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Lisa Ervin
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Jesus follower. Avid reader. Poetry lover. Vegan.

“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.” -Paulo Coelho
“We are obligated as Christians to reach out into the animal kingdom and say, 'You've been abused, you've been misused... We're here in the name of Jesus to protect you.'”

-Tony Campolo

#animalrights #veganfortheanimals #christianvegan
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“Praise the light of late November,
the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones.”

-Barbara Crooker, from “Praise Song”

#poetry
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Happy #WorldKindnessDay!

“Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.”

-Mary Oliver, from “Why I Wake Early”

#poetry
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Because life is sacred.

#veganfortheanimals
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Some good news this Monday morning: The Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. 🏳️‍🌈
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”

-Anne Sexton, #BOTD in 1928

From “The Witch’s Life”

#poets #poetry
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Let us love gently.”

-Charles Baudelaire, from “Sonnet of Autumn”, trans. Roy Campbell

#poetry
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"I want to know if you know how to melt
Into that fierce heat of living
Falling toward the center of your longing."

-David Whyte, #BOTD in 1955

From “Self Portrait”

#poets #poetry
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”

-Cynthia Rylant

#november
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“So dull and dark are the November days.
The lazy mist high up the evening curled,
And now the morn quite hides in smoke and haze;
The place we occupy seems all the world.”

-John Clare, from “November”

#poetry #november
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today is World Vegan Day. Please, take time to reflect on the plight of animals in the world.

We have the power to end their suffering.

Choose compassion. Go vegan.

#WorldVeganDay #GoVegan #VeganForTheAnimals
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Touch has a memory."

-John Keats, #BOTD in 1795

From "[What can I do to drive away]"

#poets #poetry
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!”

-Paul Valéry, #BOTD in 1871

(From “The Graveyard By The Sea”, trans. C. Day Lewis)

#poets #poetry
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Love is the last light spoken."

-Dylan Thomas, #BOTD in 1914

(From “Ceremony After A Fire Raid”)

#poets #poetry
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“I am learning how to compromise the wild dream ideals and the necessary realities without such screaming pain.”

-Sylvia Plath, #BOTD in 1932

(From The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)

#poets #poetry
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Cling tight to the hearts that will not let you fall.”

-Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. J.G. Holland, October 1881
October 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything."

-Richard Rohr
October 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I
For you a liar am a thousand times . . .”

-John Berryman, #BOTD in 1914

(From “Sonnet 43”)

#poets #poetry
October 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“…not mild, not temperate,
God’s love for the world. Vast
flood of mercy
flung on resistance.”

-Denise Levertov, #BOTD in 1923

(Excerpt from “To Live In The Mercy Of God”)

#poets #poetry
October 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
". . . the poet is truly the thief of fire."

-Arthur Rimbaud, #BOTD in 1854

(From a letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871)

#poets #poetry #writing
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”

-Arthur Rimbaud, #BOTD in 1854

(Excerpt from “A Season in Hell”)

#poets #poetry
October 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"...we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

-Oscar Wilde BOTD in 1854
October 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“kiss me a little:
the air
darkens and is alive –
o live with me in the fewness of
these colours;”

e. e. cummings, #BOTD in 1894

(Excerpt from “XLVIII”)

#poetry #poets
October 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”

-Jack Gilbert, from “A Brief for the Defense”

#poetry
October 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”

-Wallace Stevens, #BOTD in 1879

(From “Adagia”)

#poetry #poets
October 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM