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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 5d

starting to collect
birds in autumn
like a magpie

#haiku #HaikuSaturday

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 3d

Overcast and chilly
the day sulks
in silver tones

#Three3s #haiku

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 4d

deeper
in the forest
more autumn

#haiku

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 3d

The last of
the rising grey
smoke: winter's end

#Three3s #haiku

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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 5d

We drive past the factories, the pulp mills, plumes of smoke that edge clouds. Past the fields, cow and sheep, tottering lamb. The birds murmur in soft charcoal dancing on blue and we watch it all from our momentum. A song plays and I drift away, my regrets chasing me.

#vssdaily cow
#vss365 pulp

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 5d

A midnight lake
made of silence
and polished glass

#Three3s #haiku

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Allyson Joule @allysonjoule.bsky.social · 6d

Drizzle on the glass,
quiet echoes of sorrow,
a heart weeping slow.

#haiku #poetry #drizzle

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ant ant ant ant ant @antfive.bsky.social · 7d

#haiku
rain shadow rustling
with pockets
of light

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 5d

a mango pulp sunrise
already giving way
to light blue skies ruled over
by that unrelenting day-star

So much of life's beauty
is ephemeral, between heartbeats, ghostly

I walked home from the
promontory soaked in sweat
a man-mirage in the heat haze
a hard won treasure that
I'll own forever

#vss365

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space boy @soace-boy.bsky.social · 7d

Black oracle perched;
thou know’st something
I should not ask.

Thy eye: a well
where drowned stars speak
in tongues of ash.

What dreadful syllogism
hides beneath that dead expression?

I fear thy answer
more than silence, more
than God’s own riddled dark.

#poetry

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 7d

My favourite cafe
used to be a bookshop
something of the reverence
for silence remains
there is no music
only the clink of cutlery
low voices and large windows

An oasis in a rapidly growing town
I sip, watch people go by
pen a few lines
centre an off-kilter soul
while warmed by an easy sun
#vss365

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 7d

The blur of a
pandemonium of
rainbow lorikeets
pouring out of a
eucalyptus tree

As if the blue sky
were suddenly a broken
kaleidoscope

#vss365

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

broken bridge-
the river teaches me
its alphabet
#haiku #poetry

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Hannatu @mamahannatu.bsky.social · Sep 4

out of sight
still on mind
I ask regulars
at the bird feeder
what is the measure
of love?

#vss365 #vss366

#Haikufeels #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #tanka #haiku #senryu #5lines #3lines #dailyhaikuprompt #verse

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 8d

Hiking at the start
was a stumbling
grueling ordeal
but now he and his pack
move as one
sure-footed through the green
stamina for days
an unbroken line of wood
concealing small feathered things
that sing of his approach

#inkMine #poem

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Jocelyn @jocelynx44.bsky.social · 8d

forever is a nameless thing
where roses rest
in the endless wind

#haikufeels

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 8d

a ripple passing through the leaf litter.

#OneLineOctober #Haiku #Monoku 🍂

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 8d

Glowing in the dustbin
a bloom of gold and silver wrappers

I recruit my younger brother
to find an elusive
open box of chocolates

#poem

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 9d

fallen pinecone-
a new forest
already inside
#haiku #poetry

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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 8d

hunter’s moon
every so often
my shadow

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (hunter’s moon)

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 8d

Following in my father's footsteps
rustling through an autumn wood
him so tall he literally blocks out the sun
turns to me to show me something
furry moss in an open hand

#TankaThursday #poem

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 11d

A wilting blue salvia
tempts a hummingbird
with the last sips of summer

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 11d

RIP PS3. My Xbox 360 is still going strong but I'll miss it when it's gone, so many memories...

I bought Fallout 3 GOTE when it came out but it's just been sitting there gathering dust. I just don't have the time to get lost in such a big game and always end up playing casual platformers instead.

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 16d

in the wash of stars
owl’s cry enters me-
I wake as smoke
#haiku #poetry #birds

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 12d

A sonorous tui
gentleman of the skies
with his cravat of
white-tufted neck feathers
calls down the dusk
in a trill of incantations

and soon

dark wings become the night

#vss365

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