Bethany R.
@bethanyrwriting.bsky.social
Creating found poems and gathering flowers
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Bethany R.
@bethanyrwriting.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Enjoyed the process of creating this found poem and painting. Grateful to have it featured in Every Day Poems' Substack.
#poetrycommunity #poetry #foundpoetry
#poetrycommunity #poetry #foundpoetry
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"The pain should be minimal, but I’ll order you some meds, just in case. The hat is a longer story, I can get into it if you really want, but know that it will not be coming off."
I Am Your Surgeon, and I Will Be Wearing This Hat
Great to see you again. Sorry for the wait. The last procedure went a little long. How are you feeling? Nervous? Ready to get this over with? Wonde...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"The pain should be minimal, but I’ll order you some meds, just in case. The hat is a longer story, I can get into it if you really want, but know that it will not be coming off."
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"7:00 a.m. – Gaze out the window at the neighbor’s house. Wonder if they, too, are contemplating eternity or simply waiting for the milkman. Blink once, lest they feel your scrutiny. Blink twice, too much."
Influencer Emily Dickinson’s Morning Routine
3:45 a.m. – Wake naturally to the soft sigh of a ghost. Or maybe it’s the hum of the Amherst wind through the shutters. Either way, it’s a Sign. Do...
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April 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"7:00 a.m. – Gaze out the window at the neighbor’s house. Wonder if they, too, are contemplating eternity or simply waiting for the milkman. Blink once, lest they feel your scrutiny. Blink twice, too much."
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Hobbit Girl Spring is here. 😌🌿
March 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hobbit Girl Spring is here. 😌🌿
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Omg, can this be real or have I gone to heaven? After 50 years of being a published poet, my poems are up at poets.org! poets.org/poet/martha-...
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March 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Omg, can this be real or have I gone to heaven? After 50 years of being a published poet, my poems are up at poets.org! poets.org/poet/martha-...
The process of crafting a poem offers my mind a little off-ramp to relief
#poetrycommunity #thankyoupoetry
#poetrycommunity #thankyoupoetry
March 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The process of crafting a poem offers my mind a little off-ramp to relief
#poetrycommunity #thankyoupoetry
#poetrycommunity #thankyoupoetry
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I made a one-page version of the READ LIKE AN ARTIST zine you can print out and share with your book club, classroom, etc
Download here: austinkleon.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
Download here: austinkleon.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
February 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I made a one-page version of the READ LIKE AN ARTIST zine you can print out and share with your book club, classroom, etc
Download here: austinkleon.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
Download here: austinkleon.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
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Stories hold us together. Stories teach us what is important about life, why we are here and how it is best to behave, and that inside us we have access to treasure, in memories and observations, in imagination.
February 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Stories hold us together. Stories teach us what is important about life, why we are here and how it is best to behave, and that inside us we have access to treasure, in memories and observations, in imagination.
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Glorious.
If you haven't heard it yet
Werner Herzog's Yelp Review for Trader Joe's on Hyperion
YouTube video by Bret Lamb
youtu.be
January 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Glorious.
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We get thirsty people water, read to the very young and old, and listen to the sad. We pick up litter and try to leave the world a slightly better place for our stay here. Those are the basic instructions, to which I can add only: Amen
December 18, 2024 at 10:48 PM
We get thirsty people water, read to the very young and old, and listen to the sad. We pick up litter and try to leave the world a slightly better place for our stay here. Those are the basic instructions, to which I can add only: Amen
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Shout-out to all the peeps that always drew the sun in the corner of their pictures
December 16, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Shout-out to all the peeps that always drew the sun in the corner of their pictures
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ICYMI! Fantastic conversation with @marthasilano.bsky.social on #poetry, illness, partnership, and what's to come! 🎉🎉🎉
#Kunitz "said ‘a poet must know everything,’...I took this instruction very seriously and tried my best to learn the names of all the birds, flowers, trees and mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest." Acre poet #MarthaSilano on illness & TERMINAL SURREAL (2025) 📚🎉
magazine.washington.edu/feature/mart...
magazine.washington.edu/feature/mart...
