"Learning is the same colour as life. He says things like that."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Short Talk on Hopes by #NobelPrize winner Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books) www.brickbooks.ca/shop/short-t...

"Learning is the same colour as life. He says things like that."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Short Talk on Hopes by #NobelPrize winner Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books) www.brickbooks.ca/shop/short-t...
"And if a ten-tonne truck kills the both of us
To die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
There is a Light That Never Goes Out by Morrissey and Johnny Marr (1986) www.youtube.com/watch?v=siO6... & genius.com/The-smiths-t...
"The actions of life are not so many. To go in, to go, to go in secret, to cross the bridge of sighs"
A jubilant #todayspoem!
Short Talk on Defloration by #nobelprize winner Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books)
"A pure matter, faith. As the wind blows. I believe in you not at all."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
First weather, by @robmclennan.bsky.social (2026) robmclennan.substack.com/p/seven-furt...
"But no, it’s just a sandwich. It’s not literature. It’s just litter."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
the ketchup sandwich by Sarah Ellis (2017 The Litter I See Project) thelitteriseeproject.com/2026/09/29/t...
"Last night a moose stepped into camp,
quiet as smoke, mountain ghost."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Aubade for a Rush of Adrenaline by Jessica Aure Platt (2026 Phil Lit Journal) read.phillitjournal.com/fall26issue5...
"I like to greet the moon
pretend I'm her favourite
she wishes I'd visit more often"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
I'm His Sister by Joylyn Chai (2026 Poetries in English) www.poetriesinenglish.com/three-poems-...
"bent over it in sunlight
trying to add something
with layers of shadow.
I called it not drawing
with no light"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Homeoteleuton by Ken Babstock from Swivelmount (2020 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) chbooks.com/Books/S/Swiv...
"When I dream, it’s about landmarks
man has yet to create, like a lake
made of thumbtacks
or a satellite made of flies."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
No Owe by Benjamin Niespodziany (@neonpajamas.bsky.social) (2026 @bulbregion.bsky.social) bulbregion.com/Two-Poems-by...
It’s #NationalPoetryDay somewhere. I’m in. #TodaysPoem is from Rubies, the 20th anniversary chapbook. This one by Claudia Coutu Radmore was a sternum jab in the best sense. too early for #SmallPoemSunday?
"I am an impatient
floral
fungal
uncontrollable
superbloom"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Blue Stars of Chicory
@chelseahumphries.bsky.social Flower Language (2026 Anstruther Press) www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products... & miramichireader.ca/2026/09/why-...
#TodaysPoem #poetry #TruthandReconciliationDay
Grief After Grief After Grief After Grief by Billy-Ray Belcourt from This Wound is a World (2016 Frontenac House) www.frontenachouse.com/product/this...
"9. i am still trying to figure out how to be in the world without wanting it. this, perhaps, is what it means to be native."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #TruthandReconciliationDay
Grief After Grief After Grief After Grief
Billy-Ray Belcourt
This Wound is a World nakinisowin.wordpress.com/category/poe...
"Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books.
Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold book-
worms."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
from Chapter O (for Yoko Ono) by Christian Bök
Eunoia (2009 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) chbooks.com/Books/E/Euno... & poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/07/chri...
"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...