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elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs @pleides.bsky.social · Feb 9

I just wrote a #triolet

(here's how - poets.org/glossary/tri... )

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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social · 1d

🦗

cricket by the door
stops cricking
as I walk by

#haiku #senryu

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Jenni Wyn Hyatt @ydryw.bsky.social · 1d

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#crunch
#fallen

crunching underfoot
stacks of fallen acorns -
squirrel's tasty snack

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Jenni Wyn Hyatt @ydryw.bsky.social · 1d

#haiku
#haiga

colonising
a disused canal bed
Himalayan Balsam

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Maria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 1d

Day's end, #deluxe treat
I savor every layer—
Delicious farewell

(My 📸) #vss365 #haiku

The setting sun beneath several layers of clouds.

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 1d

muddy watermint
all the pale roots thickening
where nobody sees

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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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The Mighty Athena | 🇳🇿 @mightyathena.bsky.social · 2d

𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑠
𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑘𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜
𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑢𝑝

#DailyHaikuPrompt | fallen, silkworm
#grief

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 2d

the stream pauses
on a stone
to think
#haiku #poetry

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Ellissa @ellissa.bsky.social · 1d

#7syllablesentence #try #rose #flower #bloomscrolling #uniqueness #imperfection #selfacceptance

Don't try to be someone else
Your quirks make you beautiful ❤️

Golden-orange rose

elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs @pleides.bsky.social · 1d

A potent reminder of what's coming very soon. I like the descriptions and the tone of inevitability and acceptance. The imagined images in the last verse are playful. Cool how you end with fun :-)

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 2d

jdubqca.com/2012/10/22/w...

WHEN NOVEMBER COMES

#poetry

When November Comes

It doesn’t matter what day it is and no one seems to care which way the wind blows. The only thing that seems to matter is November will arrive without fanfare, and now everything can get on with d…

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 2d

these tiny white moths
brush the air above my skin
slip into silence

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 3d

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

what if
it never happens
apple blossom

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 3d

#HaikuFeels #OneLineOctober #monoku #haiku

desolate wind even the moon looks thin tonight

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 12d

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

— Howard Zinn

#FlowersOnFriday
#FlowerReport
#BloomScrolling

Close-up of New England asters with bright yellow centers and white petals, some in bloom and some still in bud, set against a softly blurred brown and green background

elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs @pleides.bsky.social · 1d

✨💙👏

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 2d

golden fallow field
the crunchy crust
of an apple pie

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 2d

I've some exciting news to share on the morrow.

In the meantime, here's me, enjoying a bee, enjoying an aster, in a pavement crack in Sheringham. 🐝🌺

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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 2d

in the wood behind
the yellow house
a yellow tree
sheds yellow
leaves
while two crows
laugh

elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs @pleides.bsky.social · 2d

I am imagining the Traveller making the decision of where to go next 🍂

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David @haikubycrane.bsky.social · 2d

caterpillar
between leaves,
visible world for now

#haiku #nature #caterpillar

A caterpillar moving from one leaf to another.

elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs @pleides.bsky.social · 2d

Oh thanks Athena. That's exactly what I was after 🙂💜

elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs @pleides.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Maria. It was a good weekend. In touch with family and friends and enjoyed the nice weather. xx

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 2d

morning chill
autumn carries undertones
of winter
#vss365 #haiku

elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs @pleides.bsky.social · 2d

harvest over
quiet empty fields
soil tucked in

#dailyhaikuprompt (field)
#haiku #autumn