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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you very much!

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 7h

#DailyHaikuPrompt #monoku #senryu #MPPrompt

straw man I fear even the crows are laughing

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 10h

Shadows lengthen along
the colonel’s cracked porch boards—
fences bleed his fields.

#DailyHaikuPrompt (field) #Haiku #MicroPoetry

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Madeleine Begun Kane @madkane.bsky.social · 12h

A young gal who was showing some thigh
Caught the eye of a very cute guy.
But alas he lacked nerve;
Failed to speak up with #verve.
He could NOT even muster a "Hi."

#vss365 #Verve #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Poems #PoetryCommunity #Communication

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 14h

Where’s Bethlehem‘s star
up above our crummy shacks
—midnight moons won’t do.

**this is the haiku I put on a rant. I wrote about food banks. Come check it out. I hope you find it interesting.

#Haiku #WritingCommunity #Writing

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Christmas at the Food Bank: A Poverty Gospel

A raw, unvarnished Christmas testimony from the working poor—food bank lines as altar calls, three jobs that never covered rent, and turkeys handed out like communion. This poem speaks for every ho…

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 1d

Moon geese fly through
undiscovered doors and portals—
an omen, a curse.

#DailyHaikuPrompt (geese) #haiku #micropoetry

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 2d

this season
put a little bowl of milk outside
for stray cats and ghosts

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Madeleine Begun Kane @madkane.bsky.social · 2d

"My marital woes are immense,"
Said a gal to the lawyer, "and hence..."
He broke in with "Divorce
Is an option, course."
"That ship's sailed. I'm in jail. Need #defense!"

#Limerick #Limericks #Divorce #Law #Humor #Humour #Poetry #Lawyers #Crime #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Poems #PoetryCommunity

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. I love Southern Utah. Driving with my grandchildren and my son through the deserts is one of my favorite things to do. I like writing about what we say to each other and some of the things we see and experience.

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve started writing Christmas poetry. I think my December chapbook will be Christmas themed. Here’s an example of some of the stuff I’m working on.

#WritingCommunity #Writing #Christmas

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Something Bob Told Me: An I-75 Christmas

On a lonely Christmas Eve during the pandemic, a weary traveler stops at a Quality Inn off I-75 in Calhoun, Georgia. Between vending machine hums and Zoom-lit loneliness, a brief exchange with the …

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 2d

This weekend, I didn’t work on my chapbook at all. I drove around the deserts of Southern Utah with my grandchildren and eating at small local diners. We went to a small castle pioneers built to hide from desperados, too. I still wrote some poetry though. Living life. #WritingCommunity #Writing.

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 2d

Not a ghost, I say.
The locker room smells of socks—
she side-eyes askance.

#DailyHakuPrompt (ghost) #Haiku #MicroPoetry

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Jo Fox @joxfoxo.bsky.social · 2d

words from long ago
old and faded love letters
each, a paper ghost

#dailyhaikuprompt #ghost #love #haiku #poetry #words

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 3d

Headlights bloom cold eyes.
Death drives a black slabside, avoids
clawing branches.

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #MicroPoetry

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 3d

#DailyHaikuPrompt (avoid) #haiku

silent woods
beware wingless
bipeds

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 3d

Under the orange moon,
sibylline seekers whisper
over cracked relics.

#DailyHaikuPrompt (relic) #Haiku #MicroPoetry

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 3d

The bells rang crooked that Christmas in Arles with silver, sorrow, and madness. Vincent hung his tragic, tinsel dreams along cracked yellow walls. Somewhere, heaven laughed.

My new poem: “Vincent’s Bells Rang Crooked (1888)”
#SouthernGothic #Poetry #VanGogh
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Vincent’s Bells Rang Crooked (1888): A Christmas Poem

On a bleak Christmas in Arles, Vincent van Gogh’s tinsel dreams turned to madness. Between Gauguin’s cigarette smoke and the whisper of angels in turpentine, holiness and horror blurred. This South…

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 4d

The headless horseman
drives a Honda Odyssey
with rooks in his wake.

#DailyHaikuPrompt (crow) #Haiku #MicroPoetry

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 4d

“She Collects”

bangles
baubles and beads
cotton summer dresses
red sunsets and starry nights and
freckles

#Poetry #MicroPoetry

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 5d

That’s really cool. I’ve published a bunch of poetry traditionally but I’m having so much fun doing what I’m doing now that I’m not too worried about it.

Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 5d

Halloween baking—
pumpkin orange sugar cookies
with floured bottoms.

#DailyHaikuPrompts (flour) #Haiku #Poetry

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 6d

Yellowed then burnt leaves
haunt the sycamore forest—
red smolders the night.

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #MicroPoetry

Halloween poetry

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K. S. Shepherd @kshepherdwrites.bsky.social · 6d

shine
on a rainy day
yellow leaves

#dailyhaikuprompt yellow leaves

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 6d

I have
walked away from
minimalistic free
verse—the sea, the ocean is
calling.

#Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

*a cinquain

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 7d

Ethan Thompson on SubStack just asked, “Do you still write when nobody is engaging?” Me: yes. I wrote poetry when no one read my blog. I have poetry notebooks that will never be put online and I’m the only reader of that stuff. So yeah, I write no matter what. #WritingCommunity #Writing.

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