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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 18h

yellow field maples
none of these million leaves
utterly perfect

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 1d

In the morning, mist.
Let tears speak for themselves.
October, breathing.

#haiku

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 3d

🍂 the dry season

imaginary land & seascapes in autumn colours - found in small pieces of stone and wood

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 2d

A visit to a garden centre closing down. A melancholic place; picked as barren as a whale carcass; flowers faded, with a photo of their spring pomp; trees waving their pale bare branches in the hope to please,

An empty polytunnel which was like being under ice, the autumn leaves skating overhead.

An empty, near derelict polytunnel, with a laminated sign on the outside promising:

All labelled &
priced plants
in this poly-tunnel
are for sale

A photo of the polytunnel roof. Plastic, mottled with dirt and dust, dull bright with milky sunshine. A single leaf, a rusty red, stamped on the outside of the plastic - looking like the fossilised footprint of a dinosaur.

The same, only now there’s a cluster of leaves, in the anti-matter emptiness of the dirty polytunnel plastic.

One leaf again, adrift in the soft dull white of the plastic roof. Its shape is only just defined, as if it’s a memory of an autumn leaf.

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American Sijo @americansijo.bsky.social · 3d

As we wait, for that distant news; the hours press us, like a too-soaked garment.

Selfishly, I wish the strife begun; to escape the weight, of anticipation.

Not my war, though it is surely ours; this impaling watch, has been no peace.

#sijo

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 22h

& sudden fall of temperature soon as sun goes, sky shocks indigo in aftermath & last weekend's stormwaters driven overground

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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 1d

Porcelain fungus

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Marilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social · 1d

october mist
wrapped around the rose bush
spider webs

#haiku

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 1d

white hanbok~
no footprints
in the snow

#haiku

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HaikuTsunami @haikutsunami.bsky.social · 1d

it's crunch time
the first thin glaze of ice
on every puddle

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka

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midnightblue8.bsky.social @midnightblue8.bsky.social · 7d

#MyFavouriteColourIsAutumn #autumn #fall #fallseason #tallgrass #grass #ditch #countryroad #October
.
📷 : Me - October, 2025.
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Even the ditch is beautiful at this time of the year ✨
.

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 3d

the rain
washing away the mud
on the steps
I delete your message
from my phone

#tanka #TankaThursday

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Philippa R. Francis @philippa.bsky.social · 1d

#Gothtober photopoem shared 12th October 2025

Photo shows a small stone building like an open chapel next to tiny tombstones in the gardens of a grand house. The poem reads ~ beside the hounds’ graves/ knapped flint in snakeskin layers:/ little shelter for grief

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 1d

jdubqca.com/2023/10/31/t...

THAT WHICH MAY FALL FROM ABOVE

#poetry

that which may fall from above

rhyme & meter fail me as I reach for words [like a kite] caught up in a tree there is no pattern to follow no cut & paste or rinse & repeat only a faint premonition stirring within the …

jdubqca.com

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Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social · 2d

scattered plumes…
a molting turkey trots
into the fall

#haiku #senryu
#haikusaturday

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 19h

🙏😊

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 19h

😊🙏

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 1d

grey autumn morning
so that’s where you’ve been hiding
sun in the oak leaves

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 2d

blue shallow river
a thousand wild horses
dramatic stampede

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 3d

another afternoon
of empty mailboxes,
not even a pigeon
to write its message
in this sky

—M. Kei

#TankaThursday message
#5lines #micropoetry #tankapoem