bookgaga

bookgaga , 22 hours ago to bookstodon group

"When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in - woe be to truth! and woe be to the vehicle and its tackling (let 'em be made of what stuff you will) upon which he breathes forth the disappointment of his soul!"

#SundaySentence @bookstodon
from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne https://tinyurl.com/3mz3jjkc

bookgaga , 22 hours ago to poetry group

"poetry is what
whips yo tater
pets it awry, oh
oh, twisty pear
two hearts yip
it’s paw theory"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
What Is Poetry by Susan Holbrook (2015 Poetry In Voice) https://tinyurl.com/5burkvp4

Catlynn , 1 day ago to random

This is the second year a female Cooper’s hawk has nested in the backyard trees and it’s been so much fun! Here’s one of the fledglings in its favorite morning spot looking especially pretty 🤩

bookgaga , 1 day ago to poetry group

"Smiling at strangers reminds me of my dog
(Better let them know you're friendly)
The way people dress reminds me too
Pissing on their favorite tree"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Everything Reminds Me of My Dog by Jane Siberry from Bound by the Beauty (1989) https://tinyurl.com/4et3v397 & https://tinyurl.com/mwv4nx7r

Airedale Mavis' paws and her neon green toy are visible next to a notebook with a handwritten transcription of the lyrics from Jane Siberry's "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog"
Airedale Mavis' paws and her neon green toy are visible next to a notebook with a handwritten transcription of the lyrics from Jane Siberry's "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog"
Notebook with cartoon images of dogs on the cover sits on a computer keyboard. On the computer screen are the lyrics to Jane Siberry's song "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog", including a picture of Jane on the cover of her album Bound by the Beauty.

juliancday , 2 days ago to random

Very happy to have a small poem in the summer issue of Juniper - thankful as always to Lisa, Nina, and Mike. #poetry #todayspoem

https://juniperpoetry.com/atlantic-by-julian-day/

bookgaga , 2 days ago to poetry group

"A man in a ‘Kafka for President’ shirt transformed into a banana peel at the museum of somber paintings because it was New Year’s Eve."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
New Year's Eve at the Museum of Somber Paintings by Jose Hernandez Diaz (2024 Only Poems) https://tinyurl.com/24wwa8ax

bookgaga , 4 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to poetry group

"This morning before daybreak a thunderstorm

In the last hours before her death
her enemies came. A raccoon, that storm,
the FedEx truck manned by a gentle woman
who'd recently lost her own dog."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry #VerseThursday
Stella by Michael Ondaatje from A Year of Last Things (2024 McClelland & Stewart) https://tinyurl.com/2xcx9z9n

bookgaga , 4 days ago to poetry group

"What real thing does anyone want?

Who sings for the women I inherit?
Who hopes for a woman like me?"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Love in Stereo by Remica Bingham-Risher from Starlight & Error (2017 Diode Editions) https://tinyurl.com/44f7upff & https://tinyurl.com/43js3vb5

bookgaga , 5 days ago to poetry group

"block
check
again
post
another"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
How we got [now] here by Kirby from She (2024 knife fork book) https://tinyurl.com/bdfuj2tx

Handwritten transcription of the poem "How we got [now] here" by Kirby from the poetry collection She (with a small oops in the transcription) - an uncapped black pen sits on the notebook page, and the poetry collection is open with a blue post-it note on a page.

bookgaga , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to poetry group

"Next morning I'll confess I overmarmaladed
the toast on purpose, trying to make up
for the chromatic deficiency, for orangelessness,
though the sky begins to show at times
we can observe, now, look -"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Aperture by Dawn Macdonald from Northerny (2024 University of Alberta Press) https://tinyurl.com/2vnr7s47

fkamiah17 , 7 days ago to random

I don't know if it's cheating to use a poem - it is all one sentence - but here's my selection for this week:

"There are nights in the forest of words
when I panic, every step into a thicker darkness,
the only way out to write myself into a clearing,
which is silence"

from 'What The Light Teaches Us', by Anne Michaels

#SundaySentence #Poetry #Quotations #Writing

bookgaga , 7 days ago to bookstodon group

"Decades they have watched the dreamers venture, toil, despair, come back to the refuge of trunks, branches, their conversation deep underground tingling up my legs."

