suit worn once for a funeral wool moths #haiku #micropoetry #moths

Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history. Pay your respects ⤵️ archive.org/details/in-m... #Wayback1T

the noise where two streams join ... inner silence #haiku #micropoetry #silence

clouds reveal a waxing october moon - home from the hospital #haiku #micropoetry #hospital

cutting all the cabbage and kale november freeze #haiku #micropoetry #freeze

Another way you can support this trip is by buying the pdf of *Games for an Ordinary Life* a poetic art zine of short, sweet and dangerous minimalist games. watermosaic.itch.io/games-for-an...

one chewed fingernail ... another #haiku #micropoetry #fingernails

Successful nonviolent movements for change require more than street protests. A human rights expert outlines 10 effective actions citizens can take buff.ly/kpfD4ke

a seagull hovers just above the beach -- off season #haiku #micropoetry #seagull

summer's end saying thank you to each chicken #haiku #micropoetry #chicken

summer's end the sound of a cricket in the kitchen #haiku #micropoetry #cricket

summer's end counting the inches that didn’t fall #haiku #micropoetry #rain

road noise two hours driving to silence #haiku #micropoetry #driving

puppy chases the cat into the barn old dog rests #haiku #micropoetry #dog

growing out my hair to be a keepsake for you autumn wild flowers --Amari Ōki 遺髪となる髪をのばさむ草の花　大木あまり 遺髪: ihatsu, a lock of hair that is kept in memory of the deceased (she literally writes "letting my hair grow to become ihatsu") #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the goldenrod ignores the old barbed wire #haiku #micropoetry #goldenrid

hill town traffic waits ... for the snapper #haiku #micropoetry #snapper

Who do you trust to teach witchcraft? My latest blog explores: 🧭 The myth of the self-taught witch 🔥 Lineage, responsibility, and consent 💰 Witchcraft as a business model #WitchSky

This is an amazing thread. Gave me insight into topics I know, and topics I did not, and more things I want to research.

This story is too good to not be read by, well, EVERYBODY!

strips of blue emerge between clouds fading thunder #haiku #micropoetry #thunder

small town bar new band but the same couple starts the dance #haiku #micropoetry #dance

party prep mowing the tufts of grass the goats didn't like #haiku #micropoetry #goats

A great short animated film about raising sheep and wool. ( Also, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P7E... )

New AP dropped where I play a D&D version of myself as a witch from the Worlds Beyond Number Witch class by @nightlingbug.bsky.social in the prologue for a Bluesky-based game launching next week in which we *accidentally* curse ourselves. I'm gonna need your help to undo the curse! Check it out!

cousins gather over lobsters again mosquitos #haiku #micropoetry #lobsters

pulling grass around daffodils looking for work #haiku #micropoetry #work

cloudy May night the black cat sits on the reading lamp #haiku #micropoetry #cat

This Pride Month, we are shouting loud and clear: THESE COLORS DON’T RUN. Our visibility has never mattered more, and neither has our strength. And as HRC’s @brandonwolf.bsky.social says, NO president can push us back into the closet. (🎥: @msnbc.com)

white apple blossoms flank the road -- briefly #haiku #micropoetry #blossoms

April rain the fresh smell of skunk #haiku #micropoetry #skunk

first green grass the wind pierces my spring coat #haiku #micropoetry

spring field the pop underfoot of missed cranberries #haiku #micropoetry #cranberries

bits of black plastic last year's plant trays #haiku #micropoetry #plastic #spring

forsythia -- vase of branches and buds forcing spring #haiku #micropoetry Published in Frogpond, Sp/Su 2009, this was my first one published beyond the HSA's members anthologies. For those that don't know about it, this is a great haiku organization: www.hsa-haiku.org

I've been thinking of Silent Running, a science fiction movie from the 1970s. When I originally watched it I paid attention to the space travel and care for the environment. Now it's theme of resistance to a government gone haywire strikes me. It is worth watching. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_...

cluster of birches lean more than last year broken fence #haiku #micropoetry

frigid morning the empty space in the hay barn #haiku #micropoetry #goats

Today’s women’s history month entry is running for office to challenge anti-LGBTQ sentiments Elizabeth Lewis, 17, is running for Mohonasen school board against Vice President Chad McFarland, who singled her out while he compared an LGBTQ+ school club with teaching pedophilia.

A great sermon by @glassewitch.bsky.social that has given me some things to question even about the "good dragons" in our culture. (The text or 7 minute Youtube link on her page.)

sunlight on ice covered snow bird song #haiku #micropoetry #maybespring

🧵: If this is your first or tenth time seeing this and you're still wondering what Games for an Ordinary Life is, this thread is for you. It's a collection of tiny games, each based around an interesting idea. I'm going to share everything I've posted about Games for an Ordinary Life so far.

gallon milk jugs hang from the maple tree homemade syrup #haiku #micropoetry (We are now collecting sap again this year, although with better buckets. Just a couple of trees since boiling it down can be a lot of work.)

Cool kickstarter project from a great, imaginative gamer that I know (and have watched grow into their great skills). Look and see if it appeals to you to support. Thanks to @lizorenstein.bsky.social for the link to this.

autumn wednesday decades since weekly dinners with my dad #haiku #micropoetry (and decades since Benjamin F.L. is gone ❤️ )

washing dishes the memory of my father growing dimmer #senryu

website problems empty cubes whisper advice for the new guy I wrote this poem 20 years ago. My thoughts go out to those that can relate to this now. #haiku #micropoetry

another in the annals of "nothing I can think up is weirder than something that actually exists in the world"

Great Blue Heron in the Weeds - hidden in plain sight #photography #wildlife #greatblueheron #birds

February 13th -- the grocery store florist #haiku #micropoetry #valentines