CLOUD CUCKOO LAND in Poetry Expo 2026, curated by Versopolis. Showcased Wednesday 11th February on Verspolis website. Audio drama with songs, based on Aristophanes, The Birds, written/performed by The Poetic Flamingos: Dino Mahoney Lisa Kelly Paul Stephenson & Simon Wu #versopolis #poetryexpo26
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
Hahahs
For there was no rain in Paradise because of the delicate construction of the spiritual herbs and flowers.
Christopher Smart 1722-71
For the malignancy of fire is oweing to the Devil’s hiding of light, till it became visible darkness.
Christopher Smart 1722-71
“My poor friend the poet Christopher Smart shewed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place...”
James Boswell, The Life Of Samuel Johnson
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
Christopher Smart
1722-71
For I have glorified God in Greek and Latin, the consecrated languages spoken by the Lord on earth.
Christopher Smart
1722-77
For I bless the prince of peace and pray that all the guns may be nail’d up, save such [as] are for the rejoicing days.
Christopher Smart
1722-1771
America. 2025.
Strong is the lion—like a coal
His eye-ball—like a bastion's mole
His chest against the foes:
Strong, the gier-eagle on his sail,
Strong against tide, th' enormous whale
Emerges as he goes.
Christopher Smart
We need more people like Frankie in the world.
A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Carnival parade,ACC - Aegina Cat Care #aegina #greekcats #greekisland
I just told Speaker Hoyle to keep Trump out of Parliament - will you do the same? actionstorm.org/petitions/du... #DumpTrump
In a strongly-worded letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, Pope Francis is taking to task the Trump Administration's stance on migrants, and that he's following what he calls a "major crisis" with the initiation of mass deportation.
How amazingly prescient.
Passage from Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World
Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.
Constant craving for it
Today's Featured Poet:
Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010), The Real Horse (University of Arizona Press, 2018), and Moon Mirrored Indivisible (University of Chicago Press, 2025).
New @backlisted.bsky.social special! Biographies and memoirs by Nancy Mitford, Roger Lewis, Elizabeth Jane Howard, P.D. James and Jean Rhys, with Laura Thompson and @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/233...
Shot, poisoned and beaten to death: why leopard killings are soaring in Pakistan
Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
Aegina peeps. Come see. Support ACC (Aegina Cat Care).
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
Paul Valery
35 in a day? You’re on fire. This is turning into something seriously special, and it’s only getting bigger. Love to see #PoemsAbout thriving. And #TheWhiskeyTree #Wave3? Can’t wait. Keep going, you absolute force.
