January 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
What it feels like writing this morning. From Robert Bly's book, Morning Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/978006...
#poetry #poets #robertbly #books #writing
#poetry #poets #robertbly #books #writing
December 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM
What it feels like writing this morning. From Robert Bly's book, Morning Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/978006...
#poetry #poets #robertbly #books #writing
#poetry #poets #robertbly #books #writing
This quote reminds us that growth comes from letting go. Like trees shedding leaves, we release parts of ourselves to be reborn, drawing strength from our roots. #robertbly #spiritualgrowth
December 16, 2024 at 6:20 AM
This quote reminds us that growth comes from letting go. Like trees shedding leaves, we release parts of ourselves to be reborn, drawing strength from our roots. #robertbly #spiritualgrowth
News of the Universe: A Collection of Poetry from Around the World, Edited by Robert Bly
#poetry #robertbly
#poetry #robertbly
July 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
News of the Universe: A Collection of Poetry from Around the World, Edited by Robert Bly
#poetry #robertbly
#poetry #robertbly
A tiny poem by my friend Robert Bly
Watering the Horse
How strange to think of giving up all ambition!
Suddenly I see with such clear eyes
The white flake of snow
That has just fallen in the horse's mane!
#RobertBly #aRealPlace #SmallPoemSunday #Missoula #RicohGR #BearingWitness #toMake
Watering the Horse
How strange to think of giving up all ambition!
Suddenly I see with such clear eyes
The white flake of snow
That has just fallen in the horse's mane!
#RobertBly #aRealPlace #SmallPoemSunday #Missoula #RicohGR #BearingWitness #toMake
June 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
A tiny poem by my friend Robert Bly
Watering the Horse
How strange to think of giving up all ambition!
Suddenly I see with such clear eyes
The white flake of snow
That has just fallen in the horse's mane!
#RobertBly #aRealPlace #SmallPoemSunday #Missoula #RicohGR #BearingWitness #toMake
Watering the Horse
How strange to think of giving up all ambition!
Suddenly I see with such clear eyes
The white flake of snow
That has just fallen in the horse's mane!
#RobertBly #aRealPlace #SmallPoemSunday #Missoula #RicohGR #BearingWitness #toMake
.
from a poem by Robert Bly titled
Why We Don't Die
In late September many voices
Tell you you will die.
That leaf says it, that coolness.
All of them are right.
#Poem #RobertBly #Death #aRealPlace #Glacier #SaintMaryLake #ReynoldsCreekFire #RicohGR4 #Monochrome
from a poem by Robert Bly titled
Why We Don't Die
In late September many voices
Tell you you will die.
That leaf says it, that coolness.
All of them are right.
#Poem #RobertBly #Death #aRealPlace #Glacier #SaintMaryLake #ReynoldsCreekFire #RicohGR4 #Monochrome
September 20, 2026 at 11:05 PM
.
from a poem by Robert Bly titled
Why We Don't Die
In late September many voices
Tell you you will die.
That leaf says it, that coolness.
All of them are right.
#Poem #RobertBly #Death #aRealPlace #Glacier #SaintMaryLake #ReynoldsCreekFire #RicohGR4 #Monochrome
from a poem by Robert Bly titled
Why We Don't Die
In late September many voices
Tell you you will die.
That leaf says it, that coolness.
All of them are right.
#Poem #RobertBly #Death #aRealPlace #Glacier #SaintMaryLake #ReynoldsCreekFire #RicohGR4 #Monochrome
If any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality.
- #RobertBly
- #RobertBly
September 15, 2026 at 8:18 AM
If any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality.
- #RobertBly
- #RobertBly
As adults it is our job to name the power we couldn’t name that worked on us when we were children.
- #RobertBly
- #RobertBly
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
As adults it is our job to name the power we couldn’t name that worked on us when we were children.
- #RobertBly
- #RobertBly
December 21, 2024 at 5:06 PM
“It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.”
Knut Hamsun
Hunger
1890
#modernnovel #psychologicalnovel #norwegianliterature #philosophy #booksky #poverty #housingsecurity #homelessness #foodsecurity #writing #novel #books #reading #resistance #translation #robertbly #19thC
Knut Hamsun
Hunger
1890
#modernnovel #psychologicalnovel #norwegianliterature #philosophy #booksky #poverty #housingsecurity #homelessness #foodsecurity #writing #novel #books #reading #resistance #translation #robertbly #19thC
February 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.”
Knut Hamsun
Hunger
1890
#modernnovel #psychologicalnovel #norwegianliterature #philosophy #booksky #poverty #housingsecurity #homelessness #foodsecurity #writing #novel #books #reading #resistance #translation #robertbly #19thC
Knut Hamsun
Hunger
1890
#modernnovel #psychologicalnovel #norwegianliterature #philosophy #booksky #poverty #housingsecurity #homelessness #foodsecurity #writing #novel #books #reading #resistance #translation #robertbly #19thC
A WALK
By #Rillke, tr. #RobertBly
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far beyond the road I have begun,
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has an inner light, even from a distance–
By #Rillke, tr. #RobertBly
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far beyond the road I have begun,
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has an inner light, even from a distance–
August 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A WALK
By #Rillke, tr. #RobertBly
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far beyond the road I have begun,
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has an inner light, even from a distance–
By #Rillke, tr. #RobertBly
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far beyond the road I have begun,
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has an inner light, even from a distance–
"Who is it we spend our entire life loving?"
Kabir [ver. R.Bly]
I miss my friend who sent me this poem
back then, when I played the flute
played many different flutes
many many years ago.
&& yes; I know (and he knew) the sound of the ecstatic flute
#Kabir #RobertBly #Flute #Loving
Kabir [ver. R.Bly]
I miss my friend who sent me this poem
back then, when I played the flute
played many different flutes
many many years ago.
&& yes; I know (and he knew) the sound of the ecstatic flute
#Kabir #RobertBly #Flute #Loving
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"Who is it we spend our entire life loving?"
Kabir [ver. R.Bly]
I miss my friend who sent me this poem
back then, when I played the flute
played many different flutes
many many years ago.
&& yes; I know (and he knew) the sound of the ecstatic flute
#Kabir #RobertBly #Flute #Loving
Kabir [ver. R.Bly]
I miss my friend who sent me this poem
back then, when I played the flute
played many different flutes
many many years ago.
&& yes; I know (and he knew) the sound of the ecstatic flute
#Kabir #RobertBly #Flute #Loving
PROVERBS AND SONGS
By #AntonioMachado, tr. #RobertBly
𝑫𝙚𝒅𝙞𝒄𝙖𝒕𝙚𝒅 𝒕𝙤 𝙅𝒐𝙨𝒆 𝑶𝙧𝒕𝙚𝒈𝙖 𝙮 𝙂𝒂𝙨𝒔𝙚𝒕
I
The eye you see is not
an eye because you see it;
it is an eye because it sees you.
By #AntonioMachado, tr. #RobertBly
𝑫𝙚𝒅𝙞𝒄𝙖𝒕𝙚𝒅 𝒕𝙤 𝙅𝒐𝙨𝒆 𝑶𝙧𝒕𝙚𝒈𝙖 𝙮 𝙂𝒂𝙨𝒔𝙚𝒕
I
The eye you see is not
an eye because you see it;
it is an eye because it sees you.
September 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
PROVERBS AND SONGS
By #AntonioMachado, tr. #RobertBly
𝑫𝙚𝒅𝙞𝒄𝙖𝒕𝙚𝒅 𝒕𝙤 𝙅𝒐𝙨𝒆 𝑶𝙧𝒕𝙚𝒈𝙖 𝙮 𝙂𝒂𝙨𝒔𝙚𝒕
I
The eye you see is not
an eye because you see it;
it is an eye because it sees you.
By #AntonioMachado, tr. #RobertBly
𝑫𝙚𝒅𝙞𝒄𝙖𝒕𝙚𝒅 𝒕𝙤 𝙅𝒐𝙨𝒆 𝑶𝙧𝒕𝙚𝒈𝙖 𝙮 𝙂𝒂𝙨𝒔𝙚𝒕
I
The eye you see is not
an eye because you see it;
it is an eye because it sees you.
Yes in fact I made a two part video about BDHILH and the references to Robert bly’s iron John and HCA’s little mermaid if you’re interested
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ysbP5w/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ysbP5w/
It’s all part of the fucking story #taylorswift #swiftie #performanceartlor #bdilh #butdaddyilovehim #robertbly #wildman #wildboy #hanschristianandersen #littlemermaid #lifeofashowgirl #ttpd #erastour...
