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On a withered branch
A crow has alighted:
Nightfall in autumn.
--Matsuo Basho, 1679
The 1st haiku poem.
I hope to find a few more translations.
#Poetry #History #Literature

@stf@chaos.social
2026-05-28 19:19:59

spouse insists that some of my brainfarts are poetry, and i should publish them. circumventing the 500 char limit with imgs/alt-text.
context: spouse has a bunch of chainsaws.
#poetry #netherlands #biking

zomg. what a horrible day to go biking. 28 degrees, pinkster (pentecost),
every crazy obstacle is out on the roads, i had it all: vans blocking the
road, caravans standing perpendicular to the road - on it. people carrying
kayaks over the road, SUP boards, daddies fixing their daughters bike in the
fucking middle of the road, and of course large gangs of seniors playing
perfect gas molecules and filling out every possible space on the road.

i was fantasizing of mounting some of your chainsaws …
@zudn@theres.life
2026-06-03 17:04:29

When no one cares, and no one sees
That private prayer upon your knees,
God hears your words to move the world,
When by his will he speaks to build
The Kingdom with his powerful ease ─
In private prayer it's God who's skilled
To hear the man with whom he's pleased.
#SmallPoems

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-05-10 21:26:56

gonna be vibing on this for a while, from "ah!merica," wee little collection of allen ginsberg's naropa lectures on william blake. (guitar pick for scale.) #books #poetry

tiny book with guitar pick
small block of text
small block of text

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'

Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bokonon in Cat’s Cradle
#Poetry #Meaning

@pre@boing.world
2026-05-28 21:28:33

If you wanna smoke that stuff then you do you man, believe what you want.
But don't come quoting that slop machine at me, like it backs up a single thought.
Or worse, like it's a thought you had.
Here: this must be true, the robot thought it too!
The revolution will not come to mind when conferring with their chatbots.
The revolution will be live, not Ai-sized.
The revolution will be humanized.
#ai #poetry

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
--William Butler Yeats
#Quote #Poetry #Wisdom #Knowledge

@stf@chaos.social
2026-05-28 19:24:20

#poetry #netherlands has no edible #bread. i got a present #baguette from

v brought me a baguette from down south. h
so  have a st marcellin, langres, chaource, some bouchette fleurs j'adore &
some very grey chevre cheese.
egalite, liberte, fromagite!
although i have this nagging feeling that i'm probably dancing polka on the
grave of le general for not having those from-aged properly, but if i do,
the baguette would be over-aged...
oh well, maybe they'll rebuild the bastille for me to be put away for crimes
against fromage
they'll ripen me then in there...
i'm happy…