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petaltexturedskies · 9 months
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Mary Oliver, from New and selected poems, vol. Il
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halberdbooks · 11 months
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Halberd Books vol. 1 by David M. Briggs
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collecting 69 poems from 6 chapbooks:
• A Few Too Many Words About Me and You (Winter 2018)
• Speak Easier (Spring 2018)
• Chain Reactions (Summer 2021)
• Searching for the Words (Summer 2022)
• Songs of Captivity and Songs of Escape (Fall 2022)
• New and Selected Poems (Summer 2023)
Hardcover collection or individual paperback chapbooks available now at bit.ly/briggsbooks
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rosyjuly · 1 year
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Mary Oliver, “When Death Comes", New and Selected Poems, 1993. 
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abellinthecupboard · 23 days
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A Toast
A branch smooth as the rubbed foot of Saint Peter, puce, porous, rinsed by wind. Clean spear of a skeleton. Bridge of a Roman nose. Cask of air. When I walk into that croft, the trees at my back like a reredos carved by rain, then the day could pour like ouzo into my crystal thimble— a shot of air for friendship, a bar of bleached light for the necklace of stones strung on the chalky ridges— a blackbird smearing the trees for our daughters in the alizarin of day. Then, a swallow could hook its neck on a rafter, a hawk mistake a lure for God and Country, I wouldn't know— my shot glass a splintered flock of feathers in the wind.
— Peter Balakian, June-tree: New and Selected Poems (2001)
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somberous · 4 months
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Mary Oliver, from “Marengo.” [ID in alt text]
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soracities · 4 months
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Carl Phillips, "Fixed Shadow, Moving Water", Then the War: New and Selected Poems [ID'd]
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majestativa · 5 months
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The altar runs black with blood. The stars shift in the sky. Something unspeakable enters the world.
— Sebastian Crow, Gothique du Grotesque: New and Selected Poems, (2015)
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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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Carol Ann Duffy, New Selected Poems: 1984-2004; from ‘To the Unknown Lover’
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adrasteiax · 2 years
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In the deep fall don’t you imagine the leaves think how comfortable it will be to touch the earth instead of the nothingness of air and the endless freshets of wind? (…)
Mary Oliver, from Song For Autumn in “New And Selected Poems: Volume Two”
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wordwinds · 7 months
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Mary Oliver, from "Lead" as published in New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (2007)
[Begin Image ID] A photo of a poem excerpt from a book. The poem reads: "I tell you this / to break your heart, / by which I mean only / that it break open and never close again / to the rest of the world." [/End Image ID]
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darichonne · 2 months
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insta: @darichonne
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virtuouslibertines69 · 4 months
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"There’s so much I haven’t told her lately, about how quickly my soul is aging, how it feels like a basement I keep filling with everything I’m tired of surviving." - Philip Schultz, from The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems; “It’s Sunday Morning in Early November,” Art by Jorge Mascarenhas
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halberdbooks · 11 months
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Happy Pride Month from Halberd Books!
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rosyjuly · 1 year
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Mary Oliver, “A Certain Sharpness in the Morning Air", New and Selected Poems, 1993. 
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Earth and Moon from Beyond: What do the Earth and Moon look like from beyond the Moon? Although frequently photographed together, the familiar duo was captured with this unusual perspective in late 2022 by the robotic Orion spacecraft of NASA's Artemis I mission as it looped around Earth's most massive satellite and looked back toward its home world. Since our Earth is about four times the diameter of the Moon, the satellite’s seemingly large size was caused by the capsule being closer to the smaller body. Artemis II, the next launch in NASA’s Artemis series, is currently scheduled to take people around the Moon in 2025, while Artemis III is planned to return humans to lunar surface in late 2026. Last week, JAXA's robotic SLIM spacecraft, launched from Japan, landed on the Moon and released two hopping rovers. Image Credit: NASA, Artemis I; Processing: Andy Saunders
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“When we dance the earth trembles. When our steps fall on the earth we feel the shudder of life beneath us, and the earth feels the beating of our hearts, and we become one with the earth. We shall not sever ourselves from the earth. We must chant our being, and we must dance in time with the rhythms of the earth. We must keep the earth.” ― N. Scott Momaday, Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
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“You are the dark shape I find On nights of the spilling moon, Pale in the pool of heaven.
— N. Scott Momaday, from “Revenant” The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2020)” ― N. Scott Momaday, The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems
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somberous · 2 months
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Mary Oliver, from “Lead.” [ID in alt text]
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