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Mo Schoenfeld

@moschoenfeld.bsky.social

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Published poet, writer, parent, married, works part time in the humanitarian field. #haiku #poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity. Unless cited, writing, photos/videos are my ©, she/her, ally 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧡 #SupportTheNHS

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Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 2h

Forgive me tagging #haiku #poetry #PoetryCommunity & #WritingCommunity, but we need your help.

Earlier posts are disappearing, so I need to use hashtags for the people who know me. I'm asking for help for something that affects my family directly.

Please sign 🙏🙏

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Sign the Petition

Reverse International Baccalaureate Diploma Funding Cut

www.change.org

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

Then Toad fell asleep.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 3h

Frog and Toad went on a long walk.

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V.C. Myers @vcmyers.bsky.social · 26m

inside the corn maze at sunset last night

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Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 28m

#poetry

Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 48m

proof in the negative sticking to him
like any other stain are you who
you say you are

jason …

—Ingrid Jacobsen

Ice Dance by Ingrid Jacobsen - Rattle: Poetry

jason said it was all just light from windows just light that had fallen and had stained the ground ground […]

www.rattle.com

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Ms T 🐘💙🎵📚 @elephantlass.bsky.social · 35m

Coffee view

South Sands beach, Salcombe, Devon

The beach is deserted, the headland is across the water and the sky is white with clouds

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Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 46m

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zellieimani.bsky.social @zellieimani.bsky.social · 1h

No one chooses poverty. They just aren’t given enough ways out.

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Hege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 1h

after a phone call
chickadees by my window
smoothing things over

#SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1h

Resharing this one-line poem by Czesław Miłosz for #smallpoemsunday

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

Czesław Miłosz

On the need to draw boundaries
Wretched and dishonest was the sea.

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 6h

Read this whole thread.

Every word.

🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights are human rights, the government knows this and should start acting accordingly.

Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 8h

‘Doublethink*’ alive and well in the U.K. Government.

Given the U.K. Government’s statement to the United Nations on 10 October 2025:

www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Haiku Crush @haikucrush.bsky.social · 1h

Deadline to submit your haiku is tomorrow, Oct. 13th, at midnight. Please share or repost this reminder. Don't forget to enter at HaikuCrush.com!

#callforsubmissions #poetrycommunity #poetry #micropoetry #senryu #monoku #haikusunday #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #poets #writingcommunity #poetrybook

Haiku Crush – the annual search for the best haiku

— James Presley, Sedan, Kansas USA The Best Haiku 2021 Grand Prize Winner

haikucrush.com

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Michelle Cozens @measureofcalm.bsky.social · 6h

“So, if you are too
tired to speak,
sit next to me
because I,
too,
am fluent in
silence.”
- R. Arnold
#imageandverse #eastcoastkin #birds

Two great egrets stand in a salt marsh, facing right. In the foreground and along the left side of image are marsh grasses, which have turned a golden brown color.

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 2d

the rain
washing away the mud
on the steps
I delete your message
from my phone

#tanka #TankaThursday

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Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 2h

Source, and for more context: observer.co.uk/news/nationa... Thank you!

Labour cuts funding for state school IB diplomas

The sudden decision may mean the IB program is only available in private schools

observer.co.uk

Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 2h

Sign the Petition

Reverse International Baccalaureate Diploma Funding Cut

www.change.org

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 2h

false flag
diverting our attention
from the piranha
#vss365 #SenryuSunday #senryu

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 1d

Less than a month away!!!!

Listen to live Lit and raise funds for @translifeline.org.

Register now at:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Bearded Bards
Of BlueSky

Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline.

November 8, 2025
Featuring:
Todd Dillard
Brian Spears
Matthew E. Henry
James McConachie
David J. Bauman
Jonathan Everitt

https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

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Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 3h

Related article in the Observer, for more context: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Labour cuts funding for state school IB diplomas

The sudden decision may mean the IB program is only available in private schools

observer.co.uk

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 2d

#Poetry -- The preorder page for Becoming Altar has been expanded and updated to include more about me, and a swell poem. Check it out! And @unionherald.bsky.social many thanks for the blurb.
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...

Cover image of Becoming Alter, a blue field with yellow type. Also showing the spine of the book, with white type.

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 3h

The Peace of Wild Things
—Wendell Berry

#Poetry #SmallPoemSunday

May all find a moment of peace in nature today. At minimum go stand below a tree and look up toward the sky for a full minute. #Peace

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4h

Efteraar (Autumn), Jens Lund, 1909.

Figure from behind in long purple cloak and grey feathered hat stood behind a tree with autumn leaves falling, painting.

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ScribeMarjie ✍️🎨🐶🗽🇺🇦🇨🇦 @scribemarjie.bsky.social · 3h

Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, yesterday.

Mabry’s Mill on Blue Ridge Parkway. Had been in disrepair but before shutdown, NPS had made some improvements.

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 3h

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

~ Jane Hirshfield

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 16h

Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.

Charles Wright, from Sestets 🍂

Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else

Tenth month of the year.
Fallen leaves taste bitter. And grass.
Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.
Their bones crack in the west wind.
Where are the deeds we're taught to cling to?
How I regret having missed them,
and their mirrored pieces of heaven.
Like egrets, they rise in the clear sky,
their shadows like distance on the firred hills.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 3h

Worried about going to your GP? We’re running our free Seeking Support From Your GP Zoom workshops again. Come along to find out what you’re able to ask your GP for.
The next 2 hour workshop is on 27th October. Sign up at: form.typeform.com/to/n47vyAzR

#workshop #TransHealth #Transgender #Trans

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