Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 20hI listen to the different dialects of pine and cedar and believe in burning sadness to the ground I know there is prayer I know the round ball of moss in the Hoh Rainforest peaceful as a lightly formed fist in sleep is another kind of prayer 🌿 #poem excerpt: Diane Doty Averill #art Joseph Goh 052
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 20hTo the Light of September they all know that you have come the seed heads of the sage the whispering birds you who are neither before nor after you who arrive with blue plums that have fallen through the night perfect in the dew 🫐🌿 #poem excerpt: W.S. Merwin #art Julian Merrow-Smith #resist 053
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 20hMoonrise: Misting, Partly Cloudy To lie down lighter than air in a moonlit shimmer Alone to whisper yourself to sleep remember. ~ David Wagoner clouds sieve a cold sea-wind sleepers relax, cats uncurl soon a rustled murmur rises chimney rattles, gutters ping #poem 1/2 164
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h#art Alin B. #haiku #senryu #micropoem beetles #resist 050
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinBarico @njbarico.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#haiku #poem on the path home no one else has taken I leave a poem 082
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinKris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026no day without death none without a newborn's cry this world burning into autumn can't tell me whether to weep or laugh #tanka 1146
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 23hWishing you a happy, happy (slightly belated) birthday! 💛🌿 May the days of the year pass softly as pansies, each bringing smiles 💜🌿 love, Leigh #art Katie G. Whipple @krislindbeck.bsky.social 161
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinXero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"So where are all these new cases of autism coming from?" My brother in Tyr, we literally just discovered an entirely new species of cat within the past month. Don't even get me started on astrophysics. Our means of detection and diagnosis are improving. That's it. Case solved. Calm down. 31271208
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinMaria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Moonlight and the magic of the unnecessary www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/06/m...themarginalian.orgMoonlight and the Magic of the UnnecessaryEvery night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist,… 0121
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinEve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026on the nape of my neck a chill . . . Milky Way Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826) #haiku #micropoetry Tr. David G. Lanoue Date of #poem: 1820 0178
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/09/2026Go read Diane’s books! Seriously, they are the best! 220669
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinCatherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the shores of autumn wherever we started from we’re all washed up here 02210
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinCatherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026blood lymph and water the tight-plaited tides of you pulse beneath your skin 12610
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it. 02312
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 30/09/2026Meanwhile, on Tumblr: Sauron tracking the Ring. www.tumblr.com/viralfrog/82...tumblr.comPost by @viralfrog · 1 image💬 0 🔁 310 ❤️ 655 210612
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not. 03915
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinEve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026east or west the same elegance in autumn winds #haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688 translator: Jane Reichhold #micropoetry 0117
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be. 15816
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinKimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026oh, my darling I do not know how to bear the weight of such a sky except in the knowing of your safety beneath it 2289
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A tattering of rain and then the reign Of pour and pouring-down and down, Where in the westward gathered the filming gown Of grey and clouding Then came a splatter, a prattle, a blowing rain! And soon the hour was musical and rumorous … 🌬🌧 #poem excerpt: Delmore Schwartz #art Diana Kraleva 071
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#art Susan Lussier-O'Connor #monoku #micropoem spent petals #resist 272
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026static.klipy.comYin Yang Koi Fish ArtAlt: Yin Yang Koi Fish Art 010
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#art Sergei Toutounov #poem #micropoem watering can #resist 252
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yellow fall roars Over the ground. Loud, in the leafy sun that pours Liquid through doors, Yellow, the leaves twist down #poem excerpt: Annie Finch #art Roger Gordy #resist 052
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026People Met I have met people gentle and hard-working clear-browed as angels I have often asked myself and never found an answer whence kindness and gentleness come, I don’t know to this day ☀️ #poem excerpt: Gottfried Benn Translation: Michael Hofmann #art Ismo Pekkarinen #resist 041
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Found Poetry I found a poem in the bottom of my bag drowsy, nestled in beside my winter gloves, a tin of violet pastilles, & a crumpled note that only says I love you — please remember the tomatoes #poem L.C. Goodwin #art Kater #resist 041
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinJocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A Green Heron wearing raindrops 141237165
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinCatherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026here in your mind’s eye the gold shoulder of the moon behind the houses 02610
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinJocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A Black-capped Chickadee checks a seed head for anything tasty. 151527205
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinEve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the morning fog tangled in the willow Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826) #haiku #micropoetry Tr. David G. Lanoue Date of #poem: 1805 1185
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinEve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Martin Luther King, Jr. #quote from BrainyQuote 083
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinThomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the blackbird pulls another morning out of the mud #haiku #poetry 38819
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Pale, then enkindled, light advancing moon drinking light 🌙✨️ #poem excerpt: Denise Levertov #art Rod Goodwin #resist 1174
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today when the maple sets down its red leaves Today when fire keeps its promise to warm Today when rain leaps to the waiting of roots in their dryness Today when starlight bends to the roofs of the hungry and tired Today, let this light bless you #poem excerpt: Jane Hirshfield #art Harold Lloyd 050
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content. 03810
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinKris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026older than humanity crickets and the moon #haiku #monoku 32713
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#art Errol Niblett #haiku #micropoem acorn #resist 253
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinShinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Acorns fall … the oak knows our secret knock. #HaikuSaturday #haiku 1144
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinEve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026from which star did you tumble? autumn wind Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826) #haiku #micropoetry Tr. David G. Lanoue Date of #poem: 1810 03811
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026But when a direction is chosen freely and followed wholeheartedly, it may seem that all things further the going. 1235
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinDavid Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One of my ‘nerdy’ hobbies is collecting coins. I have an almost complete set of Irish pre-euro coins I remember having a ‘punt purse’ for going on holiday In this poem Heaney laments the loss of Ireland’s coinage following the adoption of the Euro in 2002 #poetry #poemoftheday #seamusheaneysunday 2687
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinAmy Borgman @amyborgman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#poem #writingcommunity #smallpoemsunday #poetry @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Jim Moore, Underground 0749
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinLewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026He was thoughtful and grave—but the orders he gave Were enough to bewilder a crew. When he cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!" What on earth was the helmsman to do? 042
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? 513340
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026my chrysanthemums tied up fast to strong posts, fiery in the low west evening light. But oh, we have remembering hearts, we say ‘Such and such an autumn was very golden,’ And ‘Everything is for a very short time.’ #poem excerpt: Mary Ursula Bethell #art Kazumi Cranney #resist 051
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026mama's beautyberry informs soft autumn rains—vital greens & amethyst benificence 🫐🌿 #poem L.C. Goodwin #haiku #micropoem #art Linda Clifton #resist 082
Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#art Greg Vaughn #haiku #micropoem larches #resist 1208
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinTanja @joypops.bsky.social · 25/09/2026thin pale mists drifting in the sunshine, golden birch leaves, the bronze glitter of the church clock, the whiteness of the castle walls blinding 292
Reposted by Leigh GoodwinKris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026flying through the crayon colors of a Florida afternoon a pure black crow #5lines 1236
