The Pumpkin Patch - Horror-Microfiction
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#PoemsAloud #Storytelling #SpokenWord #WritingCommunity #poetry
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#PoemsAloud
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Posts tagged #PoemsAloud
Seeing as I was there earlier today (killing time while my car failed its MOT), here's me reading 'Windmill Hill' – my latest contribution to @coastalpoet.bsky.social's #poemsaloud initiative.
on.soundcloud.com/Pe5gkwEBt06iE7JQuC
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A quiet yet sonorous meditation by Sara Teasdale on the seeming misalignment between seasonal delight and renewal and a time of human conflict and slaughter.
Timely…
Read beautifully by my friend Evie
@coastalpoet.bsky.social #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity
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And also thanks to:
@markantonyowen.com
@carmellapoetry.bsky.social
@fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@kokopellibfree.bsky.social
@seanjbates.bsky.social
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
and other poets who've recently shared #PoemsAloud. Looking forward to listening to more ahead!
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Spring in War-Time BY SARA TEASDALE I feel the spring far off, far off, The faint, far scent of bud and leaf— Oh, how can spring take heart to come To a world in grief, Deep grief? The sun turns north, the days grow long, Later the evening star grows bright— How can the daylight linger on For men to fight, Still fight? The grass is waking in the ground, Soon it will rise and blow in waves— How can it have the heart to sway Over the graves, New graves? Under the boughs where lovers walked The apple-blooms will shed their breath— But what of all the lovers now Parted by Death, Grey Death?
'Blossoming Trees Along a Hillside,' a painting by John Joseph Enneking, which shows a grassy slope with flowering trees at the top and a pale blue sky with clouds.
Today's experiment emerged from a Bluesky conversation yesterday with @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social. With thanks for his wonderful readings and for other #PoemsAloud contributors who've been sharing audio poems, including:
@janpsolivagant.bsky.social
@johnchmura.bsky.social
@frankhudson.bsky.social
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A reading of Sara Teasdale's poem, 'Spring in War-Time,' written in the U.S. during the First World War.
I'll also include the text of the poem in the comments. When sharing audio poems, tag #PoemsAloud to help people find them. The art is Camille Pissarro's 'Kitchen Garden, Trees in Flower, 1877'
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Dancing The Wheel In Golden October - Prose
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#PoemsAloud #Storytelling #SpokenWord #WritingCommunity #poetry
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My last #DingAnSich #promptcombo recording is my #poem Between. Again it’s from the excellent @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social (text above 👆). #thinginitself #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity @victoriaspires.bsky.social
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#PoemsAloud I’m performing poems from a between-the-wars anthology Modern American Poetry for NPM2026. Today it was a poem by Maxwell Bodenheim, once styled “The King of Greenwich Village Bohemians.” But I was also thinking of young Bob Dylan. frankhudson.org/2026/04/07/m...
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#Dailyhaikews
Today's spoken word news report features the madness of the World Coal Carrying Championships!!!
#poetry #blueskypoet #poem #PoemsAloud
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Interesting poem and context, John. I wonder if Frank knows that story about Bob Dylan? And a ‘World Cup’ cicada… I haven’t heard about that before. This was a good bonus round #PoemsAloud
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Wordsworth. 256 today
So I recorded some Tintern Abbey. Wordsworth didn’t share Coleridge’s fascination with German idealism (or misunderstanding of it; for C’s take on the #DingAnSich #ThingInItself see Biographia Literaria) yet reaches through nature & self for an Essence #Wordsworth #poemsaloud
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Finding Truth - A Fantasy-Microstory
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#PoemsAloud #Storytelling #SpokenWord #WritingCommunity #poetry
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This second #DingAnSich #promptcombo contribution is Falling. It’s also from @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social (text above 👆). #thinginitself #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity @victoriaspires.bsky.social
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New Beginnings - Micropoetry
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#PoemsAloud #SpokenWord #Storytelling #WritingCommunity #poetry
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All three of my @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social poems have a certain #DingAnSich dimension. I’ll record them all this week. Here’s the first. Langdale Pikes @victoriaspires.bsky.social #promptcombo #thinginitself #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity
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#PoemsAloud Here’s my 3rd National Poetry Month musical presentation, this one made from a 1920s poem about 4 strangers who arrive at a rural inn. How strange are they? Are they Roma travelers, or—well you listen to the song or read the poem and decide: frankhudson.org/2026/04/04/a...
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Recovery - Microprose
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#PoemsAloud (a 🦋 thing) #SpokenWord #Storytelling #WritingCommunity #poetry
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Wonderful poems, Paul. 👏🏼
I loved your lines in the first one, that we are “never more alive than when we are between.”
Also this passage in the second:
“a practical grace fits you…
And there you are, hunter-gatherer, tracking through the wild.”
Looking forward to hearing each as #PoemsAloud ✨
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#Dailyhaikews
Spoken word news report
Today I give youa response to the plane shot down in Iran
#poetry #blueskypoet #poem #spokenword #PoemsAloud
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This a poem I wrote last week. It's called Evasive Rules.
@coastalpoet.bsky.social
#PoemsAloud
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Swifts, Swallows Swifts, swallows: ghostly Doubles meeting at Whitsun - Sky god’s full-throated Season echoing the Abyss. Forebear tongues and Sagas revelled in Whirlpools and swallies, Devoured by the sweeping, Churning presences Glimpsed in sky and sea. Swifts, swallows: ghostly doubles, Aerial nomads, Custodians of Ancient songlines etched with a Thumbtack of neurons. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
#PoemsAloud #animalpoem
#poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
#Swift #Swallow #ConvergentEvolution #Nature #Songlines #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity
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🙏 @coastalpoet.bsky.social #PoemsAloud #animalpoem #PoetryReading
#poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
Text in the Comments 👇👇
#Swift #Swallow #ConvergentEvolution #Nature #Songlines #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity
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Flocculent Wool's nano fibres - Squint and you'll glimpse the dappled Scales of Samurai Koi leaping upstream against Time's current, back to Eden's hatching pool: Grandsire of card and Carp, limpid source of the Uncreated Mind. Tasked with this riddle, Be still! Unbidden, koi will Line up in unschooled Tufts - silent promptings that Clarify the mind's Thought-tormented waters. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Flocculent: a.) woolly, tufty; b.) possessing a loose, clumping quality
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2008 Monochrome image of two koi carp lined up in a pond
#PoemsAloud #animalpoem #PoetryReading - in original post ☝️
#poetry / #photography:
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2008
#Zen #Koi #Evolution #Creation #Nature #bskypoetry #monochrome #bw
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🙏 @coastalpoet.bsky.social #PoemsAloud #animalpoem
#poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
Text & Image in the Comments 👇👇
#Zen #Koi #Evolution #Creation #Nature #bskypoetry
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To Harvest Memories - Micropoetry
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#PoemsAloud #SpokenWord #Storytelling #WritingCommunity #poetry
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#Dailyhaikews
Today's Spoken Word News Report!
Covering the sacking of Simon Dudley.
Even Reform have limits on how much of an unfeeling **** you can be...
In public at least...
#poetry #blueskypoet #PoemsAloud #spokenword #reform
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For #PromptCombo, I've shared this before but not in this format. With thanks to poets whose recent #PoemsAloud reminded me of it. 🐦⬛
The process of writing & recording these bittersweet poems has fully #allowed me to look ahead & enjoy writing other things.
(Poem in Autumn Sky Poetry 2020)
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First I thought, Good Friday, what’s so good about it without #PoemsAbout? Then I saw a couple of posts and felt better. This is a #PoemsAloud I wrote for Easter last year. If you click on more… in the YouTube description the text is there, as I usually do.
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Early 20th c. Modernist poet H.D. wrote poems that were striking then & remain so now. Her images are certain, passionate, evocative—but she leaves space for the reader to supply context.
Continuing my National Poetry Month series, a #PoemsAloud musical performance of her “Lethe:”
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