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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 9d

post breakup —
i switch back
to soft boiled

#PJJournal
#WritingCommunity
#Prompt03

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 16d

robinsong all day the unmade bed

#haiku #towpathanthology

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 17d

@rattlepoetry.bsky.social
🙏 editor @timothygreen.bsky.social
for featuring
*CRAZY BITCHES* my #haibun collection

Please have a listen and give us a ❤️ like

www.youtube.com/live/nrvaU9A...

Roberta Beary | Rattlecast 310

YouTube video by Rattle Poetry

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 21d

I have read ‘Reentry’ many times, it is an amazing piece of writing 👏👏👏 that last line brought me back to what I was doing when I got the news. So well done. Kudos!

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 23d

mother gone
moonlight
shimmers
the last
white
rose

in memory Marie Beary

#haiku #deathpoem

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Sep 11

9.11
my brother
pauses
to breathe

Thinking of my brave brother today, September 11th.
#worldtradecentermemorial #nypdfinest

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Sep 6

🙏 tsuridōrō editor/founder Tony Pupello issue 29 Sept Oct 2025
#haiku #micropoetry

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Aug 6

new #haibun! inspired by @rhapsodyinblu.bsky.social
🙏 editors 💜contemporary haibun online issue 21.2 August 2025

contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jul 18

CRAZY BITCHES #haibun review excerpt…
Read in full Summer 2025 issue 39 FemkuMag I am deeply 🙏 for this close read with insightful commentary by founding editor Rowan Beckett Minor

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jul 7

excellent writing🎖️

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jul 7

🙏 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award judges! Thrilled to see another award for my #haiku collection, Carousel🎠 (Snapshot Press,2024)

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · Jul 4

Congratulations, @shortpoemz.bsky.social Incredible work as always! 💙

RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jul 3

Grateful to @‪brilliantflash.bsky.social
and its editor Dawn Lowe and @kathyfish.bsky.social
for her memoir immersion workshop. ‘10 Days After Grandma‘s Funeral’ - please have a read! brilliantflashfiction.com/2025/06/30/j...

JUNE 2025

Ten Days After Grandma’s FuneralBy Roberta Beary Mom tells me to go to the A&P for filet of flounder. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is about to start. She can hear the theme music. And she know…

brilliantflashfiction.com

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jul 3

Grateful to @‪brilliantflash.bsky.social
and its editor Dawn Lowe and @kathyfish.bsky.social
for her memoir immersion workshop. ‘10 Days After Grandma‘s Funeral’ - please have a read! brilliantflashfiction.com/2025/06/30/j...

JUNE 2025

Ten Days After Grandma’s FuneralBy Roberta Beary Mom tells me to go to the A&P for filet of flounder. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is about to start. She can hear the theme music. And she know…

brilliantflashfiction.com

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jul 1

stormy weather
blood on the thorns
of the apology

🙏 Tony Pupello editor tsuridoro #haiku, issue 28, July/August 2025.

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jul 1

a million thanks, James 💕

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Jun 29

Couldn't be more pleased that I Still Dream of You, Ben by Roberta Beary @shortpoemz.bsky.social has been selected for Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist 2025. Thank you to @wigleaf.bsky.social @samanito.bsky.social @laughingyeti.bsky.social. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2024/02/09/i...

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jun 29

Sending a big thank you, Laura. Wigleaf LL - a ripple effect from from your steadfast faith in ‘I Still Dream of You, Ben’.💕

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jun 9

Every transatlantic flight: The Wizard of Oz and Casablanca

RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jun 9

empty wind she says she’ll stop tomorrow

#haiku #addiction #monoku

🙏 editors @whiptailjournal.bsky.social
@komadorihaiku.bsky.social
@katlehmann.bsky.social

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Jun 7

new #haibun
Riding the Roller-Coaster
🙏 editors haikuKATHA journal

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · May 21

congratulations 🥳 James!

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · May 5

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

- Emily Dickinson
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · May 11

Thrilled to be a 2025 Moving Words Competition Winner

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · May 4

<>
a robin centers
the sunset

tsuridoro issue 27 may 2025
#haiku #micropoetry
🙏editor Tony Pupello

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Apr 26

thanks, Kris! I appreciate your guidance here!!

Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · Apr 26

Click on the link, then page up to read a description and sample #haiku from the collection, including the one that gave its title

almost summer
the smell of wet paint
on the carousel

~ R. Beary

RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thanks Touchstone peeps! Thrilled to see ‘CAROUSEL’ taking a bow!

thehaikufoundation.org/roberta-bear...

@robinannasmith.bsky.social
#BruceFeingold
@haikufound.bsky.social
@susanantolin.bsky.social
@thepeternewton.bsky.social
#JoyceClement
#EdwardCodyHutchinson
#ChristopherPatchel

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