There’s no perspective here, but as we had Audrey out for her bedtime constitutional my son told me to look up and overhead I saw the biggest moon halo in all of my years.

It looks like a #river of #light on my #ceiling but it’s just the #reflection of #water pooled on a storage bin on my patio.

Is it true that Trump is making the FAA change the airport abbreviations to 6 letters so he can make JFK flights look like DJTJFK on the arrival/departure boards?

Another great folk ku journal from King River Press is available on line. The theme of Issue 6 is trees. kingriverpress.com/wp-content/u... #haiku #FolkKu

My very last #poem of 2025. I will put a reading in the comments. Hey #PoemsAbout crew, Happy New Year!

Hey #PoemsAbout friends, @melruthwrites.bsky.social is still gathering #Poetryforpets for a good cause!

All poets working today need to read this article.

Klee-ka-boo, I see you!!!

My family knows me so well!!!

There is no forgiving Columbia University for caving in to Trump. But at least they still have Bachfest, 24/7 for rest of the year: www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

This is a beautiful poem masterfully read…

Wishing everyone the best possible 2026, especially my #PoemsAbout family. I will put a reading in the comments. #Poem #NewYear

I am declaring this my top song of 2025: youtu.be/KxgywxidhAU?...

#senryu #kleeku #puppyku everybody asks how big will she get I say the perfect size

The Chiefs are out of the playoff picture, but Audrey is still a fan (of their blanket, at least). #kleekai #puppy #blanket

These weekly posts by @merrildsmith.bsky.social are a real treat!

#senryu #kleeku #kleekai #puppy I say stupid shit but I never lie to puppies

#haiku #kleeku #newyear #teething #paper #calendar puppy’s first new year prising December from baby tooth vise

There was so much love in the room and so many great, profound, evocative, humorous, emotional, and any other fitting superlative readings. Thank you, @alanparrywriter.co.uk for uniting us once again!!!

#PoemsAbout #Money @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reading in the comments.

#senryu #kleeku if you only had a heart for puppies I would say arf

#senryu #kleeku #naughty #puppy am I just the guy who tells you no

Since Audrey joined our family, she has inspired three short form poems and I expect many more. I’m thinking of starting a file called Klee Kaiku or just Kaiku. What do you think? #haiku #kleekai #kleekaiku #kaiku

Luv to repost @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social even when rejected. Congrats to all in #85, esp. @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social whose moondrops poem is 💯. Below is my effort that DIDN’T make it: denouement under the key light of hunter’s moon gooseneck gourds in autumn moonlight dream of flying vees

#haiku #haikusaturday #snow #puppy puppy paw touching first snow now I chase the tail

#PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will place a reading in the comments. I forgot to get a good single image in this crazy week, so two screenshots.

Caption this…

Sometimes the counterintuitiveness of reality fills me with such dread as to paralyze, like those goats that freeze up when they get stressed. I look at myself and the things in the room around me and say by rights none of this should ever have come to be. I can’t wrap my head around matter.

#poems #pets I call that a win-win!!!

If she had a round bed, this could be the puppy version in yin yang symbol.

This is an incredibly rich gift of poetry, narrative, and commentary!!!

It's Monday, and I'm musing! This is my weekly post with a #Poem, #Photos, and commentary on the past week. merrildsmith.org/2025/12/08/o...

#haiku #haikusaturday #senryu #senryusaturday dirt eating children and puppies not so different

So my son and I made playlists of our favorite #songs of 2025. The first few of mine are on the left and my son’s are on the right:

#PoemsAbout #Imps @thebrokenspine.co.uk You must click the hyperlink. Frank’s musical arrangement is beautiful and fresh and his reading breathes more life into the poem than you will just get from reading the Norton Anthology of Romantic Literature.

#PoemsAbout #Imps #Resist @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reel in the comments

My son and I switched from Spotify to Apple Music in August, so my 2025 #music wrap up is only for the last four months:

One of my writers groups had a monthly prompt to write a #poem about a #songs or group of #songs. I will put a reel in the comments.

On Saturday, I posted this #puppy #haiku about translucent ears. Then my son caught it on camera.

#haiku #tanrenga @dailyhaikai.bsky.social first fire siren puppy sleeps no longer

“December boys got it bad”

Repost with you in nature

#haiku #haikusaturday #puppy #ears #translucence twin lanterns the orange sunset through a puppy’s ears

By the way, if anyone on #PoemsAbout #NoFuture @thebrokenspine.co.uk was wondering how my puppy, Audrey, got her name, my son is a huge Twin Peaks fan. A boy dog would have been Bishop.

#PoemsAbout #NoFuture @thebrokenspine.co.uk #puppies #resist I will post a special reading in the comments. I am on new puppy time this week, so it may take me a while to get to all of the poetry. Cheers!

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: (All at Rutgers College back in the day) Billy Joel (before The Stranger album) Horslips R.E.M. Public Image Limited Psychodelic Furs

in the soggy hoofprint innocence writhing earthworms

Received issue #82 of Presence haiku journal. So psyched to have a # haiku in this fantastic journal.

I don’t usually post #PoemsAbout @thebrokenspine.co.uk this early, but I’m taking some antihistamines and may sleep through a good portion of the night, or not. Will post a reel for #DogTags in the comments.