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Vicki Ziegler"A bird that sings all day a poet hears at night and thinking nightingale composes some didactic verse more about himself than what is most likely a robin"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalPoetryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalPoetryMonth</a> Poem by Bardia Sinaee from Intruder (2021 House of Anansi Press) <a href="http://bit.ly/3lwUIeR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3lwUIeR</a>

Vicki Ziegler"A fox axes red through the forest. An ox foxes the plough. Badger, you bade me bide time till spring when the buds burst, small fists punching pollen, knocking bees into honeyed senselessness."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> The Sum of my Badgers by Gary Barwin and Lillian Necakov (2025 periodicities) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/3eh7n2av" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/3eh7n2av</a>

BarbChamberlain"Revolution" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer"there they were, singing and showing up despite, and this was the moment that made me believe in the path—not just the grand marches toward freedom, but also the thin trails marked with courage and creativity, small moments I can follow like bread crumbs till this country again feels like home."<a href="https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/04/05/revolution-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/04/05/revolution-2/</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/advocacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#advocacy</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/AdvocacyMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdvocacyMatters</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HandsOff</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Revolution</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/RosemerryWahtolaTrommer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RosemerryWahtolaTrommer</a>

Vicki Ziegler"I will come to you, when you are tired when you need rest and reassurance like a bed of well-earned pearls, and dancingI have seen you dance"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> A Conversation With a Musician and a Forest by Richard J Tilley (<a href="https://scholar.social/@richard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@richard</a>) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/nerztdun" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/nerztdun</a>

Vicki Ziegler"but you are my guest here under these gusts of wayward blows and what I meant to say under this evolution of blue is that I will make up as much as I can from scales to feathers for you."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> On the Origins of the Specious: by Kevin Spenst from A Bouquet Brought Back From Space (2024 <a href="https://mstdn.ca/@anvilpress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@anvilpress</a>) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2aa5krr2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/2aa5krr2</a>

Vicki Ziegler"I machine sadness widgets."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> Sad Times at the Ol' Sadness Factory by <a href="https://writing.exchange/@juliancday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@juliancday</a> (2025) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/mrykbm9c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/mrykbm9c</a>

Trevor Burrows"She hated a *mown lawn*. Maybe that was because *mow* was the reverse of *wom*, the beginning of the name of what she was— a *woman*. A *mown lawn* had a sad sound to it, like a *long moan*. From her, a *mown lawn* made a *long moan*."Excerpt from Lydia Davis, "A Mown Lawn"Full (short!) prose-poem here: <a href="https://orb.binghamton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1098&context=harpurpalate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://orb.binghamton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1098&context=harpurpalate</a>[Using asterisks to italicize, since some of our instances play nice with Markdown]<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LydiaDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LydiaDavis</a>

Julé CunninghamOur poor dead gaze at us with their empty eyes and see everything to come— but even they can’t help or warn us, since neither war nor peace has taught us much. -- 'Not Much' by Ryszard Krynicki, trans. Clare Cavanagh from 'Magnetic Point'<a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/VerseThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VerseThursday</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a>(Art credit: Jacoba van Heemskerck)

Vicki Ziegler"The world falls through my forehead resistlessly as rain"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalPoetryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalPoetryMonth</a> Dark by Pat Lowther from A Stone Diary (1977) <a href="https://patlowther.ca/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://patlowther.ca/</a>

Vicki Ziegler"Let's find out what happenswhen the mind forests: does it filter heavy metals like cattails in the marsh, does itgargle emeralds in the throat."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> Unseasonable by Bren Simmers (2025 Opaat Press / <a href="https://toot.community/@annickmacaskill" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@annickmacaskill</a>) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2dd5zzuw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/2dd5zzuw</a>

Trevor Burrows"The pines persisted in mid-winter's bite, its bitter wind. The pines insisted they were back another day, and that they seemedanother way of living with the wind, the frozen sky, the brief mid-winter sun, not just as broken line, some darker bright."---Excerpt from "Bill Richard's Boy" by R.F. McEwen<a href="https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496242495/old-rags-and-iron/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496242495/old-rags-and-iron/</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RFMcEwen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFMcEwen</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a>

Vicki Ziegler"Now sorrow's almost already gone. I'm alone when the mask cracks showing my face again, aging and ageless."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> by Dale Martin Smith from The Size of Paradise (2024 knife | fork | book) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2xetkkva" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/2xetkkva</a>

BarbChamberlainCaptured thoughts on March delights in my life, which are there even through all the what's-is exploding around us. <a href="https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-delights.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-delights.html</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/March" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#March</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/dandelions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dandelions</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flowers</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spring</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/grateful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grateful</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoetryOfPresence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryOfPresence</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ThichNhatHanh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThichNhatHanh</a>

Vicki Ziegler"announcing to no-one/ wherever they are/I return their silence/I learn for us all/Here are my words"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> Announcements by Betty Doyle (2024 Poetry Wales) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ma4n3pd6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/ma4n3pd6</a>

Julian Daysmall poem for today and for <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/smallpoemsunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smallpoemsunday</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/todayspoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#todayspoem</a>

Vicki Ziegler"I was there in the box, incandescent, becoming half their hush, half still in the man’s chiselling snarl, louder now he was away and I am departing."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> Station by Ishion Hutchinson (2012 <a href="https://mastodon.social/@grantamag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@grantamag</a>) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/4mp258kd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/4mp258kd</a>

BarbChamberlainI love the philosophy and artistic style of Oxherd Boy, Regina Linke. The latest drawing features a Bertolt Brecht poem. "Motto" by Bertolt BrechtIn the dark times Will there be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.<a href="https://oxherdboy.org/products/dark-times" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://oxherdboy.org/products/dark-times</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/OxherdBoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OxherdBoy</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ReginaLinke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReginaLinke</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BertoltBrecht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BertoltBrecht</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/DarkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkTimes</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/singing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#singing</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoetryOfPresence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryOfPresence</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a>

BarbChamberlainTwo poems on the sun to bring you warmth (on a rainy day, where I live).Tony Hoaglund, "The Word" <a href="https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/03/tony-hoagland-word.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/03/tony-hoagland-word.html</a> Mary Oliver, "Sun" <a href="https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/03/mary-oliver-sun.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/03/mary-oliver-sun.html</a>Put "sunlight" on your to-do list for the weekend.<a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sun</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/sunlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sunlight</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/sunshine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sunshine</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoetryOfPresence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryOfPresence</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TonyHoaglund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TonyHoaglund</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/MaryOliver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaryOliver</a>

Vicki Ziegler"Can you win a game you’ve played alone? No need to display a poker face to yourself."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire by Donna Masini (2025 Academy of American Poets) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/wyd4a7v5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/wyd4a7v5</a>

Trevor Burrows"I'd Like to Say This As Clearly As Possible" by Jim MooreI live in a world in which 5 a.m. moonlight shines down on an empty parking lot.I live in a world in which rain falls on the bridge at noon. In which loneliness is never lonely for company.As clearly as possible I'd like to say:my soul is as plain as a fallen leaf on a sidewalk--as useless, and as beautiful.--- [Additional line breaks added to try to keep the sense of the original breaks. Read this for a workshop I am taking.] <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JimMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JimMoore</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a>

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