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Dave Garbutt
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Poet, birder, house husband, father, photographer; programmer, IT consultant, zoologist. London, Reading, Basel, Southampton, Carbondale, Morogoro.
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janpsolivagant.bsky.social
🙏 to @hool415.bsky.social #PromptCombo
#DeepTime take on #workinglove

#newpoem / #photography:
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2022-24

#poetry #JohnCage #MechtildOfMagdeburg #AsSlowAsPossible #orgelprojekt #MysticMonday #thework
Fatal Day in Halberstadt 1361 Decameron‘s Twelfth Night. Lollards hitch their prayers, their Plight to the Morning Star. Pestis Secunda scourges Plantagenet England. Giotto’s Last Judgement Slumbers in umbrage on the Cusp of the Quattrocento. Halberstadt, Flush, bustling prince-bishopric - its Cathedral-treasure stash of Relics looted at the Sack of Constantinople – hosts the First of its Kind: Chromatic keyboard, Twelve half-tones arranged in Octaves. Halberstadt - where, at St. Burchardi’s Monastery, Cistercian Sisters Scale the canonical hours: Minor - Terce, Sext, None and Compline; Major - Matins, Lauds and Vespers, in Perpetual rounds of Work, prayer and Lectio Divina. A century before, They nestle in a fecund vessel of Mystical vision, where Mechthild of Magdeburg - Fluid, erotic, vernacular - Lights the way for Meister Eckhart; where Mechtilde, Helfta’s Nightingale, Dispenses Special Grace to Dante as Matelda. Six-hundred-and-thirty-nine years Slip by. Millennium tenor Deeds St. Burchardi’s to Zen musical maverick already Eight years passed: Bird now uncaged - Purposeless, intentionless - Pecking away at membranes - Temporal, musical – from the Beyond. The Six-hundred-and-thirty-nine-year Lease unfolds As Slow as Possible on an Organ fashioned for this purpose. Hiss of compressors, taut notes Coasting over billowing groans until 2640. Pauses a week before 9/11: seventeen months of silence, then Nine movements, each lasting Seventy-one years. Chord kept up over seven years, between Benedict’s flight to Castel Gandolfo and Second Lockdown. Austere piety, Avant-garde whimsy - ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Spurning utility, instrumentality - Partaking in visions that far Outstrip lifetimes, Current-day zeitgeist confines. Contemplative prayer, Playful contingency - Tentative forays into Deep Time, Possible only when one Listens closely with Open heart, Open mind. Eternity disclosed in Nugacity, ephemera: Birds, lilies, Mustard seeds. Cloistered life, Choral work Whetting one’s Keenness for the Core - Still and small. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2024 Highly contrasted monochrome image of a statue by Susan Turcot (2007/8) of mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg (1207-1282) ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2022 Poster-sized mural of US avant-garde composer, John Cale (1912-1992)
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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wildlife.nathan.fun
Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux Paris, P. Klincksieck, 1891. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22673) #nature #illustration #art
Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux Paris, P. Klincksieck, 1891. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22673�
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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hool415.bsky.social
Hullo. This put up on the shady side for a TopTweetTuesday #winter #poetry challenge.
Condiments Of The Season A tree-heart in winter is not a dead place, despite its canopy of care blown-away, leaving just that lattice of rigour-mortis-ribs, a sluggish pump still murmurs underneath, imperceptible as any gust-facing-prayer; sinuous roots fumble: thirsting-veins drilling, seeking the sunk-sump of sun from those cartwheeling summers…sadly migrated; tendrils as white-canes, feeling for lightly-bewildered sparks as love took new forms when a decision to fragment made, shattering that whole, seasoning earth’s mulchy plate with its myriad of sprinkled salt and peppery kids.
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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bonnerr.bsky.social
Here’s my #Tuesday
#Senryu #Poetry #Humor #Satire #BlueSkyPoet #Vss365 #eggs
#Haikusmash #Dinosaurs
#SillySenryu #BlueSkyPoets

Tyrannosaurus
eggs for breakfast, be aware -
Momma’s coming fast!
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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koboldstyle.bsky.social
I’ve long ago felt that right-wing culture opinion is basically “fuck you mom I won’t do what you tell me” and nothing more
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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gorskon.bsky.social
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
MAHA: Its antivax mask has been dropped
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
www.respectfulinsolence.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
A strange experience yesterday. Afternoon collapsed on itself, not with a star’s power, exploded radiance falling back in concentrated immensity, but a drear apotheosis, a hum just above silent amid soiled white light. It was emptiness, not meditative or inviting action but a special kind of nothing
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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acausalqualia.bsky.social
Violent Kitten

