River Ripa
@riverripa.bsky.social
Poet of the mystic forests🧚🏼♀️ Inspired by the birds, enchanted by the cosmos, invoked by compassion, emptied by awareness.
Words and photos my own© unless otherwise noted.
‘Of the Earth: planetary poetry’ at https://a.co/d/0xS2KrT
Words and photos my own© unless otherwise noted.
‘Of the Earth: planetary poetry’ at https://a.co/d/0xS2KrT
Grateful to be featured in this event this evening starting at 7pm ET. Zoom event open to all if you’d like to tune in 🧡 I’m kicking it off.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Grateful to be featured in this event this evening starting at 7pm ET. Zoom event open to all if you’d like to tune in 🧡 I’m kicking it off.
Register here for a link: bit.ly/3JFPb5X
#poetry #openmic #poetryshare #poetryzoom #poetryevent #virtualpoetry #poet #expression #sharing
Register here for a link: bit.ly/3JFPb5X
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I’m transmitted its light-spun memories
Coursing from stone to spine to soul
It holds the wisdom of a thousand grandmas
This earthen elder, keeper of steadiness
#poet #poetry #excerpt #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #photography #nature #light #sky #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poeta #amwriting #stone
Coursing from stone to spine to soul
It holds the wisdom of a thousand grandmas
This earthen elder, keeper of steadiness
#poet #poetry #excerpt #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #photography #nature #light #sky #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poeta #amwriting #stone
September 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I’m transmitted its light-spun memories
Coursing from stone to spine to soul
It holds the wisdom of a thousand grandmas
This earthen elder, keeper of steadiness
#poet #poetry #excerpt #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #photography #nature #light #sky #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poeta #amwriting #stone
Coursing from stone to spine to soul
It holds the wisdom of a thousand grandmas
This earthen elder, keeper of steadiness
#poet #poetry #excerpt #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #photography #nature #light #sky #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poeta #amwriting #stone
When you accidentally smudge your imagination across the sky
#poetry #bskypoets #quoteoftheday #photography #sky #art #color #imagination #poet #poetrycommunity #ctpoets #clouds #expression #micropoetry
#poetry #bskypoets #quoteoftheday #photography #sky #art #color #imagination #poet #poetrycommunity #ctpoets #clouds #expression #micropoetry
September 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
When you accidentally smudge your imagination across the sky
#poetry #bskypoets #quoteoftheday #photography #sky #art #color #imagination #poet #poetrycommunity #ctpoets #clouds #expression #micropoetry
#poetry #bskypoets #quoteoftheday #photography #sky #art #color #imagination #poet #poetrycommunity #ctpoets #clouds #expression #micropoetry
The dragons become whales
My mind becomes water
Unclouded by the clouds
Unearthed by the color
Beneath sky, only hope
#poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poetry #photography #sunset #sky #nature #clouds #lake #writer #bskyauthors #bskywriters #art
My mind becomes water
Unclouded by the clouds
Unearthed by the color
Beneath sky, only hope
#poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poetry #photography #sunset #sky #nature #clouds #lake #writer #bskyauthors #bskywriters #art
August 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The dragons become whales
My mind becomes water
Unclouded by the clouds
Unearthed by the color
Beneath sky, only hope
#poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poetry #photography #sunset #sky #nature #clouds #lake #writer #bskyauthors #bskywriters #art
My mind becomes water
Unclouded by the clouds
Unearthed by the color
Beneath sky, only hope
#poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poetry #photography #sunset #sky #nature #clouds #lake #writer #bskyauthors #bskywriters #art
I laid on the grass,
heart to ground,
ear to earth,
and remembered,
everything.
#poetry #poet #naturepoetry #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #earthpoetry #photography #mountains #nature #sunlight #writer #author
heart to ground,
ear to earth,
and remembered,
everything.
#poetry #poet #naturepoetry #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #earthpoetry #photography #mountains #nature #sunlight #writer #author
August 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I laid on the grass,
heart to ground,
ear to earth,
and remembered,
everything.
