Idle Scribe

please excuse the mess. a @bootsmcgoot situation. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash - Leonard Cohen

[Idle Scribe @IdleScriber]

Guerdon

[the lickety~split @olicketysplit]

Sometimes my mother compliments me, saying:

I didn’t think I was beautiful until I had you,
until they told me: she looks just like you.

I never know what to say except maybe:
Mom, do you know how sad that is?

To think it took thirty years to see
what was always in the mirror.

[Leslie J. Anderson @inkhat]

a poem about blame

[Elisabeth Adwin Edwards @EAdwinEdwards]

Victoria Chang, again. 🧡🤎🍁🍂✨

[Yi 🏹🌅 @yiiiiwei]

my poem in @canthius issue 10 w so many luminaries, edited by the warm n brilliant @sannareya !!

[John Henry Falle @thestorybeast]

#WorldPoetryDay ‘All Children are Psychogeographers’

[peter laberge 🌺 @tweeterlabird]

i often think of this beautiful @adroitjournal poem by @BarotRick, from earlier this year 💕

https://t.co/MCPqr6isov

[Idle Scribe @IdleScriber]

i can't write poetry lately. I'm angry, on some level, all the time. some people write great angry poetry, but i can't. the world refuses to be as beautiful as i know it should be and i can't forgive that.

[the lickety~split @olicketysplit]

apocalypse

I used to think the last day
would come with a trumpet
and shout and cracked-open skies

heaven and hellfire cloaked
in clouds until that moment

now I see

each

shattered

child

is

an

apocalypse

where is paradise?

we are gaping

[Caroline Bird @CarolineBirdUK]

Taking advice from a poem usually feels like asking a windmill to point you home… however… *this*, from Lew Welch, is pretty damn sound

[Jamie Byng @baddabyng]

And here is @adalimon⁩’s Wonder Woman, the opening poem in ⁦@duanalla⁩’s Poetry Unbound & a perfect start to any anthology. I cannot think of a better book for enabling readers to understand that poetry is for EVERYONE. Thank you Padraig for the podcast and now this book

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Another poem I revisit often. A poem about creating and wonder. A poem about poeming. Mary Ruefle in the key of sublime.

[C.P. Neill @nearest_the_sky]

There was a butterfly

[Idle Scribe @IdleScriber]

I love that single used of past tense. Everything else about this poem is so present, despite the subject matter.

[Idle Scribe @IdleScriber]

Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild, by Kathy Fish. https://t.co/vSO29Mpbdi

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Good morning, here’s a gorgeous morning poem:

[Idle Scribe @IdleScriber]

This incredible poetry zine by @charlieccwilson is well worth your time. It's beautifully illustrated, and quietly expresses something simple and true about connection. Available on etsy https://t.co/AbeAq5fjbS