bookgaga

bookgaga , 1 hour ago to poetry group

"firefighters have been tirelessly protecting
I want to hug them and say thank you
can’t extinguish the fear and anxiety
we live in a different world now."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
We can’t control the wind by @clairecameron (2024 @globeandmail) https://tinyurl.com/3c3w726s

bookgaga , 1 day ago to poetry group

"a flapping song

from skyward crows treadmilled.
We sing the symptoms,

we sound the wind."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Wind Warning by Julia Hartline (2023 Pinhole Poetry Volume One Selected) https://tinyurl.com/bestdxwc

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Wind Warning" by Julia Hartline from the poetry chapbook Pinhole Poetry Volume One Selected, with an uncapped black pen resting on the notebook page

bookgaga , 2 days ago to poetry group

"A hopeful & complex human sort we would all like to see a bit of
ourselves in

The woman who is the poem is a mixture of intrigued & baffled -
alone & surging with company - an anecdote-hound"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
from Twenty Lost Years by Phil Hall from Killdeer (2011 Bookhug Press) https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/phil-hall/killdeer-essay-poems-by-phil-hall/

Poetry collection Killdeer by Phil Hall (Bookhug Press), with its striking cover showing a colourful bird wing, sits on a pillar with a notebook with an ornate gold cover, a black pen and a clay pot with a plant with bright, variegated leaves

bookgaga , 3 days ago to poetry group

"Blocks filled with stories,
with people,
a community.

A past,
a present,
a future.

Here."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
from Denison Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes (2023 ECW Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdfmed8t

bookgaga , 4 days ago to poetry group

"I choose, for moderate comfort, a thin tree
whose tallest branch has yet one leaf
hunched brown. A flag? Defiance? Obstinance?
A declaration I suppose.
I make it mine."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Leaf by M. Travis Lane (2024 Opaat Press/@annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/2tpuh2zb

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Leaf" by M. Travis Lane - an uncapped black pen sits on the notebook page and the poetry pamphlet sits nearby

bookgaga , 5 days ago to poetry group

"while in heaven right next door somebody has plugged
a radio into a long extension cord and music from the local radio station has scared
the raccoons away and bushels of corn are picked by a woman who loves the feel
of the perfect ears in her hands because this is her heaven you see not the heaven
of raccoons"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Not the Heaven of Raccoons by Julie Berry from The Walnut-Cracking Machine (2010 Buschek Books) https://tinyurl.com/yck3x8nm

bookgaga , 6 days ago to poetry group

"In this life I see strangers kissing in their kitchen through the window."

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forgive me, this is not a love poem by Lilah Warren (2024 League of Canadian Poets) https://tinyurl.com/bdhbessj

bookgaga , 7 days ago to bookstodon group

"When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in - woe be to truth! and woe be to the vehicle and its tackling (let 'em be made of what stuff you will) upon which he breathes forth the disappointment of his soul!"

#SundaySentence @bookstodon
from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne https://tinyurl.com/3mz3jjkc

bookgaga , 7 days ago to poetry group

"poetry is what
whips yo tater
pets it awry, oh
oh, twisty pear
two hearts yip
it’s paw theory"

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What Is Poetry by Susan Holbrook (2015 Poetry In Voice) https://tinyurl.com/5burkvp4

bookgaga , 8 days ago to poetry group

"Smiling at strangers reminds me of my dog
(Better let them know you're friendly)
The way people dress reminds me too
Pissing on their favorite tree"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Everything Reminds Me of My Dog by Jane Siberry from Bound by the Beauty (1989) https://tinyurl.com/4et3v397 & https://tinyurl.com/mwv4nx7r

Airedale Mavis' paws and her neon green toy are visible next to a notebook with a handwritten transcription of the lyrics from Jane Siberry's "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog"
Airedale Mavis' paws and her neon green toy are visible next to a notebook with a handwritten transcription of the lyrics from Jane Siberry's "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog"
Notebook with cartoon images of dogs on the cover sits on a computer keyboard. On the computer screen are the lyrics to Jane Siberry's song "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog", including a picture of Jane on the cover of her album Bound by the Beauty.

bookgaga , 9 days ago to poetry group

"A man in a ‘Kafka for President’ shirt transformed into a banana peel at the museum of somber paintings because it was New Year’s Eve."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
New Year's Eve at the Museum of Somber Paintings by Jose Hernandez Diaz (2024 Only Poems) https://tinyurl.com/24wwa8ax

bookgaga , 10 days ago to poetry group

"This morning before daybreak a thunderstorm

In the last hours before her death
her enemies came. A raccoon, that storm,
the FedEx truck manned by a gentle woman
who'd recently lost her own dog."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry #VerseThursday
Stella by Michael Ondaatje from A Year of Last Things (2024 McClelland & Stewart) https://tinyurl.com/2xcx9z9n

Airedale Mavis (with her rubber chicken Trudy in the background) sits on the concrete floor before a notebook with a handwritten transcription of the poem "Stella" from the poetry collection A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje

bookgaga , 11 days ago to poetry group

"What real thing does anyone want?

Who sings for the women I inherit?
Who hopes for a woman like me?"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Love in Stereo by Remica Bingham-Risher from Starlight & Error (2017 Diode Editions) https://tinyurl.com/44f7upff & https://tinyurl.com/43js3vb5

bookgaga , 13 days ago to poetry group

"Next morning I'll confess I overmarmaladed
the toast on purpose, trying to make up
for the chromatic deficiency, for orangelessness,
though the sky begins to show at times
we can observe, now, look -"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Aperture by Dawn Macdonald from Northerny (2024 University of AlbertaPress) https://tinyurl.com/2vnr7s47

bookgaga , 14 days ago to bookstodon group

"Decades they have watched the dreamers venture, toil, despair, come back to the refuge of trunks, branches, their conversation deep underground tingling up my legs."

#SundaySentence @bookstodon
from secrets from the sea by Adrienne Fitzpatrick in The Litter I See Project (2024) https://tinyurl.com/55spmhse