Suit A #poetry thread i. An orangerie, neoclassical style, façade I see that’s theatrical. In front of oak door that led — I don’t know where — he walked. Décor, dark coattails that flowed. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #photography

Persephone Young crocus creeps up from the brown to write the first bright lines of spring, cast off last shreds of decay’s clinging gown — purple poetess breaks free from wintering. #poem #poemaday #poetry #crocus #spring #flower #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #macrophotography #photography

Apháneia A #poetry thread i. Great temple, Doric stone that sprawls across the green. Within, upon a throne, one waits, a shaded queen. Greek goddess in a niche of stone with arch above — her alabaster cheek, wax tear, unanswered love. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #photography

Crown A #poetry thread i. My Lady stood within an arch and wore her weighty crown of stone. She gave her hand and I embarked on a great quest I should have known. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #potsdam #monochrome #blackandwhite #codependency #divorce #photography

Odoacer A #poetry thread i. Once the Seven Hills saw the grim Goths at the gates, boy Augustulus’ laws faded with the Fates. Then the sky’s sundial spun for fifteen hundred years and a new Rome had sprung by banks of black Remus’ tears. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #symmetry #history #photography

Roundup A #poetry thread i. He pours his concrete over sand and gardens with his tools of steel, makes paths of gravel over land, thinks he controls just how his plants feel. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #nature #bloomscrolling #macrophotography #photography

Campanīle A #poetry thread i. A Roman church belfry, gold cross reaching for clouds: bell tolls, sets brass note free, sings out through misty shroud, 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #moody #neoclassical #church #night #photography

Un-well A #poetry thread i. Inviting house of love and stone: at threshold, vows. No more alone. We two walked through a nowhere door that led me to a missing floor. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #door #symmetry #divorce #photography

Bassæ of Berlin A #poetry thread i. A once-grand Berlin park built for people of means — now grimy, coal-dark,
and choking in weeds. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #berlin #moody #abandoned #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Para bellum Dead soldiers buried, memorial, carved word ‘peace’ — freshly turned topsoil #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #edinburgh #peace #antiwar #moody #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Narrow A #poetry thread i. Stone staircase up a steep hill slope that’s wedged between two leaning towers. Within its shadow, my feet grope to find each step: I reach — I cower. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #mentalhealth #depression #edinburgh #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Spring frost Dried wedding bouquet turns to dust. Cardboard boxes — two paths in a wood #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #flowers #naturephotography #bloomscrolling #macrophotography #divorce #photography

1 Cor 7:15 
Church pews, white flowers gathering dust. Mary weeps — door closes behind #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #divorce #photography

Crux A #poetry thread i. Twinkle, twinkle, gilded cross, I remember what I lost: a guiding star in sable night, compass rose aligned with right. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #divorce #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Lux Fan window, glass door, shafts of light in crumbling tower — old man’s eyes open #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #mentalhealth #depression #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Purgatorio A #poetry thread i. To rest, to sleep, perchance to dream in the unending deeps of stained glass moonbeams. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #windows #windowwednesday #gothic #cathedral #photography #mentalhealth #depression

3 Kings 1:1 Gothic synagogue watches, iron cogwheels turning — new Jeroboam #haiku #senryu #poem #poemaday #poetry #gothic #synagogue #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

I, kaching A #poetry thread i. The old market stands sell their baubles and fruit — the invisible hand trading money for loot, 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #streetphotography #urbanphotography #capitalism #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Some MAGA types like to call Trump the Red Caesar He's actually the Red Commodus

For International Women's Day can I tip my hat to Theodora, daughter of a bear keeper, single mother, sometime street walker and actress, also saint, who moved on to conducting strategy meetings and making foreign policy as empress of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Vesica piscis A #poetry thread i. Gothic cathedral, St. Vitus, encrusted with gold with red seal of an ichthys heralding Judgement foretold. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #gothic #cathedral #photography #silentsunday

Firmament Stone tracery flows across a vaulted Gothic sky A retina’s veins glow to hold fast the sky in a steady eye #imagism #poem #poemaday #poetry #gothic #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Unfilled Racks of empty beer steins capped with grey pewter. Rows of greying heads beneath caps of red. #imagism #poem #poemaday #poetry #berlin #photography

News, breaking Colorful marionette in a shop window. Coiffed TV anchor on the evening news. #imagism #poem #poemaday #poetry #puppets #marionette #toys #photography

