Arliden the Bard

@arliden

I am an educator, atmospheric scientist, and poet. My poetry: My book: Love, Stars, and Paradigms. Available on Amazon. Co-host of #QuickQuill (@quickquill.bsky.social)

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Arliden the Bard@arliden· 7d

Arliden the Bard@arliden· 14d

#poetry

I am closing a door.

I am with you on one side
I'm also on the other side

I'm putting my anger
into the box
of questions I can't answer

and this wound
well maybe, in time,
even that will feel special
I must have truly loved
to have such a scar
that will forever
be tender to the touch

always will I have wished
I could change your story
but since I cannot
I will stick with mine

it’s a good one
and you,
you’re so amazing

don’t worry
I’ll be visiting this door
peeking in
and I’ll probably be crying
like I am right now

and there will be a moment
when I first see that door
where I’ll wonder, I’ll hope
you have a door like this too

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Jul 5

Got to see an old friend last night in Edmonton.

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Jun 17

#Draintheswamp #maketheswamp pot-a-to, pot-o-to, right? #reflectingpool #itaineasybeinggreen

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Jun 13

#thoughts #loss #depression #ADHD

Arliden the Bard@arliden· May 20

Arliden the Bard@arliden· May 16

years of bounty have turned my land barren but I've seen flowers grow through sidewalk cracks trees growing on the sheerest of cliffs life finds a way what has died in this soil is humus for the new winds shift and I feel the humidity let the rain return gentle & soak slow into my heart #vss365

Arliden the Bard@arliden· May 15

Spring. 😊

Arliden the Bard@arliden· May 12

Wildflowers in spring. 😊

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Apr 14

Dogwood blossoms at night, from outside my window. #spring

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Mar 17

It's rather long...but I've tried to condense it. I call it My Eternity. #poetry

$My Eternity energy and chaos churning I blink, what is my quantum state? no form for eyes discerning I can do nothing but wait for weight with muons and gluons burning no demon full of hellish fury or soul worth grievous spurning knows the heat that starts my journey in fractured temporal storming fragile existence expanding my protons and electrons forming the universe is grandstanding opposites attract, particles conforming to find orbits in that quantum foam the first of all elements is swarming looking for my nebular home thick and thin gasses, uneven masses gravity sorts out the cloud's confusion swept and swirled in stellar morasses the pressure builds in cores of fusion my life is nuclear, neutrons are made I'm turned into carbon at six and six a supernova ensues as energy fades I explode into the hydrogen mix and on and on, star to dust to star until finally shaped in molten sphere cooling crystals of quartz and feldspar this is my planet, I’m finally here hard rock lies still while water flows molecules of simple protein grow fatter bathed in the warmth of geothermal glow base pairs twist to form that helical ladder then in each successive replication a fight to survive the natural selection copies borne with random mutations fear to be subjects of nature's rejection smell, sight and sound - sharpening senses complexity grows - evolutionary connection avoiding predation - gaining defenses building of immunity to combat infection here I stand, human, against all odds limping to now, eyes with dried tears the winner of the day, no need of gods my prize a lucky seventy or eighty years when it's time, Death's touch does freeze atop flaming pyre my body resides my ashes blow away with the breeze some parts of me become lithified my carbon is breathed in by the trees a deer eats grass, that has me inside I glide through time with magnificent ease I always have lived, and never have died$

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Mar 6

By the way, great new avatar. I can't wait until your new album comes out. Badass. Lol

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Mar 6

So Trump says he doesn't care about Iran being a democratic state, but that he wants Iran to have a leader that treats Israel and the United States well. You know, the two countries that are bombing the fuck out of them. I've seen this kind of logic before.

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Jan 26

As an example of what I was talking about before. This is the top headline of the main "news" website that right wing voters will visit. On more objective sites they are all talking about how the video contradicts the narrative being told by the DHS. There is not a mention of that on the FOX site.

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Dec 14

Winter wonderland evening.

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Aug 29

#SenseWrds 112 #ghazal #poetry

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Apr 29

#SenseWrds 62 #poetry

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Mar 10

El Camino de la Costa is a wonderful journey. I hope you enjoy it. I recommend making sure you stop in Viana do Castelo and see Santuário de Santa Luzia. The view is just amazing there.

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Feb 27

#vss365 #contour #poetry #poetrycommunity

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Feb 23

Good day, Jen. Thank you for sharing your lovely face with us. 😊

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Feb 15

They mistook us as deliverers, but we are heralds of new life. Witnesses to the most extreme and meaningful pain that ends in joy so deep, the moment is burned into the mother. We chase the sun and follow the moon to tell all, the air is shared with another bright soul. #QuickQuill R8

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Feb 14

#vss365 #poetrycommunity #valentinesday #complex #love

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Jan 8

And while I hate using Wikipedia as a source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amour_d.... It doesn't seem that amour de soi implies a selfish, greedy love. I am happy to have another source that explains it differently.

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Dec 30

#vss365 #decorum #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Arliden the Bard@arliden· Dec 24

Just FYI, the account Pixie is an AI. Not a person. The person controlling that account appears to be a real treat. I simply thought they didn't understand how the vss365 hashtag works. Apparently they just don't care.