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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Jun 8

one haiku, one tanka

Sunday cottonwood showers
pup coronation
a dog’s meaty dream

birds blast the airwaves
morning chatter just enough
to deaden the news
old love songs to the planet
grand arias shared anew

#haiku #writingcommunity #dogs #birds #nature #BlueSkypoetry #tanka

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Jun 3

I've been gone from Bluesky for a bit. Good to be back. Happy to say Haikuniverse shared one of my poems today! Hope you like --
haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-jon...

haiku by Jon Raimon

we ball angry hopes cast pleas and faith over nations tree of justice, rise

haikuniverse.com

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 20

(water+love)+ (resistance+love) + rage - pure bitterness/wet dog+love x (love×love)= hope+righteousness×joy
corroborated by Jimmy "The poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people that know the truth about us. Soldiers don't, statesmen don't, priests don't, union leaders don't.."

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thank you for the supportive words! Means a lot!

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 14

#poetry #photography #nature #fathersandsons #communitywriters #BlueSkyPoetry #railroads

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 14

Spare, unexpected -- "...not healing"--, heartbreaking, true.

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 10

Beautifully understated. The quietness says so much.

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 9

spring snow taunts and grins

robins puff like fresh croissants

when will we taste warmth?

#haiku #poetry #BlueSkyPoetry #spring #communitywriters

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 7

My pleasure! It's beautiful and moving. Thank you for reposting my recent one and for noting the symbolism, opaque as it may be. Be well, Rachel. I look forward to your next creation!

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Reposted by Jon Raimon

Rachel McDonald @softlywild.bsky.social · Apr 6

#poem #poet #poetry #writingcommunity

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 7

Aye! "where is the light" -- so right for these days. Hits true and hard.

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 7

Still super tall! Just an odd photo. Hope you're well!

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 7

spring surge, all brawn

waterfall din, no demands

on our shrill lives

#haiku #water #nature #poerty ##BlueSkyPoetry #photography #writingcommunity

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 6

- dead deer on the creek's bank at first light

part iii

in our mother’s full
heft and roundness.
bow to her
undulating blood raw

love

and i do
and i tremble

#poetry #BlueSkyPoetry #communitywriters #spring #love

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 6

- dead deer on the creek’s bank at first light-

part ii

right cutlets rife
with wriggling life.
a near fawn
tender and inching
measuring this self

in the water’s
verdant deadly reflection.
we want to
believe in second
chances freely kissed

#poetry #BlueSkyPoetry #communitywriter

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 6

- dead deer on the creek’s bank at first light-
(in number of parts)

i.
last night's carcass
this morning sustenance
this nocturnal mayhem
masticating as natural
as moonbeams felt

on life gone.
coyotes ravish this
rendered brute deer
chest heaving here
raw pieces now

#poetry #BlueSkyPoetry

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 4

- deer carcass by the river -

rib cage released

breast to the heavens

breath to the heavens

we hide from blood

grizzle our enemy

we want it clean

linear as success

steel guardrails cleaving

once meandering waters

#poetry #BlueSkyPoetry #nature #resist #writingcommunity #photograph

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 2

Powerful poem! We all want to express the ineffable and this poem beautifully explores that longing. Thank you, Rachel!

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Reposted by Jon Raimon

Rachel McDonald @softlywild.bsky.social · Apr 2

#poem #poet #poetry #writingcommunity

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you for the supportive words and for reposting the poem.

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 2

upstream promises

these rippling bends we wish on

downstream, i will wait

#haiku #spring #hope #nature #poetry #BlueSkyPoetry #photography ##writingcommunity

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 1

So needed and right on.

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 1

water is life
#water #spring #nature #photography

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Apr 1

- winter thaw -

winter washed
rocks reveal
so much death
and just enough.
beavers done in.
deer carcass
red ribbed. mercy
in the rot. mercy
in the spring. mercy
in your kiss. all
animal and guttural.
so perfectly human

#spring #poetry #BlueSkyPoetry #nature #writingcommunity

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Jon Raimon @jcrithaca.bsky.social · Mar 31

Thank you, Rachel! That means a great deal to me, especially since I appreciate your poems so much. Hope you're well!

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