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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 15h

snail on the burdock
reaching out delicately
to taste the night air

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georgeszirtes.bsky.social @georgeszirtes.bsky.social · 1d

CELEBRATING LK

In this translation
you will look in vain for a
full-stop, Stops are there,

but hard to find. Keep
searching. Oh look, there is one!
He must have taken

breath. Time can stand still
for the blink of a whale's eye.
Then the whale goes down,

spouting as it dives.

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Barico @njbarico.bsky.social · 1d

#俳句 #haiku

after her tears
I hand her a cactus
beginning to bloom

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 8d

crescent moon
in the chestnut tree
my wife's birthday

--Tetsu Hayashi (1926-2008)

栗の樹に三日月妻の誕生日　林　徹

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

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Skrib @orrinonline.bsky.social · 9d

in a sea of blackness
sound of laughing bones—
my inner child
plays quietly

#tanka

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 5d

stood too long
just watching
mist on the hill

#haiku

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ⴽⴰⵔⵉⵎⴰ (Karima) @koelh.bsky.social · 20h

city life blurs,
we drift through traffic,
calling it
meaning..

#micropoem #poetry #photography

city street blurred by motion; headlights, traffic lights, and faint silhouettes dissolve into haze.

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 18h

autumn moon~
the forest and i
the same color

#haiku

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jerry simcock @jerrysimcock.bsky.social · 21h

WIP another phase. Please expand to view… #art #painting #artsky

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KZ @k-won.bsky.social · Sep 10

Taking to the grave
all of my silly secrets
unbelievable

#Dailyhaikuprompt (grave)

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Marilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social · 28d

#DailyHaikuPrompt #dew #pumpkin

morning dew
row upon row
the pumpkins shine

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Mary Beth D. @shewordcrafts.bsky.social · 26d

weightless
beneath a midnight sky
universe of stars

#SenryuSunday
#haiku
#poetry
#unniverse
#senryu

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 1d

jdubqca.com/2021/10/20/w...

WAITING ON AN OMEN

#poetry

waiting on an omen

someone tried telling me there are no good or bad omens that there are only omens in retrospect people are inclined to say they should have seen it coming as if they’re a modern day prophet or simp…

jdubqca.com

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Traveling The Road Images (E.C.Teodoro Photography) @travelingtheroad.bsky.social · 17h

Presidio de San Diego
( The Historic Presidio of San Diego)

The way forward is not hurried. Each step remembers the one before.
Stone holds the hush of passage. Light moves through, reminding us that presence is its own arrival.

#photography #sandiego #California