Abigail Leith Luxford

Misfit. Dreamer. Believer. Hopeless romantic. Lover of the rain, the wild, art, language, stories and poetry.

[Abigail Leith Luxford @burninginblue8]

“Doesn’t everyone want to feel in the night
the beloved body, compass, polestar,
to hear the quiet breathing that says
I am alive, that means also
you are alive, because you hear me,
you are here with me.”

Louise Glück, Averno

Lune Rousse au Cap d’Antibes, by Marc Chagall

[Tuhin (तुहिन/তুহিন) @tuhintranslates]

Not a day goes by that I don't think this William Bronk poem is the greatest ever written.

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(h/t poetryisnotaluxury) Donika Kelly

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Marc Chagall

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If it has been too long, you *know* I always have to repost this, one of my very favorite poems.

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Words from Roshi Joan Halifax

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Friedrich Heyser, Ophelia

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“Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.”
- Jim Harrison, "Poetry as Survival"

[Krishnamurti @K__Quotes]

Love is the vulnerable; love is the open, the imponderable, the unknown.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

And suddenly

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Gustave Courbet's Sunset

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“The world asks of us / only the strength we have and we give it. / Then it asks more, and we give it.”

— Jane Hirshfield

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This poem appeared in The October Palace by Jane Hirshfield, published by HarperCollins, 1994. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Claude Monet, Snow

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John Freeman • Wind, Trees

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Robert Bly

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Gregory Orr • Concerning the Book That is the Body of the Beloved

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Today’s poem is selected by Nick Martino as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

“Scheherazade” appeared in Crush by Richard Siken, published by Yale University Press, 2005. Shared here with deep gratitude.