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Catherine Baker
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Writer and editor in educational publishing.
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& from higher up, glens & waterways filling with mist that will rise & falter. the air is full of small whirring birds, graphite in gloom (you hear coal tit, great tit, chaffinch, robin scribbling territory, blackbirds dinking & rummaging). a quadbike bubbles towards you & its rider stops to chat.
January 19, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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everettpoetry.bsky.social
blue shadows shatter
across an expanse whiteness
imperfection of snow

#dailyhaikuprompt snow
January 19, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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pleides.bsky.social
fresh snow cuddles cars
tops bins, mailboxes, bends branches
likes to be in touch

#DailyHaikuPrompt (snow)
#Haiku #poem
January 19, 2026 at 9:00 PM
catbake.bsky.social
just for a moment
starlings land in the ash tree
the brown keys tremble
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
squirrel asking
why dig for new answers
where the old answers were

#DailyHaikuPrompt (chestnut)
January 18, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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alanmckeanpoet.bsky.social
Blackpool, Lancashire

Illuminating
Brash and honest Golden Mile
Lake District looks on

The sand and the sea
Quickstepping in the ballroom
Warm beers on The Prom

Hot penny arcades
Warm fading celebrities
Gather on the pier

Honest holiday
Will empty your wallet but
Give back memories

#poetry
January 18, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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evecastle.bsky.social
This cold winter night,
that old wooden-head buddha
would make a nice fire

#haiku by Buson
from: The Little Book of Haiku
translated by Sam Hamill
#micropoetry
January 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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leighgoodwin.bsky.social
dark-leaved the lotus
white blossom rising, as hope
must arise from this grief

🪷

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#art Bahman Farzad

#resist
the haiku herewith followed is a gift of the lotus-image— simply a true report photograph of a white lotus
January 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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janephuong.bsky.social
"No mud, no lotus"
- Thầy Thích Nhất Hạnh
leighgoodwin.bsky.social Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 3d
dark-leaved the lotus
white blossom rising, as hope
must arise from this grief

🪷

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#art Bahman Farzad

#resist
the haiku herewith followed is a gift of the lotus-image— simply a true report photograph of a white lotus
January 17, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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jdubqca.bsky.social
stream of consciousness
travels in & out of dreams
counting syllables
January 17, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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pleides.bsky.social
fresh tracks reveal
fleet-footed gaits of foxes
before snow falls again

#haiku #poem #winter ❄️🐾
January 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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winter rain
icing on everything
I paint my nails white

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku
January 18, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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krislindbeck.bsky.social
dark of the moon
my writing mind grasps
at unknown words

#senryu
January 18, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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antfive.bsky.social
#haiku
the drawer
you never open
flashlights and seeds
January 18, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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krislindbeck.bsky.social
Certain as the tide
our old age and death
but today
I'll go walk on the beach
wet my feet, pick up clams

#sensewrds 171 Shell, Embracing, Inevitable
#tanka
January 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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orrinonline.bsky.social
sweep of headlights returning to the whiteness of grief #senryu
January 17, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
Mum, you gave me butterflies 🦋

#haiku #haikusaturday #micropoetry #vss356 #butterflies #ForgetMeNots #Mom #mother #mum

those forget-me-nots
we planted before you died
gives me butterflies
January 16, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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moschoenfeld.bsky.social
a quick look
snowdrops arriving
much too soon

#HaikuFeels #HaikuSaturday #haiku #haiga #poetry #Bloomscrolling
A view from the ground, tilted down right, of a large clump of white snowdrops, fresh and drooping over as they do. The bottom of the trunk of a Bramley apple tree appears behind them, conifgers, blue sky, and large white cloud in the background.
January 17, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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mild midwinter
a river glides by my feet
past the empty bus stop

#HaikuSaturday #Haiku

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Empty Bus Stop
mild midwinter  a river glides by my feet past the empty bus stop (C) Steven Stokes
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January 17, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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joypops.bsky.social
clouds above
the snowy mountains
lamps stay lit

#haiku
January 18, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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time machine
cup of chestnuts
on a clear winter’s day

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (chestnuts)
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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the darkness and the light
bright patches found on a dark stone wall - from a little distance it appreas like a landscape
January 17, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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krislindbeck.bsky.social
at dusk
the all-day gray
grows golden

#haiku #haiga #shahai
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the darkness and the light
bright patches found on a dark stone wall - from a little distance it appreas like a landscape
January 18, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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still in awe
pebbles on the shore
child, sage, blessed fool

#imageandverse #haiku #nature
#LakeMichigan #stunday #poetry
#scape #landscape #PureMichigan
Photo taken at the top of Sleeping Bear Dunes, Empire, MI. Standing on a vast sand dune looking out at deep blue Lake Michigan, with the water more turquoise in color at the shoreline, where sun has peeked through the heavy cloud cover. In the foreground tiny pebbles in the sand dune are visible. Photo taken in November.
January 18, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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breeze420.bsky.social
“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
― Haruki Murakam
a large gray clouds with blue and yellowish sky.
August 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM