. Oh Lord, I was never a quick scholar… grant me, in your mercy, a little more time. #maryoliver #blueskyartshow #blueskymonday

What does the rainforest remember of an earth that was empty and formless, now with its canopies of stringing moss and slanted sunlight sneaking through the green wrappings of every tree? #stunday #smallpoemsunday #pacificnorthwest #amwriting #blueskypoets

Before I even open my eyes, the warmth is already dissolving into the sheets, and in the space next to me, she who was just there is gone. The soft hairs on my skin lift and remember. My body shivers. With my hand I hold my other hand. #poemsabout #undertheskin @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#poemsabout #undertheskin #amwriting #poetry #blueskypoets

How do you say goodbye to a place that grew like a tree inside of you, whose roots and branches became intertwined with personhood and memory? -a question I’m trying to answer in a series of essays about family, nostalgia & grief #wednesdayWIPs #amwriting #memoir #grief

#poem #poetry #ashwednesday

I wait for almost dark to jog by houses with porch string lights Winter has the most outrageous orange sky I love to feel my body heat furnacing my skin My puffs of breath expressions of hope that appear then vanish in a steady rhythm I keep pushing #poem #sunset #amwriting #stunday

There are so many days I want to delete social media forever, yet an aspiring author, I know I need to have some kind of online presence. I am looking for advice from writers who have balanced these in tension. #writingadvice #writingtips #authoradvice #authortips #tipforwriters

#jrrtolkein #tolkein #tolkeinquotes www.instagram.com/p/DTV-B3xGDe...

thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com/2017/12/06/p... #advent #poetry

@vssdaily.bsky.social I hold the frame Look for you Through my widening Aperture Hoping you wander back From that distant vanishing point. #vssdaily #prompt #photo #poem #smallpoem

Rilke said: Go to the limits of your longing. I’ve not been poet enough to travel far enough to find the edge but I wonder if longing is like a map that could lead us to God or ourselves #blueskyartshow #blueskymonday #poem

You move me From glory to glory Like a bird on the wings Of wind, touching The crest of every wave #smallpoemsunday #stunday

#poemsabout #desire @brokenspinejournal.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #amwriting

Basically my favorite topic

If I were a perfect person, I would be bowing continuously. I’m not, though I pause wherever I feel this holiness, which is why I’m so often late coming back from wherever I went. Forgive me. #maryoliver #poetry #smallpoemsunday #stunday #blueskymonday #blueskyartshow #sunset #beach

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. Sometimes it takes a great sky to find that first, bright and indescribable wedge of freedom in your own heart. #smallpoemsunday #stunday #blueskyartshow #blueskymonday

“Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.” — Mary Oliver, It Was Early #maryoliver #maryoliverpoetry #monochrome #blackandwhite #stunday #blueskymonday #monochromemonday

#smallpoemsunday #maryoliver

And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? And have you changed your life? – Mary Oliver #stunday #maryoliverpoetry #photography #blueskyartshow #blueskymonday #nature #macrophotography #maryoliver #autumn

Happy #October !

First frost. #blueskymonday #macromonday

When you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or not and for now it seems as though you are still summer still the high familiar endless summer ~from To the Light of September BY W. S. MERWIN #poem #poetry #blueskyartshow #stunday #septembersun

This is the 4th issue of Humana Obscura to include a piece from me. I love this publication- it is simple, gorgeous, peaceful—a balm of beauty and stillness in these crazy times. #photo #photography #nature #blueskyartshow #poetry #litmag drive.google.com/file/d/1WrFD...

From the #Highline in #nyc #stunday #urbangaze

#september #blueskymonday

A sweet little poem I wrote for a friend’s housewarming #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #poetry #amwriting #writingconmunity #writersofbluesky

Even though I ache as summer begins to bring down its curtain Even though I gasp to see this light blaze by My breath is caught in Thank You Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you #summer #poem #poetry #stunday #sunrise

@blueskyartshow.bsky.social The vault above in its vast separateness now shares the firmament with the ever-reaching mountains: pointy, painted horizon: white-tipped, jagged line across the sky. #jagged #blueskyartshow #mountains #olympicnationalpark #pnw #stunday #blueskymonday #mountainmonday

I was going for Tolkien vibes #stunday #middleearth #mountainmonday #blueskymonday #lotr #lordoftherings #hurricaneridge #washington #olympicnationalpark

Another favorite #litmag Was rejected a few rounds ago but then accepted with a later revision! #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

This is such a beautiful publication, so happy to be included! #photography #litmag #amwriting #artistofbluesky