Greetings on #PoetryThursday! This morning I loved "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo" by Cortney Lamar Charleston on Poem-a-Day from Poets.org. (Really worth signing up for!) What a graceful use of the sonnet form--almost invisible, but the rhyme scheme is there, and five, well, certainly not iambs, but pulses--to express both the social alienation of pandemic times and appreciation for the love of his partner.
https://poets.org/poem/brown-estate-2018-tempranillo
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"Hope is round, an apple in a lunchpack on the kitchen counter,/
A birds’ nest, a candle lantern, a ready bowl."

From my own poem, "The Road Home." In the original it actually says "Hope is a round," but in a short quote that sounds odd! I'm referring to a musical round, but also roundness in general and the cycle of life.

Happy New Year and Happy #PoetryThursday !

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@sharonipov Also #PoetryThursday, though no one has used that one for a while!

An original #poem for #PoetryThursday

Identity of Self

Walking through the forest
in the shadows of a quarter moon
The trees of March
Not yet alive
still do seem to move

Two figures, distant
Barely there
Mirror my chosen path
Thinking that I saw them
The vision doesn’t last

Obscured by limbs
Branches and trunks
Am I their prey
Do they hunt

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#PoetryThursday: As this is my #WelcomeToMathstodon week, #proof as a #poem:

Proof of Insanity

I know it is not fashionable
To contemplate the irrational
But I must get out of my brain
The root of two drives me insane.

For if it were the ratio of wholes,
Then the madness wouldn’t have taken hold.
By the same, up and down don’t divide
And then for sure, I’d be fine inside

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