"podium mic on
remind them
this land is not ours
heads nod hands clap
feet fixed
are you even in the room?"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
indian by Vivek Shraya (2016 The Ethnic Aisle) www.theethnicaisle.com/new-blog-2/2...

"All that will
be left of me:

in the margins of books
pencilled murmurs

you will never decipher."

#SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem) The Mist by Stuart Ross (@razovsky.bsky.social) from The Sky is a Sky in the Sky (2024 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) chbooks.com/Books/T/The-...

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Bruise by Michael Ondaatje (2015)
The Best Canadian Poetry in English (2017 @biblioasis.bsky.social) www.biblioasis.com/shop/poetry/...

"What have you been doing to @paulvermeersch.bsky.social?
He has searched for you encyclopedically
in Albacete, in Zagora, in those cities
whose names have changed"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Bruise by Michael Ondaatje (2015)
www.biblioasis.com/shop/poetry/...

"the Benedictine novice quoting Jay-Z
over lunch, the orphaned and over-sexed,
Trotskyists glaring at cherry tomatoes"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Grip to Ground Connector by Ken Babstock (2020 @poetry.foundation) www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

"I was lyin' in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
After the Gold Rush by Neil Young (@neilyoungarchives.bsky.social) (1970) www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Zf... & genius.com/Neil-young-a...

"I wore my teeth in my hands
So I could mess the hair of the night
Hey, well, I'm beginning to see the light"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Beginning to See the Light by Lou Reed (1969) genius.com/The-velvet-u...

here using the hashtag #TodaysPoem, so if you take a peek, maybe you'll see something that sparks your interest.

"His cigarette smoking itself
in the ashtray and the ash growing longer and longer
till it crashes like the bridge

in that one movie he loves"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Long Distance by @briantierney.bsky.social (2026 @poetry.foundation) www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

"A movie about silent music. A movie about books
with no pages."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Film Festival by Stuart Ross (@razovsky.bsky.social) from The Sky is a Sky in the Sky (2024 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) chbooks.com/Books/T/The-...

"I'm here with my Beaujolais
& a fuckload of butter
ready to dip all the commas in it
before I put them in this
love letter."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Simple Interest by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social (2026 One Shot Magazine) x.com/TomSnarsky/s...

And when I go that way, grow fur, start howling,
scratch at your airwaves:
no matter who I claim I am
or how I love you,
turn the key. Bar the window.

#TodaysPoem #poetry
lithub.com/ghost-cat-a-...

"to live
with fear that is willing to proceed

with courage, pushing beyond

what it says is true to what is really true."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Eventually by @ronnabloom.bsky.social (2026) shaulmagid.substack.com/p/guest-poem...

a salary dictum for removable parts and representational red or white fire

subspacewagon.systems/a-salary-dic...

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"Did you do those things,
looking for something else?
You’re something strange,
working to know the morning."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Ghost Rally by @LizWorth.bsky.social (2014) silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/g...

"I want an open window

a door motioning

This way >>>"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Pink Root by Kirby (@[email protected]) from fairy (2026 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) palimpsestpress.ca/books/fairy-...

"split open our lungs
deep the air is in and out

I love you big I love you"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Big Sky by Jenny Berkel from Colossal Wreck (2026 Anstruther Press) www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products...

"Personality crisis, you got it while it was hot
It's always hot, you know it's frustration and heartache is all you got
Ohh, don't you worry"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Personality Crisis by Johnny Thunders & David Johansen (1973) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQT... & genius.com/New-york-dol...

"the time, infinite,

Replaceable, scaling these walls of sound and motion,
Dipping in, expressing oneself, expressing oneself,
Expressing oneself."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Acceptable Dissociations
Sina Queyras from Expressway (2009 @CoachHouseBooks.bsky.social) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53528/...

"A smirking rebellion, everything
under my control and everything
under me: the flames, included."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Ekphrasis on Lift Tumblr by Chimwemwe Undi (2020 BorderCrossings) bordercrossingsmag.com/article/thre...