#SundaySentence @bookstodon
from secrets from the sea by Adrienne Fitzpatrick in The Litter I See Project (2024) https://tinyurl.com/55spmhse

bookgaga , 7 days ago to poetry group

"when
we reached the very top there were no trees
only flowers grew there
accompanied by nothing
the name of which was loneliness"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Loneliness by Gerald Stern (2016 Poetry Magazine) https://tinyurl.com/w5fw393j

bookgaga , 8 days ago to poetry group

"Could you have seen us through a glass
You would have said a walk
Of farmers out to turn the grass,
Each with his own hay-fork."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Carentan O Carentan by Louis Simpson from The Owner of the House (2003 @BOAEditions) https://tinyurl.com/5x9due9h

bookgaga , 9 days ago to bookstodon group

#FridayReads #WeekendReads @bookstodon

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760) https://tinyurl.com/3mz3jjkc

Northerny by Dawn Macdonald (2024 University of Alberta Press) https://tinyurl.com/2vnr7s47

bookgaga , 9 days ago to poetry group

"We had a drawer marked

before and after, and after
and before happenings

we'd add atrocities and
incidents and the wild

asters someone before
and after keeps leaving."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
After by Andrea Cohen from Everything (2021 Four Way Books) https://tinyurl.com/4xu8rc7b

bookgaga , 11 days ago to poetry group

"For my friend's dog who loves people, but gets overwhelmed
and barks. He wants to love from his hidey hole.
I can relate."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Prayer for the Day by @ronnabloom (2023 Freefall Magazine) https://tinyurl.com/ms9f5bbn

Notebook with cartoon images of dogs on the cover sits on a computer keyboard. On the computer screen is Ronna Bloom's poem "Prayer for the Day".

bookgaga , 11 days ago to poetry group

"when i am alone, i hear the thrum of blood pumping against my shirt. i feel my mother and grandmother wrap their arms around me until we are all chest to chest, the mirrors of our hearts beating in sync, as unending as the ocean lapping the shore"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
mistranslation by Alysha Mohamed (2024 The Temz Review) https://tinyurl.com/5n6jr2ap

bookgaga , 12 days ago to poetry group

"Watch us, we can throw a stone
and hit the empty shoes dangling by
the shoelaces, slung over telephone wires."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
The Good Place by Cynthia Atkins (2023 Reverie Magazine) https://tinyurl.com/38bhhazd

bookgaga , 13 days ago to poetry group

"there is always birdsong
breaking the quiet

letting us know
it's safe to rise again"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
from Giwachiyenaanig Gimishoomisinaanag by Tyler Pennock from Blood (2022 Brick Books) https://tinyurl.com/237jzs3r

Poetry collection Blood by Tyler Pennock (Brick Books), with striking orange, yellow and black cover showing a brilliant image of a bird, sits on a purple desktop with a black pen and a notebook with an ornate gold cover.

bookgaga , 14 days ago to random

"She uses writing and art to find a kind of rightness in putting things together wrong."

#SundaySentence from Fox and Hedgehog - The myths of Anne Carson by Emily Wilson (2024 The Nation) https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/anne-carson-wrong-norma/

bookgaga , 14 days ago to poetry group

"The moment you feel your star cooling off
and so you pull it out of your chest
and stitch it on your jacket like a badge,
or on the collar of your coat
so that others may finally notice it."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
The End of Summer by Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated by Ani Gjika from Negative Space (2018 @bloodaxebooks) https://tinyurl.com/bdf4zev6

Handwritten transcription under way of the poem "The End of Summer" from the poetry collection Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated by Ani Gjika - some mock orange blossoms sit on the pages
Handwritten transcription of the poem "The End of Summer" from the poetry collection Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated by Ani Gjika, with a note at the end that reads "finished on June 8, 2024 ... and now this notebook will be sent on its way!"

bookgaga , 15 days ago to poetry group

"I don't see you, my body, I'm focusing farther
out
where the sea barely breaks at the edges
like pursed lips, reminding us the earth is
round"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
the self by Halyna Kruk, translated by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky (2023 Exchanges University of Iowa) https://tinyurl.com/2nf7stc2

Handwritten transcription of the poem "the self" by Halyna Kruk, translated by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky - notebook with uncapped black pen resting on it sits atop the Saturday Globe and Mail, with coffee in a blue cup and other books nearby. The sun is visible on a chair on the other side of the table.

bookgaga , 17 days ago to poetry group

"New fires that can scar
As readily as these move
Complaisant hearts to lift -
Are also spectacles
Witnessed by those in love,
Withstood by the very small -
And by laborious making-shift
Rendered common as stars."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Fireworks Music by Clara Brussel (1947 Poetry Magazine) https://tinyurl.com/299vxu3k

JD_Cunningham , 17 days ago to random

Air from another life and time and place,
Pale blue heavenly air is supporting
A white wing beating high against the breeze,

And yes, it is a kite! As when one afternoon
All of us there trooped out
Among the briar hedges and stripped thorn,

I take my stand again, halt opposite
Anahorish Hill to scan the blue,
Back in that field to launch our long-tailed comet.

