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Clem Byard
@clembyard.bsky.social
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Haiku writer & cancer nurse, non-indigenous Australian living on Wurundjiri Land

My other account (lots of weird stuff): @weirdmelbs.bsky.social

Website: clembyard.com

Other things I like:
~ Australianiana
~ Gothic / Horror
~ Psychedelia
~ Surrealism
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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · May 25
On hiatus ~
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Friends, pls see below ⬇️

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June 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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On hiatus ~
May 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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😮🫨😡

A scurrilous lie put about by antibayardists . . .!

“Of noble bearing”, I could accept

“Wholehearted, almost dementedly courageous, self-deprecating”, yes, yes and yes

But . . . “supreme self-confidence of ignorance . . .!”

How much did they pay you @susiedent.com?
susiedent.com Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Feb 5
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
March 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Last week’s featured poet on the #Australian #Haiku Society #HaikuOz was Margaret Conley:

landscape
by Fred Williams
rearranged by mining

(For non-Oz folks: Fred Williams was a very distinctive Australian painter)

#AustralianHaiku

australianhaikusociety.org/2025/03/03/f...
Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is New South Wales poet, Margaret Conley.
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March 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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This week’s featured poet on the Australian Haiku Society’s #HaikuOz webpage is Robbie Coburn:

again answering
the telephone to silence
summer rain

#AustralianHaiku #haiku

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne poet, Robbie Coburn.
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February 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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A reminder for those interested in Australian Haiku that entries for the John Bird dreaming award close on 1st March.

#haiku #AustralianHaiku #HaikuOz #JohnBird #JohnBirdDreamingAward

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3rd John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku
The Australian Haiku Society is proud to announce the 3rd running of the John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku. This award is a biannual international haiku competition open to poets from all over the…
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February 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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This week Julia Wakefield is the poet featured on the Australian Haiku Society #HaikuOz website:

a cloudless day
gulls stitch the cliff edge
to the ocean

#AustralianHaiku #haiku

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Tasmanian poet, Julia Wakefield.
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February 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I love it when I come across one of my favourites from the other place, here and active on #Bluesky

It’s worth scroll down through Maxim Peter Griffin’s feed to appreciate the breadth of their vision ~
February 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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This week’s featured poet on the Australian Haiku Society’s website #HaikuOZ is Fiona H. Evans:

desert rainstorm
a flood of
wildflowers

#haiku #AustralianHaiku #HaikuAustralia

https://australianhaikusociety.org/2025/02/10/featured-haiku-under-the-same-moon-the-fourth-australian-haiku-anthology-4/
February 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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This week’s featured poet on the #HaikuOz website (from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth #Australian #Haiku Anthology) is Mark Miller, from #Shoalhaven NSW.

Here is a “ #monoku “ by Mark:

“inside the ocean the names of all the rivers”

australianhaikusociety.org/2025/02/03/f...
Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Mark Miller, who resides in Shoalhaven, on the south coast of New South Wales.
australianhaikusociety.org
February 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I’ve been enjoying the #EnCypted podcast by Jasper L’Strange (surely that can’t be his real name can it?)

Mostly Mr L’Strange reads classic #ghost stories in his . . . strange . . . quavering voice

But sometimes he reads his own stories ⬇️ which are excellent 💀

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"Strange Bedfellows" by Jasper - EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast · 31/10/2023 · 1h 5m
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February 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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I wish I could say this was unbelievable

But it’s all too believable
judithnangala.bsky.social Judith Nangala Crispin @judithnangala.bsky.social · Jan 31
If you're on tik tok, please be on guard for racist videos that target important cultural leader Eric Yunkaporta. And please share Wayne Quilliam's portrait of Eric to help raise awareness. These tik tik videos trivialise Aboriginal culture and there are real people being harmed by this.
Warning for TikTok users as 'disgusting' trend goes viral
You might have seen this viral TikTok trend on your social media account. This is the story of the man behind it and why it's being labelled "disgusting".
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February 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Hi everyone. Authora Australis is calling for stories, poems and artworks. Submissions for Authora Issue 9 ‘Cracks’ are now open!

