Bailey Henderson

writing creatively sometimes. avid shark admirer. thank you for existing

[𝖔𝖈𝖙𝖔𝖇𝖊𝖗 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘 @aperfectpumpkin]

u ever smell the air and it smells like the 4th grade scholastic book fair on a chilly tuesday in october of 2000

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Moonlit Night (The Garden Pond)
Kawase Hasui, 1920

[Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr]

Ada Limón

[aiman @dumbsoftheart]

poem for last Sunday in April

[aiman @dumbsoftheart]

this poem by richie hofmann just took my breath away

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

with blossoms in our teeth

Lew Welch

[Richard Siken @richardsiken]

@beyondpasserine Fredrick: It isn't the words that have the effect, it's the sentences. It isn't the images that transmit the emotion, it's the images in a particular order. Hemingway did a lot with a handful of simple words. Stein did, too. We don't need more definitions, we need more moments. >

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

I needed nothing more; I was utterly sated.

- Louise Gluck, “Eros”

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Today's Poetry Thread: HOLDING

There are things we cannot hold until we know how to let go.

Feel free to add poems.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

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[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

Kyla Jamieson:

[Richard Hoffman @rhoffman49]

Just noting what time it is... from my Gold Star Road (2007)

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Today's Poetry Thread: GRANDPARENTS

The gifts they give remain. Feel free to add poems.

[Poetry Foundation @PoetryFound]

Minnie Bruce Pratt (1947-2023)
https://t.co/NrkYZxd4ri

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

(deep sigh) All six wildfires in the Pacific Cascade Region this weekend were caused by fireworks.

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

Bed is definitely where I now belong, but apart from this I also definitely belong to you, thus I vacillate between the two of you.

Franz Kafka, 1913.

[anna 🏹 @myelessar]

screaming they did not