Paul David Mena
@extraspecialbitter.bsky.social
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Just a pedestrian walking along the double yellow line.
winter rain a low-flying private jet
about 1 hour ago
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waiting for my blood draw a deer tick on the dog's muzzle
about 1 hour ago
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Paul David Mena
ant ant ant ant ant
about 11 hours ago
#haiku
daffodils we didn’t plant show up anyway
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careful with you carry into the rain
about 12 hours ago
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my life is an open book
#7syllablesentence
about 12 hours ago
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shivering a shelter dog in the rain
about 18 hours ago
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boomer fearing the bust
about 18 hours ago
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fumbling for my claim check the bags under my eyes
#vssdaily
about 19 hours ago
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agitation an unbalanced washing machine
#inkMine
about 19 hours ago
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baggage claim a stranger reaching for my suitcase
#vssdaily
about 19 hours ago
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broken clouds the glare of her lip gloss
#haikufeels
about 19 hours ago
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end-of-life musings wondering if my black suit still fits me
#thingstowriteabout
about 19 hours ago
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upscale dining hoping the suits will pick up the bill
#thingstowriteabout
about 19 hours ago
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hope springs eternal a bountiful display of hydrangeas
#vss365
about 20 hours ago
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late-season harvest a copious yield of acorns
#HaikuChallenge
about 20 hours ago
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late-night commute I yield to ghosts
#HaikuChallenge
about 20 hours ago
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befogged mirror the more it hides the better
#wss366
about 21 hours ago
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fogged in the silence of a restless harbor
#wss366
about 21 hours ago
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La Esquina the street busker and his dog
#MastoPrompt
about 22 hours ago
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is it real? or am I just imagining the hummingbird?
about 22 hours ago
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wild orchids they won't tell me how they got there
#DailyHaikuPrompt
about 22 hours ago
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catkins the coyote is intrigued
#DailyHaikuPrompt
about 22 hours ago
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unselfconsciously swaying in the wind giant oak trees
#HaikuNuggets
about 24 hours ago
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another fixer upper except for the granite countertops
#TheDailyHaiku
about 24 hours ago
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red-winged blackbirds noisily reminding us they're back
#NaHaiWriMo
about 24 hours ago
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missing at the reunion the one who couldn't miss
1 day ago
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one last poem a cryptic fortune cookie
1 day ago
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evening tea a long-suffering kettle pond
1 day ago
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as if it wasn't mine my father lends me a book
1 day ago
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the next bomb I drop is a dying river
1 day ago
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snow globe nothingness surrounds me
1 day ago
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final approach the city begins to swallow us
1 day ago
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what if the house wasn't spinning around after all?
1 day ago
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this was the horizon, I said, sand pouring through my fingers
1 day ago
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transit cruise an island swallowed up by lightning
1 day ago
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to be the door that opens into fog
1 day ago
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measuring distance what if my echo doesn't return?
1 day ago
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looking for an old friend the ghosts seem happy to help
1 day ago
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now playing left field a red-legged flycatcher
1 day ago
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late winter snowmelt a parched river awaits
1 day ago
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ham and eggs with extra ease
#7syllablesentence
2 days ago
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physicist thanking us for our attention to matter
2 days ago
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Fisherman's View in close proximity to the power plant
#inkMine
2 days ago
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shuttered church thoughts and prayers in the parking lot
#vssdaily
2 days ago
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pleasure boats wrapped in plastic dreams of the 1%
2 days ago
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in the bookstore true crime novels disguised as news
#thingstowriteabout
2 days ago
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parked outside the devil's playground an idling truck
#haikufeels
2 days ago
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doubling down a lethargic slug
#vss365
2 days ago
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surfboard yearning for the waves
#HaikuChallenge
2 days ago
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derelicting his account it was inevitably used by hackers
#wss366
2 days ago
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