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Poet, librarian, former bookseller. Author of West of House. More poems at
http://www.1hitpoint.com
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A child’s drawing the seagulls and the waves the same shape
#haiku
#poetry
27 days ago
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The window washer helping himself
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#senryu
#poetry
about 7 hours ago
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Reading Raindoe
2 days ago
the mind gnaws upon the white crackled bones of these tired old thoughts until nothing is left but a mouthful of dust
#♡ᝰ.🖋️
#poetrysky
#poetry
#poem
#blueskypoets
#micropoetry
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Catherine Baker
2 days ago
oaks close the sky gaps cloudlight in the cow parsley silvergreens the air
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elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs
6 days ago
write about light rain while robins call loudly for worms -- he said
#haiku
#spring
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Shinobazu Pond 俳句
6 days ago
(Seen today in Tokyo … ) MONET EXHIBITION Sound of people taking pictures of pictures. ( … drove me nuts!)
#haiku
#senryu
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Even performed by nine-year-olds with toys the Ode to Joy
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
6 days ago
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ant ant ant ant ant
7 days ago
#haiku
slow yellow lilies after all
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elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs
7 days ago
slow gods by north really good read on kobo but now it’s over
#senryusunday
#senryu
#finishedreading
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Jenny Gaitskell
7 days ago
apartment: a word for loneliness while neighbours talk above
#DailyHaikuPrompt
(porch)
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Shinobazu Pond 俳句
7 days ago
Ascending into dream - the decline of the west.
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B. Luke Wilson
about 1 month ago
Excited to announce that my poem was selected as a finalist for the Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize! Thanks to the readers and editors
@onlypoemsmag.bsky.social
for publishing this piece.
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Suse
8 days ago
Chasing waterfalls 🌈
#Stunday
#scape
#photography
#Montmorency
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Thomas L. Vaultonburg
8 days ago
cave paintings— our flashlight beams add another animal
#haiku
#poetry
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Catherine Baker
7 days ago
inside the clangor an endless silence gathers that stops the bell’s tongue
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AFewGreenLeaves
about 2 months ago
Decommissioned vinyards, Old Mission Santa Ynez, early morning.
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Middle of nowhere wondering where the grain elevator goes
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
7 days ago
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Catherine Baker
8 days ago
the thought of a crow in the procession of clouds across the skylight
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Broken seashells lining the path to the lighthouse
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#senryu
#poetry
9 days ago
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elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs
13 days ago
comfort is key with style-free clothes but stick with non-gaudy
#inkMine
(gaudy)
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Catherine Baker
13 days ago
remember cloudlight across the magpie’s wingtip momentary blue
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Antiques Roadshow the appraisers going silver
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
13 days ago
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Tanja
17 days ago
sun already high in the lilacs a blackbird sings
#haiku
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Kris Lindbeck
over 1 year ago
I few years ago I wrote a tongue-in-cheek guide to writing literary haiku called "How to Write Bad Haiku." It also has a picture of the late great Jabberwok, who was tortoiseshell with white patches, and whom I miss. Enjoy!
discover.hubpages.com/literature/H...
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How to Write Bad Haiku
A humorous guide to writing "bad" haiku -- mediocre and boring ones -- whose goal is to help people write and edit haiku better.
https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/How-to-Write-Bad-Haiku
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Catherine Baker
17 days ago
here on the outskirts only the lonely streetlights chiming with the moon
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Disneyland at dusk some of the crows crows
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
18 days ago
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Old book its spine crooked
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
24 days ago
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ant ant ant ant ant
26 days ago
#haiku
a box of sunset at the end of the street
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Tanja
26 days ago
petals falling~ a child opens his mouth "it's candy rain!"
#haiku
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Thomas L. Vaultonburg
26 days ago
bookstore aisle— my yes reading over my shoulder
#haiku
#poetry
#senryu
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elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs
28 days ago
with binoculars watch hooded mergansers birding with my sis
#senryusunday
#senryu
#haiku
#WikipediaPhoto
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_...
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Hooded merganser - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_merganser#/media/File:Hooded_merganser_male_in_Central_Park_(95790).jpg
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Catherine Baker
27 days ago
tasting the night air tender curve of a snail’s horn this little white moon
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A child’s drawing the seagulls and the waves the same shape
#haiku
#poetry
27 days ago
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Catherine Baker
about 1 month ago
the silent white sky untangling how God speaks in gaps between leaves
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David
30 days ago
spring renewal brings good health on the horizon
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Catherine Baker
about 1 month ago
a spring tide rising the gate to the bluebell wood tangled with cleavers
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reposted by
Jenny Gaitskell
about 1 month ago
impossible to be cool now here I am but hotter
#TankaThursday
(cool)
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Reading Raindoe
about 1 month ago
O, me crew and i the dutchman bound tossed out on a quantum sea, down shrödingers locker a-ferryin' souls we know not what state they may be; an' when the rum's gone we'll all walk the Planck— a particle's life for me Yo-ho yo-ho Happy
#WorldQuantumDay
:)
#quantumday
#♡ᝰ.🖋️
#poetrysky
#poetry
#poem
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Marilyn Ward
about 1 month ago
#dailyhaikuprompt
#plum
plum blossoms floating on the breeze cumulous clouds
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Radio telescopes their delicate petals facing other suns
#haiku
#poetry
about 1 month ago
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Silby
about 1 month ago
stirring nervously in galeforce presentinents, windchimes soft discord
add a skeleton here at some point
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K. S. Dearsley
about 1 month ago
At her party she had fairy-cakes and jelly, but not the bumps. Adding 'one for luck' at her age could kill off the last of her friends.
#ThingsToWriteAbout
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Catherine Baker
about 1 month ago
hole in the pebble catching a glimpse of pale sky on the other side
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Dusty riverbed a tree empties its branches into the sky
#haiku
#poetry
about 1 month ago
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Catherine Baker
about 1 month ago
this hidden sunrise silvergrey of everyday citadels of clouds
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Laundry line a spring breeze trying a blouse on
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
about 1 month ago
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Catherine Baker
about 1 month ago
dawn wakes you slowly with the sheen of a dull pearl rolling you downhill
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Reading Raindoe
about 1 month ago
a pride of dandelions basking in the sun tawny manes aglow
#♡ᝰ.🖋️
#haiku
#poetrysky
#poetry
#poem
#blueskypoets
#micropoetry
#poetrycommunity
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Amy Borgman
about 1 month ago
Nature wants you to be you. —Chris Evans
#nature
#poetry
#mindfulness
add a skeleton here at some point
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Marilyn Ward
about 1 month ago
#dailyhaikuprompt
#foggy
foggy morning seen over hay stubble the hare's ears
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