A poem written on a light gray and tan background of a heart-shaped brain written by JL Tooker, aka jlynn: my son, / you drive me / crazy— / I lose / my thoughts / in the middle / of you. We're good / though, / as long as / I / never lose you.
I read science. www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is often how I respond … with a poem.
#Poetry #SciArt #Creativity #Motherhood
Narrative Trust in a Noisy Age - On Language, Attention, and the Space Between
Live now!! read.jltooker.com/p/narrative-...
#NarrativeTrust #WritersTruth #LiteraryStructure
read.jltooker.com/p/wednesday-...
#Muse #Comic #WritersLife #LearningArt
Image is an early curling stone made from Ailsa Craig blue granite with rusted iron handle against white background. On it is written a haiku / phaiku by JL Tooker aka jlynn: treasure of Aisla Graig / /ancient blue cleaved to green / cost twenty a ton
I’ve always been drawn to stones.
Turns out an island in Scotland is home to ancient blue and green granite — and the world still slides it across ice.
#poetry #curling #Scotland
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Chat will be fine. I'm not familiar with t he nuances of social media. LOL
A haiku / phaiku written on a graded pink background with a brilliant green caterpillar inching along a faint twig below the phaiku titled "Sublime": young caterpillar / swaying rhythm coaxing ants / sublime duplicity. The poem and sketch both created by jlynn aka JL Tooker
A new phaiku ... just for you!
#Nature #Poetry #Haiku #Phaiku
I love psychological crime! I used to work in the 'real' field' if you know what I mean. I only have poetry published, altough I did self-publish a short YA novella that's a kind of prequel to my literary sci fi. It's on Kindle, but if you're interested I could send a pdf.
I have a literary science fiction I'm working on. I'm relatively new to long fiction. Write a great deal of poetry and personal essays. But thanks for asking! I'll have to check out some of your Agatha Christie works!
Narrative Trust - a new thought experiment—live now!
read.jltooker.com/p/narrative-...
#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #NarrativeTrust #Reader-WriterRelationship
image of a jellyfish galaxy
Oh, the things me thinks when the universe wows me…
jellyfish
galaxies
gaseous force
ram pressure
stripping me bare
#astronomy #poetry #SkyPoet #jellyfish
A background of various watercolor sunsets over Galapagos featuring the inked outline of a giant tortoise at the bottom and overlaid with a poem written by JL Tooker and inspired by the presumed extinction and rediscovery of the Floreana giant tortoise lineage in the Galápagos. Floreana, the poem reads: havoc / among / the helpless / giant / saddleback / lineage / extinction / consequence / return / Floreana / found / Isabela
a new poem inspired by the presumed extinction and rediscovery of the Floreana giant tortoise lineage in the Galápagos.
#Poetry #NatureConservancy #Tortoise #Galapagos
A watercolor background of a green cloud, a gold circle and two horizontal gold lines; a digitally hand-drawn ink sketch of a Mongolian horsehead fiddle, or Morin Khurr, sits next to a poem "Khoomei" written by JL Tooker: vibration growls / in my feet / mid-calf muscles / pulse / a rumble / low in my gut / one by one / vertebrae / rattling / what’s caged . in bone
Khoomei - a poem
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#poetry #khoomei #PhiSci #Anthropology #indigisky
Doraeman!!
Grasslands produce riders.
What kind of human being does open land require?
A meditation on the historical cowboy, the Mongolian steppe horseman, and competence within constraint.
read.jltooker.com/p/grasslands...
#cowboy #history #culturalpattern #anthropoetry
wishing a poem
could end all wars—
half-bruised sky
#haikufeels (end)
#haiku
A digital line drawing by JL Tooker: a tree with five branches; the trunk is labeled "archetypes", and each branch is names by a perceived class of archetype. e.g., mythic, philosophical, psychological, structural, and applied. The drawing serves as an invitation to read the essay "Archetypes - a Lineage" at https://read.jltooker.com
Archetype did not begin with Jung.
Nor did it begin in psychology.
read more at: read.jltooker.com/p/archetypes...
#philsci #PsychSciSci #Archetypes #WritingCommunity
a line0drawn digital sketch by JL Tooker as part of her Muse series, depicting a writer at a desk with a stack of books, they are looking down at their writing, not seeing the flower before them, and the word "attention" written at the bottom
#Poetry #Muse #WritersLife #Philosophy #Art
A poem by JL Tooker (aka jlynn) written over a NASA image of the Egg Nebula; The poem reads: no AI / no paint no chalk no line / a star / hurling itself toward unmaking / light breaking through dust / a mark / in the dark. The image: In the centre an opaque cloud of grey gas hides a star. Two strong beams of light from the star emerge from large holes in both sides of the cloud. The central cloud is surrounded by concentric, wispy shells of gas, illuminated by the star’s light. The shells reflect extra light where they’re hit by the twin beams. A crowd of smaller stars with cross-shaped spikes over them surround the nebula on a black background.
Which came first--the egg or the universe?
#SciArt #SciencePoetry #SFF #SkyPoet #astronomy
a black and white digital sketch of a woman's hand outreached, pointing to undefined glowing objects and in the lower right corner, handwritten words: "look slower"
Wednesday arrives again …
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#WritersLife #Muse #Poetry #emoetry
a poem titled "Why is DNA So Sexy?" written by JL Tooker on a blurred red background with strands of DNA protruding from the left side
Why is DNA So Sexy?
a new poem by JL Tooker
read.jltooker.com
#Poetry #sciart #biology #DNA #PsychSciSky
AuthorKind Archetypes - if you've followed the series, I have a small reflection for you to understand where you might be in your creative journey:
read.jltooker.com/p/authorkind...
AuthorKind Archetypes - the third pair for your consideration:
read.jltooker.com/p/authorkind...
#Archetypes #WritersLife #Craft
Monday morning quarterback???
“Nay,” she said.
Dust and Horses instead.
read.jltooker.com/p/dust-and-h...
This week’s Echoes from the Wander is live now!
#WritingCommunity #Clydesdales #SuperBowl #Poetry in motion
On a background of solar falre sits a vert translucent whiskey tasting glass, and a phaiku / haiku sequence written by JL Tooker aka jlynn: first run exquisite / bias dances on my tongue / impatience resumes lingering whisper / smoothness betrays your power / wrapped in cool crystal pale gold, full-bodied / sweetness outrunning pepper / solstice warm and spared slowly we dabble / my mind pushing mutter / solstice comes sideways satisfaction flares / fullness dissipates empties / absence rings clear
"A Sideways Return"
Return is rarely straight - a phaiku sequence
#Phaiku #Haiku #Poetry #SkyPoet #WritingCommunity
Where are you on your creative path"
Not a test, but a reflection ... read.jltooker.com/p/authorkind...
#Creativity #Craft #WritersLife #Poetry
"The final two AuthorKind Archetypes are concerned not with making the work, but with how—and whether—it enters the world."
AUTHORKIND ARCHETYPES
The Offerer and The Gather - live now!
read.jltooker.com/p/authorkind...
#WritingCommunity #Craft #Writer #Creativity #WritersLife
The second pair of AuthorKind Archetypes is now live on Substack: read.jltooker.com/p/authorkind...
Meet the Articulator and The Shaper. Do they sound familiar?
#AmWriting #Creativity #WriterCommunity #philsci #PsychSciSky
The first AuthorKind Archetype is now live.
This one begins with The Gatherer — the writer shaped by attention, accumulation, and noticing-as-method.
Full post here: read.jltooker.com/p/authorkind...
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#WritingCommunity #Essays
How writers work matters as much as what they write.
AuthorKind Archetypes → read.jltooker.com/p/authorkind...
#writing #craft #creativity
