Nothing Gold Can Stay by #RobertFrost.

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,

Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

#Poetry #Prose #Poem

Nothing Gold Can Stay by #RobertFrost.

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,

Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

#Poetry #Prose #Poem

You, If No One Else By #TinoVillanueva.

Listen, you
who transformed your anguish
into healthy awareness,
put your voice
where your memory is.
You who swallowed
the afternoon dust,
defend everything you understand
with words.
You, if no one else,
will condemn with your tongue
the erosion each disappointment brings.

You, who saw the images
of disgust growing,
will understand how time
devours the destitute;
you, who gave yourself
your own commandments,
know better than anyone
why you turned your back
on your town's toughest limits.

Don't hush,
don't throw away
the most persistent truth,
as our hard-headed brethren
sometimes do.
Remember well
what your life was like: cloudiness,
and slick mud
after a drizzle;
flimsy windows the wind
kept rattling
in winter, and that
unheated slab dwelling
where coldness crawled
up in your clothes.

Tell how you were able to come
to this point, to unbar
History's doors
to see your early years,
your people, the others.
Name the way
rebellion's calm spirit has served you,
and how you came
to unlearn the lessons
of that teacher,
your land's omnipotent defiler.

Remember how,
from the first emptiness,
you started saving yourself,
and ask yourself what,

after all,

these words are good for
in this round hour now
where your voice strikes time.

#Poetry #AntifascistPoems #ResistancePoetry #Prose #Poem

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I got the last book I needed of #Tolkien's that was published in his lifetime! The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and now finally The Adventures of Tom Bombadil!

If you've not read it, it's a collection of #poetry in the #LotR universe. I do like to rile up other Tolkien fans that the #Silmarillion is a compilation of notes of questionable canonicity while this was very much intended to be published as-is (all in good humour, I love the Silmarillion as much as the next nerd).

in the blue night
frost haze, the sky glows
with the moon
pine tree tops
bend snow-blue, fade
into sky, frost, starlight.
the creak of boots.
rabbit tracks, deer tracks,
what do we know.

(Gary Snyder, “Pine Tree Tops”, from Turtle Island, 1974)

#GarySnyder #Poetry #DeepEcology

in the blue night
frost haze, the sky glows
with the moon
pine tree tops
bend snow-blue, fade
into sky, frost, starlight.
the creak of boots.
rabbit tracks, deer tracks,
what do we know.

(Gary Snyder, “Pine Tree Tops”, from Turtle Island, 1974)

#GarySnyder #Poetry #DeepEcology

'i am to live in a tent, together with my perseverance.
each night I wrap myself in her, begging her
not to abandon me on this long dark road.' - 'a bag of perserverance' by gaza resident & poet, shahd alnaouq, for we are not numbers.
read the full poem from the link below.
#gaza #palestine #poetry #literature #poem #WANN #weAreNotNumbers

https://wearenotnumbers.org/a-bag-of-perseverance/

'i am to live in a tent, together with my perseverance.
each night I wrap myself in her, begging her
not to abandon me on this long dark road.' - 'a bag of perserverance' by gaza resident & poet, shahd alnaouq, for we are not numbers.
read the full poem from the link below.
#gaza #palestine #poetry #literature #poem #WANN #weAreNotNumbers

https://wearenotnumbers.org/a-bag-of-perseverance/

Did you know about Mahmoud #Darwish? If you have a look at his poems, which is your favourite? Is there a tradition of poetry in your country too?

I’m not very hungry with my painful tooth but there’s still another 18 people to feed in my family. If you can donate, please do. Otherwise please share my posts and tell me you’d like me to stay alive. Much love ✌️

👉 https://gofund.me/0962a012a

#Gaza #Poetry #Palestine #FreePalestine #Genocide #StopGenocide #MutualAid #GazaMutualAid #MutualAidRequest

RE: https://mstdn.social/@jmccyoung/115593625600255698

It's tricky to prompt a bot
To say things it knows it should not
It's tricky
tricky tricky tricky

#poetry #LLM #AI

@Alice
(Edited to add Ai to a crackpot theory.)

Don't quote me on this, Alice, but I'm almost certain that snippet is from a bad Ai translation of German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy," employed by the immortal Ludwig von Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony.
#Ai #Poetry #FriedrichSchiller #Beethoven #OdeToJoy #NinthSymphony
#Culture

Hello! 👋 It’s time for an updated #Introduction because I’ve just moved instances to beige.party (I was formerly @brianlavelle) - any boosts would be most welcome!

I’m Brian, and I’ve been a #Fediverse dweller since April 2022. This is my only social media…er, medium.

In no particular order, I quite like:
#ImprovisedMusic & #ExperimentalMusic
#FieldRecording
#Cats (I have two)
#TTRPG (I have too many)
#Tea
#Meditation
#Books #Poetry & #SpeculativeFiction
#Trees & #Walking (but not #WalkingTrees)
#Modernism & #Brutalism
#SelfHosting & #FOSS
#AltText & #PascalCase / #CamelCase
& lots more

My website: https://brianlavelle.scot
My music: https://brianlavelle.bandcamp.com

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

#Introductions

Hello! 👋 It’s time for an updated #Introduction because I’ve just moved instances to beige.party (I was formerly @brianlavelle) - any boosts would be most welcome!

I’m Brian, and I’ve been a #Fediverse dweller since April 2022. This is my only social media…er, medium.

In no particular order, I quite like:
#ImprovisedMusic & #ExperimentalMusic
#FieldRecording
#Cats (I have two)
#TTRPG (I have too many)
#Tea
#Meditation
#Books #Poetry & #SpeculativeFiction
#Trees & #Walking (but not #WalkingTrees)
#Modernism & #Brutalism
#SelfHosting & #FOSS
#AltText & #PascalCase / #CamelCase
& lots more

My website: https://brianlavelle.scot
My music: https://brianlavelle.bandcamp.com

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

#Introductions