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🌲War trauma therapy in UA
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🌲currently writing "Love and Loss in Ukraine"
#emoetry

Let your hike
Up the hill
Be vigorous
So your respite
Be deep, slow, and contemplative

The two fit together
As the warmth of the sun
And a flower opening petals do
Step forward, force yourself up
And rest, quietly at the deserved view
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
#dailyhaikuprompt

in my dream
I see her again
—cherries in december
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
#haikuchallenge

Ultimate beauty—
Undefinable and seen only from the heart
Cleopatra would know
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#haikuchallenge

unending...
the tribal knowledge
of nature
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
#scifaikusaturday

how could it be
this tall tree I pass often over the years
took so long to become my icon
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#emoetry #haiku

tender
are the moments the first raindrops
arrive
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#wildwalkprompt

Angel of Death above
Choosing a target
And our roof barely repaired

Wings black against the sky
We watch it circle up high, engine buzzing
And no-one could ever image the feeling

The waiting
It's baiting
And this time, it plunges elsewhere

We breathe
Once more
Until the next—
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#emoetry #ukraine #war

Under the missiles the nervousness
Is not even just for me anymore
We fear
Even when a bomb is only heard from afar
We bleed
Even if we do not see our own blood
We are nervous
For each of us
And if we cry
We cry in secret
For in public
We smile
For each of us
...And we fall
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#wildwalkprompt

No feeling quite like it, the tingling from the ice cold water, that feeling afterwards—mental as well as physical.

The health benefits are wonderful, and when I miss a day it's a day lost... In water at 2°C, surrounded by snow-capped mountains is lovely.

Try...is worth it.
November 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
#WildWalkPrompt #Ukraine


It was her smiles when she stuttured, trying to remember how to say "good—bye!" that got me, the woman in the market with her tiny table.
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
#dailyhaikuchallenge

The classic dance
On the road to and from hell—
A man chased by a kiler drone
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
#haiku4u #ukraine #internationallegion

grateful
to have known the very best
the guys in the omega team
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
#emoetry #ukraine

plunged into despondency
by the murder yet again
of two innocent men
victimised in their last stand
as they stood tall
and fell
bullets piercing us all
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#dailyhaikuprompts

to have eagles and falcons
up by winter moons above clouded peaks
you need mice and rats below
November 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#haiku4U #नवन्

novem —
her soft sanskrit eyes
full of knowledge
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
#haiku4u

even the sharpest sword
cannot cut the flame
—candlelight
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
#haikuchallenge

true
oracle—
nature
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#fantaiku

at my door
a goblin warns me...
kobolds at samhain again
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
#scifaikusaturday

on these breezed shores
viking vessels once drenched in blood
I spot an amulet
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#dailyhaikuprompt

in chilly temperatures
I feel a touch of nostalgia
—the woods guide me home
September 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
#fantaiku

I take care
not to choose a path too carefully
perfection is not my friend
September 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#haikufeels

broken sunflowers—
the agony of forlorn beauty
in the fading of summer
September 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#haikuchallenge

falcon returns
under the vast blue
—a connection
September 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
#haikufeels

she seeks
the seed of mother nature
within a finite sunlight
September 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM