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Tanja
@joypops.bsky.social
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I write tiny poems, read literary fiction, watch Korean and Japanese dramas and films, and dream about plants taking over the world.
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 16d
autumn dusk
silvering
the crow’s feathers

#haiku
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 3h
Beautiful, Sarah. 💖
And happy birthday to your husband. 🌿✨️
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 3h
gold leaves
swirl through the chill~
fresh bread cooling

#haiku
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 3h
quiet window~
a little leaf
peeks inside

#haiku
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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 3d
there is the world
out there
and the world
that's near

one is a fire
the other: refuge

but time is a circle
and gravity a mouth

smoke is coming—
I can smell it on the air
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YourMoonliness @yourmoonliness.bsky.social · 3d
oak seedling
just a wink
in the old forest’s eyes

#dailyhaikuprompt #seedling
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David @haikubycrane.bsky.social · 4d
just shadows long in
our fleeting existences,
enjoying the sun

#haiku #life #nature
#abouttheauthor
I snapped this photo of me & my shadow with my walking stick. Earlier, I was reading about Oedipus meeting the Sphinx at the crossroads & correctly answering the riddle of, "what walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?" That led to this haiku.
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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 1d
my husband's 50th—
I give him
the autumn
of my life
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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 3d
indoor heating--
the student
isn't sleeping lightly

--Saō Murakami

暖房や生徒の眠り浅からず　村上沙央

(In other words, he is sleeping deeply, but Murakami uses the negative form for ironic understatement)

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 1d
spring chill--
men are always heading
to the battlefield

--Miwako Fujimoto

花冷や男はいつも戦場へ　藤本美和子

(花冷, "blossom chill," is the kigo for a cold day in spring)

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 14h
finding seeds
amongst the stubble
next summer's skylarks

#DailyHaikuPrompt (straw)
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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 12h
snail on the burdock
reaching out delicately
to taste the night air
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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 5h
blue shallow river
a thousand wild horses
dramatic stampede
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 14h
autumn moon~
the forest and i
the same color

#haiku
Moonlit clouds, black spruces
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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 2d
i quickly dash off
an email to a friend
tonight
the welcome arrival of
the first cold chill

#tanka
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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1d
a whale
swims in the sky
rain cloud

#haiku

Fireflies' Light, Missouri Baptist University
Issue 23, June 2021
#micropoetry
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MuederKrieger @muederkrieger.bsky.social · 19h
in their honor
the sound of bagpipes:
migrating birds

#HaikuChallenge #bagpipe
#Haiku #micropoetry
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MuederKrieger @muederkrieger.bsky.social · 19h
no respite!
autumn pledges
the next storm

#blueskyrelay #respite
InkMine #pledge
#Haiku #micropoetry
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MuederKrieger @muederkrieger.bsky.social · 19h
back in shed
the cattle, bored
chew straw

#DailyHaikuPrompt #straw
#Haiku #micropoetry
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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 18h
sun-catcher the verve of a hummingbird’s wing
#vss365 #monoku
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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 20h
"Libertine?" Ladislaw paced around the room. He noticed all of Casaubon's books had gone and how the mice typed with such #verve, barely a quiver of recognition of him in their whiskers. Their ears turning like satellite dishes, picking up distant signals ready to be decoded and reported.

#vss365
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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 1d
But he pulled her toward a door. "Let's go in the library, I need to talk to you in private..."

"Oh, but Ladislaw..."

He stood and stared aghast at rows of seated mice, clattering and chattering away on a rattle of typewriters.

"...it's no longer our library. It's now our #Libertine!"

#vss365
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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 2d
relic of old dreams daytime moon

#haiku #monoku
#haikufeels
#OneLineOctober
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lessEthereal @lessethereal.bsky.social · 3d
#inktober2025day7 #inktober

today a vispo
line drawing of a flowering weed including the roots. a poem included: home includes the roots I’ve pulled
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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 2d
all day long indoors
autumn in its vast wildness
aching my shoulders
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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 2d
a living tangle
do you understand yourself
better than I, me?
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 2d
Are you enjoying #WorldOctopusDay?

#art
Drawing in white ink against a dark blue background of an octopus with unrealistically long arms all tangled up together.
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