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Kazuko M.
@estherhawdon.bsky.social
I teach English at University. I love reading books, listening to music and watching films. My favorite writers are Soseki Natsume, Charlotte Bronte, Kazuo Ishiguro, Wilkie Collins etc.
"Anyway celebrate I will
This winter hibernation
With apricot blossoms in my heart"
― Basho Matsuo (tr. Takafumi Saito)

(images: Hasui Kawase / Togyu Okumura)
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Guten Morgen!
Ich brauch grad immer Kerzen und Licht um mich herum. Nicht nur, weil's "hygge" und Advent ist, sondern wirklich aus einer inneren Bedürftigkeit heraus ... ein kleines Licht gegen die düstere Weltlage, damit man diese Zeit einigermaßen geistig gesund übersteht.
December 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
"Silence, I discover, is
something you can actually hear."
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

(image: Settai Komura)
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"Tired of hearing
Worldly things:
Winter confinement" Kyoshi Takahama

(image: Shufu Miyamoto)
December 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Goodnight my bluesky friends 😴 💙 💕
December 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Moon shadows
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"one must bend
in the floating world -
snow on the bamboo" Chiyo-ni

(image: Harunobu Suzuki)
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"the ice of the moat
cracking...
winter moon" Issa Kobayashi

(image: Shotei Takahashi)
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Guten Morgen!
Hier in Augsburg zwar noch November-Wetter: Grauer Himmel, trübe Stimmung. Aber die Zeichen stehen überall schon unverkennbar auf Weihnachten.
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"sunset in snow
is like a letter read
many times"
― Ryuta Iida (tr. Gabi Greve)

(image: Kaii Higashiyama )
December 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"at the old pond
snow falls on Mandarin ducks
in twilight"
Basho Matsuo

(image: Jakuchu Ito)
November 30, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Hey @valarie.bsky.social 🦆🦆🦆!
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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ICYMI I wrote about Gerhard Rühm's collection of 100 number poems, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm
two! one two  – one two  –  three! .        two one two three  –   four .       two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…
roughghosts.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
"The snow,
As I watch,
Keeps falling and falling." Santoka

(image: Hasui Kawase)
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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first quarter moon before the winter storm
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"It's drizzling,
Here I am,
Still alive." Santoka

(image: Takeji Asano)
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Gill Williams
Murmurations
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
"Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing." Basho Matsuo

(images: Matazo Kayama)
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Goodnight my bluesky friends 😴 💙 💕
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Morning all... (and a Ducks hello to @valarie.bsky.social and @brianlibby.bsky.social )
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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John Atkinson Grimshaw
Moonlight Wharfedale
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"I walked abroad on a snowy day:
I ask'd the soft Snow with me to play:
she play'd and she melted in all her prime;
And the Winter call'd it a dreadful crime."
― William Blake, Soft Snow

[image: Koson Ohara]
November 23, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Happy Birthday, George Eliot. Thank you for writing out your beautiful heart despite everything.
November 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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late-afternoon, coastal reserve, that period when roosting is vocality & performance & then the lift & circle, barnacle geese entering sunset & staying there, whooper swans down to overnight, the whole brassy biophany loud & present *bonus goldcrest
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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the wandering forest light
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM