#Spooktober #Masks Mayan masks hanging on a stone wall in Guatemala. #EastCoastKin #MayanMasks #ArtYear #Guatemala

So yesterday on our walk we saw this. A very large flock of Goldfinches and Common Linnets. It’s not unusual for them to gather like this for protection and foraging, especially in the winter months but I’d never seen so many. A few decided to sit on a fence. #birds 🪶 #photography #EastCoastKin

Day 2 of Black Spec Fic month recs! 1. MIDNIGHT ROBBER by Nalo Hopkinson www.barnesandnoble.com/w/midnight-r... 2. THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY by Kemi Ashing-Giwa www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-splint... 3. A free read from me: THE ANCHORITE WAKES clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_08_18/ Share & Enjoy!

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

#短歌 #tanka going home on the old path I look for the hat I used to wear and the man I used to be

A popular rafting river in the Appalachian mountains is still closed a year after Hurricane Helene, because there's just too much debris. Now, rafting guides have come together to help clean it up.

star  through the pine   through me #haiku #poetry

a fly searches through every room no escape 😱 Thanks once again to the fabulous team at pea towers. It's great to be included with such talented poets. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hkxn... Go on have a listen... @thepoetrypea.bsky.social #haiku

a different cool than the Douglas firs redwood shade   -Michael Dylan Welch https://tinywords.com/?p=44010

canto by canto last faint cricket in the bamboo grove - Deborah A. Bennett The Cicada's Cry, Autumn 2024

Submit! One of the best! 🧡

I’m thrilled and honored that my poem received an honorable mention in The Haiku Foundation’s Monthly Kukai for September, theme "pink". thehaikufoundation.org/thf-monthly-... wishing on stars she folds pink booties Into a drawer — Mary Beth Defer

Mystery cosmos..no idea where you came from but you are beautiful. ✨

Here's more about the poet, and this poem in Spanish with a different English translation: www.aliciabird.me/blog/2017/3/...

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ~Jane Goodall A bright light has gone to the Great Council on the other side. ✨💛✨ #janegoodall

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku high tide as if we were never here

almost leaving home first of the yellow birch leaves caught in a cobweb

Jane Goodall died She helped animals All of us #haiku #senryu ✨💜 www.cbc.ca/news/world/j...

my mother is still dying in my dream and that means my mother's still alive and tries to help me in my dream #tanka #5lines

closing the window to shut out morning heat and birdsong #haiku

tanka weekly #poetry challenge October 2, 2025 this week’s prompt: subtle write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka resources to develop your practice: tankasocietyofamerica.org Tanka Society of America: www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

I’m beyond honored that my poem received an honorable mention in The Haiku Foundation’s Monthly Kukai for September, with the theme of “Pink”. Thanks so much to Beverly Acuff Momoi for her thoughtful commentary. To read the winning poems, click on the link. thehaikufoundation.org/thf-monthly-...

A Medieval Cat’s Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History www.medievalists.net/2024/10/medi... #Cats

A Steller's Jay more or less in #profile for the #BirdOfTheDay 💙🌲🪶 at Yosemite NP. #RockinTuesday #Yosemite #birds

A top Mamdani adviser tells me internal data shows taking on Trump's authoritarian abuses resonates. It appeals to working class voters across all demographics, countering the frequent claim that this is a "distraction" from issues working people "really" care about. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Strongly recommend her. She worked with me years ago and in response to a challenge she gave me ("show just how magical faerie is" as i recall), I wrote a new scene that I am proud of.

It was never about money. What a shame that so many in the press went with that line.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“The shower floods the kitchen. Slugs come through outlets to mate on the walls and the mess of it is revelation. The voice of ancestors saying, No, love, no.” Beth Gilstrap (@bettysueblue.bsky.social) in the new @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! pitheadchapel.com/xi/

I light a candle strike a match for every goodbye you never will have for every hello you never said for the life you barely lived and the stories you never had. I light and light and light again till my whole world is burning. @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poemsabout #candlelight #poem #poetry

I'm delighted to announce that my poem Prefab (which can be found in the link below) has been nominated for BEST OF THE NET My boundless gratitude goes to @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social & @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social for nominating me 🙏 #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #BOTN

And a grateful shoutout to @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social & its brilliant editor @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social The online journal publishes generous helpings of poetry. In the link below you can find out how to submit & also see the other Best of the Net nominees, in whose company I'm proud to be

I’m a MAJOR owl fan, but my favourite is the burrowing owl: ✔️v frowny & grumpy-they know what you did last Tuesday ✔️digs holes then peeps out of them ✔️EXPERTS at the wobbly head bendy neck owl thing ✔️long leggies ✔️does very silly running on said leggies 10/10 no owly notes HIGHLY recommended

single wood lily… in a sea of anemone a quiet blaze #RedWed #haiku

L'eau Coule Rivière Portant haut Le chant de la Terre Qu'elle partage avec le vent +++ [Water flows - River carrying high the song of the Earth - Sharing it with the wind] #fibonacci #ombres #WriteSky #wipsnips #WritingPrompts #river

Untitled A cold front has delivered October's bright blue weather right on schedule. Yellow leaves flutter down in the breeze. A Carolina wren draws again and again from a seemingly inexhaustible well of song.

It’s a good occasion to read (or reread) Isaac Ginsberg Miller’s essay in APR that unpacks Lehman’s endorsement of neocon theories of cultural decline in the 2014 Best American Poetry. As Miller said then, “We should not let Lehman off so easily.” aprweb.org/poems/in-the...

flowing downhill the river carries sky after sky #haiku

"I know ten thousand women called Jane and Mary Jane, but I've not seen any two who really were the same." - Maya Angelou. Two strikingly different dahlias on this #TwosDay Wishing you a delightful evening and a fantastic start to October! 💜💗 #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.  #Medsky www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third. Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation. Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.

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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Full context here. www.politico.com/live-updates...

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

Once more for the 30th September which is, by the way, Saint Jerome’s Day – patron saint of translators, archivists and librarians 📖 … and against anger

After his wife Alice died in 1911, Monet returned to the water lilies with a new vision. He scaled up to monumental canvases, using bold strokes of color. These late works pushed toward abstraction—inspiring Cézanne, Matisse, and Expressionism.

The magic of moss and what it teaches us about scaling attention to life www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/13/g...

when the snail grows tired I carry her to the tree