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David

@haikubycrane.bsky.social

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Author of Day Breaks on the Bottom of a Blue Sea. Words in Chicken Soup for the Soul, 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, The Five-Two, Live Nude Poems & many others.

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David @haikubycrane.bsky.social · 1d

caterpillar
between leaves,
visible world for now

#haiku #nature #caterpillar

A caterpillar moving from one leaf to another.

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 57m

one lily pad
big enough
for both smiles
#haiku #poetry #coqui

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Anna Goodall @annagoodall.bsky.social · 2h

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K. S. Shepherd @kshepherdwrites.bsky.social · 3h

orchard
in a mason jar
apple butter

#dailyhaikuprompt apple

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Hannatu @mamahannatu.bsky.social · 2h

lightly
the dung beetle
carries
the weight
of its world

#vss365 beetle 🪲

#tanka #kyoka #5lines #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt #senryusunday #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #verse #wss366

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PoetessOProinntigh @poetessoprunty.bsky.social · 2h

a new Nero
on the world's hands
syphillitic brain rot

#senyru
#haiku
#BlueskyPoetry

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John Browne Ayes @ayesart80.bsky.social · 4h

Haiku Crush
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Haiku Crush – the annual search for the best haiku

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jerry simcock @jerrysimcock.bsky.social · 4h

This side now complete I think. Oils on canvas 120 x 90 cms. Hoping to get the whole thing shown somewhere next year #art #painting

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David @haikubycrane.bsky.social · 3h

the best!

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Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social · 14d

For #Promptcombo #Characters & #PromptTheme #Amphibian, a poem for my grandmother, whose roots were in northern Italy's Piedmont region.

Thank you to hosts:
@rfsmith.bsky.social
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social*

*a very last minute post, so sharing only for fun 🪷

'Kin' in Heimat Review, Jan. 2023

A photo collage for my 'Kin' poem, featuring (clockwise): a gnarled apple tree, a chiffchaff, yellow lilies, and pink apple blossoms.

Kin

In the evenings,
we walked to the soft silver pines,
tucking tufts and wisps into the branches
for the winged convocations
of the downy-wise—to covet,
to be taken up into the mysteries,
woven with leaves and lichen,
moss, feathers, twigs,
spun silk: entwined.

My grandmother wore her hair
in a swirl above her head,
like a yellow lily resting on a pond,
and we never saw a frog hop out,
but in the springtime,
it was an ever-present possibility:
a small amphibian might appear,
viridian as a river rock,
to sit and sing to the moon.

If a song thrush thatched
a hermitage, a peasant’s castle
in the knotted boughs of the old crabapple,
or if a chiffchaff overwintered in my braid,
then I could learn the avian folkways,
knowing when my feathered kin
was jubilant or tired, and needed rest
from prophesying;

Whole ecologies would branch and bloom
around us: orchards swirling,
a braided nest.

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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 1d

#Deluxe dreams
in roseate scarves
at #silky sunsets
#slide down
smooth
swift
to
rude
crude
knotty
economy

#vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

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Binny @binny123.bsky.social · 4d

some things
shine in darkness
some at dusk
and
others at dawn…

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow #EastCoastKin #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #WeekOforopulence #Freeverse #poetry #bud #flowers #flowering #budding #wildflowers #sunshine #sunlight #light

The picture I took shows flowers enjoying the sunlight….

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 4h

unfurling the ides
in brief glimpses
fire and crows...

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 6d

There is a Zone whose even Years
No Solstice interrupt -
Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon
Whose perfect Seasons wait -

Whose Summer set in Summer, till
The Centuries of June
And Centuries of August cease
And Consciousness - is Noon -

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David @haikubycrane.bsky.social · 4h

and I did, Kiki. Thanks for sharing and have a great day!

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The Mighty Athena | 🇳🇿 @mightyathena.bsky.social · 1d

𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑠
𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑘𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜
𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑢𝑝

#DailyHaikuPrompt | fallen, silkworm
#grief

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Jocelyn @jocelynx44.bsky.social · 1d

there was an old cat
& we called him Tatters
one day he was gone

#haikufeels #haiku

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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 2d

after a day of reading
the mind is pockmarked—
sunshine seeding
new lands, new crops

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John Browne Ayes @ayesart80.bsky.social · 3d

It's been awhile, but I received a wake up email.
"Dear John,
Congratulations! One of your submitted haiku "A solitary seed" has been short-listed by our three judges for possible publication in "The Best Haiku 2025" international anthology."
It does not mean I won. It means runer up amongst many.

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Marilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social · 7h

#dailyhaikuprompt #warmsun #apple

warm sun
in the apple orchard
teddy bears picnic

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Madeleine Begun Kane @madkane.bsky.social · 15h

Whenever stuff's labelled #deluxe,
Expect to fork over big bucks.
Beware: It just might
Not furnish delight...
And don't be surprised if it sucks!

#vss365 #Deluxe #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems #PoetryCommunity #Money #Shopping

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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 9h

Nature
the balm
calm

#Poetry #Photography
📷:mine

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

…a teapot
with painted leaves
left in the rain…

#haiku #poetry #infiniku

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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 9h

apple blown
from the tree…again
falling into depression

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (apple)

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 21h

Yellow-rump warbler
on the window-sill within
a foot of me inside.

HDT ~ October 14, 1855
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The yellow-rump warbler or myrtle-bird

October 14 Some sparrow-like birds with yellow on rump ﬂitting about our wood-pile. One ﬂies up against the house and alights on the window...

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 4d

"To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others."

-Jack Kornfield

a very dark red sunset with mountains in the background and bushes in the front. The sun is low behind the mountains. Photo taken with rose colored glasses in front of lens.

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