#lichen #fungifriends

lone, steady dawn star brighter than the faded lane lines a long road ahead #haiku

reclamation from the rotting railroad tie a hardy blossom #haiku #haiga

The Dead? No words will bring them back. Only words will bring them back.

the fading fall bloom offers its all, golden beads to the tired bees #haiku #haiga

all eyes on the sun casting its red ripples, while beneath our boats in the black, brackish water ghostly jellyfish drift, bloom #tanka

Happy Friday from #Japan! The scorching heat is over for this year and I'm getting in the mood for a much-needed #autumn - so hear are some photos from Ukan Valley, a fabulous location in #Okayama Prefecture. #photography #naturephotography #scape #ArtYear #EastCoastKiin @bskyphotos.bsky.social

there once were many of these silver shard blazes their brief, bright flare already overtaken by the crawl of vines and time #tanka #micropoetry

The birds were launching nearby and circling past, closer than I've ever seen them. I could see tiny cars wending down the highway, farms and fields. But that wasn't what they were looking for... different perspectives sharing the view with vultures bustle, and decay #haiku #haiga

late night crickets replace the whirr of AC after the heatwave #haiku

the decisive pop flower fireworks finale last bloom of the bed #haiku #haiga

both of us resting kayak paddle on my knees dragonfly on the edge #haiku

faint light, fading fast, lonely beacons of summer: mid-July fireflies #haiku

It feels like an odd sort of compliment when the turtles think I'm harmless enough that they don't have to leave their log when I pass by. timid young turtles warily eye the paddler while their elders know better than to bother stay still, serenely sunning #tanka #micropoetry

fleeting figurehead dragonfly perched on the prow of the paddleboard #haiku

oddly relaxing to watch someone work so hard bustling bumblebee #haiku

and when I awoke rolled up poems corked in hull's holes kept my craft afloat #haiku #micropoetry

empty promises the horizon's heat lightning brings no relief #haiku

hidden industry a clinging mist reveals the subtle spiderwebs #haiku

First day lily bloom of the season. #flowers #daylily #photography

unexpected guest your visit quick as your wings summer hummingbird #haiku

firefly dusk— how brief the life of a shooting star #haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (fireflies)

full, closed summer buds, color peeking through the edge: anticipation #haiku

wind blown trees wild brush strokes painting frames of memory #haiku

anemic sunset tinged with distant wildfire haze and yet: dim fireflies #haiku

A neighbor has a mulberry tree in their yard, and some of the branches overhang the sidewalk. I plucked a few in passing. arching mulberries somehow all the sweeter for being stolen #haiku #haibun

#stunday #photography #EastCoastKin #haiku #micropoetry #PoetsOfBlueksy lines inscribed between an ending and fresh starts

Counting waves, just one. Breakers becoming and not. One sea, countless shapes. #haiku #Zen-Humanism #boundless #sea

fifteen hours of sunlight and yet this darkness

On a hike today, saw some tee-tiny fish, each maybe the width of a quarter, in the shallows below some rapids. Most were sticking to a calm spot, but this one kept trying to swim beyond it. stubborn little one striving against the current brave, or foolhardy? #haiku #haibun

🍄📸 #mushroomsky #fungifriends Possible snow fungus (Tremella fuciformis).

in the wee small hours a single bird and i talking to ourselves #haiku #senryu

I read the news while holding my breath like a child passing the cemetery in a car I fear the darkness will catch me, too. But give me the dead, instead of the dead inside, the dead know breath is lent, and returned.

It was wide but faint. I wonder how many noticed it... after the deluge above the bustle and noise a rush hour rainbow #haiku #haibun

the finality of a vacant hospice bed retracing our steps the transient beauty of city park magnolias #tanka #micropoetry

from the severed limbs tentative twigs strain and bloom defying the ax #haiga #haiku

urban no man's land the dandelion strives, thrives through the sidewalk cracks #completethehaiga #haiku #haiga

shrill spring peepers a sudden silence as the mallard glides by #haiku

There's a park in my neighborhood where I can almost forget that I live in the city. Almost... spring opener pond peepers competing with a baseball announcer #haiku #haibun

all things turning the tadpole before the Maypole #DailyHaikuPrompt (tadpole) #3lines #microcontroller #senryu

This whimsical bot creates mini aquatic scenes several times a day, but I've never seen one use so few emoji. mathematical quirk: Emoji Aquarium's unintended 'ku #haiku

My grandparents had a bed of these alongside the house. My memory of them is always from the perspective of a small child. I planted some today in pots on the porch. the scent of pansies standing once again in my grandparents' garden #haiku #haibun

little miracles sprouted seeds, straining towards springtime's still-pale sun #haiku

This reminded me of something I saw on the drive home today. rot & renewal clusters of snowdrops bloom through last autumn's leaves #haiku

Brackish bay, where waters collide; young river pushing, against the ageless sea. Too salty, for human lips; too saltless still, for our ocean kin. Yet above, sun-winged ospreys sail; golden masters of, this place between. #sijo

rain fills my footprints the sky above the low field trackless bare and cold

I can't remember whatall I planted in the back. One that I had written off for dead is apparently a perennial... piercing winter's veil through woody, brittle brown stems poke pale green buds #haiku #haibun

what can poets change in such a small period of time armed with only rhyme? oh, to be a glacier of ice! a waterfall upon the stones! Bright Stars 1, An Organic Tanka Anthology M. Kei, Editor 2014 #TankaPoem #poetry

winter winds of change blow hard, cold, and cruel; yet buds persist, resist #haiku