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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

To be very clear, having billions or trillions of dollars doesn’t make you successful, it makes you a psychopath. #zen #givingisreceiving #nonattachment #minimalism #quoteoftheday #bskypoetry #greed #naturephotography #photography #mountains

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

All I can think about is water. The most ordinary thing in the world, yet most extraordinary thing in the known universe. This anomalous primordial compound. Irregular across almost every dimension, yet the medium of life. What a blessing that we get to drink and to be made of this. #poet #poem

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Take me to the place I can swim out of my country, where energy pools up, as on my palms, (those divine collectors), in the early moon of dim space #poetry #excerpt #poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #photography #nature #moon #sky

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

As the farmer knows the sediment, and the jellyfish knows the sea, as the harp strings know the air, and migratory birds, chemistry, direct dimensional instruments, return in ionic play #poetry #bskypoetry #bskypoets #amwriting #excerpt #nature #photography #jellyfish #poet 📸michelejennae

White iridescent jellyfish with thin wispy tentacles under a blue sea

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Have you heard the silence that washes sound from your ears and brings you where nothing has yet been spoken? #poetry #nature #photography #bskypoets #amwriting #micropoetry

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

What a shame the hate men don’t see how special this life is, If they did, they’d be incapable of their cruelty. #poetry #bskypoets #poet #ocean #oceanphotography #photography #naturephotography

Orange sunrise over an ocean of gentle waves

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The feeling of this vision Replaces thought, misery, misfortune With the tiny reminder that Only this is real Only this holds you In exuberance #poetry #bskypoetry #amwriting #nature #moon #fullmoon #photography #art #divine #poet #bskypoets #skygazing #micropoetry

Near full moon beyond a spackling of clouds at the edge of the pine forest

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

They say hickory nuts are not worth it Too much effort for too little meat But this sustenance falls to our feet Fills our palms, fills our bellies Hickory milk, buttery sweet Omegas, magnesium Survival through winter How is that not worth it? #poetry #bskypoets #nature #hickory #survivalist

Shag hickory tree in winter, photo by Famartin. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Grateful to be featured in this event this evening starting at 7pm ET. Zoom event open to all if you’d like to tune in 🧡 I’m kicking it off. Register here for a link: bit.ly/3JFPb5X #poetry #openmic #poetryshare #poetryzoom #poetryevent #virtualpoetry #poet #expression #sharing

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I’m transmitted its light-spun memories Coursing from stone to spine to soul It holds the wisdom of a thousand grandmas This earthen elder, keeper of steadiness #poet #poetry #excerpt #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #photography #nature #light #sky #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poeta #amwriting #stone

Hand against a large stone overlooking the ocean

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The dragons become whales My mind becomes water Unclouded by the clouds Unearthed by the color Beneath sky, only hope #poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #poetry #photography #sunset #sky #nature #clouds #lake #writer #bskyauthors #bskywriters #art

Blue orange and pick sunsets in an enchanted cloud sky reflecting on a lake

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I follow the blue damselfly its black feathery wings heart goes so light I lift, too along the narrow pass the colors in me show dull purples, shy golds an effort of a human #poetry #poet #nature #photography #poem #bskypoets #poeta #quote #dailyquote #naturepoem #writer #art 📸Bonnie Nielsen

Blue damselfly with green blue metallic body and black feathery wings in a green plant

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

“It’s not your job to be ecstatically happy,” The shifting sky said. “It’s not your job to be inconsolably sad, either. It’s your job to be deeply aware. And to be deeply aware is to be peace.” #poet #peace #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #bskypoets #ctpoetry #nepoetry #spreadpeace #love #empathy

The blue sky with wispy clouds peeking between the tree tops

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The heavy in me the electric in me the moon rings that reach To the forest in me The wine that’s in me The truth that’s in me The hope that slow grows On the dying in me #poem #poetry #poet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #nypoetry #tree #nature #photography #moss #writer

Beautiful tree with lush moss by a river

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

How do I explain to the bunny — enblissed in his sunset leaf dinner, surrounded by fireflies, brutally interrupted by thunderous explosions — that the fireworks will not kill him? #poetry #poet #bskypoets #nature #photography #bunny #writer #quote #poem #amwriting #compassion #nofireworks #poeta

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The water that’s coursed for billions of years courses through us. How ancient we are, how big our family. We recognize every stream from the water within. #poetry #poet #bskypoet #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity #ctpoetry #quote #dailyquote #photography #river #waterislife #writer

River coursing through a lush green forest

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

More often than not the word glow appears on my page first I write it mindlessly breathe it fully what’s more beautiful than to glow #poetry #poet #bskypoets #poem #excerpt #glow #photography #moon #candle #author #writer #amwriti

Moon out the window and candle on altar glowing in the night

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

When did my one word wishes Become pages of prayers Soliloquy by the stream Voice becomes rivulet Becomes voice again The only place I can verbalize #poetry #poet #poem #writer #amwriting #bskypoets #bskypoetry #ctpoetry #poetrycommunity #river #photography #art #peace #unity

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Where colors are conscious inner to outer to inner imaginings of truth never to be discovered but to be painted again and again #poetry #poet #bskypoets #writer #photography #sunrise #ocean #imagination #art #creativity #amwriting #ctpoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The sunrise wraps round and round the dust of Sahara storms its soul across space feeds the forests sustains the sea quells the colors chokes the humans knows just what to do #sunrise #poetry #poem #saharandust #poet #bskypoets #bskypoetry #photography #ocean #art #duststorm #ctpoetry

A sunrise dimmed by the dust storms of the Sahara rising over the aquamarine ocean of south Florida

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The great switch of speaker and cipher chasing spirit to its inimitable origins where only breath can breathe #language #poetry #evolution #poet #poem #excerpt #bskypoets #poeta #poetrycommunity #connecticutpoets #connecticutpoetry

Woman in hoodie crouched at the edge of the shoreline at sunrise

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The falls hang like a long necklace down the torso of the mountain a family heirloom ancient, untarnished a shrine-like shine they don’t make them like this anymore #poetry #micropoetry #poetsofbsky #poet #poem #nature #photography #waterfall #writer #ctpoetry #nepoetry #quote #art

A glowing white cascade running down the side of a trees mountain slope

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Tend to your garden as you tend to your mind, one patch of dirt, one tangle of roots at a time. Be with the dirt, be with the tangles, loosen them, free them, sow awareness, water awe. The divine will unfurl flower by herb by sacred remembering. #poetry #poet #nature #poem #bskypoets #gardening

Purple flowers growing in a quaint garden by a cottage

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

There is a freedom in the sky that can never be taken. The cloud giants take on a million forms with openness and non-attachment. Watching, expectation leaves us and wonder retrieves us. We return to the world of allowing. #poetry #poet #writer #writing #bskypoets #poem #nature #writing #excerpt

Fluffy white clouds with blue sky beyond

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Alighted, especially the palms Maybe this is make believe But everything is And everything isn’t #excerpt #poetry #poet #fairytale #imagination #reality #bskypoets #author #photography #nature #poetrycommunity #amwriting #writer

Sun on a cloudy day casting its reflection on sea and sand

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Join me and dissolve your fear you never really did need that, dear the way we glow when the nature's near that’s the reason we are here #poetry #poet #poem #nature #photography #sun #poeta #bskypoets #amwriting #poetrycommunity #love #earth #writer #author

The rising sun glowing between the branches of trees and tropical leafy groundcover

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In the magic peridot curtains Of the baby maple leaves My emerald heart spreads Like ivy around this moment #poetry #writing #poet #poem #poeta #poetrycommunity #amwriting #photography #nature #trees #spring #bskypoets #quote #excerpt

Young green maple leaves flourishing in the sun on a big beautiful tree.

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I found a way to come alive the flame unspoken in my mind the song unfolded in my hall the truth unbounded in my soul #poetry #poem #excerpt #poet #writer #writing #amwriting #quote #poetrycommunity #fire #flame #nature #photography #art #expression

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River Ripa @riverripa.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Earliest morning Glass water Crystal clear Holy mirror I dip in my toe My foot my legs My breathing spine Waking with the water #poetry #poem #excerpt #nature #ocean #sunrise #photography #bskypoets #poet #poeta #art #writer #poetrycommunity #amwriting #author

Vibrant orange and yellow sunrise over the ocean

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