For #BlueSkyArtShow and the theme of #green, my curly ferns...

#SundayYellow A Essex Skipper butterfly nectaring on yellow ragwort from our local heath.

She sees hemispheres her cloud-eyes weep floods of tears at Man’s destruction Her tortured gaze sears storms now the norm wildfires rife: hemispheres’ lost Life She weeps the future her tears melt…flood…bury…burn: hemispheres ruined… ~tamisar💞 #BraveWrite #hemisphere #poetry #haiku #ClimateChange

Sunset over Mid Lake.

writing out of breath rushing words to close the deal we fall behind…lost… ~tamisar💞 #haikufeels #haiku #deal #poetry #writingcommunity

Has Love become so Old-fashioned that effusive expressions of it seem out of step with today’s world Of fast food, news clips and poems that must be brief to be read: just quick snacks meant to be devoured in gulps and mouthfuls Served up on tiny screens… ~tamisar💞 #BraveWrite #Old-fashioned #poetry

A little haiku we wrote about the hopeful #SignsOfLife we’ve been seeing outside, despite the bitter 🥶. We’ve set it - in yellow text - against a blue sky, with a #Hazel #tree covered in such #catkins #Winter #Spring #Nature #Hope #haiku #poetry #poem #writingcommunity ~tamisar💞

It’s been a hard week. Tbh, it’s been a hard year. We’ve felt rage at #injustice I✍️/posted a poem venting (now deleted). This morning one #song came to mind. Right now it’s hard to see past the #sorrow & #anger at #tyranny to find a shred of #Hope But these #lyrics fr/🎵West Side Story🎵say it all…~💞

your voice still echoes haunts the chambers of my heart a call long past cried… I ache to reply oh, but would you hear my call centuries too late? ~Mischa💞 #haikufeels #haiku #call #poetry #LovePoetry #loss #Time #writingcommunity

Left-side steering wheel and automatic: I wish! Expat carless here… Still I’ve yet to catch by manual transmission Stick-Shift-Gear Sickness! -tam💞 #haikufeels #haiku (s?) #poetry #writingcommunity #StillMissMyAutomatic #MissDriving #MissAutonomy ! 😟

A beautiful winters Robin on our walks today.

It was a mint green dress from the charity shop Like her heart, it had been used before But when she put it on and bravely ventured out It looked brand new And made her feel transformed ~tamisar💞 #BraveWrite #mint #poetry #writingcommunity

#Flowers in #Winter -from my partner’s indoor #garden One of many #orchids she’s rescued & brought back to #bloom again & again. With🇬🇧in a🥶state-beset by❄️ice & bitter cold, it’s nice to see some #blossoms brightening the day!😊 #photography by me-not the best📸but then I’m no pro!😅🤷‍♀️-tam💞

Tho I tried to abide by the rules of haiku, I found my words wandering so far from the form, I followed their lead… Chère Anne, I’ve no excuse. But I did use ”abide”…🙏 The Old Bothy by~Mischa💞 #haikufeels #abide #FreeVerse ? #vss ? #poetry ? #writingcommunity #RomanticPoetry #ghostly

A Long-Tail Tit from today's walk in the cold weather.

from seeming starving soil she sprang, wild as the weedy grasses waving in the rippling prairie winds… her long-leaved stem yearned upward towards the Sun, which found her midst the wilderness of random greens and, enchanted, kissed her budding blossoms open ~Mischa💞 #BraveWrite #wild #poetry #poem

Andre Kohler State Park, January 2025.

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me -the Cure #music #AltRock #NewWave #Pop #GothRock #Post-Punk #Neo-Psychedelia So many genres!& great songs on this💿-one of the Cure’s best… 🎵Everything you do is irresistible Everything you do is simply kissable Why can't I be you?🎵-RSmith en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Me...

Flower (or The Bee’s Love Song) ©~Mischa💞 #LovePoetry We’ve posted this before-early last year We think, but italicised. Quite long, it is an #OldSchool #poem -one of the first I✍️. But as it uses 5Jan #BraveWrite prompt word #cream I🙏you‘ll not mind it resurfacing-here w/an apt Rose📸(not ours).~M💞🐝

In the woods, the “Tag,“ on his shoulder was so soft he laughed and round he turned thought it just some twist in the game when that light touch began to burn and then a deep grave voice he heard, looking up, he saw Death say, “You’re It.” ~tamisar💞 #haikufeels #tag #writingcommunity #poetry #eerie

#Cats #Dogs #pets #CaringForPetsInWinter Many places are experiencing exceptionally🥶 #Winter temps. If you’ve got pets, they need extra help to make it thru. Here are links w/good advice on #CaringForPets in #ColdWeather www.pdsa.org.uk/what-we-do/b... www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwel...

Love In A Mist -Sophie Gengembre Anderson oil on canvas We’ve no more info on this lovely #painting but at least we can give you a link about the #artist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_... & a closeup of our purple version of 1 of the #flowers in the title & the painting. #art #pastoral #landscape

For #haikufeels #raise #poetry #writingcommunity ~Mischa💞

If you don’t have a Best Of Dusty Springfield💿in your #music collection you’re missing 1 of the Greatest Ever. Across a difficult life Dusty sang some of the finest #pop #60s #BlueEyedSoul #jazz & #country hits-crossing decades/genres often w/such💔emotion-Peerless❤️‍🔥 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_S...

