Moss along the base of a large maple tree. Decaying leaves on the forest floor. Rain-drenched sword ferns. Towering trees in the background.

Lush green sword ferns in the forest with tall cedars and other evergreens in the background

A gravel path in the woods winds between tall evergreens on a rainy day

Today in Vancouver
A very rainy walk in the woods

Short poem titled "Fluent" by John O'Donohue about living life as if one were a river

Poem by Jane Hirshfield

Poem by Jane Hirshfield

Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me

Jane Hirshfield

Happy new year.

'Tis the season for some festive science songs.

If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

medieval wall painting of a woman holding a knife and her eyes on a plate

closeup of the eyes

Glad Lucia to those who celebrate from the Lucia herself in the Battistero di Parma (and her eyes on a plate)

Wendell Berry poem titled Loved Ones about the impermanence of human life.

Praise Song:a poem by Barbara Crooker detailing all the beautiful things to appreciate about late November

#A_NewHope ✊

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

No Kings protests outside of the US

No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Poem about life and death using metaphor of finally empty desk

Harvey Shapiro

Poem about behaving like mushrooms

By Lesley Wheeler
@lesleywheeler.bsky.social

Please share this piece of writing that my editor and I work hard on every year because its window of relevancy/usefulness is vanishingly small. Just 45 hours or so.

WOW. A teacher just told me, "I gave one of my 2nd grade (dyslexic) students your nature poetry prompt. He is reluctant to write because of challenges with spelling, but I suspect he’s gifted. I told him just to write and we’d sort out the spelling later. This is what he wrote."

Text of a poem by Sanna Wani from the collection, My Grief, The Sun

Happy #NationalPoetryMonth day 13

c/o @sannawani.bsky.social

Strange men on golf courses distributing tariffs is no basis for a system of government. Bring back the women lying in ponds.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Excerpt from the Guardian newspaper describing parallels between the US diplomatic visit to Greenland by JD Vance and a ridiculous film called Greenland starring Gerard Butler.

🤣 Marina Hyde in today's Guardian:

Greetings from Canada and thank you for your excellent AI thread. Would you be ok with me sharing it with my students? I teach at a community college and yours is one of the best rationales I've seen.

Coral reef re-created as a crocheted blanket all in white

Love after Love poem by Derek Walcott.

Black print in a white page describing how snow transforms everything

Emily Dickinson on snow...

Solstice poem by Michael Longley

Lucia 2024 - Lucia morning from Sala Sweden YouTube video by PublicService

Happy St Lucia to all who celebrate, including us non-religious people who love the music and candlelight and did mini Lucia processions for our grandmothers when we were children.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEir...

Monetisation The advert said MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS so he thought he would respond; by painting them in the changing light, like waterlilies in a pond. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Monetisation’.