Old velvet bound book
encrusted with gold and jewels —
holds precious cargo

—

A medieval book bound in red velvet and covered in Christian bejeweled art
Strahov Monastery Library, Prague
11 June 2025
Nikon D5600
️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
ISO 4000, ƒ4, -0.3 ev, 1/250s

You, with galaxies
Behind your eyes,
Can see in the dark.

I am still here
Despite the times
I’ve disappeared
Completely.
Out of darkness
The light borne
Wonder of beginning
Again.

The 2025 Speculative Poetry Contest is accepting submissions from all poets now until August 31st. Rules, information on the judge, prize info, and the link to the submission form are at at https://sfpoetry.com/contests.html

Please boost and share - and good luck!
#specpo #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #poetry

#ScribesAndMakers 22 Jul 'something you've created. Tell us the story behind it'

This is the more modern version of the famous poem by John Godfrey Saxe.

In the middle of the book, with accreditation, and featuring in "The Talent Contest".

The almost true true story of the Blind Men and the Elephant.

Rewritten by Scott Rochester.

Performed by Gordon Bennett.

see Alt Text for more

LONELY ARCH IN MOONLIGHT

in the belly of this
little vessel, the shelter
of night, I have nothing on my shoulders

https://miksimum.com/2025/07/22/lonely-arch-in-moonlight/

Riddle-Poem 7/22/2025

I struck the ground, and there upsprung
The source of every song that’s sung
By poets, bards and balladeers.
My most familiar form appears
With forelegs raised and wings addorsed,
But for uncounted years I’ve coursed
Across the depths of upper air
In the shape of a perfect square.

Updates from the Forge 58 is now out! You can discover new #GameDev and creative writing projects and resources in each issue of these community newsletters. And if you'd like your project featured for autumn, just drop by and post it on Exilian sometime :)

This issue includes creators including @midnightspire, @EntangledPear, @Innkeep and @JubalBarca if you want to follow them, with everything from dungeon-crawling magical girls, conniving innkeepers, and wily folklorists through to tiny dwarf houses and twirly seashells.

Check out the issue here:
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?msg=164614

Boosts welcome!

"Space and time collapse
inside ten thousand teeth

or rather such occasions
render brothers asunder:

yes, the sister was
so much stronger."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
If in Language is Lightness and in Lightness Transformation by Nicholas Alti (2025 Trampoline Poetry) https://tinyurl.com/3atdvcmn

“It’s impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside, and impossible not to be more scared and saddened while doing so. He was the ideal laureate of our age, painfully alive to the glory of what we’re losing.”

—Sarah Crown reviews John Burnside’s posthumously published final poetry collection THE EMPIRE OF FORGETTING

@bookstodon

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/22/the-empire-of-forgetting-by-john-burnside-review-last-words-from-an-essential-poet-of-our-age

"This stone [in Lancashire, UK], commemorates the lives of James Jones and his two wives, Sarah and Sadie.

"Which of them earned this epithet, and how, is not clear."

I'd say everyone earns it. Doesn't take very many years, either...

h/t https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/07/22/r-i-p-14/

(New)
obcordate tuned sovereign
https://subspacewagon.systems/obcordate-tuned-sovereign/

(Recent)
Silent Translations
https://subspacewagon.systems/silent-translations/

Pearl Falcons over a Bazaar
https://subspacewagon.systems/pearl-falcons-over-a-bazaar/

@poetry @poets @writing @writers @writingcommunity

Three Copper Pennies

My contribution to #FromOneLine 382 - 'Three copper pennies'.

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#vss365 - #purpose
#WordedArt - #retrospect
#BlueSkyRelay - #zither
DailyHaikuPrompt (though not a haiku) - candle

#WritingCommunity #poetry

@vss365 @writingcommunity @poetry

ODE TO THE PUNK PUSSIES WHO CRASHED A KID'S PICNIC AT MACARTHUR PARK

The war birds keep circling overhead
As Democracy circles down the drain
Theater in the park, but Shakespeare's dead
So clowns sing "If I Only Had A Brain"

Chicken hawks squawk on the idiot box
A pox on the yellow-bellied red necks
Their hearts full of stone and heads full of rocks
Watching Whiskey Pete handling opsec

1/1

When writing, which words will make the cut? https://www.byteseu.com/1215813/ #and #Books #BooksAndLiterature #BooksComicsAndOtherLiterature #comics #Entertainment #laureate #literature #Missouri #mo #Neutral #other #Overall #OverallNeutral #Poetry #Poets #PoetsLaureate #Resources #Springfield #Writers #WritersResources #writing

Julian Langer - Chaosmic Heretic Dances https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chaosmic-heretic-dances?v=1752925653 #Poetry #Art #Anarchism

I will
Greet death
Like I do
The twilight,
By looking
For the stars.