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Lafcadio
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haiku, senyru, tanka and other micropoetry she/her
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lafcadiobsky.bsky.social
the book
he left for me
on the table
explained nothing
about why he's gone

#tanka #TankaThursday
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
A very opinionated Mangrove Swallow this afternoon at Rio Rincon #CostaRica #birds #swallows #nature
A small bird with blue-green wings and a white belly perches on a rail with its beak wide open against a smooth green background.
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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evecastle.bsky.social
winter fog
an old man turns back
into a tree

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beneath the streetlights
the shapes the rain makes of us

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#haiku by John McManus of Carlisle, Cumbria, England
from: inside His Time Machine, Iron Press
#micropoetry
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
lafcadiobsky.bsky.social
bushy-tailed marten
she sees pomegranate seeds
in my future

#senryu #haiku
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
lafcadiobsky.bsky.social
dusty attic
a box of old buttons
spilled on the floor
I pick up the one with dots
reminding me of your freckles

#tanka #TankaThursday
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
lafcadiobsky.bsky.social
the old root cellar
where we used to hide
stealing apples
to feed the chestnut mare
grazing in the meadow

#tanka #TankaThursday
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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mamajoules.bsky.social
Day 14. A sight

staring contest—
the Carolina wren
on a wooden fence post

#2025GratitudeChallenge
#haiku
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
lafcadiobsky.bsky.social
a loveliness
of ladybugs
her sigh unheard

#haiku #senryu
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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prunejuicejournal.bsky.social
Prune Juice celebrates ✨TEAMWORK✨

Read about our
editorial team here prunejuicesenryu.com/meet-the-new...

@pippaesque.bsky.social
@asurashaiku.bsky.social
@orrinonline.bsky.social
@lessethereal.bsky.social
@lafcadiobsky.bsky.social
@ajarhiannavo.bsky.social
@winnieartist.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
lafcadiobsky.bsky.social
first freeze the moment we met

#monoku
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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evecastle.bsky.social
Also, STOP giving $$$ to the DNC. Only make donations directly to candidates who have the courage to stand up to the GOP and President. No more funding the Democratic National Committee. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @kenmartin.bsky.social

#ShutdownFiasco #ACATaxCredits
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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evecastle.bsky.social
Chuck Schumer is up for reelection in 2028. The post above lists the 8 Dems who voted YES on opening the government. DEMS had momentum! WHY? 🤬😤

This vote was influenced & led by @schumer.senate.gov.

DEMS were chosen to vote with Republicans. The ones NOT up for reelection soon, so you’ll forget.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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evecastle.bsky.social
This is ALWAYS how they do unpopular votes. The 8 DEM senators & the year they are up for reelection:

🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto, 1929
🔵 Dick Durbin, n/a, retiring
🔵 John Fetterman, 2028
🔵 Maggie Hassan, 2029
🔵 Tim Kaine, 2030
🔵 Angus King, 2032
🔵 Jacky Rosen, 2031
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen, n/a, retiring
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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prunejuicejournal.bsky.social
Prune Juice submitters:

Turns out sending out acceptances is more work than we anticipated! We will be reaching out to those whose poems have been accepted in the next few days! Thank you for your patience!

#WritingCommunity
#poetrycommunity
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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evecastle.bsky.social
For not so small 🤩

#SmallPoemSunday

W. S. Merwin - an excerpt from the poem Berryman

<…>
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write.

Alt includes longer excerpt & commentary. I’ll link the full poem shortly.
Today, I offer you W. S. Merwin's poem for his teacher John Berryman: “I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write” It's a stirring remembrance and a perfect reminder that the external factors— publications, prizes, praise from friends-are unsustainable and out of your hands. All you control is what you make. That's a clean-burning fuel. The more you can orient the joy of your creative process in making and having made, the more sustainable your practice becomes. All the praise, the readings, the audiences will become bonus occasions for gratitude, built on top of the bedrock gratitude for writing itself. —KA From The Paris Review
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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urs-annex.bsky.social
Still a pretty smiley jam...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf42...
Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight (Official Video) [Full HD Remastered]
YouTube video by Kylie Minogue
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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prunejuicejournal.bsky.social
Attention PJ submitters! We've had a chance to look over all of your submissions, and we should be reaching out by the end of this weekend with our initial round of acceptances! If you don't receive one, there is still a (slim) chance your poem may make it in.

#WritingCommunity
#poetrycommunity
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
lafcadiobsky.bsky.social
breath roots
I become the tree
on the exhale

#senryu
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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caterwaulerin.bsky.social
an afternoon guest
winter wren wings whirring
snow softly stirring

#haiku
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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urs-annex.bsky.social
No “h” in stiletto. Got it!

What? Oh, no-way. For sure this time!

Stilhetto
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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robojesi.bsky.social
Meltdown imminent

#Poetry #MentalIllness #MentallyIllMess
Meltdown imminent Sometimes I wish I was empty-headed Instead of weaving, spiraling, twisting, screaming, crying, dying streams of consciousness wrapped around my ego so tight I am choking on the absurd I wish the faucet would stop drip drop drip drop dripping of my tears, seemingly endless, lifted directly out of the deep well of sadness, anger, fear, and guilt-shame-guilt-shame in the silt of the black water I wish the beast inside the steel cage of my ribs would stop rattling the bars, pounding against ever-increasingly harder walls that seem too small to contain it I wish the fire that was inside my stomach would quell itself and stop piling coal inside my veins to fuel its churning, churning, churning with the bellows of my lungs I wish it would all just cease
August 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
lafcadiobsky.bsky.social
winter is coming
the sound of a train
in the distance

#haiku
November 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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brian770.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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evecastle.bsky.social
momentum,
his body, the concrete
skateboarder
worried mother taps her foot
a full emergency room

#tanka #micropoetry #tankapoem #TankaThursday momentum
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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moritherapy.bsky.social
Geography
I space my lines

Just so

#vss365 #haiku
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM