#todayspoem

from I Have a Time Machine by Brenda Shaughnessy:

But unfortunately it can only travel into the future
at a rate of one second per second,

which seems slow to the physicists and to the grant
committees and even to me.

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haiku by Edward Ferri Jr:

Beware
The long poem
So much to go wrong

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from Mrs. Simpkins by Stevie Smith:

‘Since I crossed over dear friends’ it said ‘I’m no different to what I was before
Death’s not a separation or alteration or parting it’s just a one-handled door
We spirits can come back to you if your seance is orthodox
But you can’t come over to us till your body’s shut in a box
And this is the great thought I want to leave with you today
You’ve heard it before but in case you forgot death isn’t a passing away
It’s just a carrying on with friends relations and brightness
Only you don’t have to bother with sickness and there’s no financial tightness’

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from The Poet of Ignorance by Anne Sexton:

There is an animal inside me,
clutching fast to my heart,
a huge crab.
The doctors of Boston. have thrown up their hands.

flowers in house winter
blooming before the freeze

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from “The Caged Parts” by Harrison Cook:

The roar reaves like two cars ready for a street race, a gas pedal of a sound, starting low, growing louder till the boiling over of harsh breath.

When a cage is all you’ve known, born into, grew up in, will die in, what options are left but throwing your body toward the opening of any door?

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from On the Subject of Doctors by James Tate:

who gets to see
most sex organs in the world? Not
poets. With the hours they keep
they need drugs more than anyone.


gotta love a funny poem

sun baked question mark snake lost its skin

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haiku by Nova Marie Ash:

syllables ever grasping
like dying tendrils
I don’t understand haiku

cloud inkwashed ridgeline

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from it’s more than a job, it’s a journey 🚂 by Kelly Mullins:

as a street sweeper slides down The Swindenstraat and I yell, “scabs!!” out the window a 1% merit increase in this economy is wage theft rage theft I swear to god my left eye migraine eucalyptus tea meditation would text my therapist but she ghosted me

it’s like, should I go on a walk


this is my kind of head exploding on the page poem, I recommend reading the whole thing

driftwood washed up on shore of landlocked train tracks

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haiku by Meredith Ackroyd

wildflower honey
the blackberry underside
of a cloud

90% of blooms dropped while others begin to bud

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haiku by Arvinder Kaur:

deep autumn
the maple sheds leaves
and gathers stars

wooden nickel moon reflecting poultry processing plant

red & blue all over orange poking through fall’s leaves

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from The Creative Act by Rick Rubin 📚

There’s a time for certain ideas to arrive,
and they find a way
to express themselves through us.

leafing pear
dandruff in the wind

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from Cantabria by Ben Meyerson:

days are deposited into what they once were.
All water is what it erodes.

stacked stars
the sky indigoing
above the parking lot

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from Juan Ramón Jiménez (via Jack Kornfield):

who you are is not your body
we rent it

blooming pear
in the wind
spring snow

rear view / limbed telephone pole / pushing a stroller

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