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Cemetery studies, Cemetery Friends
In the distant past, an archaeologist
Haikuist and storyteller
Three score years and ten
In the distant past, an archaeologist
Haikuist and storyteller
Three score years and ten
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
the cellar's empty
not a single idea
for a tanka
the floorboards above creak
under the weight of a stranger
#TankaThursday (cellar)
#tanka
#micropoetry
not a single idea
for a tanka
the floorboards above creak
under the weight of a stranger
#TankaThursday (cellar)
#tanka
#micropoetry
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
the cellar's empty
not a single idea
for a tanka
the floorboards above creak
under the weight of a stranger
#TankaThursday (cellar)
#tanka
#micropoetry
not a single idea
for a tanka
the floorboards above creak
under the weight of a stranger
#TankaThursday (cellar)
#tanka
#micropoetry
Reposted by winterroom
For not so small 🤩
#SmallPoemSunday
W. S. Merwin - an excerpt from the poem Berryman
<…>
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write.
Alt includes longer excerpt & commentary. I’ll link the full poem shortly.
#SmallPoemSunday
W. S. Merwin - an excerpt from the poem Berryman
<…>
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write.
Alt includes longer excerpt & commentary. I’ll link the full poem shortly.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
For not so small 🤩
#SmallPoemSunday
W. S. Merwin - an excerpt from the poem Berryman
<…>
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write.
Alt includes longer excerpt & commentary. I’ll link the full poem shortly.
#SmallPoemSunday
W. S. Merwin - an excerpt from the poem Berryman
<…>
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write.
Alt includes longer excerpt & commentary. I’ll link the full poem shortly.
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
in an old album
a crystal clear photograph
of smog
#DailyHaikuPrompt #foggy
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry
a crystal clear photograph
of smog
#DailyHaikuPrompt #foggy
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry
November 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
in an old album
a crystal clear photograph
of smog
#DailyHaikuPrompt #foggy
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry
a crystal clear photograph
of smog
#DailyHaikuPrompt #foggy
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry
November 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
green and purple
my mother's
schooldays
#PJJournal
#prompt 6 (suffrage)
#senryu
My mother was born after the era of the suffragettes but she always remembered a teacher who came to school every day (in the 1940s) in suffragette colours
my mother's
schooldays
#PJJournal
#prompt 6 (suffrage)
#senryu
My mother was born after the era of the suffragettes but she always remembered a teacher who came to school every day (in the 1940s) in suffragette colours
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
green and purple
my mother's
schooldays
#PJJournal
#prompt 6 (suffrage)
#senryu
My mother was born after the era of the suffragettes but she always remembered a teacher who came to school every day (in the 1940s) in suffragette colours
my mother's
schooldays
#PJJournal
#prompt 6 (suffrage)
#senryu
My mother was born after the era of the suffragettes but she always remembered a teacher who came to school every day (in the 1940s) in suffragette colours
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
(sequence)
at the bottom
of the pile a book
of my chess genius
and sketches of you
before you moved
brushing fragments
of the eraser
off the page
along with
your face
you're still there
in the soft paper
intaglio
#TankaThursday (erase)
#tanka
at the bottom
of the pile a book
of my chess genius
and sketches of you
before you moved
brushing fragments
of the eraser
off the page
along with
your face
you're still there
in the soft paper
intaglio
#TankaThursday (erase)
#tanka
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
(sequence)
at the bottom
of the pile a book
of my chess genius
and sketches of you
before you moved
brushing fragments
of the eraser
off the page
along with
your face
you're still there
in the soft paper
intaglio
#TankaThursday (erase)
#tanka
at the bottom
of the pile a book
of my chess genius
and sketches of you
before you moved
brushing fragments
of the eraser
off the page
along with
your face
you're still there
in the soft paper
intaglio
#TankaThursday (erase)
#tanka
October 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
October 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
is that all? she says
in the half light
turning a pinecone
over and over
in her hand
#TankaThursday (pinecone)
#tanka
#poem
#micropoetry
in the half light
turning a pinecone
over and over
in her hand
#TankaThursday (pinecone)
#tanka
#poem
#micropoetry
October 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
is that all? she says
in the half light
turning a pinecone
over and over
in her hand
#TankaThursday (pinecone)
#tanka
#poem
#micropoetry
in the half light
turning a pinecone
over and over
in her hand
#TankaThursday (pinecone)
#tanka
#poem
#micropoetry
the ease with which the sun sets its climb on all fours til noon
#dailyhaikuprompt (ease)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
#dailyhaikuprompt (ease)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
October 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
the ease with which the sun sets its climb on all fours til noon
#dailyhaikuprompt (ease)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
#dailyhaikuprompt (ease)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
gazing astern tired eyes misread the prompt
#dailyhaikuprompt (stem)
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry
#OneLineOctober
#dailyhaikuprompt (stem)
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry
#OneLineOctober
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
gazing astern tired eyes misread the prompt
#dailyhaikuprompt (stem)
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry
#OneLineOctober
#dailyhaikuprompt (stem)
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry
#OneLineOctober
October 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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