Tracy Marks
tracymar.bsky.social
Tracy Marks
@tracymar.bsky.social
Online instructor in continuing education (creative writing, literature, personal development). Poet. Author of 4 books. Counselor/consultant. Read classics, international, quality sci fi/fantasy, interfaith books. Love nature photography, music.
TANKA
After the strip tease
of autumn, trees bare, exposed
to cold, snow, ice, sleet,
sink deep into roots, renew
themselves, readying for spring.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#inkmine #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #nature
#trees #winter #spring
February 3, 2026 at 8:13 AM
FEBRUARY: A HAIKU POEM
A little lighter
each day, a little later,
sunset, a little

earlier, sunrise.
Slowly, anticipation
will awaken. Spring.

#haiku #haikupoem #micropoetry #blueskypoets #skypoets
#poetrycommunity #3lines #inkmine #winter #nature #inspiration #spring
February 1, 2026 at 4:51 AM
HAIKU
Waxed amaryllis -
No need to have a green thumb.
Winter flowers bloom.

#haiku #haikupoem #micropoetry #poetry #poem #inkmine #3lines #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetrycommunity #flowers #winter #nature
February 1, 2026 at 4:02 AM
SNOW DRIFTS HAIKU
These snowflakes afloat ---
flung through air by sudden squall,
downward fall. Snowdrifts.

#haiku #haikupoem #haikusaturday #micropoetry
#blueskypoets #skypoets #inkmine #poetrycommunity #winter #snow #nature
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
TO READERS OF MY POETRY:
I post my political poems (mostly tankas, though not often) in my other BlueSky account -- You can follow me there too! bsky.app/profile/trac...

#poetry #poetrycommunity #tanka #writing #blueskypoets #nokings #wethepeople #indivisible #saveourdemocracy #democracy #moveon
January 29, 2026 at 3:00 AM
BILLY COLLINS POETRY
Experience & discuss 15-20 humorous, quirky, perceptive and delightful and ingenious poems by Collins. 2-session online community ed course, February 10 & 24 EST
tinyurl.com/34hxubkv
#poetry #poetrycommunity #billycollins #blueskypoets
#literature #humor #litthings #author
Online Registration
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January 28, 2026 at 5:31 AM
HAIKU
twenty one inches
the calm after a snowstorm
silent wonderland

#haiku #haikupoem #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine
#poetrycommunity #skypoets #blueskypoets
#winter #nature #snow
January 28, 2026 at 5:21 AM
TANKA
Again, ordering
too many library books,
more than I can read —
this tempting literary
buffet of delicacies!

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#poetry #library #books #reading #literary #litthings
January 21, 2026 at 10:41 PM
TANKA
We must be careful –
building card castles in life
is risky. Lacking
firm foundations or solid
networks of support, we fall.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #poetry
#poetrycommunity #skypoets #blueskypoets #micropoetry
January 21, 2026 at 8:59 AM
TANKA
January light
a month past solstice, the sun
softly glimmering
golden through the crisp, cold air
sparkles upon fresh snow. Hope.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikupoem #micropoetry
#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #inkmine #nature #winter #inspiration
January 21, 2026 at 6:22 AM
PLENITUDE, a sijo
Though you think you’re not enough
you struggle because you’re too much.
A vast country of talents
is awakening inside you.
Not many people get to be
king of such immensity.

#sijo #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #inkmine
#poem #blueskypoets #skypoets
guide to sijo | sejong writing competition
www.sejongculturalsociety.org
January 19, 2026 at 10:36 PM
DIRECTIONS, a tanka
You can find my house
at the junction of hopeless
and hope, ten yards past
the grey fence of fear, across
from where the faith flowers bloom.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#poem #skypoets #poetrycommunity #inkmine
January 19, 2026 at 7:56 PM
HAIKU
A snowy owl
spreads its wings, glides through the air.
A silent angel.

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#haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #3lines #inkmine #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #nature #birds #owl #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #angels
January 19, 2026 at 7:53 PM
CINQUAIN
Wanting
to be the ham
and cheese in your croissant,
warm and melting in the bread of
your arms

#micropoetry #poetry #cinquain #inkmine #skypoets
#blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #poem #love
(Cinquains are five lines of 2-4-6-8-2 syllables)
January 19, 2026 at 6:52 PM
January 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM
TANKA
inside my eyelids
my imagination paints
images of fear
fantasies of desire
adrift from reality

#tanka #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine
#poetrycommunity #skypoets #blueskypoets #imagination
January 17, 2026 at 5:24 AM
These cold days, cold nights –
this political climate –
sleet falls, frozen tears.

#haiku #micropoetry #3lines #poetry #poem #skypoets
#blueskypoets #inkmine #poetrycommunity #winter
January 16, 2026 at 11:37 PM
The clouds dispersing,
turbulent thoughts dissolving.
Your gift: a clear day.

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry #3lines #inkmine #poetrycommunity #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetry
January 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM
ABSENCE OF GREEN HAIKUS
Not the cold or ice
or snow, but barren branches.
Maple, oak and elm,

bereft of color,
winterize my soul. I mourn
the absence of green.

Then ahead I find
off some road, a winter grove
of spruce, fir and pine.

#haiku #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #3lines #inkmine
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
FANCIFUL TANKA
Where does the moon go
on dark nights, far above earth,
two weeks from fullness?
Maybe someone somewhere basks
In its illumination.
#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#poetrycommunity #inkmine #skypoets #nature
January 13, 2026 at 1:35 AM
ROBERT FROST community ed poetry class - zoom
Wed Jan 14 & 21, 6:45pm EST
Explore Frost's life and many of his poems including his misunderstood “The Road Not Taken" & Stopping by Woods.” tinyurl.com/r8m32yvu
#robertfrost #poetry #poetrycommunity #edusky #skypoets #poem #literature #authors #listsky
January 11, 2026 at 11:07 AM
HAIKU
petals of blood red
an explosion of color
amaryllis blooms

#haiku #haikupoem #senryu #3lines #poetry #inkmine
#micropoetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #winter #flowers #nature
January 6, 2026 at 11:14 PM
TANKA
You can’t change the ground
on which you’re standing. You must
stand on higher ground,
Let elevated feelings
- faith, peace, joy, love - transform you.

#tanka #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #poem
#poetrycommunity #spirituality #transformation
January 6, 2026 at 11:10 PM
True religion quote below by Cory Booker, who knows what the essence of religion and spirituality is - and you don't have to believe in any particular faith....
#spiritual #spirituality #religion #contemplation #compassion #kindness #God #faith #CoryBooker
#wethepeople #saveourdemocracy
January 6, 2026 at 11:06 PM
WINTER HAIKU
A bare tree, split trunk,
head buried beneath the soil
performs a handstand.

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #skypoets
#blueskypoets #inkmine #winter #nature #trees
January 6, 2026 at 3:16 AM