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Tanja

@joypops.bsky.social

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I write tiny poems, read literary fiction, watch Korean and Japanese dramas and films, and dream about plants taking over the world.

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 18d

autumn dusk
silvering
the crow’s feathers

#haiku

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 23h

Recent reads.

#booksky #amreading

Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno, Owlish by Dorothy Tse, A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano, Your Neighbour's Table by Gu Byeongmo, We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida, The Mermaid's Tale by Lee Wei Jing, The Secret of Helmersbruk Manor by Eva Frantz, Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan, Symapthy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan, Take a Walk with the Wind by Xiong Liang, Why I Killed My Best Friend by Amanda Michalopoulou, There's a Monster Behind the Door by Gaële Bélem

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

Frog and Toad went back to the river.

They looked for the button in the mud.

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Jim.

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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 1d

sunfish swimming
down through blue sky
amid cloud flowers

#haiku #haiga

completeTheHaiga @completethehaiga.bsky.social · 8d

#completethehaiga 119 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka

abstract drawing of a fish from overhead

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 1d

Leaf
Still, in motion
Held, in mid-air.
Frozen, afloat
Neither here
Nor there
This fall, not falling
Held, by the unseen
Still, spinning there
Golden, syrupy maple
Sunlit, spider spun
Once begun,
Some things are never done

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 1d

Fearful that if he kept looking a #piranha might swim by, Ladislaw turned away from the window. A sudden dizziness swam up, a sense the house was sunk on the bed of some exotic aquarium. He studied the type of a typing mouse, and read spoonfuls of sugary prose. "What is it you do here?"

#vss365

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 1d

woodsmoke
above the bridge
brown leaves falling

#haiku

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 1d

foot on the ball
the girl
ties her hair

#haiku

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 1d

a gloomy & breezy morning ~ a good day to be lazy perhaps 🤗

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 1d

yellow field maples
none of these million leaves
utterly perfect

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john mαtthєw @jdubqca.bsky.social · 1d

jmattwaters.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/a...

here is the latest installment of my fictional work in progress

All That Glitters May Not Be Gold

by J Matthew Waters We walked into her condo, a bright and airy space that felt a world away from the Loop’s stern architecture. The scent of fresh flowers mingled with something faintly citr…

jmattwaters.wordpress.com

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⋆｡˚☆⋆Tré⋆☆˚｡⋆ @tregallery.com · 2d

✨️🔮🌺🔮✨️

Snapdragon

Vivid glow
Drops of sky roll on
Dragon's tongue

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow
#EastCoastKin
#dailyhaikuprompt Vivid

#Macro #Photography #Haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Bloomscrolling #Wolftwin

Here is a macro photo I took of our last bi-color snapdragon in the front garden. The day was beautifully grey and rainy. Though there was no chance of seeing a tropical sunset, this flower held the might of dusk's glory in its misty face. This scoop of autumn sherbert glows against green peeps of background bokeh. Bending in for a closer look with my camera, I became enchanted by the perfect spheres scattered across its pink-red-orange-yellow petals. Within each crystal ball raindrop, a small universe of color and light. Their augury? My new 3-5-3 haiku:

Snapdragon

Vivid glow
Drops of sky roll on
Dragon's tongue

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FromOneLine - submissions OPEN @fromoneline.bsky.social · 1d

#FromOneLine 394

Where can we go with just one connecting #prompt line? Let's see how many different places we can discover from just one starting point! Start your poem/vss with the opening line :

I hear birds on the roof

#FromOneLine 394 #prompt

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Salem Islas-Madlo (ella/she/her) @deepsouldiver.bsky.social · 27d

earth keeps
her thoughts secret
walnut shells

#dailyhaikuprompt
#haiku #poetry

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 4d

morning stillness-
a spider mends
the space between worlds
#haiku #poetry

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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 1d

after a day of reading
the mind is pockmarked—
sunshine seeding
new lands, new crops

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MuederKrieger @muederkrieger.bsky.social · 2d

cherishing
these lovely days
without visitors

#HaikuChallenge #cherish
#whistpr #visitor
#Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry

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Angelika Wienert @haikushelf.bsky.social · 1d

togetherness
autumn leaves still stay
on the tree

#haiku

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MuederKrieger @muederkrieger.bsky.social · 1d

a loud crunch
has started the invasion
of the clones

#DailyHaikuPrompt #crunch
#BraveWrite #clone
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #SenryuSunday #micropoetry

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 1d

looking back
in the scorching sun
a child . . .

--Miwako Fujimoto

炎天のふり返りたる子どもかな　藤本美和子

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

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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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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 1d

white hanbok~
no footprints
in the snow

#haiku

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White Reindeer @mywhitereindeer.bsky.social · 4d

Here as there

Čeʹvetjäuʹrr, Sevettijärvi, Sääʹmjânnam, Lapland

#WhiteReindeer #SkyAndEarth #Čeʹvetjäuʹrr #Sevettijärvi #Sevettijärventie #Aanar #Sääʹmjânnam #Inari #Lapland #travel #HereAsThere #Arctic #summer #nature #Myth&Legend #scape #chatgpt

A pale reindeer standing quietly in northern light.

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mitu @mitu222.bsky.social · 2d

ムラサキシキブ (小紫式部)
花言葉は「気品」源氏物語の作者である紫式部の名を戴するだけあって、ひときわ鮮やかな植物です
#四季の花写真
#小紫式部

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Marilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social · 2d

october mist
wrapped around the rose bush
spider webs

#haiku

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