Puddleby

Struggling optimist.

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

So moved by the response I received after reading Ronna Bloom's "Rending the Garments" as part of the eulogy I wrote for my mother-in-law's memorial on Sunday. Here's the poem again for those who may have missed it last year.

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

The Ever Changing Sky.

Sonia Lera Preston.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Nothing goes harder than Anne Carson's translation of Euripides.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

What the students at recent graduation ceremonies are (rightly) booing is not just AI but also an entire society that has made them feel dispensable, replaceable, "less than" the digital "mind."

That is the core of the issue: dehumanization.

We need a society that celebrates human creativity, sees the individual soul as our greatest resource, and is imaginative enough to know how to make each life feel vaster, not smaller.

Listen to that "boo," because inside it is not just fear, but wisdom.

[buy Fenestration @Othuke__Umukoro]

There's a dream I have in which I love the world.
—Cameron Awkward-Rich

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Every sentence of this, especially the final one, breaks me wide open.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Your Sunday Poem 🤌🏼✨️

• Mary Oliver •

[Peege @bloodsigns]

Mark Nepo • The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Some of the best psychological healing is found in poetry.

• William Blake •

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

14 words that broke me when I wrote them.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

A little lifesaver from Langston Hughes:

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

The hardest thing I’ve done is deciding every day not to do the easiest thing. I refuse to become jaded. I will nurture beauty in and around me and others. I will help my neighbors. And become unstoppable. Join me

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Van Gogh's letters save me:

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Who among us hasn't asked / for mercy?

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

the grief the grief the grief the grief

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:

“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”

The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Poems for Lent (Day 21)

• Mary Oliver •

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

how lonely / God must have been / to do this

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This is beautifully made by Anshu & Neha ("sootaursui" on IG). In a world of so many destroyers, thank you to all the creators out there. ❤️