John North
@johnnorthwrites.bsky.social
Tea and haiku...
Based in Cumbria. Bio & links at johnnorthwrites.blogspot.com
Based in Cumbria. Bio & links at johnnorthwrites.blogspot.com
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you delicate moon
slicing the cold into shreds
that bare-blade sickle
slicing the cold into shreds
that bare-blade sickle
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
you delicate moon
slicing the cold into shreds
that bare-blade sickle
slicing the cold into shreds
that bare-blade sickle
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The EU has published rules for the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies will all be monitored by every Member State. Target to reverse decline in Pollinators by 2030 and increase pops. A big step in conserving biodiversity environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...
Better monitoring to support restoration of EU pollinators
The Commission has adopted a new Pollinator Monitoring Scheme to help reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030.
environment.ec.europa.eu
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The EU has published rules for the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies will all be monitored by every Member State. Target to reverse decline in Pollinators by 2030 and increase pops. A big step in conserving biodiversity environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My wife and I are re-establishing a fondly remembered herb garden at our home in Cumbria. These old buildings - traditional long narrow cottage and barn - have been here several centuries, but our connection to the place goes back to Rachel's grandparents who founded The Herb Farm in the late 1940s.
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My wife and I are re-establishing a fondly remembered herb garden at our home in Cumbria. These old buildings - traditional long narrow cottage and barn - have been here several centuries, but our connection to the place goes back to Rachel's grandparents who founded The Herb Farm in the late 1940s.
up in the hills
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
up in the hills
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
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Winter arrived today
like an absence
noticed only in the deep quiet
between blackbird song
and the empty chair
at the table,
fields of unfathomed frost
separating us -
until the first tears
of meltwater
return the kiss of sunlight
and pass into memory.
#micropoetry #winter #poem
like an absence
noticed only in the deep quiet
between blackbird song
and the empty chair
at the table,
fields of unfathomed frost
separating us -
until the first tears
of meltwater
return the kiss of sunlight
and pass into memory.
#micropoetry #winter #poem
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Winter arrived today
like an absence
noticed only in the deep quiet
between blackbird song
and the empty chair
at the table,
fields of unfathomed frost
separating us -
until the first tears
of meltwater
return the kiss of sunlight
and pass into memory.
#micropoetry #winter #poem
like an absence
noticed only in the deep quiet
between blackbird song
and the empty chair
at the table,
fields of unfathomed frost
separating us -
until the first tears
of meltwater
return the kiss of sunlight
and pass into memory.
#micropoetry #winter #poem
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The rummage continues. Found two more of my poems in a December 2013 copy of Kaffeeklatsch, which the excellent Joey Connolly (now Director of @faberbooks.bsky.social Academy) launched while we were at University of @manchester.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The rummage continues. Found two more of my poems in a December 2013 copy of Kaffeeklatsch, which the excellent Joey Connolly (now Director of @faberbooks.bsky.social Academy) launched while we were at University of @manchester.ac.uk
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Completely forgot I wrote this poem about Gore Point on The Wash in Norfolk. Found it in @poetrybusiness.bsky.social 's The North No. 53 Autumn 2014.
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Completely forgot I wrote this poem about Gore Point on The Wash in Norfolk. Found it in @poetrybusiness.bsky.social 's The North No. 53 Autumn 2014.
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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His earthy hands, loam
from the allotment. Produce
never held for long.
Always given as gifts, seeds
of dreams grown into harvest.
#micropoetry #tanka
from the allotment. Produce
never held for long.
Always given as gifts, seeds
of dreams grown into harvest.
#micropoetry #tanka
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
His earthy hands, loam
from the allotment. Produce
never held for long.
Always given as gifts, seeds
of dreams grown into harvest.
#micropoetry #tanka
from the allotment. Produce
never held for long.
Always given as gifts, seeds
of dreams grown into harvest.
#micropoetry #tanka
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Old life lets go,
& in doing so
feeds new life —
may what is breaking in me now
nourish
the me I am becoming
in all this
rain.
#mushroom #shroomscrolling #autumn #lettinggo #poem #poetry
& in doing so
feeds new life —
may what is breaking in me now
nourish
the me I am becoming
in all this
rain.
#mushroom #shroomscrolling #autumn #lettinggo #poem #poetry
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Old life lets go,
& in doing so
feeds new life —
may what is breaking in me now
nourish
the me I am becoming
in all this
rain.
#mushroom #shroomscrolling #autumn #lettinggo #poem #poetry
& in doing so
feeds new life —
may what is breaking in me now
nourish
the me I am becoming
in all this
rain.
#mushroom #shroomscrolling #autumn #lettinggo #poem #poetry
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a revelation in St Mary’s Church, Whitby
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
a revelation in St Mary’s Church, Whitby
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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halfway to Kyoto
in the middle of the sky
clouds of snow
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
in the middle of the sky
clouds of snow
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
halfway to Kyoto
in the middle of the sky
clouds of snow
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
in the middle of the sky
clouds of snow
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
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November 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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wasting toward winter
my hands fat with gold
my hands fat with gold
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
wasting toward winter
my hands fat with gold
my hands fat with gold
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November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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the headlights’ cool gaze
simplifies these thorn hedges
flat as a stage set
simplifies these thorn hedges
flat as a stage set
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
the headlights’ cool gaze
simplifies these thorn hedges
flat as a stage set
simplifies these thorn hedges
flat as a stage set
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November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I must not have looked up all morning
until surprised by a passing car.
Snow covered its bonnet and roof.
He must have driven in from the hills.
I see them now white and bare and bold
and beautiful as if rising from a dream,
and the fells beyond rising into the sky.
I lift up my eyes to the hills.
until surprised by a passing car.
Snow covered its bonnet and roof.
He must have driven in from the hills.
I see them now white and bare and bold
and beautiful as if rising from a dream,
and the fells beyond rising into the sky.
I lift up my eyes to the hills.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I must not have looked up all morning
until surprised by a passing car.
Snow covered its bonnet and roof.
He must have driven in from the hills.
I see them now white and bare and bold
and beautiful as if rising from a dream,
and the fells beyond rising into the sky.
I lift up my eyes to the hills.
until surprised by a passing car.
Snow covered its bonnet and roof.
He must have driven in from the hills.
I see them now white and bare and bold
and beautiful as if rising from a dream,
and the fells beyond rising into the sky.
I lift up my eyes to the hills.
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM