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Exploring ink gem-tactics and lunar dreams.

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Song of the Winter Leaf

Oak trees keep their leaves,
Boughs rustling with withered brown
Like dried paper stars.

-S.P.

#haiku #winter #poem #poetry
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This gorgeous picture reminds me of my dad's favorite word, "copacetic." Excellent split vista captured over water!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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I can find the sky
Anywhere—
Even in the tilt of a garbage lid
Find a pocket lake of sun.
There is nowhere to run
That isn't already here
So I give into this
Tear-colored space
And breathe.
But this too shall pass,
Being beautiful.

*Excerpt from a 2008 #poem, the year my mother passed.

#poetry
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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For Grammie, sequin or Linde star sapphire, a sparkle is a sparkle ✨

#thriftstory #tagsale #substack

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Grammie, Tag Sale Queen of Quiet Legend
Sequin or Sapphire, a Sparkle is a Sparkle
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November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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100 percent agree. I will never forget my first show at the Hansen Planetarium as a child. It was like stepping into a Star Trek dimension!
astrojaz.bsky.social Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 11d
i firmly believe everyone needs to experience a planetarium show at least once in their lifetime. it puts EVERYTHING into perspective 🌌
A planetarium with a galaxy on the screen
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Sky-Slipped

All spaces aureate
Between breaths,
Sunning colors
In the cooling,
Gold upon gold,
(Leaves lose their hold)
There is no sound
But falling into flight.
Autumn undoes everything.

*A bit of fall fun!

#poetry #poem #autumn #fall #fallpoem
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Stunning autumnal and liquid veil beauty!
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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These pretty petals hide more than one secret....

#herbrobert #watkinsglenstatepark #halloweenflower #substack

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Death-Come-Quickly: A Haunting Flower for Halloween
The Demure Gem of Watkins Glen
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October 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
cynestiamoon.bsky.social
Drawing crystals with plasmonic heating is so cool!

#science

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New way to grow materials on-demand using crystals and light
This new development uses a phenomenon called plasmonic heating that enables more precise crystal formation.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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My mom loved African Violets. Whenever I pass by them at the store, it's like a little petal postcard of her happiness.

#flowers #africanviolets
A dozen multicolored African Violets for sale.
October 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I'm learning how to use Artweaver. For fun, I illustrated my favorite poem by Thomas Hood in comic format.

#ThomasHood #poetry #poem #Artweaver #fairytale #comic
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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This poem by Thomas Hood was published almost 200 years ago. And yet, even today, to read it aloud is to taste the echo of melancholy and imagination inked fresh on the tip of the tongue. I illustrated it in comic format for the fun of it!
#substack #comic #poem #poetey
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Hop onto "A Lake and a Fairy Boat" with me
The Poetic Dream of Thomas Hood
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October 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Lady, Lost and Found

I couldn't leave
this scuffed cameo
languishing inside
a bowl of pins.
She was only one dollar,
but I feel like she holds
a wealth of stories in
her crystalline gaze
and rose-bordered trim.

#poetry #poem #thriftscore #thriftjewelry #thriftstorefind #cameo
A clear cameo with scuff marks set in a gold frame.
October 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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My cousin Angie took me to the mall
to get my ears pierced at thirteen,
a looong overdue rite of passage.
I can still feel the prick of pain followed
by the instant aura of glamor . . .

#poetry #poem #substack #inmemory

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Angie's Earrings
A Poem in Honor of My Cousin
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October 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I offer up this frayed flower, because even a tattered hydrangea is a gossamer thing of beauty. I love autumn, because it reminds me that it’s okay to shed old petals and sleep a season while gathering strength for another spring.

#autumn #flower
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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A lovely poem and picture.
oooooooof.bsky.social Jaxon @oooooooof.bsky.social · Oct 12
A rainy day —
The window blurs the world,
Leaving only thought.

— Matsuo Bashō. #stunday #imageandverse #Eastcoastkin #photography #rain
October 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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If I am ever banished from Earth with just one book, let it be this one.

#bookreview #substack #zilphakeatleysnyder #imagination

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A Review of The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Rewilding Hearts in Bent Oaks Grove
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October 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Knowing living ocean jewels are flitting about brings me happiness.
alexandrejan.bsky.social Alexandre Jan @alexandrejan.bsky.social · Oct 4
Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
October 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Thanks for the planet full of water, Theia ✨

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Earth Was Uninhabitable Until Collision That Created The Moon "Ultimately Made Life Possible"
If you’re wondering why we haven’t met aliens, it might be because habitable zone planets just don’t get smashed almost to pieces often enough.
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October 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The Odd-day
Motto

Today
is not a day
to make beds

(I knew it the minute
I woke up).

Today
is not a day
for the order of things,
erudition or ponderous
philosophies—

Today
I shall live
a mess on purpose.

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The Odd-day Motto
Today is not a day to make beds
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October 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
cynestiamoon.bsky.social
Reminds me of Lothlórien.
jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · Sep 26
Walking through a grove of golden quaking #aspens is one of nature's most beautiful experiences, like entering a natural cathedral with sacred light. See my gallery of #Colorado #fallcolors photos here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/autu...
Aspen forest in the fog - September, Colorado. Rich sunset light filters through the aspens near Marble, Colorado. Golden aspen leaves flutter to the ground on a breezy day at the tail end of autumn in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado Golden light in golden aspens deep in the West Elk Wilderness, Colorado.
September 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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When I hold a Herkimer Diamond in my hand, I feel like I’m marveling at that last little mote of light from Fantasia that the Child-like Empress cradles in her palm like a precious dream.

#herkimerdiamond #newsletter

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The Ancient Sparkle of the Herkimer Diamond
Marveling at 500 million-year-old Gleam
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September 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Here are only stars
There are no dandelions
The trees were saying.

#haiku #poetry #poem #newsletter

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Here Are Only Stars
~*~ Here are only stars
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September 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Maybe I’m overthinking this poem. Maybe I’ll never catch every facet no matter how many times I roll all the lines over in my head. I’m just glad I stumbled upon such a jewel in the ink!

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#poetryreview #newsletter #poemreview
Message to a Poet I'll Never Meet
Thank you, Carmen
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September 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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I live by a river that isn’t quite ten thousand years old yet. Periodically, it floods its banks and leaves behind debris in the cracked earth. One year, the water receded and left behind a curious marvel locked in the mud like a homely gem.

#newsletter #selfworth

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Lessons from a Faceless Cameo
When the Stone Bent the River
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September 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM