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Roger Bonner (we is)

@bonnerr.bsky.social

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#Poet, #playwright, #writer of children's books, living in Basel, Switzerland. #Haiku #poetry #humorist #satirist

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Roger Bonner – Three Poems

Roger Bonner has published poems in Envoi, The Drunken Boat, Delmarva Review, Ascent Aspirations, The Galway Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The High Window, and Offshoots 13 & 14 of th…

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s my #Tuesday #Haiku
#BlueSkypost #Vss365 #Goethe
#Marlowe #Poetry #photography

🔥 #Faust in Staufen 🔥

Devil breaks Faust’s neck –
wager for knowledge is lost;
yet to strive is all

📍Taken in Staufen, Germany, said to be where Faust met his end.

Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s my #Monday #Haiku
#BlueSkypost #Vss365 #Haikusmash
#Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #autumn
#photography
#poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems
#NaturePoetry #mist #sun #morning

Mist still holds its sway
over sun trying to break through-
new day yawns awake

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 3d

Glad to see you’re also on BlueSky!

Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s my #Sunday #Haiku
#BlueSkypost #Vss365 #Haikusmash
#Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #autumn
#photography #water
#poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems
#NaturePoetry #trees

Monkey Puzzle Tree
scribbling haiku in the air –
the pond echoes back

Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s my #Saturday #Haiku
#BlueSkypost #Vss365 #Haikusmash
#Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #autumn #wine
#grapes #froth #photography
#poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems

Bower of ripe grapes,
soon to be made into wine -
purble bubbling froth

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s my #Friday #Haiku
#BlueSkypost #Vss365 #Haikusmash
#Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #autumn #conkers
#chestnuts
#poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems

Conkers scattered mines
on the park‘s autumn pathways -
bursting from spiked shells

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s my #Wednesday #Tanka
#BlueSkypost #Vss365 #Haikusmash
#Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #moonlight #love
#poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems #photography
#love

My eighty-second
birthday with you, my true love,
at my side in these
ruins of a castle slowly
turning silver in moonlight

Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks, Ann!

Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 13d

Every day should be
a celebration of verse –
words to set us free.

#Haiku #NationalPoetryDay #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry
Vss365 #HaikuPrompt

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 16d

Here’s my #Tuesday #haiku
for the #tree #spruce
#BlueSkypost #Vss365 #Haikusmash
#Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #Autumn
#poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems #photography

Sun breaks through the mist
gracing silhouettes of trees
with mantles of light

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 17d

Here’s my #Monday #haiku
for the #tree #spruce
#BlueSkypost #Vss365 #Haikusmash
#Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #Autumn
#poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems #photography #rebirth

Small spruce with big plans
on the stump of the forebear -
Will it reach the sky?

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 17d

You’re welcome!

Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 17d

Here’s my #Sunday #haiku for the #sun
#BlueSkypost #Vss365 #Haikusmash
#Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #Autumn
#poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems #sunshine #photography

Good morning, sunshine,
glistening on the meadow -
you have dispelled gloom

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 18d

Glad I could make you smile! Won’t stop, though..

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 19d

Here’s my #Saurday post for the #prompt
#NeverAgain @Alanparry.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#BlueSkypost #BlueSkyRelay
#Haiku #Sanryu #Vss365
#poetry #micropoetry #Haikuprompt
#Haikusmash

Oh, never again!
It’s what we would like to shout -
Still, again creeps in

Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 20d

Here’s a #Sanryu for the #prompt
#PoemsAbout #obsession
@fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
#Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #BlueSkyPoets #writingcommunity
#Poetry #Vss365

Writing so many
Haikus is an obsession-
Somebody stop me!

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 21d

Here’s my #Thursday
#BlueSkypost #vss365
#Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #Autumn
#poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems #flower #blossom #bloomscrolling #photography

Tenacious nature –
finding just the smallest crack
in which to blossom 🌼✨

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 21d

Here‘s a better version of my #Wednesday post for
the #prompt #Malice #SillySanryu
#BlueSkypost #BlueSkyRelay
#Haiku #Sanryu #Vss365
#poetry #micropoetry #Haikuprompt
#Haikusmash

O, my dear Alice,
sorry I stepped on your toes -
I meant no malice!

Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 22d

Here’s my #Wednesday post for
the #prompt #Malice #SillySanryu
#BlueSkypost #BlueSkyRelay
#Haiku #Sanryu #Vss365
#poetry #micropoetry #Haikuprompt
#Haikusmash

O, my dear Alice,
sorry I stepped on your toe -
I swear, no malice!

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 23d

Here it is again with #cut instead of part!

Here’s my Monday #Senryu #Haiku for the #prompt #Kindness #Vss365 #Emoetry #BlueSkyCommunity

I can’t cut my cloak
like St. Martin once did - still
let me show kindness

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks! Glad you liked it.
I like your poems too.

Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 24d

Here’s my Monday #Senryu #Haiku for the #prompt #Kindness #Emoetry #BlueSkyCommunity

I can’t part my cloak
like St. Martin once did - still
let me show kindness

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks for reposting! Glad you liked it.

Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks for reposting! And yes I did take that photo myself, but I‘m not a photographer. Just have a good eye, like a poet.

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 24d

Here’s my #Sunday
#BlueSkypost
#Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #Autumn
#poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems #Rose #bloomscrolling #photography

O my wilted Rose -
once in scented bloom, now just
fading memories

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