#connected #haiku

I leap down, prey still
Not aware of my presence
It dies, red on green

I roar to ward off
Trespassers in my domain
Go after my grub

I drag it back safe
To my special hiding spot
And lick my paws clean

I hold my soft tail
In my maw to remind me
I am still a cub
Snow leopards holding their tail in their mouths. Not my photo, credit to Vie Ventar for posting the image first (photographer unknown? If you know post a comment).
April 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
Re-upping this:

www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t...
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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bestforbritain.org
"What do I want from COP30? I want leaders who will look their children in the eye and say: We chose courage. We stopped subsidising destruction. We stood with the global majority who did not cause this crisis," writes @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

Read here: https://bit.ly/47ATlWg
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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pwgtennant.bsky.social
"Brexit has reduced GDP by 6% to 8%"

So actually worse than 'project fear'. Great job everyone.

cc @mrjamesob.bsky.social
davidheniguk.bsky.social David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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arianesherine.bsky.social
No, but I’ve been to Windsor Castle in Scotland
A bot asking if I’ve been to Edinburgh Castle in England
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
davgar51.bsky.social
The results of the Brilliant poetry competition for sciencey poems are out —see the winners and read the short listed poems here
Congratulations every one!

And thanks for organising
@samillingworth.com

https://www.thebrilliantpoetry.com/2025
2025 — Brilliant Poetry
Read the winning entries from 2024.
www.thebrilliantpoetry.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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j-tkelly.bsky.social
I'm in a new stage of my career* as a poet:

-What even is a poem.
-I don't have time for this.
-I don't even like this.
-Actually, I may not be smart enough to write a poem.

*morning before coffee
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
The two party system is incompatible with democracy.

We must change our electoral system to restore democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
Fog at the creek again today. Making fall look extra good

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Green, yellow and red trees line a creek and fog hangs just above the water in the distance. The dark trunks make interesting patterns against the colors and the fog.
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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merrildsmith.bsky.social
Good morning! A poem for #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors. This is a revision of an old poem. Thank you, as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for these weekly prompts!
Poem Threshold The massive door has always been locked until now it stands slightly open like parted lips whispering yes. You imagine a turquoise sky, peach sorbet clouds— the opposite of this grey-shrouded world. You touch the weathered wood dotted with knotted eyes, wonder how far eternity is-- how wide? How deep? But there is the latch, undone, there is the handle, so, you inhale, exhale, and pull-- a sea-salt breath brushes your skin as you step over the sill. No more doors. No more locks. This is where your life begins.
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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paulmwall.bsky.social
The #birdoftheday theme is Standing On Things so here you go #birds
Eastern bluebird perched atop a large gravestone marked simply “CROW.” The bird is small, with blue wings and a blue head and a red breast and white underparts, and faces right. The background is unfocused green grass.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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haikutsunami.bsky.social
geese on migration
flirting in the slipstream
of generations

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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twlldun.bsky.social
Will be BBC Director General for food
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
davgar51.bsky.social
Posting snails now

#becurious
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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fiftywords.bsky.social
I posted this earlier in the week but it works for one for the #LockedDoors of knowledge that some of us experience #Poems About @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
at the fringe of night
the sound of a
closing door
creaking
on
its failing hinges
& of crickets going quiet
& of
some bro-
ken
breaths
& lost s.l.nt counts
from one to ten to
to
naught
#PoemsAbout #lockeddoors #Oulens
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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betarish.bsky.social
Anyway, sod the frothings of a wiff waff wally. If you're nearby, come to the last day of Poetry in Aldeburgh. Loads on, it'd be lovely to see you. And the sun is shining on the sea! www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/programme-2025
Programme - 2025 | Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival
www.poetryinaldeburgh.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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gphydeauthor.bsky.social
Responding to the #vss365 prompt ‘law’, here’s an old one of mine – it’s a palindrome-by-word i.e. the poem reverses the words from the midpoint of line 6. Thanks go to Liz @young_liz our #vss365 host.

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #palindrome
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM