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IrishLisa 🌈

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Neurodivergent Survivor. Retired veteran. I persevere w/PTSD & TBI. Backyard Birder/Gardener/Butterfly-er. Puppy momma. Returning to the creative pen. No "friend" requests - don't make it weird. OK? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Breathe, ah...

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · Jul 24

A Hummingbird Clearwing Moth, sipping Bee Balm nectar and keeping its wings very still for this photo 😉
#BlueskyPhotography #Macro #Insects #Moths #Garden #HummingbirdMoths #Flowers #BeeBalm #Gardening
#Nature #Wildlife #ClearwingMoth #InsectsOfBluesky

A Hummingbird Clearwing Moth, scientifically known as Hemaris thysbe, is captured in this photo, mid-flight. It's clear wings frozen in space. The moth explores a pinkish purple Bee Balm flower with its proboscis.

IrishLisa 🌈

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You are not behind.
You are not broken.
You are someone who survived.

You are not fragile.
You are not finished.
You are someone who begins again.

#Poetry #FreeVerse #Trauma #Survivor #PTSD #Anxiety #Resilience #Healing #Hope #Growth #Photography #Nature #Seedling #ImageAndVerse

A small green seedling in a tiny white K-cup stands upright with a single yellow bloom. Surrounding it are trays of soil cells, some showing seedlings emerging.

November 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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Way too nervous
To be impervious
To just about anything
Best make that "everything"
Yet here I am
Still flinching, still standing

#Emoetry #Nervousness #FreeVerse #Veteran #Anxiety #PTSD #Trauma #Survivor #Hope #Resilience

November 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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withered reeds still stand
the sky rests on their shoulders
quiet strength remains

#dailyhaikuprompt #WitheredReeds #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Nature #Winter #Strength #Photography #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #Skyscape #Clouds

Silhouetted reeds stand tall against a dramatic autumn sky, where bare tree branches frame the scene and clouds partially obscure the sun.

November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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torn and frayed matter
each scar an experience
beauty that endures

#vss365 #Matter #Haiku #Senryu #Micropoetry #Poetry #Photography #Nature #Insects #Butterflies #Butterfly #EasternTigerSwallowtail #Flowers #Beauty #Buddleja #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

A pale Eastern yellow tiger swallowtail butterfly with black-edged wings perches on a cluster of vibrant purple Buddleja. Its wings show signs of wear, with frayed edges and missing sections.

November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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Beauty brown and dried
Not a problem to be solved
Nature to be loved

#Haikufeels #Solve #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Nature #Hydrangea #Autumn #Winter #Photography #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

Clusters of dried brown hydrangea flowers catch the afternoon light, their petals glowing at the edges. Bare tree branches form a soft, blurred backdrop against a pale blue sky.

November 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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Not a huge river
yet every duck united
soft power in sync

#2WordPrompt #Huge #United #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Birds #Birding #Ducks #MallardDuck #Mallard #Ducklings #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

A female Mallard duck in a pond with ducklings following.

November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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Love illuminates
reveals strength or vacancy
truth laughs the loudest

#Whistpr #Illuminates #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Love #Truth #BlueskyPhotography #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

A weathered wooden birdhouse attached to a fence post stands in the foreground, with a wire fence running beside it. Sunlight flares through leafless trees in the background, casting long shadows over a grassy yard.

November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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Murmuration Defined

A nation that murmurs long enough
eventually calls silence the truth.

#Wistpr #Murmuration #Aphorism #Truth #Silence

November 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM

IrishLisa 🌈

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I fell in love, once
wild over-estimation
left me with myself

#2WordPrompt #Wild #Estimate #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Love #Consequences #Misjudgment

November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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The moon knows so much
Its silence a silver weight
Your doubts speak the loudest

#haikufeels #Omen #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Moon #MoonScape #B&W #Monochrome #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #Portent #Nightsky #InnerVoice

A monochrome close-up of a waxing gibbous moon against a black sky, showing clear crater detail and textured surface features along the lunar terminator.