Submissions close Feb 28, 2025. Link below, cheers:

www.authora.net/submit
January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Two Autumn Leaves
Suddenly everything is sadness. Her notes on the kitchen table are sadness. His jokes are sadness. He hopes she will make it home before h...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Dull Pink *Rumbles*

A post about summer in South Eastern #Australia . . .

. . . and, of course, #haiku . . .

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Dull Pink
*Rumbling* Today is the Invasion Day / Australia Day public holiday here in Australia. I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, on whose unceded land I was born, and live, and work,…
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January 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I’m rereading #Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles #Maturin which I first read more than twenty years ago

There is an (on purpose) misquote of Shakespeare: to “verify untrue things,” in the language of Dogsberry . . .

The misquoting and the sentiment both seem appropriate these later times

#Gothic
January 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Melbourne poet Robyn Cairns was featured on the Australian Haiku Society #HaikuOz website earlier in January

industrial skyline
where the rain
makes rust

That feels like a very #Melbourne / #Naarm #haiku indeed

australianhaikusociety.org/2025/01/13/f...
Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne poet, Robyn Cairns.
australianhaikusociety.org
January 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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I forward this article to my brother

He said – “this article reads like Sebold”

Not sure if Billy would be flattered, but it is high praise from my brother ~
January 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Folks – if you haven’t given Mr Jim Moon’s various podcasts a listen, do yourselves a favour . . .

. . . a wonderful voice for reading weird tales

Also another brilliant feature of the podcasts is the music (also provided by Jim under a pseudonym 😊)
hypnogoria.bsky.social Mr Jim Moon @hypnogoria.bsky.social · Jan 20
One from the vaults!
January 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Each week the Australian Haiku Society #HaikuOz features a poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology.

This week it’s Gary Colombo de Piazzi:

bead of sweat
another drop of salt—
outback lake

#haiku #AustralianHaiku

https://australianhaikusociety.org/
Australian Haiku Society
haikuoz - the enjoyment of haiku
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January 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Question:

The crushed leaves of what #Australian native, will turn water bright blue?

(It can be used to make a test for different kinds of bacteria)

For the answer, and a new #haiku, read on, gentle reader, read on . . .

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Christmas Comes Late (or Not at All)
Busaria & Crepe Myrtle It’s the second week of January and I’ve just got back from a week spent at a caravan park, in Porepunkah, in the Ovens Valley, three hours north of Naarm / Melbourne. Bu…
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January 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Ham is always cheap after Xmas . . . but free?

Disclaimer – this ham is #FreeVerse, rather than #FreeRange

PS. Check out Elese’s website – great photos of #Naarm / #Melbourne and elsewhere
January 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Let’s see . . .

lilac
strolling
raindrop

That’s the haiku
sensewords.bsky.social Sense Words @sensewords.bsky.social · Jan 8
Prompt 21

Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds so I can find your writing, and include the prompt number. Also remember that I ask for no combo prompts here. Feel free to message if you have more questions on how this prompt works. Happy writing! ~M 🙏🏻
January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Hi All 👋🏼 🌊

I’m back (after a nasty bout of COVID)

I’ve written a new post about flowering gum trees & #haiku & the heavy rain we get here in #Naarm / #Melbourne at this time of year (a 1 minute read)

no epiphany –
just flowering gums
 and radiata pine

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Flowering Gums, Epiphany & Summer Rain
no epiphany –just flowering gums and radiata pine I saw the first flowering gum trees coming into bloom two days before Christmas, so I guess you could consider flowering gums one of the kinds of C…
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January 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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A few days ago Dick Whyte @dailyhaikai.bsky.social challenged us to add a “cap” to a #haiku by #Issa that he had translated.

So now I’ve written a haiku in response & illustrated it with a sketch.

already fallen
from the branches –
two other moons

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December 16, 2024 at 6:52 AM