Anonymous ID: 801f8d Jan. 19, 2026, 2:12 p.m. No.24145411   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5412 >>5997 >>6108

>>24145263

THE POWER OF TOADS

by Pattiann Rogers

 

The oak toad and the red-spotted toad love their love

In a spring rain, calling and calling, breeding

Through a stormy evening clasped atop their mates.

Who wouldn’t sing—anticipating the belly pressed hard

Against a female’s spine in the steady rain

And the safe moist jelly effluence

Below writhing skies, the safe moist jelly effluence

Of a final exaltation?

 

1/5

Anonymous ID: 801f8d Jan. 19, 2026, 2:18 p.m. No.24145440   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5460 >>5525 >>5997 >>6108

>>24145407

Power of Toads

2/5

 

" No, the large-scale piece was not bought or built by the Pentagon/DoD—it was proposed, ridiculed, and scrapped. "

 

There might be some toads who actually believe

That the loin-shaking thunder of the banks mud and rising

Filled with damp, the warm softening mud and rising

Riverlets are the facts of their own persistent

Performance. Maybe they think that when they sing

They sing more than songs, creating rain and dusk,

By their voices, initiating the union of water and earth

Females materializing on the banks shaped perfectly

By their calls.

Anonymous ID: 801f8d Jan. 19, 2026, 2:24 p.m. No.24145460   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5491 >>5525 >>5997 >>6108

>>24145440

Power of Toads

3/5

 

And some toads may be convinced they have forced

The heavens to twist and moan by the dusk

Of their lung-sacs pushing against the dusk.

And some might believe the splitting heavens

Are nothing but the soaring grey they see above them,

But a vision of the longing in their groins,

A fertile spring heaven caught in its entirety

At the pit of the gut.

 

Toads represent fertility, BTW

Anonymous ID: 801f8d Jan. 19, 2026, 2:32 p.m. No.24145491   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5502 >>5514 >>5525 >>5997 >>6108

>>24145460

Power of Toads 4/5

 

And they might be right.Who knows whether these broken heavens

Could exist tonight separate from trills and toad ringings?

Maybe the particles of this rain descending on the pond

Are nothing but the visual manifestation of whistles

And cascading love clicks in the shore grasses.

Raindrops-finding-earth and coitus could very well

Be known here as one.

 

Weasels took over Toad Hall.

Waiting for Odysseus Toad and the Badger.

Anonymous ID: 801f8d Jan. 19, 2026, 2:40 p.m. No.24145514   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5520 >>5525 >>5997 >>6108

>>24145491

5/5

 

Power of Toads.

 

We could investigate the causal relationship

Between rainstorm and love-by-pondside if we wished.

We could lie down in the grasses by the water’s edge

And watch to see exactly how the heavens were moved,

Thinking hard of thunder, imagining all the courses

That slow, clean waters might take across our bodies,

Believing completely in the rolling and pressing power

Of heavens and thighs. And in the end we might be glad,

Even if all we discovered for certain was the slick, sweet

Promise of good love beneath dark skies inside warm rain.

 

POEM by famous American Poet

Pattiann Rogers

Pattiann Rogers is a highly regarded American poet known for her lyrical explorations of nature, science, spirituality, and the interconnectedness of the physical and metaphysical worlds. Her work often features vivid imagery of animals, landscapes, and natural processes, much like the sensual, reverent tone in "The Power of Toads" (from her collection Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems).

>>24145502

Anonymous ID: 801f8d Jan. 19, 2026, 3:13 p.m. No.24145647   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>24145525

 

Raise the candles high!

>>24145189

it tastes fine. you have to worry about the titanium which is where it gets the white color?

back then it was 350 $ for a handful or less of the pharma grade.

Very cheap from India but P.O. blocked delivery.

Over the counter now in TN. if you know anyone there who can mail you some? Best method.

I like the horse paste.

Medicine is supposed to taste bad? There's a reason.

It's not even that bad.

Try chewing on Zinc tablets.

 

>>24145595

Must be Toad Frog cloak of invisibility?

Some day will be a "I told ya so" moment,

Or Not?

 

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