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Magedah Shabo

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short-form poetry | original photos | nonfiction editor & author IG: shabo.haiku

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 7d

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

— Howard Zinn

#FlowersOnFriday
#FlowerReport
#BloomScrolling

Close-up of New England asters with bright yellow centers and white petals, some in bloom and some still in bud, set against a softly blurred brown and green background

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you! 🙏

Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 3h

Wow! I’ve never seen a web quite like this 💿🕸️🤍

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 3h

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu

little brown thrasher
screams from the mulberry tree
I pretend to flinch

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you, Mark! 🙏

Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 4h

#HaikuFeels #OneLineOctober #monoku #haiku

silver and skeletal the moonlit birch in winter

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 4h

#DailyHaikuPrompt #monoku #senryu #MPPrompt

straw man I fear even the crows are laughing

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 5h

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 9h

So good!

Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! 💕

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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d

Asleep in a boat
I lie side by side with it ...
River of Heaven

Masaoka Shiki

close up from Tang Yin's painted scroll -- A Drunken Fisherman

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 1d

It’s now official and we are all actually jealous!

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 1d

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

wild geese aiming
their dark arrow
at the world’s edge

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 1d

😄🤍

Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing 🤍

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely! 🤍

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 2d

all my ghosts are near
bakhoor resin smoke and ash
welcome to the night

#MPPrompt @malformed-poetry.bsky.social #vss365 #ash #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #RoseWednesday #EastCoastKin #photography #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport

A pink rose in soft, low lighting against a background of shadowed foliage

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 2d

burning bush (Euonymus alatus) seed capsules for #RedWed #EastCoastKin

Bright orange-red fruit of a burning bush (Euonymus alatus) on a leafy green branch, with a blurred background

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 3d

#DailyHaikuPrompt (avoid) #haiku

silent woods
beware wingless
bipeds

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Loretta Robinson @lorettarobinson.bsky.social · 3d

I chased the setting of the harvest super moon this morning in my neighborhood. The sun was rising behind me causing my long shadow in the field.

#SensoryArt #shadow #31DaysOfHalloween #EastCoastKin #Photography

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Common grackle presents a gorgeous profile
#birds 🌿

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 4d

She brings me to tears. So proud of her! 🤍

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Daryk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @fishdong.bsky.social · 6d

Abstract Landscape #7
8" x 8"
Acrylic on paper
September 2025

#art #painting #acrylic #acrylicpainting #abstract #abstractart #series #acryliconpaper #expressiveart #modernpainting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryartist #traditionalmediums #artshare #paintingoftheday
@bsky.art

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 4d

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 5d

The land of the brave

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 4d

#DailyHaikuPrompt #HaikuFeels #haiku

night chill falls
on the garden—
crow’s hidden colors