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#haikuchallenge

Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 10/8-10/10 2025

10/08-Balance
10/09-Ballad
10/10-Bagpipe

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#haikuchallenge
bleuowl.bsky.social
Welcome to all the BlueSky community.
Any variant of a given word is fine.
As always the words are only suggestions and optional at your own discretion. Be encouraged to express yourself freely and write your own haiku, senryu,tanka or short poem-
Whatever inspires you“In-Joy”~
bleuowl.bsky.social
#haikuchallenge

Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 10/8-10/10 2025

10/08-Balance
10/09-Ballad
10/10-Bagpipe

Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.

#haikuchallenge
bleuowl.bsky.social
My pleasure 🙂
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margaretleeauthor.bsky.social
Excited for the publication of my first full-length work crafting poetry inspired by Sappho. Pre-order available now: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/sapp...
bleuowl.bsky.social
Thank you for following and supporting me.
I appreciate you.
Sapphic Sisters are welcome, surely.
bleuowl.bsky.social
Thank you so much.
I appreciate you, and I enjoyed your poem very much.
I wanted you to know that …
“I see you” and care what you have to say.~

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owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
Inspired by @bleuowl.bsky.social
a #senryu for
#haikuchallenge #aesthetics
also for #poemsabout #mannequin

soulless prosthetics
of pre-approved aesthetics
trapped in plastic mire

#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry
bleuowl.bsky.social
Minds Eye :

Soulless posed statues ,
Being trapped within … themselves-
Fashioned #Mannequins ~

Adorned adoration … for-
The only thing they look at~

#tanka #senryu #poetry
#haikuchallenge #poets @bleuowl.bsky.social
owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
For #PoemsAbout #Mannequin
a little rushed up piece… but didn’t want to skip another week.
For hosts @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Looking forward to reading all the fabulous pieces.
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry
bleuowl.bsky.social
Just a thought … 💭

Timing meets Opportunity-

Together.~ 😎

Go 🐻

Photo: calcrew.com
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“ Land of the free, … Home of the brave.”~
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
bleuowl.bsky.social
Minds Eye :

Soulless posed statues ,
Being trapped within … themselves-
Fashioned #Mannequins ~

Adorned adoration … for-
The only thing they look at~

#tanka #senryu #poetry
#haikuchallenge #poets @bleuowl.bsky.social
owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
For #PoemsAbout #Mannequin
a little rushed up piece… but didn’t want to skip another week.
For hosts @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Looking forward to reading all the fabulous pieces.
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry
Mannequins That Wear Menace
- C. Oulens

Mannequins of designer dreams
High on pedestals
Rightly placed
so they can look down upon
from their vantage point 
my wayward flab

I’m not bothered I don’t mind
I don’t stare back at them
They may have a right to frown
(though they’d rather die than do that
for fear of fine lines and crow feet)
They seem harmless anyway

They’ve worked hard for
that chiselled shape
I on the contrary have not
earned their wardrobes
neither through god’s flawed design
nor through my own efforts

And believe it or not
though I may not 
openly (shh) admit (after all, 
who says they love sour grapes!)
I’d happily accept a designer bod
if it was sent to me gift-wrapped

But I’m wary of those 
other types—those beheaded 
mannequins walking in 
silicon heads—dubiously thin 
Transplants 
on toughened lards

swaggering on the weight of 
factory-churned or limited edition 
designer dreams—smirking with 
sly menace at my artisan 
spindle hums or at unravelling 
of my wayward spins 

That’s when I wonder if
I should don a Snow White-
in-Black cape and crack 
some minor magique mirrors 
tuning up some elfin cackles
pinched (shh again) from friends
bleuowl.bsky.social
Aww Tre’…🙂‍↕️🙂‍↔️

🙏💙🪶☺️🫠🫠
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Relax

Zoetic dawn
Fog of a thousand breaths
Unwinds daybreak

#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax
#EastCoastKin
#haikuchallenge #Zoetic

#haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Forest #Wolftwin #Fall #Landscape
This is a landscape nature photo I took this morning of fog coming up over the forest. As the sun rose, rays of light and layers of mist curled through the cedar, pine, and poplar. In the distance, five crows scattered from left to right, just over the hazy mountains.
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It’s lovely.
And unique.
bleuowl.bsky.social
… which is interesting … 😇💭
Considering it as a name for an Agnostic-

Micha : Israeli origins, …
(some Russian as well)
female/short for Michaela
(meaning "who is like God?")

What a beautiful name for one to have.~
I have always liked it. 😌
bleuowl.bsky.social
Thank you so much for your kindness and support. I appreciate you.~
🙂‍↕️🙂‍↔️🙏✌️🫶🏻🤌🪶
bleuowl.bsky.social
Of course, but it is not a club. Anyone may participate. It’s just a prompt for practice in writing haiku, senryu, tanka or micro poetry of your own choosing. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to contribute and create freely.~

🙏💙🦉🪶✍️
bleuowl.bsky.social
Fall Semester : 🍂

Autumn’s aesthetic,
Anecdotal syllabus-
In ample detail ~

#senryu #haiku #nature #poetry
#haikuchallenge #poet @bleuowl.bsky.social
Anecdote* Aesthetic* Ample*

Photo : @alumni.cornell.edu