And now it hovers, tugs, veers, dives askew,
Lifts itself, goes with the wind until
It rises to loud cheers from us below.

Rises, and my hand is like a spindle
Unspooling, the kite a thin-stemmed flower
Climbing and carrying, carrying farther, higher

The longing in the breast and planted feet
And gazing face and heart of the kite flier
Until string breaks and—separate, elate—

The kite takes off, itself alone, a windfall.
-- 'A Kite for Aibhin' by Seamus Heaney

#VerseThursday #TodaysPoem #poetry

(Art credit: Anne Duke)

bookgaga , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to poetry group

"Please let me be a blaze. I will destroy,

I mean create again this place."

#TodaysPoem #VerseThursday #poetry @poetry
Disembodied At The Botanical Gardens by Robin Richardson (2017 The Ex-Puritan Magazine) https://tinyurl.com/nhjvdapc

bookgaga , 18 days ago to poetry group

"this beauty must be
brought with breath to heart.
keen eyes, beak sharp and curved, small head
bobs, determines if dog and I are
friends or foes."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
peregrine by Melanie Marttila from The Art of Floating (2024 Latitude 46 Publishing) https://tinyurl.com/mr2tu47d

Handwritten transcription of the poem "peregrine" from the poetry collection The Art of Floating by Melanie Marttila

bookgaga , 19 days ago to poetry group

"I filled my backpack with rocks
& loveletters to the deep & swung
it into the lake. I grew up with hardened
shoreline instead of sand between my toes."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Loveletters to the Deep by Qurat Dar (2020 Watch Your Head) https://tinyurl.com/3mfbbyxt

bookgaga , 20 days ago to bookstodon group

Kinds of bookish joy - enjoy the latest report and delicious reading list from our east end Toronto #SilentBookClub group! https://bookgagabooks.ca/2024/06/02/kinds-of-bookish-joy/ @bookstodon

bookgaga , 20 days ago to poetry group

"All rivers are full of sky.
Waterfalls are in the mind.
We all come from slime.
Even alpacas."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Belief in Magic by Dean Young (2014 Poetry Magazine) https://tinyurl.com/427m8263

bookgaga , 21 days ago to bookstodon group

"It is a singular blessing, that nature has formed the mind of man with the same happy backwardness and renitency against conviction, which is observed of old dogs, - 'of not learning new tricks.'"

#SundaySentence @bookstodon
from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne https://tinyurl.com/3mz3jjkc

bookgaga , 21 days ago to poetry group

"But if the blood
Pumping through my veins could freeze
Like the river in Toronto then I'd be pleased
You said I made you feel warm
Said I made you feel warm inside"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Forests and Sands by Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura (2009) https://tinyurl.com/42jv76pf

bookgaga , 22 days ago to poetry group

"these silent spaces sprout seeds
of a mute beginning
and I am left at the end of the circle
contemplating running the track of
my choices
yet again
breathless
from fear"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
love speak by d'bi.young anitafrika (2024 Poems In Passage) https://www.poemsinpassage.com/

bookgaga , 24 days ago to poetry group

"A gold-feathered bird
Sings in the palm, without human meaning,
Without human feeling, a foreign song.

You know then that it is not the reason
That makes us happy or unhappy.
The bird sings. Its feathers shine."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Of Mere Being by Wallace Stevens from The Palm at the End of the Mind (1971 Alfred A. Knopf) https://tinyurl.com/hafswuc5

bookgaga , 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to poetry group

"Beyond the loggia, I watch

rain not fall, I watch fall not rain, often—
I am the expectation of gravitas,

a tub gelato, a deep spoon. Sometimes
I calligraphy the refrigerator."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry #VerseThursday
Constellation Cannoli by Tara Mesalik MacMahon (2020 Duende Literary) https://tinyurl.com/y4m8a5js

bookgaga , 25 days ago to poetry group

"As every new day waking finds its pitch
Selecting a fresh angle, so the sun
Hangs down its veils, so the old verbs
Change their invocation and their mood."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
The Litany by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin from The Sun-fish (2009 The Gallery Press) https://tinyurl.com/ymw8vswa

Handwritten transcription of the poem "The Litany" by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin from The Sun-fish, with the uncapped black pen resting on the notebook page

sillygwailo , 11 months ago to random

I enjoyed silent reading on Clubhouse, where it was literally just an hour of people reading quietly with everybody’s microphone on mute. You sort of feel like you’re doing it “with” people because you know they’re doing the same thing as you. It’s nice to see it happening in the real world, too. #SilentReading https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/india-silent-book-reading-cubbon-lodhi-juhu-kochi-kolkata-bessy-hyderabad-community-mindfulness-public-spaces/article67044379.ece