Into the black A (long) #poetry thread — i. I dig — — into dark seams of distant hills. Though frosted green and palest blue, hill-hearts are black with coal and spill. I dig deep, chest bare, without a crew. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #mentalhealth #depression #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Scroll Tram in blue and gold, bold-type slogan on its side — faces in blue glow #haiku #senryu #poem #poemaday #poetry #streetphotography #photography

Draco A #poetry thread i. In the great wyrm’s house with sable drapes and eaves with spouts in dragonlike shapes, I stood to face the beast within — where heart had raced from his rage-winds. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #mentalhealth #depression #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Minab A #poetry thread i. 
A religious conversion took place in the land of Xerxes the Persian amongst desert sands: 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #gothic #monochrome #blackandwhite #minab #iran #photography

Psalm 12 (2026) A #poetry thread i. Oh Lord, if you’re out there, please help us in haste — for the false god in his lair is laying all to waste. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #antiwar #iran #symmetry #longexposure #photography

No-land A #poetry thread i. In the faraway land of Reality, I saw a small wooden throne for a king. He ruled from his perch with vitality and he never once asked for a thing. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #utopia #photography

At the gate I stand at a gate of antiquity painted with pale dryads and nymphs, now faded, peeled in anonymity: The crumbling gate is long sealed to the now. #poem #poemaday #poetry #longexposure #mentalhealth #depression #photography

Son, set A #poetry thread i. Within a dream, I wake to see the night approach beyond the seas. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #moody #mentalhealth #depression #photography

Tsukubai She ladles water from the stone basin: gnarled hands — Grey carp drifts away #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #japanese #japan #garden #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Strata In the street, I roam, flanked by high walls. Pale rainbow of stone that forms a great hall — banks for a river of asphalt. It flows in the shade under skies of cobalt: Grand Canyon, manmade. #poem #poemaday #poetry #urbanphotography #cityscape #photography

Lune A #poetry thread i. By the light of the moon, I stood by the old church as winds fell and swooned while the clouds spread their search 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #moon #night #monochrome #blackandwhite #longexposure #photography

Blue A #poetry thread i. Church interior with light-streaks of blue which, in theory, are reminders of you. We once had been joined before God and all: we’d been overjoyed or so I’d recalled. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #church #gothic #window #stainedglass #photography

Krater Apollon Late laughs in a bar, full glasses clink, whisky spills — distant stars arc past #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #berlin #streetphotography #urbanphotography #photography

Lakeside A #poetry thread i. The wind whips through tassels of grass that wave in the sundown’s pale light. Dark waters shine, reflect the mass of oak branches that welcome the night. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #landscapephotography #sunset #dusk #naturephotography #longexposure #photography

Passing Stone mausoleum crumbles to sand, then grey dust — requiescat, pax #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #gothic #moody #photography

Hourglass Old paint on wood door cracks, peels, flecks off in the wind — tree rings’ grain revealed #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #photography

Cracks Within wooden ribs stone heart prays with weary breath — lost cathedral, found #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #edinburgh #cathedral #gothic #chronicillness #photography

Mirror Weathered window frame’s deep grain stained with fading paint — colors hide the cracks #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #photography

Pacem A shuttered window recessed in fractured stone wall — eyes closed for last time #poem #poemaday #poetry #photography

Sermon He stood on a high mount to speak and spoke words that were meant to stay. But the people turned from him in a pique when the wind whisked his words away. #poem #poemaday #poetry #longexposure #monochrome #blackandwhite #classicmono #photography

Column Stone pillar. Arcade around an old village church — one sun, many shades #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #monochrome #blackandwhite #classicmono #photography

Crossing Wooden saints’ statues in shadows between windows — boatsmen at river #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #moody #monochrome #blackandwhite #classicmono #photography

Cumulus A #poetry thread i. In cobbled square of Prague’s Old Town, the clouds prepare in seamless sound: they dip and swell. They softly curl into themselves — sky cotton swirls, 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #cityscape #monochrome #blackandwhite #classicmono #photography

Arcade A #poetry thread i. Arches sang a rhythm now broken by the cracks: stones are split, and with them, the roof begins to slack. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #longexposure #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

Threshold A #poetry thread i. At the palace gate built of old stained stone, heart and mind debate to leave or atone — do I stay where I am where I’m kept, yet trapped — do I crack this dam, let loose, flow at last? 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #monochrome #blackandwhite #classicmono #photography

Hollow Hollowed log, wetness — Frog hears the pitter-patter between the raindrops. #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #frog #reptile #naturephotography #animals #photography