"Day, like a flower of gold fades on its crimson bed;
For the many chambered night unbars to shut its
sweetness up;
From earth and heaven fast drawn together a heavy
stillness is shed,
And our hearts drink the shadowy splendour from a
brimming cup.

For the indrawn breath of beauty thrills the holy caves
of night;
Shimmering winds of heaven fall gently and mysterious
hands caress
Our wan brows with cooling rapture of the delicate
starlight
Dropping from the night’s blue walls in endless veils of
loveliness."

'Nocturne', by Isaac Rosenberg

I am still here
Despite the times
I’ve disappeared
Completely.
Out of darkness
The light borne
Wonder of beginning
Again.

"You were a prince of darkness, shining bright
against the backdrop of a world of sin;
you were the lord of creatures of the night
and undisputed master of the din –
the noise, the sound, the unrepentant drone
of metal tearing at the walls of silence –
you stood against the world, you stood alone
and made your music into eldritch science..."

https://seanpatrick.phd/2025/07/22/sonnet-for-a-prince-of-darkness/

A haiku inspired by Peter Henry Emerson's photo "At the Ferry–A Misty Morning"

https://creativeramblings.com/poetry/ferry-misty-morning-peter-henry-emerson/

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poetrywriting #photography #writing #writingcommunity

@poetry @haiku @photography

The 2025 Speculative Poetry Contest is accepting submissions from all poets now until August 31st. Rules, information on the judge, prize info, and the link to the submission form are at at https://sfpoetry.com/contests.html

Please boost and share - and good luck!
#specpo #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #poetry

#ScribesAndMakers 22 Jul 'something you've created. Tell us the story behind it'

This is the more modern version of the famous poem by John Godfrey Saxe.

In the middle of the book, with accreditation, and featuring in "The Talent Contest".

The almost true true story of the Blind Men and the Elephant.

Rewritten by Scott Rochester.

Performed by Gordon Bennett.

see Alt Text for more

LONELY ARCH IN MOONLIGHT

in the belly of this
little vessel, the shelter
of night, I have nothing on my shoulders

https://miksimum.com/2025/07/22/lonely-arch-in-moonlight/

Brown Eyes – Gabrielle V

https://abpositiveart.com/brown-eyes-gabrielle-v/

#poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity

@poetry

Riddle-Poem 7/22/2025

I struck the ground, and there upsprung
The source of every song that’s sung
By poets, bards and balladeers.
My most familiar form appears
With forelegs raised and wings addorsed,
But for uncounted years I’ve coursed
Across the depths of upper air
In the shape of a perfect square.

Updates from the Forge 58 is now out! You can discover new #GameDev and creative writing projects and resources in each issue of these community newsletters. And if you'd like your project featured for autumn, just drop by and post it on Exilian sometime :)

This issue includes creators including @midnightspire, @EntangledPear, @Innkeep and @JubalBarca if you want to follow them, with everything from dungeon-crawling magical girls, conniving innkeepers, and wily folklorists through to tiny dwarf houses and twirly seashells.

Check out the issue here:
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?msg=164614

Boosts welcome!

Friday 17 October 2025 at 19:30
Irish poet Bernard O’Donoghue will be in conversation with Fiona Stafford to dicuss the "The Poems of Seamus Heaney" edited by Bernard O’Donoghue, Rosie Lavan with Matthew Hollis.
https://www.thameplayers.co.uk/events/seamus-heaney-unpublished-poems
#SeamusHeaney #poetry in #thame

There will be no contrition
until we reach
the Gates of Desperation

When depleted of all options
the view becomes crystal clear
from whence we came
and our future
final landing destination

The trip through Depression
can be exceedingly bleak
but you'll never find
elusive Happiness
without first
traversing the Blues

There’s nothing quite like walking alone, soaking in the world around you. Sometimes the things we notice are bittersweet.

#poetry #mentalhealth #grief #loss
https://open.substack.com/pub/suswatibasu/p/flowers-by-the-seaside?r=5rxnp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Beatles 45
yellow-orange label
fire spinning wax

#DailyHaikuPrompt - candle
#poetry #haiku #senryu

 When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up
 When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
--
Song: “When You Gonna Wake Up?”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
--
https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-you-gonna-wake/
--
#Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry

tapped for the thud
of ripeness

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - melon

"Space and time collapse
inside ten thousand teeth

or rather such occasions
render brothers asunder:

yes, the sister was
so much stronger."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
If in Language is Lightness and in Lightness Transformation by Nicholas Alti (2025 Trampoline Poetry) https://tinyurl.com/3atdvcmn

“It’s impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside, and impossible not to be more scared and saddened while doing so. He was the ideal laureate of our age, painfully alive to the glory of what we’re losing.”

—Sarah Crown reviews John Burnside’s posthumously published final poetry collection THE EMPIRE OF FORGETTING

@bookstodon

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/22/the-empire-of-forgetting-by-john-burnside-review-last-words-from-an-essential-poet-of-our-age

Karen Solie, from "Wellwater".