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 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my Gonna break my rusty cage and run" #TodaysPoem #poetry Rusty Cage by Chris Cornell (1996) youtube.com/watch?v=9CrBqRb3… & genius.com/Johnny-cash-rusty…

Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage

REMASTERED IN HD!Official Music Video for Rusty Cage performed by ...

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"He wasn’t so much painting the mountain as painting time." #SundaySentence You Might Be a Late Bloomer by David Brooks (2024 The Atlantic) theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv… (Subscription required)

You Might Be a Late Bloomer

The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old age

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Agnieszka@Agniesz61796740Oct 11
#SundaySentence Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes and failures had been wiped clean by summer. Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose
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"As for the final fruits, coax them to roundness. Direct on them two days of warmer light" #TodaysPoem #poetry Day in Autumn by Rainer Maria Rilke (1902), translated by Mary Kinzie (2008 @POETSorg) poetryfoundation.org/poetrym…
Autumn colours and textures, including red crabapples, at Big Doe Lake

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Colin📚@TheBookshopManOct 18
Today I shall go to the bookshop and buy books for myself. I will then come home and add them to the mountain of unread books I already have. One day I shall die on that mountain. Of this I am sure.
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"the delta is the result of turbulence that has finally settled" #TodaysPoem #poetry vii. Relationships by @Leesa_Dean from Interstitial (2026 Gaspereau Press) gaspereaupress.com/books/int…
Poetry collection Interstitial by Leesa Dean (Gaspereau Press) sits amidst autumn leaves and needles

ALT Poetry collection Interstitial by Leesa Dean (Gaspereau Press) sits amidst autumn leaves and needles

Poetry collection Interstitial by Leesa Dean sits on a wooden table, upside down with the spine showing, with a black pen and a card with a green/blue gingham pattern on the cover and an envelope nearby

ALT Poetry collection Interstitial by Leesa Dean sits on a wooden table, upside down with the spine showing, with a black pen and a card with a green/blue gingham pattern on the cover and an envelope nearby

Handwritten transcription of the poem "vii. Relationships" from the poetry collection Interstitial by Leesa Dean - text placed in a card, poetry collection held open with a small piece of quartz

ALT Handwritten transcription of the poem "vii. Relationships" from the poetry collection Interstitial by Leesa Dean - text placed in a card, poetry collection held open with a small piece of quartz

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I post #TodaysPoem selections on different platforms. On another platform, a reader mentioned that he has asked his library to purchase this collection. I love it when a wee post like this inspires people to seek out works.
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兔兒神@chenchenwritesOct 14
Everyone (including me) always highlights the lines, "Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final." But today I keep going back to the later lines, "Nearby is the country they call life. / You will know it by its seriousness."
Go to the Limits of Your Longing by Rainer Maria Rilke tr. Joanna Macy & Anita Barrows God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.

ALT Go to the Limits of Your Longing by Rainer Maria Rilke tr. Joanna Macy & Anita Barrows God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.

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Rebecca Watson@TheRebeccaRiotsOct 15
Making more bird squares for the sleeves. Very pleased with these two!
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"Touching is bringing things into contiguity in space and time. The forces in operation in this problem are electromagnetic." #TodaysPoem #poetry Contact Forces by Dawn Macdonald (2021 @The_Temz_Review) thetemzreview.com/poetry-daw…
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"The body riots and I'm inside it, bearing witness, interpreting, translating, emoting" #TodaysPoem #poetry from A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2022 @PenguinCanada) penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/…
Sitting on the subway, I have the book A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt sitting on my purple bag, with my leg wearing polka-dotted jeans visible

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#WOMENSART
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'Autumn Birch' by contemporary US pointillist painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
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Whenever I'm teaching science to my third graders, I always keep in mind Simone Weil's words, “True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.” That is what I hope to impart to them: the beauty of the world.
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#WOMENSART
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Watercolour painting from the 'Leafscape' series, by Jessica Rosemary Shepherd, contemporary ethnobotanical artist #womensart #October
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"A whole tree could be put inside a mouth and a whole river, even some mountains with their peaks and knolls." #TodaysPoem #poetry Hunger by Igor Barreto (2017 Latin American Literature Today) latinamericanliteraturetoday…

Two Poems by Igor Barreto - Latin American Literature Today

THEY'RE hungry and their mouths are open.

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#WOMENSART
@womensart1Oct 13
Artwork by Katja Lang, contemporary German artist based in Berlin #WomensArt
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"Our house is a very, very, very fine house (fine house) With two cats in the yard Life used to be so hard Now everything is easy cause of you" #TodaysPoem #poetry Our House by Graham Nash (1970) youtube.com/watch?v=aunVlekX… & genius.com/Crosby-stills-nas…

Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young - Our House (Official Video)

Crosby, Stills, Nash , & Young - Our House (Official Video)Direct...

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"It was a landscape both porous and uninviting. Half way up one mountain was an enormous white Coca-Cola sign." #TodaysPoem #poetry Among Schoolchildren by Spencer Reece (2026 @MontrealPrize) montrealpoetryprize.com/poem…

Among Schoolchildren by Spencer Reece — Montreal International Poetry Prize

The one-story houses were painted aqua, violet, orange, pistachio....

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#WOMENSART
@womensart1Oct 11
Olga Kvasha, contemporary Ukranian painter #WomensArt #AutumnWeek
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#smallpoemsunday #TodaysPoem @TomSnarsky "Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels." Le Bonheur d'être bien aimée by Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books)
Short poem Le Bonheur d'être bien aimée by Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992) "Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels."

ALT Short poem Le Bonheur d'être bien aimée by Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992) "Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels."

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