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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · Nov 10

Nice! It takes a bit of practice but once you figure out the basics...

This is me ~1984. Still have the guitar!

#BlueSkyGuitars

The smiling author wearing a red T-shirt and sunglasses, playing a blue guitar on stage.

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

I'm diabetic...
not "one with diabetes"
don't touch my label

#haiku #SorryNotSorry #IDDM #T1D

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry wayne... you've set your course.

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 20h

as yet skeletal
attraction then affection
blossoms into love

#haiku #haikufeels #skeletal

a close up of a woman 's face with #thepursuitoflove written above her

Alt: a woman looks back over her shoulder at someone tasty

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Maximus Decimus Meridius @jblittlechild.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s Go Blue Jays!

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

I'm from the city!

Brussel sprouts come from the freezer!

🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

I thought these grew like mini-cabbages!

#BrusselSprouts

a colander full of brussel sprouts on a cutting board, next to a paring knife and a bare brussel sprout stalk

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

It had to be said!

🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

a haze of spices
simmering in the deep pan
brings curry to life

#haiku #haikufeels #haze

a frying pan filled with chicken curry with the hashtag chili pepper madness on the bottom

Alt: a spoon stirs a frying pan filled with yummy chicken curry

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Feline Fury 🔥 @felinefury.bsky.social · 2d

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 2d

Walk Judge. Just do it.

#BlueJays

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 2d

#sad

🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 2d

Curious... all I get is bearporn! I've been blocking accounts like wildfire.

a man wearing glasses and a hat is laughing with his tongue out

Alt: a nazi checks out the contents of the lost ark and as you might expect, his face melts.

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 2d

an old man with a beard says " these aren t the droids you 're looking for "

Alt: obi wan says these aren't the droids you're looking for

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 2d

spontaneous bleed
waiting impatiently for
my nose to curdle

#haiku #haikufeels #curdle

a close up of a dog with its tongue out

Alt: a smart doggo covers its nose to stop the bleeding

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

Bullpen...

#BlueJays

a brick with the number 3 on it sits on a table

Alt: a Blue Jays fan bangs his head against a brick

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

In Russia, bombs bomb YOU!

🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

#GymJordan

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

Armchair #BlueJays manager – I would have walked Judge.

🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

After having counted to 5, [THREE, SIR!] 3...

...and they, being naughty in his sight, shall snuff it.

two men reading a book with the words skip a bit brother

Alt: brother Maynard reads the instruction manual for the holy hand grenade of Antioch

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

first go:
this holy relic
was a femur yesterday
which was more useful

second go:
on the beachcombers
solitary curmudgeon
relic was the man

#haiku #haikufeels #relic

a man wearing a hat and a sweater is standing in front of a door .

Alt: relic from the beachcombers furrows his brow and moves in to investigate

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

#Nipper

🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 4d

Checks compost heap... not yet.

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 4d

I would like a crow
not as a pet because... crow!
just as a wild friend

#haiku #haikufeels #crow

a woman wearing a blue shirt and a black jacket is standing on a street

Alt: lucy lawless as alexa crowe in my life is murder

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🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎 @petergmitchell.bsky.social · 4d

Colville's Seven Crows
is based on a crow poem
that I've never heard

#haiku #haikufeels #crow #AlexColville #SevenCrows

Alex Colville's 1980 painting called Seven Crows, featuring 7 crows flying over a Nova Scotia riverbank

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