small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 29/08/2026before you too enter the third person, light one candle for the here, will you. 061
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Tomas Tranströmer translated by Robin Robertson Now my letter is with the censor. He lights his lamp. In its glare my words leap like monkeys at a wire mesh, clattering it, stopping to bare their teeth. 041
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Sharon Olds I want to say that love is the meaning, but I think that love may be the means, what we ask with. 061
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The Rain, by Robert Creeley [...] Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness. 030
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Ada Limón One for what will Cling and remind me— We are the weeds. 1124
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Happy birthday Gwendolyn Brooks Remember green's your color. You are Spring. 182
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 10/05/2026William Carlos Williams you far off there under the wine-red selvage of the west! 030
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Jean Valentine I'm, you know, still here, tulip, resin, temporary— 182
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 26/02/2026James Baldwin It falls with great force and the light Blinds me to the light. 091
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Garous Abdolmalekian translation: Idra Novey and Ahmad Nadalizadeh 0112
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Hope Chest, Maggie Smith so now I take it back. Dearly I take myself back. 040
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Robert Hayden What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? 263
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Charles Bukowski there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness.youtube.comThe laughing heart (Tom Waits reads a Charles Bukowski poem)YouTube video by KingstonHomeless 051
Reposted by small poemsHAD @havehashad.com · 02/11/2025let's ALL celebrate #smallpoemsunday today with Kate Hall's FIRST PUBLICATION! www.havehashad.com/rjn3l 04413
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Reading this on a Saturday morning just today, not yet— 051
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Sci-fi, by Tracy K. Smith [...] Weightless, unhinged, Eons from even our own moon, we'll drift In the haze of space, which will be, once And for all, scrutable and safe. 032
small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Kenneth Rexroth "The future is long gone by And the past will never happen We have only this Our one forever" 081
