Victoria Leigh Bennett-- PoetsonThursday

Dear @PoetsonThursday, I truly have to apologize for all my absent and laggard conduct, once again this year. Suffice it to say that there have been many issues, including a bad cold & cough keeping me feeling tired, and a sort of sabbatical "incountry" which also took up a few days. For 6/12/25, discuss poetically--the word "discuss" is used advisedly, as it is often applied in older times as a synonym for "eat"--a particularly lush meal, either symbolic or only celebratory, in the Jonsonian feasting poetical mode.

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Found my old piggy bank. 💛

I just finished a series of paintings inspired by a friend’s poems (they’ll be used to promote her upcoming book!) 🎨🖌️ I had a ton of paper scraps left over. I turned them into flip book style mini-journals! ☺️They make the perfect little gifts💫

@bartle_sam Dear Sam, Oh, why choose? Why not both? For example, poached pears in chocolate wine sauce? As Robert Louis Stevenson said in his "A Child's Garden of Verse," "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

Dear @PoetsonThursday, good to have you back, Victoria. Unfortunately, I don't have a 'luscious meal' poem, just this throwaway whimsical verse about my struggle to cut down on #chocolate and eat more #fruit! Thanks for the platform.👍 #poetrycommunity #poems

@hardin_sal5828 @CDanaherH Quite nice!

@CDanaherH @PoetsonThursday Ensconced in their worlds Bonded by the security of commitment, repetition, and time They reach out with a touch, within a space, and discover a place of limitless freedom 1/2

✍️😊 Happy @PoetsonThursday Friends! (Maybe?) on topic for today’s optional theme (a happy time) I’m sharing “Caregiving” (nearly titled “Caretaking”)… giving-taking… happy time-sad time… I look forward to reading your poems✍️💛🌻 #poem #poetry #care #giving #Love

@CDanaherH You're welcome!

@PoetsonThursday thank you, Victoria🙇‍♀️🙏🥰💞🌻

@CDanaherH @PoetsonThursday sharing love is food when expressed with felt intent soul’s true nourishment #haiku

dark violet smile nepeta racemosa eastern cat-mint blooms #haiku #bloomscrolling .

Thanks for the lovely sight, Carrie!

Dear @PoetsonThursday, write a poem about the time when you were the happiest. In some ways, that time may be still to come, but just restrict your writing to a time in the past, overall. This is for Thursday, 5/8/25. Go to it!

@bartle_sam Yes, Sam, point well taken. Humans are amazingly cyclical even when they try not to be or think they haven't been!

Hi @PoetsonThursday I recently learned that Shakespeare took Romeo & Juliet's story from a poem by Arthur Brooke. Bit disillusioning 😄 google.co.uk/books/edition/… On an unrelated note, here's my poem 'Heart of Power' from 'Emergent Dreams'. Feel free to review on Amazon/Goodreads

@CDanaherH Truly joyous, Carrie. I really think you are one person in touch with the seasons and outdoors and other things that keep you healthy. Happy May!

Happy May, friends!! 🌱🌷☀️😊 Spring fever is surely going around… so here’s my mayday… “May-Day Poem” I look forward to reading your poems✍️💛🌻@PoetsonThursday #poetry #poem #MayDay2025 #MayDay #writerslife #spring #kite 🪁