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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️

@naumadd.bsky.social

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Haiku writer and Air Force veteran retired. I own my own graphic design/art company Naumaddic Arts. I am a Zen Buddhist and live with my wife of 7+ years in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 5h

…in the autumn rain
remembering
our running…

#haiku #poetry #infiniku

Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 7h

in rain
petals and reflections
of petals

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 2d

reflections….
the cat watches
her favorite show

#haiku #senryu #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 3d

raining
in the birdbath
a sip at a time

#haiku #poetry

Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 4d

chrysanthemums
In the rain…
walking slower now

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 5d

blossoms
they have all scattered
again

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 6d

in trees the shy moon…
a robin sings
the turning leaves

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 9d

long walk home…
passing unseen
but for the moon

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 10d

out of the pond
through the mist…
sunrise

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 12d

a long walk
in the rain-wet sands…
traces

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 12d

autumn evening
the wren chooses
our railing

#haiku #poetry

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 13d

I sit with the stone-
its silence heavier
than mine
#haiku #poetry

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 12d

star
through the pine
through me
#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 13d

seacoast
the voices of summer
have gone

#haiku #poetry

Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 13d

a spray
of blossoms…
months ago

#haiku #poetry

Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 13d

autumn nightfall
the cat yawns
before me

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 14d

seashore…
a shadow drags along
its crab

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 14d

pond’s edge…
in the mist
geese echo

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 15d

old web …
the tiny spider
makes a home

#haiku #poetry

Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 15d

the mouse…
it will take the ants
all day

#haiku #poetry

Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 21d

our steps
in the rain…
the bluejay

#haiku #poetry

Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 21d

bonnie glen
rain dripping
off the heather

#haiku #poetry

Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 23d

into sands…
ants carry the moth
home

#haiku #poetry

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 23d

Here's a link to the book I published on Amazon.

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from here to the wind ...: 100 Haiku & Senryu

Amazon.com: from here to the wind ...: 100 Haiku & Senryu eBook : Barnes, Richard: Books

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Richard Dean Barnes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☸️ @naumadd.bsky.social · 24d

in the waves
the moon
and me

#haiku #poetry

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