Leigh Goodwin
@leighgoodwin.bsky.social
• 🌿 Poet✒️ 🌲 Pacific NW 🌲🌲🌙 • [banner art: Radim Schreiber]
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
There are kind people to love, help, and cherish, and we shouldn't waste a single moment doing so. There will always be those who abuse power, and even after one tyrant falls, new injustices emerge. That's the world we live in. What matters is how we choose to live within it. 4/
The fire danced in her eyes. The flames swam, flared up, sank away, brightened again against the sooty stone, against the dark sky, against the pale sky, the gulfs of evening, the depths of air and light beyond the world.
perhaps some kind heart wishful for your safety, might bring the Moon to visit you 🛶🌙 #poem L.C. Goodwin #haiku #micropoem #art Leonid Tishkov #CallAndResponse
ant ant ant ant ant@antfive.bsky.social · yesterday#haiku don’t go to the moon it’s not safe
here rain moves from ocean to mountains, clouds lighten their burden to reach you 🌧 #poem L.C. Goodwin #haiku #micropoem #art Kaoru Yamada #CallAndResponse rain
Tanja@joypops.bsky.social · 20h agorain coming from the mountains to her window
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
Always returning: light, peace serenity— always within reach. Beneath whelming noise & clamorous angers the dissatisfied, harmed, haunted, desperately greedy silence waits. The simple hands of kindness. The quiet heart of love. Stand up. Walk out to the world's soft edges. Listen. #poem 1/2
Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
A rare sight, a Virginia Rail gathering nesting material. She would run off into the cattails, grab a leaf or two, and come back to the nesting spot to place them properly.
A Tree Swallow hunts for insects over a small pond.
You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
Down the orchard aisles, in the thick, new, wet grass, the little girl ran for the joy of running.
A male Eastern Bluebird watches Cedar Waxwings flying around in the tree canopy.
sunlight pale as rain supporting this ten-year oak a broken tree-guard
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
"True teachers are called into being by the contradictions generated by civilization… We need them." Gary Snyder (a true teacher himself) on how to unbreak the world: www.themarginalian.org/2025/01/31/g...
Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World
“What we’d hope for on the planet is creativity and sanity, conviviality, the real work of our hands and minds.”
themarginalian.org
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I saw an extraordinary thing yesterday. The sun was slowly setting into the hills to the west and we were by Ponte Santa Trinita. There's a line of clear glass lanterns along the edge of the river there as it goes west, and the angle of the red rays of the sun was lighting them up like stained glass
Hello, Jo — I just read Everybody's Perfect, & wanted to thank you for writing it. Just one small delight: toward the end, I started wondering how you'd have space to finish. And then you do, like a dancer takes her final pirouette & comes to rest. The book is gorgeous. @bluejo.eurosky.social
Happy news for today, I'm published on Smols! (poems of 5 words or fewer) smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com Mine is at the bottom for August 2nd: one perfectly fat toad I love the 1st one: what butterflies remember ~Kimberly Kuchar 1/2 Below, the other poems I submitted
smols
smols is an eclectic poetry journal featuring ultra-shorts, five words max. No themes. Submit up to five untitled pieces. Email to fivefleasitchypoetry@gmail.com with smols as your subject.
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