I write and post a poem and photo daily.
🇺🇸 from #Virginia and #Minnesota. In 🇩🇪 since 1993.
👨👩👧👦 2nd marriage, 2 kids, 1 #cat, 0 goldfish (cat denies everything)
📍 #Potsdam / #Berlin
👁️ #Photography / #Fotografie
🪶 #Poetry / #Poesie
♿️ #Invisidisability / #InvisibleDisability
Dude.
Tried building a God detector.
Kept setting it off.
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ii.
Oh, to be seen;
cathode rays from the glow of the old TV
that warmed my lonely childhood skin
when Mister Rogers beamed.
Oh, to be seen
like a Seuss book we would slowly read
together on the couch
if Mom and Dad had been…
Oh, to be seen:
no backhanded praise, just clean.
I go back to my cracked mirror
and dream the broken dream.
Won’t you be my neighbor?
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It’s a beautiful day
A #poetry thread
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i.
Oh, to be seen!
To have the chance to preen,
to not be torn down
and not be told I’m mean.
Oh, to be seen,
not to turn you green
or take your light away —
let us both shine and gleam.
Oh, to be seen —
to be fat with praise, not lean,
a touch of heart-grown balm
to soothe my self-esteem.
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#poem #poemaday #collage #mentalhealth #art #photography #mastoart #poetrycommunity #poetsofmastodon
Body
Rows of dusty pews,
faint “hoc est corpus meum” —
brittle wafer snaps
#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #monochrome #travelphotography #churchphotography #catholic #silentsunday #photography
Kranner’s Fountain
Neo-Gothic spire,
reactionary rider —
folly remembers
#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #gothic #sky #clouds #monochrome #travel #history #photography
ii.
Beneath the streets, beer halls of brick:
they parley, preen, dress to the nines;
a verbal joust — no lance, pinpricks
to test if other’s heart may rhyme.
Outside, atop the old oak trees
where pairs of birds nest for many years,
a speckled egg tips, falls, and flees
to land in grass, still whole, still here.
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Ovum
A #poetry thread
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i.
In streets of Prague, the shadows bend,
while flocks of tourists take weary flight —
the sun floats low, soft clouds’ glow ends:
it's time to nest and toast the night
in restaurants and dim nightclubs,
a furtive glance and sensual sighs
speak courtship: spoken friction rubs —
new lovers’ truths in small white lies.
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#poem #poemaday #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #urbanphotography #travelphotography #citylife #cityscape #photography
Steel clouds
Urban mall ceiling,
bare metal panel patterns —
wrinkles in the sky
#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #Berlin #monochrome #blackandwhite #symmetry #photography
No. 12 (Which)
Two doors side by side,
one dark wood, one bright bare stone —
he turns the third knob
#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #travelphotography #door #photography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart
ii.
I start to feel it lift from stone,
tall ship that waits for winds to rise,
its galleries a foredeck borne
by time that folds into the skies.
As I stand there, not half awake,
the ocean-sky’s waves crash, divine —
and on the crest of clouds they take
this ghostly ship and make it mine.
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Belvedere
A #poetry thread
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i.
Beneath dark clouds of gathering dreams,
the coppered palace roof aglow;
its arches catch the whispered streams
of tales that only sailors know.
The belvedere peeks through the green,
stone vessel held in sylvan sway:
its quiet presence moored beneath
the restless clouds that rule the day.
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#poem #poemaday #clouds #photography #naturephotography #poetsofmastodon #mastoart
