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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 13h

Starless nights - instead
we open books, bibles, poems;
become constellations
in the λόγος, and ἀμήν,
and in the ἀμήν, λόγος.
Amen.

#tanka #micropoetry

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Every day I try

- between earth and sea -
to pluck you up

from the careworn no man's land
- between earth and sea -
every day I try

but you are sand
and you fall
between my fingers

- between earth and sea -
every day I try.

#micropoetry

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 7d

For a few months now I've made a habit once a week of sitting down and writing about football. It keeps me sane.
www.writingthefootball.com/2025/10/cros...

Cross... head... genuflect...

Football culture blog by John North. Honest and philosophical 5 minute reads

www.writingthefootball.com

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · Aug 25

Mary, Mother of God,
oil paint over chipped gesso,
fading resin, eyes raised

praying for the roof
of Cumbrian slate
that it might not cave in;

for the sandstone plinth
that it might not give way
beneath her feet;

that when it fails
we will go to pray on the hills
and that I will take her with me.

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · Aug 23

Still and quiet, God,
the stars on a clear night -
Christ watching the sea.

#haiku

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · Aug 20

Tell me all the shades of blue when twilight fades
from pale sky, to slate grey, to ocean-deep
dog howl

#micropoetry #poetry

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 8d

Hush... rain after
the drought's buzzsawing insect hatred
- the still small voice.

#haiku #micropoetry

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 13d

first light of morning
decorating the hawthorn
ribbons of wrenflight

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 14d

migrating geese
pulling the stars back home
autumn equinox

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 17d

This morning's first frost of autumn
and a fallen horse chestnut out of its shell
peeling back a layer of the exhaustion
of life's sickness and graft, sickness and graft.

#micropoetry

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Hege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 17d

church entrance
the empty vessel
of a beggar

#SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 17d

I would rather let the wine fall
like rain to the ground
than live a life always cupping my hands.

#micropoetry

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 17d

:) Thanks!

John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 18d

I love this. I come from a mountainous area (Cumbrian fells) and I am a country mouse - not a great fan of cities in general - but I've regularly found myself trying to explain to people how, in New York, I felt right at home. A city so colossal I forget I'm in a city.

John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you. I was remembering a little friend I made in May

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 23d

His novel Blankets is must-read in my opinion anyway!

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 23d

Galileo Galilei
The Pleiades from 'Sidereus Nuncius' (Starry Messenger), 1610

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 23d

Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, 1610

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 23d

Hope. Small things like
the wood mouse we found in the house
and took to live amongst the bluebells.

#micropoetry

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 29d

“The truth is that writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.”

—

Virginia Woolf

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · Sep 7

Time to celebrate September's Harvest Moon! I know we've all worked so hard this year so let's take some time to gather the fruits of our labor and give gratitude to the Mother. Hail Corn Moon. Haiku by @tregallery.com and Thomas. #haiku #poetry #illustration #cornmoon #harvestmoon

Page 63 from Tre and Thomas L. Vaultonburg's 2024 book Moonscape Phase I is dedicated to September's #HarvestMoon with #illustration by Tre. The book has haiku pairings for each of the twelve moon phases.

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 29d

Rubbing lavender
flowers against the nape of
your neck is my heart

#haiku

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 29d

Full moon so bright I
can read the label on your
bottle of beer

#haiku

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 29d

Leaf reflecting moon -
night sky cherry tree mirror
of sky, of tree ...

#haiku

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 29d

The concept of speech
alien to God; the Book
a graveyard of trees.

#haiku

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