JL Abbott
@jeshila.bsky.social
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(he/they) poet, writer, and musician haiku every day, WIP books and short stories
結婚式、 コオロギが琴 を引いてる。 (marriage ceremony, a cricket is playing a koto)
#俳句
#結婚
#コオロギ
#琴
#haiku
#marriage
#cricket
#koto
about 7 hours ago
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while I weigh the squash an old man chuckles nearby looking at some chips
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#autumn
#fall
#squash
#chips
#grocery
3 days ago
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reposted by
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ant ant ant ant ant
4 days ago
#haiku
you missed it the stove took the moth
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leaves pile up slowly this table may disappear soon overtaken
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#fall
#autumn
#leaves
#pile
4 days ago
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crickets chirp on the smoke alarm joins in, too dying battery
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#fall
#autumn
#cricket
#chirp
5 days ago
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late September moon I can’t remember if it’s waxing or waning
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#autumn
#fall
#September
#moon
#lunar
6 days ago
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autumn shade picnic a hornet walks across my potato salad
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#autumn
#fall
#picnic
#hornet
#potato
6 days ago
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autumn morning sun there’s still enough leaves to give a shady respite
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#fall
#autumn
#morning
#sun
#shade
#leaves
7 days ago
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sweat drips down eyebrows the lingering summer heat compounds our effort
#haiku
#poetry
#poem
#autumn
#fall
#heat
#sweat
8 days ago
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if you consistently tell youtube surveys you’ve never heard of any brands or products it will guess you are a spanish speaker. i don’t know why
9 days ago
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ghosts arrive to find an orchard bereft of fruit and old leaves rotting
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#fruit
#autumn
#fall
#leaves
9 days ago
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organize ourselves to reap the succulent fruits grown by our labor
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#fall
#autumn
#harvest
#reap
#labor
11 days ago
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picking up litter the harvest too bountiful trash hangs from hedges
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#harvest
#autumn
#fall
#hedge
#litter
#trash
13 days ago
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autumn rain chilled not to the bone skin deep
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#autumn
#fall
#rain
#chill
#skin
14 days ago
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purple aster eyes watch as the season turns round autumn has arrived
#haiku
#autumn
#fall
#aster
#flower
#poem
#poetry
15 days ago
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lavateras bloom volunteers canvassing homes work beside the bees
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#flower
#bloom
#bee
#fall
#autumn
16 days ago
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dried grass underfoot cracking gasps of thirst let out begging for raindrops
#haiku
#autumn
#fall
#poem
#poetry
#rain
#dry
#grass
#thirst
17 days ago
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removing my beard in solidarity with stubble fields I pass
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#stubble
#field
#harvest
#fall
#autumn
#beard
#shave
18 days ago
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wind pushes the leaves along to their final rest. how far from the tree?
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#leaves
#fall
#autumn
#wind
#trees
19 days ago
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familiar face walks under the autumn leaves warmed by the greeting
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#autumn
#fall
#warm
#greeting
#face
20 days ago
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autumn evening walk we take a new road this time your smile looks the same
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#walk
#smile
#fall
#autumn
#road
21 days ago
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stopping falling leaves from entering my banh mi golden and crispy
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#fall
#autumn
#leaves
#changing
#crispy
23 days ago
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rapidly changing a painter can’t keep pace with auburn and orange
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#fall
#autumn
#leaves
#change
#tree
24 days ago
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cool autumn morning clattering across pavement a dragging kickstand
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#fall
#autumn
#morning
#sound
24 days ago
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fantastic patterns trampled flat into the path scattered fallen leaves
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#fall
#autumn
#leaves
28 days ago
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driving past the corn carrying all our luggage and new memories
#haiku
#autumn
#fall
#poem
#poetry
#corn
#memories
29 days ago
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evening bonfire a perfect solution to autumn loneliness
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#bonfire
#loneliness
#autumn
30 days ago
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a bald-faced hornet clings onto my floral shirt. autumn loneliness
#haiku
#loneliness
#autumn
#hornet
#floral
#poem
#poetry
about 1 month ago
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walking through ragweed a crowd of crickets drone on about nothing new
#haiku
#fall
#autumn
#cricket
#ragweed
#photo
about 1 month ago
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a hint of yellow whispers for any to hear fall is upon us
#haiku
#fall
#whisper
#yellow
#leaf
#autumn
about 1 month ago
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fallen dead tree trunk lays in the lakeside gravel leaves barely changing
#fall
#haiku
#tree
#leaves
#changing
#lake
about 1 month ago
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festival courtyard the music spurs us to move wind blown leaf spiral
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#summer
#leaf
#festival
#music
#dance
about 1 month ago
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caught in a drizzle much too late to turn back now we press on, soaking
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#summer
#drizzle
about 1 month ago
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shuffling papers and sunlight all together the page is still blank
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#summer
#sunlight
#paper
#page
about 1 month ago
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pokeberry bushes holding out their unripe fruit beautiful poison
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#summer
#pokeberry
#photo
#fruit
about 1 month ago
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花火見は 美しそうだ 鏡でも (fireworks viewing, it’s so beautiful- even in the mirror)
#haiku
#fireworks
#summer
#mirror
#俳句
#夏
#花火
#鏡
about 1 month ago
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I missed a few days so I’ll be doing extra today
about 1 month ago
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everything falls down from the minuscule trickle to the waterfall
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#summer
#waterfall
about 1 month ago
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Freya Pickard
about 1 month ago
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slowly picking off the unwanted strawberries from the birthday cake
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#summer
#strawberry
#cake
#birthday
about 1 month ago
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a farmer’s market, live music fills the alley. ah, I know this song!
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#summer
#market
#music
about 2 months ago
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sadness in the trees their minds also occupied with Summer’s leaving
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#summer
#tree
#sadness
about 2 months ago
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ghosts of the summer float by my window each night I forget their names
#haiku
#summer
#ghosts
#poem
#poetry
about 2 months ago
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unruly neighbors for the sake of lavender must be promptly pruned
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#summer
#lavender
#prune
about 2 months ago
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keeping cool is hard when the car is an oven I am a bread loaf
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#car
#hot
#cool
#bread
about 2 months ago
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円山へ 動物を見て 穏やかに (go to Maruyama and calmly look at the animals)
#俳句
#夏
#穏やか
#動物
#円山公園
#haiku
#summer
#calm
#animals
#MaruyamaPark
#写真
#photo
about 2 months ago
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verbena petals it couldn’t be a sunburn that made it this red
#haiku
#summer
#sunburn
#verbena
#flowers
#photo
#poem
about 2 months ago
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手が星に 触ったらいつも 悲しいだ。 (When you touch a star, it’s always sad.)
#俳句
#秋
#悲しい
#星
#haiku
#fall
#sad
#star
about 2 months ago
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three deer startled at the sight of me
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#summer
#deer
#blueskypoets
about 2 months ago
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egrets and herons appear to get along yet! still as the waters
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#egret
#heron
#summer
#photo
about 2 months ago
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