#completethehaiga 159 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka

Squished and solid piece of ancient ocean 🌊

on the path a patch of light from her window #haiku

adorned with the blue jewels of the lake the swan glides out of the fog #UnknownFairyTales

Photographing living cats was perfectly possible from the late Victorian era onward. There was no technical limitation that would lead one to conclude that the cats in my older photos must be taxidermied. www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/...

the orbit of dandelion seeds another galaxy #haikufeels #haiku

My cat’s head appears around the drainpipe – a mouse between her jaws, dead or playing dead. She trots up the steps and onto the porch. She sits. “Morality,” she says, “is a construct, stupid!” She kills the mouse. Then, miraculously, she brings it back to life.

twilight the cat wakes for dinner #haiku

#haiku the cat pries you from the book

sunny day shadows gently move the cat #senryu #micropoetry

#art Emilie Mediz-Pelikan #haiku #micropoem sea buckthorn #resist

two crows on the blue wings open to everything wind harps the barbules

Rayner Unwin’s referee report on The Hobbit, written when his father Stanley Unwin gave it to him and asked whether it should be published. He was paid a shilling for it. My favorite part is the way that Unwin, aged 10 at the time, makes it clear that this is a book for children younger than him.

shining softly among the plants another little lamp #haiku

‘I’m not afraid of dying any more’: comedian Eric Lampaert on his amnesia – and the memories he was happy to lose

somewhere a prayer for the good whispering pines #senyru #senyrusunday

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

My mom just called to tell me that she went to a museum about the Underground Railroad, where one of the exhibits talked about the locals having horns that they would blow to warn people when the slave catchers were in town “It’s just like your whistles!”

Designers talk a big game about "empathy" for users. But empathy without respect is nothing more than pity. As Big Tech goes all-in on AI to accelerate its feature pipelines, the disrespect for users that's baked into these systems naturally scales up with it. Now it has reached the breaking point.

In today's Small Good Deeds headlines, I used a toy butterfly net to catch a wayward honeybee that had found its way into the studio and release it back into the great outdoors. What was a recent Small Good Deed of yours?

wildflowers~ i'll show you these when you come visit #haiku

Take the journey. Pick up your copy of Vanished Roads today. Buy it here www.wolftwin.com/product-page... #haiku #poetry #books

hot sunday~ the hammock occupied #haiku

late light creeping over rock and trees, reaching for the shimmering sea, white triangles, sailing out into the boundless blue - zu Salz und Tang trag mich, Sehnsucht seewärts #haiku #micropoetry #poetry to salt and seaweed take me, longing seabound an incantation shanty for #senryusunday

Rag men. The guys who collected old rags to be made into paper. I bet they have stories. Gutties. Women who gut the fish - my whole maternal line until my grandmother Chamber maids. They'd have all the inside gossip

Jane Hirshfield from The October Palace #SmallPoemSunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

last frost— crabapple blossoms sting my fingers #haiku #micropoem #poem #vss365

alternatively: cicadas the buzz of immortality #HaikuNuggets

I just published a microfiction dedicated to anyone who has ever given a conference paper. medium.com/microcosm/th...

#SenryuSunday doing my own research ChatGPT on the toilet

#SenryuSunday faster than light the darkness within

how young her doctors and poets are becoming #senryu inspired by following a poet whose profile picture looks barely out of braces to 65-year-old me.

I’ve never forgotten the editor who scrawled “smelt is for metals!!” on a piece of my work. It wasn’t very good work, and many of her other comments were valid. But that one was stupid.

#poem #5lines after the rain every blade of grass sings a different song when the summer wind comes along

black raspberries forgetting the sun my purpled fingers insist on going to my mouth instead of the bucket #micropoetry #nomnomnom

terminal moraine… holding back tears for the future #haiku #HaikuSaturday www.reuters.com/business/env...

When I saw a post inquiring about the origins of a mysterious wall decoration, it sparked an investigation & led in unexpected directions: A British inventor, an American Gothic Revival farmhouse, a Canadian sport called "ballet & murder" by its unofficial poet laureate, & Vermont's Green Mountains

soft rain for my beautiful melissa for her unfurling beyond the sky of pain

suburban strip mall so many shuttered shops named "For Lease"

heat shimmers— horses drying in the grassy field Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826) #haiku #micropoetry Tr. David G. Lanoue Date of #poem: unknown

I saw someone refer to the lettering as “Steakhouse Wedding font” and can’t unsee that one

Czesław Miłosz, trs. the author & Lillian Vallee

what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

Week of July 13th prompt: heron (summer #haiku kigo) or road Choose one or both for your photo, fine art, creative short, or poetry inspiration. Your depiction may be implied or literal. Join anytime by adding #PaintbyWords to your posts. #EastCoastKin #art #photography #poetry

his fingers parallel parking between my ribs #haiku

I fell in love so easily then merely a voice or a smile could do it to me of course it wasn't love at all but it felt so big and I was so small I still feel small/I still fall and fall for the birds and the bees and the whole damn thing

It is really wild how much Black causes have been completely abandoned or lowered in priority by many Dems and many people, from moderates to progressives to the left. As we enter fascism, we can’t keep our eyes off the core of how we got here. Not to mention simply not abandoning Black people.

This should be setting off alarm bells in the Jewish world as well as all those fighting fascism. Republicans are targeting a progressive Jewish nonprofit, hoping to strip it of nonprofit status. This was laid out in the Esther Project, an extension of Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation.

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it’s Friday night, let’s tear up reading this Catherine Bull poem