November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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A healthy garden
The reflection of one's life
Flowers can betray

#vss365 #Health #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #BlueskyPhotography #Flowers #Daylily #GardenLife #Garden #Gardening #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #Choices

A high contrast photo of a yellow and orange Daylily. The background is green-black with two unopened buds.

November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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Shining rocks and stones
Quite a beautiful pebble
beware what you name

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Pebble #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Amethyst #Crystal #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #CautionaryTale

A lone purple amethyst crystal illuminated by afternoon sunshine. The background is a blurry, green bokeh.

November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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Passion’s flame too close
Love menaced by history
ashes whisper loss

#Emoetry #Menaced #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Love #Loss #Passion #Desire #Photography #Trees #Fog #Winter #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

( inspired by @theladysilvia.bsky.social )

A tall, leafless tree against a pale blue-gray fog, its bare branches twisting like veins against the misted sky. More skeletal trees fade into the background.

November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM

Reposted by IrishLisa 🌈

Bubba McCool

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone. I wonder what nature‘s cooking up in that little cauldron?

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Fungi #FungiFriends #Texas #EastTexas #BigThicket #TexasNature #TylerCounty

A close, low-angle nature photograph taken along the Dogwood Trail in Tyler County, East Texas. The image shows a cluster of golden-orange bracket fungi growing across the surface of a fallen log in a quiet hardwood forest. The main mushroom in the frame has a distinctive vase- or funnel-shaped cap, its ridged texture catching soft filtered light from the forest canopy. Surrounding it are smaller, curled shelf fungi with ruffled, wavy edges and rich earthy tones — yellows, ochres, and warm browns typical of East Texas woodland fungi in early fall.

The log they’re growing on is weathered and textured, with pale gray bark, deep cracks, and darker patches of decay. The foreground shows softly blurred orange fungi, contributing depth and a sense of being down on the forest floor at eye level. In the background, the bokeh is smooth and muted: soft greens, gentle browns, and out-of-focus branches that create a dreamy woodland atmosphere without pulling attention away from the mushroom cluster.

November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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two glasses of wine
a turkey frozen dinner
chair set for the dog

#Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Thanksgiving #Loneliness #Holiday #Truth #Dog #Photography #Haiga #ImageAndVerse

A dinner table set with a plate, silverware, and two glasses of wine. A frozen turkey dinner box sits nearby. At the far side of the table, a beagle sits upright in a chair.

November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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Yellowing garden
soft wings stir the brittle hush
silence is never still

#dailyhaikuprompt #Yellowing #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Birds #Birding #YellowRumpedWarbler #GardenLife #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

A Yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch amid green and spotted yellow leaves. Sunlight illuminates the bird’s yellow breast and flank while the surrounding tree foliage forms a layered, muted backdrop.

November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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spiked pods side by side
one still learning how to grow
the other built from hurt

#vss365 #Learning #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Nature #JimsonWeed #Photography #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

A pair of Jimson weed seed pods on the same stem, one green and covered in sharp spikes, the other brown, dried, and split open. The background is a softly blurred brown.

November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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coffee wakes the mind
to remember who we are
destiny in a mug

#HaikuFeels #Prefer #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Coffee #Destiny #Ritual #BlueskyPhotography #Nature #Autumn #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

A single red autumn leaf stands upright on the flat top of a weathered tree stump. Sunlight casts shadows and reveals the grain and rings in the wood.

November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

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autumnal leaves fall
not by accident or flaw
but by design’s grace

#2WordPrompt #Autumnal #Design #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Nature #Fall #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

Dry autumn leaves scattered across a paved driveway, some pale and brittle, others gold or brown.

November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM

IrishLisa 🌈

@irishlisa.bsky.social

Thanksgiving arrives here today,
but gratitude belongs to all of us.
In every place where dawn reminds us
we’re still part of something larger than ourselves.

#Dawn #Sunrise #Nature #Thanksgiving #Hope #Resilience #Gratitude #ImageAndVerse #Micropoetry #Writing