Here’s the 2nd of of my poems selected by editor ✨ #DJTyrer ✨ for the mighty #575haikujournal. It’s dedicated to my brother BIll. #poetry #haiku #blueskypoets

corn moon laughter drifts over the pond last glow of summer #dailyhaikuprompt #glow #haiku #poetry

above and below… it is impossible to count the stars #GreenSat #haikusaturday #shahai #moss #haiku #haikuchallenge 📷 my iPhone

but for my heart’s infinite music silence #haiku #haikufeels

be the pine survive this fire

Perhaps it's best not to dwell on could-have-beens when it's enough that I'm still here with time to create which is all I ever want to do anyway. #vss365 #poetryprompt #perhaps #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #creativity

pillows still stained with your voice my hand shaping your color previously published in Moonbathing Journal of Women's Tanka #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #WritingCommunity

in the wash of stars owl’s cry enters me- I wake as smoke #haiku #poetry #birds

some spirits dancing in the autumn wind their melancholic eyes #Art #abstract #spirits #dance #autumn #poetry

wayfarer settles, nesting inside my tree talkative night owl #haikuchallenge #haiku #poetry #photography photo by Kalidasan Gopi

nature carves then lights a stone heart, perhaps my dull soul can still be sparked #vss365 #perhaps #dailyhaikuprompt #somber (dull) #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity #photography #eastcoastkin #stunday #Navajo photo: mine - from Antelope Canyon on the Navajo Nation lands in Arizona

First frost of autumn Mist plays across the water It came without sound. #naturewriting #ukcanals #autumn #poetry #haiku

crossroad oak- all four directions in its shadow #haiku #poetry

cotton candy clouds touch the moon’s solitude the weight of a dream #Photography Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social

Hope is a river Cascading down mountainsides - Wild. Dangerous. Free. #DailyHaikuPrompt #cascade #hope #haiku #micropoetry

Autumn Shades : Melancholy drifts, Autumn’s breath touches, … within- Fall colors abide ~ #senryu #nature #poetrycommunity #haiku #HaikuSaturday #poetry #haikuchallenge #poet @bleuowl.bsky.social

flower waits for the summer summer waits for the flower.... #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #Micropoetry #photography #freeverse #flower #sunny #nature #eastcoastkin #poetry #zen #bloomscrolling #florals #flowers #naturephotography #poem #writing

#♡ᝰ.🖋️ #MPPrompt #memories #poem #poetry #poetrysky

Dawn’s ethereal fire, transforms the sleeping valleys Spirits awaken #DailyHaikuPrompt

✨🌬🪻👣🪻🌬✨ Autumn Steps Vast expanse Bare autumn steps grow Mistflowers #BlueSkyArtShow #Angles #EastCoastKin #haikuchallenge #Vast #haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Macro #Bloomscrolling #Wolftwin

"When hummingbirds build a nest, it is compact, dense, designed with tensile strength and lined with soft materials. Clearly, the doves didn’t get that memo." White-winged dove, art/story by Beth Surdut. radio.azpm.org/s/38024-the-... #artforsale #livingartist #wildlifeart #birdart #storyteller

in the clearing dharma becomes dragonflies #zen #haiku #poetry

Filled with hints and illusions. #7syllablesentence #hint #blueskypoets #nature #sunset #photography

Infinite roads, paths, Possibilities, yet here We are, all the odds. #Haikufeels #infinite #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

some oak’s leaves linger, guard spring buds—others simply let go #haiku

stories on a darkened playground laughter floats I listen from the bench wrapped in star shine #blueskyrelay #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #vss360 #poetry

morning ride beneath a setting moon... we ride into the sunrise~ she sets beautifully admist the canyons as a soulless wonder gathers courage~ #poetry #inkMine #photography mine

fallen pine already sprouting ferns in the scar #haiku #poetry

Minds eye staring straight At the mourning sun Frozen into the wind Gulls call across the salt air A broken promise Torn from its hook As hunger gnaws The winding sea #ও☉❢☉✑ #poetry #blueskywriters #writingcommunity

fluent in your name- I write you in poetry, holding you in words, immortalizing the flame that burns only for you. #tanka #poetry #poem #5lines

A lotus in bloom Requires roots in the swamp Allows my soul hope #vssdaily #lotus #haiku #poetry

Delayed gratitude For not fitting the places I did not belong J. C. #poetry #haikufeels #belong

stone circle no one arranged- moonlight fits it #haiku #poetry

craving connection I walk into in the woods alone #senryu #HaikuFeels #GreenSat #haiku

Wild rose - svelte petals protected by thorns. #dailyhaikuprompt wild rose #haiku #senryu 🌹

sagging orchid— once again I cared too much #DailyHaikuPrompt (orchids) #haiku #senryu

Displacement became My song, never to fit, I Belong to no-one. #Haikufeels #belong #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Lost in the deep #woods your voice is my strong #compass I will find my way #wildwalkprompt #vssdaily #senryu #poetry

before the carving pumpkins in a distant field soak up the last sun #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

#Starcrossed #arrival such thin glass set between us impermeable #poetry #blueskyrelay #senryu

..sometimes you just need to sit alone. on the floor. in a quiet room. let the sun dance away into the night–and forget about the world for awhile.. ©️📷 WIPdww #quotes #photography #zen #sunset #spirituality #amwriting #nature #sunrise #sky #art #landscape #music #beach #philosophy #writingcommunity

a #kiss of color zinnia about to bloom beauty almost here #haikufeels #prompt #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writingcommunity #bloomscrolling #flowers #zinnia #photography

Dear Authors & Writers, A world in which you and your stories don't exist is an unbearable and unimaginably sad world. Whether you realize it or not, you are shaping this world into a better place and giving voice and hope to lives far beyond your own. Keep writing. #writingcommunity #writerslife

‘I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.’ #RalphWaldoEmerson #Booksky #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #Bookworm 🎨 Not mine

Remote peace, 'Neath willow, Lonely skiff. @trilisypoetry.bsky.social #amWriting @fravery.bsky.social #BlueSkyPrompt13 #poetryCommunity #poetry #poem #BlueSkyPoetry

✨️🪷⛩️📜⛩️🪷✨️ Shikantaza Truth within dewdrops Observes the gift of silence Unwritten proverbs #BlueSkyArtShow #Home #EastCoastKin #inkMine #Truth #haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Macro #Bloomscrolling #Wolftwin

lichen-scrawled stone a map the creek keeps rewriting #haiku #poetry

weightless beneath a midnight sky universe of stars #SenryuSunday #haiku #poetry #unniverse #senryu

traveled wide and far finding the joy of life… in my own backyard #haiku #haikufeels #travel #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity #bloomscrolling #photography #macro photos: mine - bumble bee, fiery skipper, cabbage white butterfly & polites themistocoles, each perched on flowers in my backyard