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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 7h

Interestingly, this happens to me fairly regularly. However, it is usually women. Personally, I’m thrilled that someone is being creative. I’m sure that I can’t truly feel what it’s really like from your vantage though.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 18h

I have watched loved ones disappear not all at once first names then voices then whole years without resistance yet sometimes a moment stays an afternoon the wind the rain against the leaves her hand resting on the porch rail the recognition in her smile nothing she knew to keep #poetry

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My yard was full of red and yellow finches today. They were having a convention :D Florida wildlife is amazing though. I think there are also some wild parrots 🦜 in southern Florida.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Pumpkin please stop unearthing me my absence is permanent kindly take the hint I am not an extrovert #poetry

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I close my eyes to hear the birds and begin placing them one beyond the fence one high in the oak another farther off until the dark has distances I could walk through a dry sound beside my foot I open my eyes a wren pulls at something beneath a leaf its whole body leans and I lean with it #poetry

On the forest floor, a wren is pulling something out from under an oak leaf.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i look and the world darkens into beauty eyes watching from the woods a stray song snagged in the wind the moon pared to a white edge my heart does not explain itself it only points and what it points to stays half-wild #poetry

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

rain ran can can’t rain on the leaves and suddenly I ran somewhere years ago barefoot through a summer I can almost enter almost there that word again can the little hinge between what happened and what cannot happen again rain rain among the leaves the sound of someone running

Photograph of a rain-soaked Virginia woodland path.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

stay I say though stay is not what I mean do not remain who you are do not become smaller so I can keep you go where your life keeps going change change again only let me stand near enough to meet each person you become #poetry

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a silver inch of river slips down the heron’s throat #haiku

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

grammar the other life is mostly tense would have stayed might have become could still be outside the dog pulls me toward the woods she has no conditional I go #poetry

Photograph of my dog very happy to be in the woods.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I take many of my photos. However, this one was taken by a friend near Roanoke.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the last orange light passes through the trees dulcia somnia deus solis #haiku

Photograph in Central Virginia looking through the trees in a hilltop forest with the orange sun going down in the distance.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

peace monument the bronze sword freshly polished #haiku

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

harvest moon forest the white stag listens beneath the roots #haiku

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

beneath the monument a mole rearranges the victory #haiku

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Words are everything and a prison as well.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

on the midnight watch the horizon vanished sea and sky one darkness beside me someone spoke about the morning I cannot remember the words only his face briefly red in the light from the hatch then dark above us the stars behind us the wake opening mile after mile with no one yet missing

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think I spend much of my life detached from the scene. That seems to be the problem. The minutes are probably talking. It’s just that I’m not listening.🙉 I’m working on it :-)

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

under the blackberry canes a copperhead lies in all its colors leaf mold ember earth after rain not hidden complete my foot stops before thought can own the stopping neither of us moves between scale and skin the earth has no edge #poetry #nature

In the woods of Central, Virginia, a copperhead snake lies curled underneath the branch of a blackberry bush. His colors are very similar to the ground surrounding him.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

was something asked before the mouth before the mind divided yes from no the field inclines then rises the tall grass answering the wind though no one remembers the question #poetry

Photograph of a field in central Virginia with the wind blowing through the tall grass late in the day. Trees in the far distance and a cloudy sky.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I watch myself go past things as if the world were a window and I am late even the flowers look like they have plans I do not know I touch the old iron fence to prove it is here it is cold and faithful the minutes keep their mouths shut #poetry

Photograph of an old iron fence, probably from the 19th Century with Virginia wildflowers growing around it. There is a road in the distance with trees and further back you can see the top of a hill or mountain. It is a cloudy day.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It helps. However it is not a cure. If you have come this far, I would say that the greatest gift is the realization that you are not a bad person. There is nothing wrong with you. You have to work with the cards you have been dealt. Hopefully the people around you will understand this also. 💛

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

💛 When I lived at the beach, we used to swim at night and could hear the dolphins underwater. 🐬

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the James moves east wide enough now to contain what the Appomattox has been behind me the rivers meet without becoming less themselves or perhaps that is only what I need to believe a heron steps through the shallows lifting one foot cleanly from the world it leaves behind #poetry

Near where the James River and the Appomattox become one, a heron steps through the water.

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