Morning - a #poem in 3 #haiku form “stanzas“- by Mischa💞 #poetry #LovePoetry #dawn #contentment

Dawn -William-Adolphe Bouguereau oil on canvas 1881 #art #painting #Realism #AcademicArt #Symbolic #Embodiment #daylight #dawn

#Hope #NewYear Hold on… 🙏❤️‍🩹💜🌱 As we start another year and so many things seem at their worst, we cling to Hope…But for that Hope to grow, its seed must first be planted… #TheResistance 🙏~💞

Ok, ppl here’s where I beg you to #HelpYourPets In🇬🇧any idiot can/does buy #fireworks & blow them up in their backyards. Many🇺🇸states allow sales of fireworks to anyone. FIREWORKS TERRIFY YOUR PETS. PLEASE READ here for good tips. #Dogs advice 1st-SCROLL for #Cats www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwel...

#HappyNewYear #Hope #Wishes #stars This free image-not our pic-shows a midnight blue sky dotted with many stars. There’s even a streak of a shooting star in the lower right. Trees silhouette the left side & across the top; a small tree‘s in the bottom right corner. Our #NewYearsWish to you… ~💞🙏🕊

tho My Rose grows frail by the hour through each cruel year I see past with’ring cherish the Flower strive to keep her tend’rest dreams alive with my own ~Mischa💞 #haikufeels #haiku (s) #year #poetry #LovePoetry #writingcommunity

#NewYear This free image-not our photo-shows the stump of what was a large #tree that was chopped down. It‘s covered in green mosses & lichen: new #Life ! But what’s most remarkable is the #sapling growing fr/near the centre of the stump’s top. Its green many-branched slim stem epitomises #Hope 🙏🕊

I kept the years we shared, an ember clutched tightly even as it burned, yearning… All regrets and tears as it seared my heart: a wound I’d not let heal… An unlived future best left to die out, I’d breathe on its memories till they glowed again: burning my todays to ashes… -tam💞 #haikufeels #ash

A rescue #cat fr/the desert (& bad 1st home😢) Our Boy wasn’t used to seeing❄️“What he hell is that?!”😳 Nothing here is the same now. He’s been gone many yrs; even the fence is changed. But, as Harry Nilsson once sang/✍️“Long ago, far away…Life was clear, close your eyes…Remember…” We do🥹❤️ #cats #snow

A #haiku ✍️ & originally posted for/at Anne’s #haikufeels prompt #steal #poetry #LovePoetry #writingcommunity Note: this is a free image-not our own photo-of a full Moon against a deep blue Night sky, with willowy strands of leaves draping from tress on each side silhouetted by the Moon.

by Hamlet bereft no illusions left to sell she wed the river on its bed she laid felt its waters o’ertake her in consummation ~tamisar💞 #haikufeels #haiku #sell #poetry #writingcommunity #Ophelia

#Periwinkles -more #flowers braving #Winter in our #garden Out back, Periwinkles are spreading their glossy-green-leafed vines along our fence, bearing lovely, star-shaped, pale lilac #blooms w/white centres. But we’ll need to keep them in check! #Garden4Wildlife #photography by my partner. -tam💞

I saw a maiden once Dancing ‘cross the mountainside At least I think so… Beautiful she was Her lithe limbs traipsed the treetops Whimsical…all made of snow… ~Mischa💞 #Emoetry #poetry #whimsical #writingcommunity

The Creation of Adam- #Michelangelo fresco c.1511 About this extraordinary scene w/in the Sistine Chapel- An ALT‘s in Composition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cre... What we’ve always loved most about this #painting is that deliberate space between Adam & God: how their fingers never meet... #art

A #poem far too long for #haikufeels & not even remotely in haiku form. Chère Anne, I can only claim to at least have used your #prompt #Nature & hope that this work will please you.🙏 It is somewhat of an #Ode to Nature, at least a part I find most sacred. ~Mischa💞 #poetry #writingcommunity

#Christmas #Rose - not what you’d think of as one, but this part-nibbled #Hellebore is a.k.a. A Christmas Rose & #blooming on the day. We’re not worried about🐌/slugs nibbling: there are plenty of pink #buds waiting to open yet. Great #flowers for overwintering #bees #Garden4Wildlife

It’s been a tough year. You may be💔on your own, feeling #blue while festivities go on around you. Pls know You’re Loved-& w/each Dawn there’s #Hope. It may be a tiny #seedling or the sound of a #songbird above the chaos. #Believe Find #Strength & Hope in One thing each day…& give it room to #Grow❤️🕊

#MerryChristmas to #Cats #Dogs & their Humans. Here’s Our boy in 2006 chilling beside the #tree we used to have. He left this🌎several yrs ago, but we’ll never forget Him🥰. Lots of❤️&🫂to everyone with #pets, esp those who‘ve lost a beloved pet. #Memories keep all those we Loved & Lost Alive in our❤️s.

as she stood trembling tenderly his fingers slid off her silken gown kneeling down he kissed to kindle fires deep within flames licking her skin flicked to taste her burn until melting she joined him on passion’s bonfire ~Mischa💞 #haikufeels #kindle #poetry #LovePoetry #writingcommunity

#Earthrise -taken by #NASA astronaut William Anders from Apollo8 as it orbited the Moon on Dec 24th- #ChristmasEve 1968. About this iconic photo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise #photography #Space With hope that one day We will live to see #PeaceOnEarth🙏🕊

Happy Whatever You’re Having-because not everyone celebrates #Christmas! Here’s our display of festive cheer- arranged by my partner-full of weird #Santas & #Snowmen I collected in yrs past, trees (& conical trees) I painted: all on a #quilted runner my sister made🥰 #HappyHolidays 🕊&❤️to Everyone! ~💞

Our little #ChristmasTree -it’s a wall #tree & every ornament is #handmade -most by my sisters (2 of whom have since gone). For yrs we exchanged #ornaments instead of🎁so I‘ve many lovely mementos of them, many carefully #cross-stitched &/or #beaded 🙏forgive no ALT: Impossible to describe them all.🎄