#poetry #poet #naturepoetry #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #earthpoetry #photography #mountains #nature #sunlight #writer #author
heart to ground,
ear to earth,
and remembered,
everything.
#poetry #poet #naturepoetry #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #earthpoetry #photography #mountains #nature #sunlight #writer #author
How wide the sky when I let it be…
#presence #awe #poetry #poet #quoteoftheday #beherenow #awareness #bskypoets #ctpoets #ctpoetry #amwriting #micropoem #photography #nature
#presence #awe #poetry #poet #quoteoftheday #beherenow #awareness #bskypoets #ctpoets #ctpoetry #amwriting #micropoem #photography #nature
August 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
How wide the sky when I let it be…
#presence #awe #poetry #poet #quoteoftheday #beherenow #awareness #bskypoets #ctpoets #ctpoetry #amwriting #micropoem #photography #nature
#presence #awe #poetry #poet #quoteoftheday #beherenow #awareness #bskypoets #ctpoets #ctpoetry #amwriting #micropoem #photography #nature
I smell the waterfall in my hair
Minerals, air, moss stone
#poetry #nature #naturepoetry #poem #poetsofbsky #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #photography #waterfall #forest #ctpoetry #ctpoets
Minerals, air, moss stone
#poetry #nature #naturepoetry #poem #poetsofbsky #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #photography #waterfall #forest #ctpoetry #ctpoets
July 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I smell the waterfall in my hair
Minerals, air, moss stone
#poetry #nature #naturepoetry #poem #poetsofbsky #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #photography #waterfall #forest #ctpoetry #ctpoets
Minerals, air, moss stone
#poetry #nature #naturepoetry #poem #poetsofbsky #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #photography #waterfall #forest #ctpoetry #ctpoets
I follow the blue damselfly
its black feathery wings
heart goes so light I lift, too
along the narrow pass
the colors in me show
dull purples, shy golds
an effort of a human
#poetry #poet #nature #photography #poem #bskypoets #poeta #quote #dailyquote #naturepoem #writer #art
📸Bonnie Nielsen
its black feathery wings
heart goes so light I lift, too
along the narrow pass
the colors in me show
dull purples, shy golds
an effort of a human
#poetry #poet #nature #photography #poem #bskypoets #poeta #quote #dailyquote #naturepoem #writer #art
📸Bonnie Nielsen
July 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I follow the blue damselfly
its black feathery wings
heart goes so light I lift, too
along the narrow pass
the colors in me show
dull purples, shy golds
an effort of a human
#poetry #poet #nature #photography #poem #bskypoets #poeta #quote #dailyquote #naturepoem #writer #art
📸Bonnie Nielsen
its black feathery wings
heart goes so light I lift, too
along the narrow pass
the colors in me show
dull purples, shy golds
an effort of a human
#poetry #poet #nature #photography #poem #bskypoets #poeta #quote #dailyquote #naturepoem #writer #art
📸Bonnie Nielsen
Heart stays soft with earthly strength
#poet #poetry #poem #bskypoets #nature #photography #waterfall #quote #dailyquote #motherearth #writer #amwriting
#poet #poetry #poem #bskypoets #nature #photography #waterfall #quote #dailyquote #motherearth #writer #amwriting
July 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Heart stays soft with earthly strength
#poet #poetry #poem #bskypoets #nature #photography #waterfall #quote #dailyquote #motherearth #writer #amwriting
#poet #poetry #poem #bskypoets #nature #photography #waterfall #quote #dailyquote #motherearth #writer #amwriting
What can we cultivate, if not our spirits?
#poetry #poet #poem #quote #dailyquote #bskypoets #photography #flower #nature #spiritality #meditation
#poetry #poet #poem #quote #dailyquote #bskypoets #photography #flower #nature #spiritality #meditation
July 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What can we cultivate, if not our spirits?
#poetry #poet #poem #quote #dailyquote #bskypoets #photography #flower #nature #spiritality #meditation
#poetry #poet #poem #quote #dailyquote #bskypoets #photography #flower #nature #spiritality #meditation
“It’s not your job to be ecstatically happy,” The shifting sky said. “It’s not your job to be inconsolably sad, either. It’s your job to be deeply aware. And to be deeply aware is to be peace.”
#poet #peace #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #bskypoets #ctpoetry #nepoetry #spreadpeace #love #empathy
#poet #peace #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #bskypoets #ctpoetry #nepoetry #spreadpeace #love #empathy
July 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“It’s not your job to be ecstatically happy,” The shifting sky said. “It’s not your job to be inconsolably sad, either. It’s your job to be deeply aware. And to be deeply aware is to be peace.”
#poet #peace #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #bskypoets #ctpoetry #nepoetry #spreadpeace #love #empathy
#poet #peace #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #bskypoets #ctpoetry #nepoetry #spreadpeace #love #empathy
The heavy in me
the electric in me
the moon rings that reach
To the forest in me
The wine that’s in me
The truth that’s in me
The hope that slow grows
On the dying in me
#poem #poetry #poet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #nypoetry #tree #nature #photography #moss #writer
the electric in me
the moon rings that reach
To the forest in me
The wine that’s in me
The truth that’s in me
The hope that slow grows
On the dying in me
#poem #poetry #poet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #nypoetry #tree #nature #photography #moss #writer
July 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The heavy in me
the electric in me
the moon rings that reach
To the forest in me
The wine that’s in me
The truth that’s in me
The hope that slow grows
On the dying in me
#poem #poetry #poet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #nypoetry #tree #nature #photography #moss #writer
the electric in me
the moon rings that reach
To the forest in me
The wine that’s in me
The truth that’s in me
The hope that slow grows
On the dying in me
#poem #poetry #poet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #nypoetry #tree #nature #photography #moss #writer
How do I explain to the bunny — enblissed in his sunset leaf dinner, surrounded by fireflies, brutally interrupted by thunderous explosions — that the fireworks will not kill him?
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #nature #photography #bunny #writer #quote #poem #amwriting #compassion #nofireworks #poeta
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #nature #photography #bunny #writer #quote #poem #amwriting #compassion #nofireworks #poeta
July 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
How do I explain to the bunny — enblissed in his sunset leaf dinner, surrounded by fireflies, brutally interrupted by thunderous explosions — that the fireworks will not kill him?
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #nature #photography #bunny #writer #quote #poem #amwriting #compassion #nofireworks #poeta
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #nature #photography #bunny #writer #quote #poem #amwriting #compassion #nofireworks #poeta
The water that’s coursed for billions of years courses through us.
How ancient we are, how big our family. We recognize every stream from the water within.
#poetry #poet #bskypoet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #quote #dailyquote #photography #river #waterislife #writer
How ancient we are, how big our family. We recognize every stream from the water within.
#poetry #poet #bskypoet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #quote #dailyquote #photography #river #waterislife #writer
June 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The water that’s coursed for billions of years courses through us.
How ancient we are, how big our family. We recognize every stream from the water within.
#poetry #poet #bskypoet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #quote #dailyquote #photography #river #waterislife #writer
How ancient we are, how big our family. We recognize every stream from the water within.
#poetry #poet #bskypoet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #quote #dailyquote #photography #river #waterislife #writer
When did my one word wishes
Become pages of prayers
Soliloquy by the stream
Voice becomes rivulet
Becomes voice again
The only place
I can verbalize
#poetry #poet #poem #writer #amwriting #bskypoets #bskypoetry #ctpoetry #poetrycommunity #river #photography #art #peace #unity
Become pages of prayers
Soliloquy by the stream
Voice becomes rivulet
Becomes voice again
The only place
I can verbalize
#poetry #poet #poem #writer #amwriting #bskypoets #bskypoetry #ctpoetry #poetrycommunity #river #photography #art #peace #unity
June 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When did my one word wishes
Become pages of prayers
Soliloquy by the stream
Voice becomes rivulet
Becomes voice again
The only place
I can verbalize
#poetry #poet #poem #writer #amwriting #bskypoets #bskypoetry #ctpoetry #poetrycommunity #river #photography #art #peace #unity
Become pages of prayers
Soliloquy by the stream
Voice becomes rivulet
Becomes voice again
The only place
I can verbalize
#poetry #poet #poem #writer #amwriting #bskypoets #bskypoetry #ctpoetry #poetrycommunity #river #photography #art #peace #unity
Where colors
are conscious
inner to outer
to inner
imaginings
of truth
never to be
discovered
but to be painted
again and
again
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #photography #sunrise #ocean #imagination #art #creativity #amwriting #ctpoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
are conscious
inner to outer
to inner
imaginings
of truth
never to be
discovered
but to be painted
again and
again
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #photography #sunrise #ocean #imagination #art #creativity #amwriting #ctpoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
June 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Where colors
are conscious
inner to outer
to inner
imaginings
of truth
never to be
discovered
but to be painted
again and
again
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #photography #sunrise #ocean #imagination #art #creativity #amwriting #ctpoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
are conscious
inner to outer
to inner
imaginings
of truth
never to be
discovered
but to be painted
again and
again
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #photography #sunrise #ocean #imagination #art #creativity #amwriting #ctpoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
The sunrise wraps
round and round
the dust of Sahara
storms its soul
across space
feeds the forests
sustains the sea
quells the colors
chokes the humans
knows just what to do
#sunrise #poetry #poem #saharandust #poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #photography #ocean #art #duststorm #ctpoetry
round and round
the dust of Sahara
storms its soul
across space
feeds the forests
sustains the sea
quells the colors
chokes the humans
knows just what to do
#sunrise #poetry #poem #saharandust #poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #photography #ocean #art #duststorm #ctpoetry
June 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The sunrise wraps
round and round
the dust of Sahara
storms its soul
across space
feeds the forests
sustains the sea
quells the colors
chokes the humans
knows just what to do
#sunrise #poetry #poem #saharandust #poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #photography #ocean #art #duststorm #ctpoetry
round and round
the dust of Sahara
storms its soul
across space
feeds the forests
sustains the sea
quells the colors
chokes the humans
knows just what to do
#sunrise #poetry #poem #saharandust #poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #photography #ocean #art #duststorm #ctpoetry
“It looks like the universe,” they said in the same breath.
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #quote #flowers #photography #ctpoetry #nepoetry #connecticutpoetry #newenglandpoetry #amwriting #art #presence
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #quote #flowers #photography #ctpoetry #nepoetry #connecticutpoetry #newenglandpoetry #amwriting #art #presence
June 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“It looks like the universe,” they said in the same breath.
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #quote #flowers #photography #ctpoetry #nepoetry #connecticutpoetry #newenglandpoetry #amwriting #art #presence
#poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #quote #flowers #photography #ctpoetry #nepoetry #connecticutpoetry #newenglandpoetry #amwriting #art #presence
Sweet humans, may we join our hearts, pool our love and wash away these monsters.
#poetry #poet #lovewins #love #quote #dailyquote #compassion #unity #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #nonviolence
#poetry #poet #lovewins #love #quote #dailyquote #compassion #unity #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #nonviolence
June 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Sweet humans, may we join our hearts, pool our love and wash away these monsters.
#poetry #poet #lovewins #love #quote #dailyquote #compassion #unity #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #nonviolence
#poetry #poet #lovewins #love #quote #dailyquote #compassion #unity #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #nonviolence
summon
strings of
language
so absurd
they can’t be
apprehended
#poetry #selfexpression #poet #ctpoetry #ctpoet #connecticutpoetry #nepoetry #poeta #writer #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky #nature #photography
strings of
language
so absurd
they can’t be
apprehended
#poetry #selfexpression #poet #ctpoetry #ctpoet #connecticutpoetry #nepoetry #poeta #writer #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky #nature #photography
May 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
summon
strings of
language
so absurd
they can’t be
apprehended
#poetry #selfexpression #poet #ctpoetry #ctpoet #connecticutpoetry #nepoetry #poeta #writer #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky #nature #photography
strings of
language
so absurd
they can’t be
apprehended
#poetry #selfexpression #poet #ctpoetry #ctpoet #connecticutpoetry #nepoetry #poeta #writer #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky #nature #photography
The great switch
of speaker and cipher
chasing spirit
to its inimitable
origins
where only
breath
can breathe
#language #poetry #evolution #poet #poem #excerpt #bskypoets #poeta #poetrycommunity #connecticutpoets #connecticutpoetry
of speaker and cipher
chasing spirit
to its inimitable
origins
where only
breath
can breathe
#language #poetry #evolution #poet #poem #excerpt #bskypoets #poeta #poetrycommunity #connecticutpoets #connecticutpoetry
May 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The great switch
of speaker and cipher
chasing spirit
to its inimitable
origins
where only
breath
can breathe
#language #poetry #evolution #poet #poem #excerpt #bskypoets #poeta #poetrycommunity #connecticutpoets #connecticutpoetry
of speaker and cipher
chasing spirit
to its inimitable
origins
where only
breath
can breathe
#language #poetry #evolution #poet #poem #excerpt #bskypoets #poeta #poetrycommunity #connecticutpoets #connecticutpoetry
Water fills my palms
pours over me
rehydration
mind expands
in 100 directions
#poetry #micropoetry #presence #poet #poem #bskypoetry #nature #photography #art #river #writer #writing #amwriting
pours over me
rehydration
mind expands
in 100 directions
#poetry #micropoetry #presence #poet #poem #bskypoetry #nature #photography #art #river #writer #writing #amwriting
May 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Water fills my palms
pours over me
rehydration
mind expands
in 100 directions
#poetry #micropoetry #presence #poet #poem #bskypoetry #nature #photography #art #river #writer #writing #amwriting
pours over me
rehydration
mind expands
in 100 directions
#poetry #micropoetry #presence #poet #poem #bskypoetry #nature #photography #art #river #writer #writing #amwriting
Some trees feel like family
#poetry #poet #quote #writer #nature #photography #earth #motherearth #trees
#poetry #poet #quote #writer #nature #photography #earth #motherearth #trees
May 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Some trees feel like family
#poetry #poet #quote #writer #nature #photography #earth #motherearth #trees
#poetry #poet #quote #writer #nature #photography #earth #motherearth #trees
The falls hang
like a long necklace
down the torso
of the mountain
a family heirloom
ancient, untarnished
a shrine-like shine
they don’t make them
like this anymore
#poetry #micropoetry #poetsofbsky #poet #poem #nature #photography #waterfall #writer #ctpoetry #nepoetry #quote #art
like a long necklace
down the torso
of the mountain
a family heirloom
ancient, untarnished
a shrine-like shine
they don’t make them
like this anymore
#poetry #micropoetry #poetsofbsky #poet #poem #nature #photography #waterfall #writer #ctpoetry #nepoetry #quote #art
May 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The falls hang
like a long necklace
down the torso
of the mountain
a family heirloom
ancient, untarnished
a shrine-like shine
they don’t make them
like this anymore
#poetry #micropoetry #poetsofbsky #poet #poem #nature #photography #waterfall #writer #ctpoetry #nepoetry #quote #art
like a long necklace
down the torso
of the mountain
a family heirloom
ancient, untarnished
a shrine-like shine
they don’t make them
like this anymore
#poetry #micropoetry #poetsofbsky #poet #poem #nature #photography #waterfall #writer #ctpoetry #nepoetry #quote #art