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John(jd)🇹🇻 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
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Re-tired and ready for the roads ahead. Poetry; Music; Art; Reading. Whatever brings me peace. I was born in a land, but my home was half a world away.
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Happy to learn that my work was selected for the 17th Annual Signature Watermedia Exhibition of the Fallbrook Art Center. Thanks so much to the jury of selection
Sketching in Rome.
Watercolor on Saunders. 30x22 inches @bsky.art #art #bsky.art
February 15, 2026 at 11:17 PM
black hole orbit ___ light
no escape velocity
command horizon

#ScifaikuSaturday [command]
February 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM
snow owl flight into
winter blizzard whiteout
to carry the wind

#haikufeels [carry]
prompt word incoming!
today's #haikufeels #prompt is

carry
February 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
mountain wind blowing
deserted streets ___ foothill town
sadness chill despair

Tumbler Ridge on my mind . . .

#dailyhaikuprompt [wind chill]
February 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Day 12

In 2011 Don McLean played at the Glastonbury Festival and two of the songs of his set still haunt me; "Vincent" and "Crying".

a tribute now for the suddeness of it all - Tunbler Ridge B.C.

youtu.be/4wrNFDxCRzU?...
don mclean - vincent
YouTube video by folkman 123
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
the suddenness of it all - Tumbler Ridge

victims family and friends
community and town
province and country grieve
and further still the world

the leeches of social media jump to conclusions
without knowing the educated facts of the event
all I can say to them is you are despicable human beings
February 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I am at a loss for words for the victims, families and community of Tumbler Ridge and for the country I am proud to call home. My condolences 😢
February 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
a finger's #touch
upon parched lips

a lingering such
with water drips

like morning dew
'pon dappled cheek

a breath catched anew
runs a single tear streak

#vss365 20260211
February 11, 2026 at 12:40 PM
this is truly magic 👏 👏 👏
Why bury hope beneath the sand
in Never Gonna Happen Land
A better bet I think would be
the #Port Of Possibility
Lesson Lane's a bitter pill
located next to Hindsight Hill
Wishing Way where dreamers stay
to dream & wish the days away
Apathy Alley & Dismal Drive
barely keeps ur hope alive
#vssmagic
February 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
tall and imposing
the needle tower reaches for the sky
it's purpose
to remember those who perished
on that fateful day
memories on water flow forever
into a future
to remind despots they will never
win . . .

#2WordPrompt [tall & purpose]
Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 11-FEB-26 is:

Tall & Purpose

#Prompt
February 11, 2026 at 12:23 PM
a morning haiku
#rapt in spiraling thermal
loose leaf paper flies

#haikuchallenge 20260211
#haikuchallenge

Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 2/11-2/13 2026

2/11-Rapt
2/12-Rebirth
2/13-Refrain

Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.

#haikuchallenge
February 11, 2026 at 12:15 PM
season of the grape
he found himself in cloud vine
empty wine bottle

#dailyhaikuprompt [cloud vine]
February 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
i arose from restaurant table
click of knee joints reverberated
the waitress slips a business card
into my hand "tai chi in the park"

eventually my walking stick became my bokken . . .
#vss365

I wish I could walk like I used to
But the #ache in my joints is too tough,
And I can't exercise
As the pundits advise
So I do what I can. Which ain't much!
February 10, 2026 at 2:22 PM
this is so Pink Floyd . . .
comfortably numb
the #ache has gone away
where most feel fire
i feel nothing again

but i am not broken

#vss365
#poetry
February 10, 2026 at 2:13 PM
i wonder if this is
what it is like to live with
dementia

my mother in her ending days
kept talking about the love of her life
our deceased father

as though clinging to
a lasting memory
The empty corridors of my mind—
—the ache of memories now forgotten.

#vss365
February 10, 2026 at 2:06 PM
if this picture paints
a thousand words ___ in trouble
haiku will not do
Just getting my brushes moving again, and experimenting with a new color. Still working small on Arches rough 7”x10” paper. Technically, it is mixed media today because of the use of white guache. 🙏🏻
#mixedmedia #watercolor
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
follow the thread 🧵
February 10, 2026 at 1:26 PM
garden dust devils
like an arid desert sand
first hosepipe ban

#haikufeels [ban]
the early bird gets the prompt word 🪱🐦‍⬛
today's #haikufeels #prompt is

ban
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
stomach ache
back ache
face ache
head ache
body ache
ear ache
such was the political theatre
emanating from the cabinet room
especially from the blonde
aha but which blonde

#vss365 [ache]
February 10, 2026 at 1:06 PM
ultra violet
kaleidoscope of purples
shadows of lamplight

#dailyhaikuprompt [violet lamplight]
February 10, 2026 at 12:53 PM
ten years ago i signed up to be a donor
the phone rang a two years ago today
asking if i was still willing
in hospital my aged blood was checked again
good news no issues found

#vss365 [bone]
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 PM
the yard deep in snowdrifts
for many years a winter break
but never again would florida's february
sands warm my retired winter bones
perhaps decades in the future
grandchildren would once again
vacation in their retirement years

#2WordPrompt [yard & vacation]
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 PM
spring song ___ shimmering
sound over still winter lake
reflects lantern moon

#dailyhaikuprompt [ spring lantern moon]
February 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Pistons drive motion
across a raging ocean
the swell unsettles
as stomachs reject dinner
The chief puffs on a clay pipe

#Tanka
February 5, 2026 at 2:14 PM