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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 30m

Empty as mist, she’s
drawn to smoke and candle soot—
dried apple leaves.

#DailyHaikuPrompt (Apple) #Haiku #MicroPoetry

Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 9h

I’d fly
like the Utah
gulls we don’t have down here,
above the mountains and salt flats —
loud, free.

#Poetry #WritingCommunity

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corymatthew13.bsky.social @corymatthew13.bsky.social · 20h

Door hanging
From broken hinge
Creaking
In the wind
Vines invading
Through windows
Gone missing
Voices speaking
From years past
Echoing down
The ages
Yearning to be
Heard
The word ghost
Never said
Out loud
They don't
Even know
That their ashes
Are gone

#writingcommunity
#poetry

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 20h

Good luck with that!! I should probably do something similar.

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K. S. Shepherd @kshepherdwrites.bsky.social · 1d

orb weaver
spinning between stems
catching frost

#dailyhaikuprompt stem

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 21h

So I wrote a little personal essay over on sub stack about what I’m trying to do as a poet. The essay’s all over the place and kind of a mess but at least it feels honest . . . to me. #WritingCommunity #Writing.

open.substack.com/pub/mypppp/p...

How Losing My Mind Forced Me to Become an Organized Poet

A Personal Essay

open.substack.com

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 1d

Silent streets complied—
jackboots echoed, questions died,
neighbors learned to shush.

#haiku #micropoetry

Cantaloupe Tendrils @earlysprocket.bsky.social · 1d

People wonder how Germans stood by and allowed the Gestapo to take over.

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Cantaloupe Tendrils @earlysprocket.bsky.social · 1d

People wonder how Germans stood by and allowed the Gestapo to take over.

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 1d

Cemeteries crunch
strolling after Sunday school—
chatting, just chatting.

#DailyHaikuPrompt (crunch) #Haiku #MicroPoetry

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HaikuTsunami @haikutsunami.bsky.social · 1d

yellow willow stems
delicately trail their tips
in the flowing stream

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 2d

Well, my poetry doesn’t rhyme all the time so I’m not addicted to that. I mean, that’s really scary.

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 2d

He hung the pheasant
above his jack-o’-lantern—
honors from the hunt.

(12/31 Halloween Haiku)

#DailyHaikuPrompt (pheasant) #Haiku #MicroPoetry

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t stop writing every day either!

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 3d

Snow creeps in my head
vivid dreams of Christmas past —
Beethoven’s calling.

#DailyHaikuPrompt (vivid) #Haiku #MicroPoetry #HaikuFeels (creep)

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 3d

That’s cool!!!

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you very much!

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 3d

#DailyHaikuPrompt #monoku #senryu #MPPrompt

straw man I fear even the crows are laughing

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 4d

Shadows lengthen along
the colonel’s cracked porch boards—
fences bleed his fields.

#DailyHaikuPrompt (field) #Haiku #MicroPoetry

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Madeleine Begun Kane @madkane.bsky.social · 4d

A young gal who was showing some thigh
Caught the eye of a very cute guy.
But alas he lacked nerve;
Failed to speak up with #verve.
He could NOT even muster a "Hi."

#vss365 #Verve #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Poems #PoetryCommunity #Communication

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 4d

Where’s Bethlehem‘s star
up above our crummy shacks
—midnight moons won’t do.

**this is the haiku I put on a rant. I wrote about food banks. Come check it out. I hope you find it interesting.

#Haiku #WritingCommunity #Writing

ourprocess.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/c...

Christmas at the Food Bank: A Poverty Gospel

A raw, unvarnished Christmas testimony from the working poor—food bank lines as altar calls, three jobs that never covered rent, and turkeys handed out like communion. This poem speaks for every ho…

ourprocess.wordpress.com

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 5d

Moon geese fly through
undiscovered doors and portals—
an omen, a curse.

#DailyHaikuPrompt (geese) #haiku #micropoetry

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 6d

this season
put a little bowl of milk outside
for stray cats and ghosts

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Madeleine Begun Kane @madkane.bsky.social · 5d

"My marital woes are immense,"
Said a gal to the lawyer, "and hence..."
He broke in with "Divorce
Is an option, course."
"That ship's sailed. I'm in jail. Need #defense!"

#Limerick #Limericks #Divorce #Law #Humor #Humour #Poetry #Lawyers #Crime #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Poems #PoetryCommunity

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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely. I love Southern Utah. Driving with my grandchildren and my son through the deserts is one of my favorite things to do. I like writing about what we say to each other and some of the things we see and experience.

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