TikTok video by 🏳️🌈 MK 🍉
www.tiktok.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Yes in fact I made a two part video about BDHILH and the references to Robert bly’s iron John and HCA’s little mermaid if you’re interested
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ysbP5w/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ysbP5w/
"I am proud only of those days that pass in
undivided tenderness."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒️ #RobertBly, American poet and essayist, was #BOTD 23 December 1926. #Poetry #Literature
undivided tenderness."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒️ #RobertBly, American poet and essayist, was #BOTD 23 December 1926. #Poetry #Literature
December 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"I am proud only of those days that pass in
undivided tenderness."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒️ #RobertBly, American poet and essayist, was #BOTD 23 December 1926. #Poetry #Literature
undivided tenderness."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒️ #RobertBly, American poet and essayist, was #BOTD 23 December 1926. #Poetry #Literature
Sometimes I go about pitying myself,
and all the time
I am being carried on great winds across the sky.
- #Ojibway Prayer (tr. #RobertBly and #FrancesDensmore)
and all the time
I am being carried on great winds across the sky.
- #Ojibway Prayer (tr. #RobertBly and #FrancesDensmore)
February 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Sometimes I go about pitying myself,
and all the time
I am being carried on great winds across the sky.
- #Ojibway Prayer (tr. #RobertBly and #FrancesDensmore)
and all the time
I am being carried on great winds across the sky.
- #Ojibway Prayer (tr. #RobertBly and #FrancesDensmore)
I AM NOT I
By #JuanRamónJiménez, tr. #RobertBly
I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
By #JuanRamónJiménez, tr. #RobertBly
I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
November 18, 2024 at 11:56 AM
I AM NOT I
By #JuanRamónJiménez, tr. #RobertBly
I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
By #JuanRamónJiménez, tr. #RobertBly
I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
One Source of Bad Information, by Robert Bly
(quoted in Wild Things: A Geography of Grief by Barbara Wansbrough)
(quoted in Wild Things: A Geography of Grief by Barbara Wansbrough)
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
and changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on,
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
- Rainer Maria #Rilke, tr. #RobertBly
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on,
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
- Rainer Maria #Rilke, tr. #RobertBly
December 5, 2024 at 1:51 AM
and changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on,
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
- Rainer Maria #Rilke, tr. #RobertBly
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on,
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
- Rainer Maria #Rilke, tr. #RobertBly
"I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒️ #RobertBly, American poet and essayist, was #BOTD 23 December 1926. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒️ #RobertBly, American poet and essayist, was #BOTD 23 December 1926. #Poetry #Literature
December 23, 2024 at 1:36 AM
"I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒️ #RobertBly, American poet and essayist, was #BOTD 23 December 1926. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒️ #RobertBly, American poet and essayist, was #BOTD 23 December 1926. #Poetry #Literature
A History of Mourning by Robert Bly | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-hi...
#RobertBly #AHistoryOfMourning #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #AmericanPoetry #20thCenturyPoetry #Grief #Death #Ancestors #Bly #Mourning
#RobertBly #AHistoryOfMourning #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #AmericanPoetry #20thCenturyPoetry #Grief #Death #Ancestors #Bly #Mourning
A History of Mourning by Robert Bly | Poems Rethabile Likes
Robert Bly's 'A History of Mourning' — a profound meditation on grief, ritual, and the slow, ancient journey of the dead into the stars.
po-re-li.blogspot.com
July 18, 2026 at 3:04 PM
A History of Mourning by Robert Bly | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-hi...
#RobertBly #AHistoryOfMourning #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #AmericanPoetry #20thCenturyPoetry #Grief #Death #Ancestors #Bly #Mourning
#RobertBly #AHistoryOfMourning #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #AmericanPoetry #20thCenturyPoetry #Grief #Death #Ancestors #Bly #Mourning
Men are in crisis too. #ChrisMurphy has a great new Substack out suggesting that we should consider this truth. I agree.
.. Reminded me of the poetry of #RobertBly “Snowbanks North of the House”
youtu.be/TIGDWOaL-ho?...
substack.com/@chrismurphy...
.. Reminded me of the poetry of #RobertBly “Snowbanks North of the House”
youtu.be/TIGDWOaL-ho?...
substack.com/@chrismurphy...
The reason to care about the plight of men
A few days ago, I finished Richard Reeves’ very good book, Of Boys and Men. It’s a compelling account of how far boys are falling behind girls in school, how unstable many men feel as women now compet...
substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Men are in crisis too. #ChrisMurphy has a great new Substack out suggesting that we should consider this truth. I agree.
.. Reminded me of the poetry of #RobertBly “Snowbanks North of the House”
youtu.be/TIGDWOaL-ho?...
substack.com/@chrismurphy...
.. Reminded me of the poetry of #RobertBly “Snowbanks North of the House”
youtu.be/TIGDWOaL-ho?...
substack.com/@chrismurphy...