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Linotype Pilgrim

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#foundHaiku

💥Alex.W💪🏾💥 @jokeb0i.bsky.social · Jun 24

> hear someone yelling
> turnaround
> goat in a truck

June 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM

Forgotten Poets

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Will you
Glimmer on the sea?
Will you?

—H.D.

#poem #poems #poetry #haiku #foundhaiku

pheebs @clitullus.bsky.social · Aug 27

the poem “moonrise” by Hilda Doolittle: “will you glimmer on the sea?”

December 28, 2024 at 9:52 AM

Forgotten Poets

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earth smells fresh,
like the breath of an animal
just born . . .

—James Wright

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Dec 17

James Wright

I look beneath.
It does not look like a grave.
The earth smells fresh, like the breath
Of an animal just born.

December 17, 2024 at 4:15 AM

Forgotten Poets

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"Grief
too sad for song—
wild wind."

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

#poem #poems #haiku #foundhaiku

Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Dec 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Dirge

Rough wind, that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long;
Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main, —
Wail, for the world’s wrong!

December 3, 2024 at 12:30 AM

Forgotten Poets

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evenly
following the road—
each spoke

—Lorine Niedecker (1967)

#poem #poems #haiku #foundhaiku

I walked
on New Year's Day

beside the trees
my father now gone planted

evenly following
the road

Each
spoke

January 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM

Forgotten Poets

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"In the night of glass—we hear certain songs."
—Michael Palmer

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Dec 5

Michael Palmer. RIP Jacques Roubaud 🕯️

Small Night Song for Jacques Roubaud

In the night of glass
we hear certain songs

and certain things
sharp and simple

commonplace
take on a face

figured as cypress
figured as shade

And my eyes
And my eyes

Glass of night
Glass of night

December 5, 2024 at 11:14 PM

Forgotten Poets

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From 'Frog & Toad'
—Arnold Lobel

#haiku #foundhaiku #poem #poems

Toad put his head
very close to the ground and shouted,
"Now seeds, start growing!"

January 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM

Forgotten Poets

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I will remember
with my breath to make
a mountain . . .

—May Swenson

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Jan 14

May Swenson's "Night Practice" ....

Night Practice
will remember
with my breath to make a mountain, with my sucked-in breath a valley, with my pushed-out breath a mountain. I will make a valley wider than the whisper, I will make a higher mountain than the cry; will with my will breathe a mountain, I will with my will breathe a valley. I will push out a mountain, suck in a valley, deeper than the shout YOU MUST DIE, harder, heavier, sharper a mountain than the truth YOU MUST DIE. I will remember. My breath will make a mountain. My will will remember to will. I, suck-ing, pushing, I will breathe a valley, I will breathe a mountain.

January 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM

Forgotten Poets

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mountainless plain . . .

noting the season,
the articulate stars

—Jean Day

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Jan 10

in time

Jean Day

DAYDREAM

We are moving quietly in our cells
on a mountainless plain
in time
with the bipedal paradigm
having fallen down on the job
two themes arise
One goes for a walk with a line
noting the season, the articulate stars, you
and your new Cup.
Evangelical intentions will have to be scrapped as
increasingly hard-nosed
the King of Aplomb plays
much too fast. Wouldn’t it be cool
to set our alarms
for an early escape with the money
and birds?

January 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM

Kimberly A. Horning

@everydaydeath12.bsky.social

#foundhaiku

the saddest room
in the saddest house
shredded family photos

January 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM

Forgotten Poets

@forgottenpoets.bsky.social

#haiku #foundhaiku

These words
They are stones in the water
Running away

June 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM

Forgotten Poets

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Firelight—your face a shadow.
—Tom Packard

#poem #poems #haiku #foundhaiku

Poem

sitting
in firelight
your face
a
shadow

the
little
gold
glint
of
your ring.

December 22, 2024 at 10:55 PM

Forgotten Poets

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noon in the desert—
a panting lizard waited
for history

—William Stafford

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · Jan 13

William Stafford, reading the room

January 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM

Forgotten Poets

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"Dusk—nothing i can learn from art or loneliness."
—Derek Walcott

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Nov 30

Derek Walcott

At dusk, when they return
For vespers, every dress
Touched by the sun will burn
A seraph's, an angel's,
And nothing I can learn
From art or loneliness
Can bless them as the bell's
Transfixing tongue can bless.

November 30, 2024 at 11:17 PM

Forgotten Poets

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Today I swear—
only in the sun's eye
do I take fire.

—Adrienne Rich

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Dec 22

Adrienne Rich

FIRST THINGS

I can’t name love now
without naming its object—
this the final measure
of those flintspark years
when one believed
one’s flash innate.
Today I swear
only in the sun’s eye
do I take fire.

1961

December 22, 2024 at 11:25 PM

Forgotten Poets

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red tulips
drooping in the park:
remarkable

—Lynley Edmeades

#haiku #foundhaiku #poem #poems #PoetryAotearoa

The Order of Things

Red tulips drooping in the park.
Remarkable how quickly things change:
It’s tomorrow.
It’s today.

December 25, 2024 at 9:47 AM

Forgotten Poets

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two bodies
playing on the rocks:
a muskrat

—Ron Schreiber

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Jan 1

the extraordinary again common

Ron Schreiber

back down to earth

no sky visions but these clouds
red air above the Sierras
by Nevada City this pool of water
this fountain built by beavers
two bodies playing on the rocks
a muskrat swimming upstream
the extraordinary again common
learning to count:
aspen calendula eucalyptus pine

January 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM

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@teaii.bsky.social

#foundhaiku #haiku2025 #poetry

March 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM

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@teaii.bsky.social

#foundhaiku #haiku2025 #poetry

April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM

Forgotten Poets

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"A tree falls or doesn't on this hillside—I am here."

"Grammar—a scattered pattern of bark and branches."

—Elizabeth Dodd

#poems #poetry #haiku #foundhaiku

November 29, 2024 at 10:26 PM

Forgotten Poets

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a scent
a stone alive at last . . .
after being

—Michael Burkard 🖤

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Dec 24

at too late a time
no one can be on board such a ship—

no one can kiss like you
or the ocean approaching the rest of the night waiting world

- Michael Burkard 🖤