The house breathes The house coos The house sounds as if there’s infants in the walls —Melusine Poems

New project for 2025, year of the snake 🐍 ! The Mélusine Poems Melusine is the half woman/half snake spirit of fresh water.

a helpful diagram. #art #design

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"Faster!" Collage. I used real luna moth wings..found, I would never kill one. I love all the insect art and photos today for "green". #JanuArty #collage #JanuArty2025 #green #collageart #fantasy #humor #surrealism #cathyhorner #mixmedia #traditionalart #lunamoth

#vss365 #collar #sable #congeal #snake #vault #conjure

Today’s #poetryprompt: Let chance rule your #poem. Whatever that means to you. Roll a dice, pull a tarot card, open a book and select a random word or sentence. Life is full of happenstance and randomness. Let’s make it work for us. #WriterCommunity

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) a special one today, one of my favorite small poems of all time by James Schuyler:

today's writing prompt neonpajamas.substack.com/p/sunday-004...

How do we find our ppl on this brave new platform?? We are a small press from the Midwest publishing since 2011. Our open period for manuscripts is until the end of this month!! #booksky #poets #writers #smallpess #poetsofbluesky #queerpoets #opencall

Up with this sort of thing. David Wheatley, one of our most thoughtful and generous poetry reviewers, does the round-up in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Libraries are more than book lenders. Libraries help folks fill out taxes, fill out passport forms, access 3D printers, record in a (free) music studio, gather genealogy info, take various (again, free) classes, help with resumes, video editing equipment, large size PRINTING, ++++ I'M OUT OF ROOM!

SOME 8’s Snow falling proton-wise —falling sideways is not a black swan event Speed is its own para//elogram I spend forever turning out in this ballerina nightness I feel myself bleed inside my skates #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

bridge watchers

I’ve been exchanging tanka poems with my friend Marina. Recently, she sent me a passage from Glissant’s Poetics of Relation—prompting me to resume our correspondence. As Frank O’Hara once said, “the poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages.” salrandolph.substack.com/p/poetry-as-...

An everyday prompt distilled from yesterday’s wild blue musings on the Northern night sky as The Code of 404 (4🌌4)=(🐝🌻🐝)=(🌒🌕🌘) What is coming toward you? What is being ferried away?

It’s high time to reinvent Martian poetry. Multiple personalities optimize parallel universalities. How to activate cultural networks that span age & affinities? This quote is off limits for the average reader. If life hands you a sousaphone, make a parade. #ManifestoOfTheMoments #poetry

4🌌4 Poetics If this 0, pictured below, is the portal to the universe (currently known as Polaris) then that makes our earth the flower filled garden & the universe the hive & these 2, 4 legged bees are the pollen laden go betweens The boarder crossers The poets Traversing from flower to cave

May be the oldest 404 message, ever Very puzzling how these bees only have 4 legs

This is what Ive found so far: NOTES ON COOLIDGE, OBJECTIVES. ZUKOFSKY, ROMANTICISM, AND & by Robert Grenier: “The Maintains product of Coolidge's operations. Quincunx translated to lines from fives in nature.”

If 404 represents the ancient starless true north then the quincunx would be the current Polaris configuration Somewhere in my travels Ive come across a quincunx poetics which i can no longer find Can anyone out there help with this?

Every Poem is an Advent — day 18 Poem by Summer J. Hart from the book BOOMHOUSE

4🌌4 Poetics: Sometimes i wonder about the eons when the North Star was gone When the constellations & the 4 quartered moon circled a void A portal —circled the North Door What were their poems like?

Well, cool.

“Sound harmonies and disharmonies lead you to say things and invent things you couldn’t otherwise say. And the other part … is that those harmonies, if they’re particularly arresting to the ear, make the old connection between poetry as an oral art and Memory” -- Robert Hass

Circuit City

Writing poems on the bus beneath the shade of an agreeable tree although the driver thinks my use of simile is as thin as a blade of grass

Super funny bird feeder poem by the great Peter Voulkos news.artnet.com/app/news-upl...

Poem as a clay pot

Rough Translation The poetics of how a moth flies through a room 🎪✈️ 🎶 🍂 🌀 🍂 🎶 ✈️🎪 3 moths 3 thousand

4☁️4 poetics of veering off course

“You must write as if you're already dead.” -- Nadine Gordimer quoted by David Rieff quoted by Moyra Davey in Index Cards

Some Cakes

Photography by William Gedney, Girl standing on desk in courtyard, performing for a seated girl, 1955, Brooklyn, New York.

My alter/alter/alter ego posted a dream this morning that’s got me thinking about dream work & poetry: The idea of focusing on the 5 senses at work within the dream as primary subject matter—along side of, or even eclipsing, the narrative.

A roundup of poemy and arty stuff I’ve done this year, inc shout-outs to some lovely people, inc @amandaearl.bsky.social @jpseabright.bsky.social @danpower.bsky.social @hempressbooks.bsky.social @foimage.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social thebirdking.com/2024/12/15/t...

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) here’s a poem I love by Kristín Ómarsdóttir (tr. Vala Thorodds), & one by me :)

Here is a stunning poem for #smallpoemsunday & @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) here are two new poems by me, “Misbehaving Light” in Looky Here Magazine & “God Shed” in Occulum Journal, plus a found teacher report sheet poem~

If I had to pick a favorite poetry collection by Nikki Giovanni, this would be one of them. And "Winter" would be one of my favorite poems in it.

Lets say the sky shows up / and the mountain puts down / the snow the sky brought hours earlier / and lets say the sky offers mostly the moon / but holds back all but a sliver

Nikki Giovanni is eternal.

“Of course, there should be cake.” — TS Eliot