Martha Silano’s forthcoming book, “Terminal Surreal,” explores her terminal illness diagnosis
UW Magazine | University of Washington
magazine.washington.edu
December 11, 2024 at 5:59 PM
ICYMI! Fantastic conversation with @marthasilano.bsky.social on #poetry, illness, partnership, and what's to come! 🎉🎉🎉
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people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
December 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM
people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
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beneath the old pine
memories stir empty swings—
hands hold a ghost’s ring
#dailyhaikuprompt [pine]
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #poets
memories stir empty swings—
hands hold a ghost’s ring
#dailyhaikuprompt [pine]
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #poets
November 27, 2024 at 11:01 PM
beneath the old pine
memories stir empty swings—
hands hold a ghost’s ring
#dailyhaikuprompt [pine]
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #poets
memories stir empty swings—
hands hold a ghost’s ring
#dailyhaikuprompt [pine]
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #poets
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And speaking of Juan Gelman, there is always, always this quote:
"All men are human and what finds room in me should find it in others. ... Let's find room in one another, humans."
"All men are human and what finds room in me should find it in others. ... Let's find room in one another, humans."
November 27, 2024 at 2:25 PM
And speaking of Juan Gelman, there is always, always this quote:
"All men are human and what finds room in me should find it in others. ... Let's find room in one another, humans."
"All men are human and what finds room in me should find it in others. ... Let's find room in one another, humans."
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the wineberry thorns
pierce the dance of withered leaves—
autumn pirouette
#dailyhaikuprompt [withered leaves]
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #poets
pierce the dance of withered leaves—
autumn pirouette
#dailyhaikuprompt [withered leaves]
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #poets
November 26, 2024 at 2:50 AM
the wineberry thorns
pierce the dance of withered leaves—
autumn pirouette
#dailyhaikuprompt [withered leaves]
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #poets
pierce the dance of withered leaves—
autumn pirouette
#dailyhaikuprompt [withered leaves]
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #poets
Sara Barkat's illustrations amaze me
November 27, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Sara Barkat's illustrations amaze me
I'll second that. @tspoetry.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
November 25, 2024 at 5:16 PM
I'll second that. @tspoetry.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
Day 8
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
November 23, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
Day 8
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
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The Crab Nebula - A six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion | Hubble
November 23, 2024 at 12:41 PM
The Crab Nebula - A six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion | Hubble
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Well, nice! It's my book.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
November 22, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Well, nice! It's my book.
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“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
- The Return of the King
- The Return of the King
June 21, 2023 at 11:53 PM
“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
- The Return of the King
- The Return of the King
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“Do not go alone. Take such friends as are trusty and willing.”
– The Fellowship of the Ring
– The Fellowship of the Ring
November 16, 2024 at 8:29 PM
“Do not go alone. Take such friends as are trusty and willing.”
– The Fellowship of the Ring
– The Fellowship of the Ring
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from the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the spring…
—yehuda amichai
everydaypoems.substack.com/p/the-place-...
#poem #poetry #everydaypoems #poets #flowers #relationships
flowers will never grow
in the spring…
—yehuda amichai
everydaypoems.substack.com/p/the-place-...
#poem #poetry #everydaypoems #poets #flowers #relationships
November 22, 2024 at 12:31 AM
from the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the spring…
—yehuda amichai
everydaypoems.substack.com/p/the-place-...
#poem #poetry #everydaypoems #poets #flowers #relationships
flowers will never grow
in the spring…
—yehuda amichai
everydaypoems.substack.com/p/the-place-...
#poem #poetry #everydaypoems #poets #flowers #relationships
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#amykrauserosenthal
#Books #BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#amykrauserosenthal
November 21, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#amykrauserosenthal
#Books #BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#amykrauserosenthal