Do you ever look outside, see the sunshine and roses, and say 'yuck'?

Reverie, by Amy Tigner.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Kraken”

Vincent van Gogh, just keep going

“Poems don't want to be understood. They'd rather be alive.” -- Niall O'Sullivan

. “Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity.” ― Robert Browning 🌹 #VEDay80

A Rayed artemis (Dosinia exoleta) shell. County Clare, Ireland.

Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, open at either end of day. —Li-Young Lee * I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph. —Jack Gilbert

“When you open / my letter you will recall / those days and how much, / just how much, I love you.” — Raymond Carver . . . This poem appeared in All of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver, published by Knopf, 1998. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Wisława Szymborska

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.” — Ernest Hemingway

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

✍️ Friends, I’m happy to share my new poem: “Dream Conclave” ❤️🪽 published in the “Everyday Poetry” series on the fab themirroruptonature.blogspot.com/2025/05/from-m… 🙏 #Conclave2025 #pope #God #dream #children #child #play #pray #shepherd #sheep #faith #believe #hope #fear #EverydayPoetry

"... he smiled and winked at me before vanishing into the intolerable light..." This wonderfully haunting story by the talented Sreelekha Chatterjee gave me goosebumps! ✍️❣️

Nature doesn’t cut or rip #sloppy wounds we’re meant to #stitch, everything she opens is not damaged but a door, which, in our rush to shut, we miss what it is for, how it procures connectedness with all who must endure pains otherwise ignored. #vsspoem #vss365 #poem #poetry