Vance claims that the US has always been Christian Nation. And he acts like this is a GOOD thing. We were Christian when women were not able to vote or own property, when we had legal slavery, when homosexuality was a crime….

Vibrant city lights Blink like unanswered questions In puddles of rain #dailyhaikuprompt (vibrant) #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #haiku

Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist, genius. Born this day 1960. Taken, as is the way of these things, too soon.

Ukrainian artist Andrii Kovalyk, based in Madrid, ‘Where the Winter Dreams Begin’

scribbled sonnets fading in the pocket of his overcoat #dailyhaikuprompt overcoat

Can you hear the stronger hydrogen bonds of ice forming or is it just pancake ice for supper 🌊🌊

crossing the threshold of the AI world at least my heart beats #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

new tech hoodie cuts the wind off the lake sun glints swinging axe #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

I would like...[to put] in a good word for the non-industrious poor. Insofar as the time they are taking time off from work is being spent with friends and family...caring for those they love, they’re probably improving the world more than we acknowledge. ―David Graeber (Debt: The First 5,000 Years)

Well worth the flip through.

winter tree a face in the bark learning the shape of disappearance #haiga #imageandverse #tanka #haiku #micropoetry

it takes a kick, now, to free logs for a fire snowflakes on our tongues #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

four days after your death-day, ten years fly with gulls above wave crests #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu

reading Jung by the fire with a buzz "Heart Attack & Vine" #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

a fire in dark December evening ticks of sleet on window #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

20/12/25 - nocturn

Japanese stone lantern in snowy garden black walnut shell #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

a howling snow devils whip ankles dead of winter #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

that glimmer of hope when the red-devil gets hit Oatka Creek #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

long night up at two to log the fire wolf in my head #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

frozen driveway with snow blowing east, single lime green ivy leaf #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

two foot drift of snow blown through a hole in the trees from Ronnie's meadow #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

white twinkling light glows the snow on the holly above rabbit tracks #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

eyelash catches snowflakes and steam from red clay mug #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

beans and greens simmer in the afternoon Christmas candles #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

two stone hare snow covered in the garden you a decade gone #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

A fire, a book, and Coltrane.

12/12/25 - nocturn

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#DailyHaikuPrompt #DarkCloud winter morning regardless of dark clouds the robin chirps

Second Cup: Light snow drifting in off the lake. Having a bit of the black and reading until my daughter calls. What is playing in our house?

driving north southwest sun flares white birches against slate clouds #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

fractured puddle ice under boot-heel your delicate heart #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

the clatter of an armload of kindling kindness drops from us #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

I obsess fondly Plucking petals wistfully from a small daisy. #Haikufeels #obsess #haiku #senryu

the star heals a hole the whole world is wind-blown snow and howl #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

dull thud of wave thump don't like the climate of king not by a long stretch #haikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

out for firewood frozen breath rises from lips hawk perched on oak-limb #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

not enough space heart & fox tracks in the snow #haikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

north of bluff vast oceanic Ontario mind a gull soars #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

asking is laughing is appropriate without answers #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

wind snow gray desolation is mind as well #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

after all this under the one tree fox scat #haikufeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

harborside bench we embrace old age & cherry blossoms #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

mauve cloud drifts across super moon cardinal eats suet #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

first cup memory "fernwood tonight," cheers Martin Mull #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #micropoetry