Pearl Pirie
@pearlpoet.bsky.social
slow-living poet, insect- & mushroom-portraitist, Good Omens DT & MS fan, f/t incessant reader & writer.
If you need me to know something, email me. www.pearlpirie.com
🏳️🌈 she/her Alt image: long wavy greying hair, red framed glasses, black top.
If you need me to know something, email me. www.pearlpirie.com
🏳️🌈 she/her Alt image: long wavy greying hair, red framed glasses, black top.
A few days wiyhout mice. I’m cautiously optimistic that the hordes have found alternate housing for winter.
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A few days wiyhout mice. I’m cautiously optimistic that the hordes have found alternate housing for winter.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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at no matter no
December 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
at no matter no
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December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
December 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
I don’t know who gave me cacti when mom died but good call on the succulents. Some survive.
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I don’t know who gave me cacti when mom died but good call on the succulents. Some survive.
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
I wouldn’t call myself a white hat but I will say this: I hacked into my own gmail account today.
December 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I wouldn’t call myself a white hat but I will say this: I hacked into my own gmail account today.
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late nights
turning the next page
without regrets
#haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt #senryusunday #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #verse #wss366 #vss365
turning the next page
without regrets
#haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt #senryusunday #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #verse #wss366 #vss365
December 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
late nights
turning the next page
without regrets
#haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt #senryusunday #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #verse #wss366 #vss365
turning the next page
without regrets
#haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt #senryusunday #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #verse #wss366 #vss365
jury bias
why is miss universe always from earth
December 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
jury bias
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a (zoom) conversation btw Renée Sarojini Saklikar + rob mclennan / @reneesarojini.bsky.social
on above/ground press
in which they (also) read from recent work
Sun Dec 7, 2025 / 7pm EST on zoom
[email rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com for zoom link]
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-zo...
on above/ground press
in which they (also) read from recent work
Sun Dec 7, 2025 / 7pm EST on zoom
[email rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com for zoom link]
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-zo...
a (zoom) conversation between Renée Sarojini Saklikar and rob mclennan : December 7, 2025
a (zoom) conversation between Renée Sarojini Saklikar and rob mclennan on above/ground press in which they (also) each read from recent work...
robmclennan.blogspot.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
a (zoom) conversation btw Renée Sarojini Saklikar + rob mclennan / @reneesarojini.bsky.social
on above/ground press
in which they (also) read from recent work
Sun Dec 7, 2025 / 7pm EST on zoom
[email rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com for zoom link]
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-zo...
on above/ground press
in which they (also) read from recent work
Sun Dec 7, 2025 / 7pm EST on zoom
[email rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com for zoom link]
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-zo...
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tanka weekly #poetry challenge
December 4, 2025
this week’s prompt:
apple (or fruit of choice)
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday
#TankaPoem #micropoetry
#tanka resources to develop your practice:
Tanka Society of America:
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
December 4, 2025
this week’s prompt:
apple (or fruit of choice)
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday
#TankaPoem #micropoetry
#tanka resources to develop your practice:
Tanka Society of America:
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
Tanka Society of America
Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tank...
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
tanka weekly #poetry challenge
December 4, 2025
this week’s prompt:
apple (or fruit of choice)
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday
#TankaPoem #micropoetry
#tanka resources to develop your practice:
Tanka Society of America:
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
December 4, 2025
this week’s prompt:
apple (or fruit of choice)
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday
#TankaPoem #micropoetry
#tanka resources to develop your practice:
Tanka Society of America:
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
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Adventures in Woad: Woad Dyeing in the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds
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December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Adventures in Woad: Woad Dyeing in the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds
exarc.net/issue-2025-3...
exarc.net/issue-2025-3...
“All our fabrics are vegan and wrinkle free.” Translation: polyester.
“These poems have been compared yo Yeats.”
Favourably?
Wait. Am I cranky?
“These poems have been compared yo Yeats.”
Favourably?
Wait. Am I cranky?
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“All our fabrics are vegan and wrinkle free.” Translation: polyester.
“These poems have been compared yo Yeats.”
Favourably?
Wait. Am I cranky?
“These poems have been compared yo Yeats.”
Favourably?
Wait. Am I cranky?
Is it still called a green space when snow covered?
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Is it still called a green space when snow covered?
the ugh in Scarborough is silent.
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
the ugh in Scarborough is silent.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Making a dessert for a xmas potluck. better move or else I’ll be bringing it still hot.
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Making a dessert for a xmas potluck. better move or else I’ll be bringing it still hot.
Okay, I did the anisota.net/harvest thing!
Totally different word frequency map from the other tool.
Totally different word frequency map from the other tool.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Okay, I did the anisota.net/harvest thing!
Totally different word frequency map from the other tool.
Totally different word frequency map from the other tool.
It’s growing new leaves but the old ones haven’t recovered from
my mixing up the bathroom cleaner mister and the water mister that one time.
my mixing up the bathroom cleaner mister and the water mister that one time.
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It’s growing new leaves but the old ones haven’t recovered from
my mixing up the bathroom cleaner mister and the water mister that one time.
my mixing up the bathroom cleaner mister and the water mister that one time.
I have my screen magnification at 200%. Probably should see about the new glasses prescription
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I have my screen magnification at 200%. Probably should see about the new glasses prescription
The tree is loaded for bear but I made more decorations anyway.
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The tree is loaded for bear but I made more decorations anyway.
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End of year getting myself sorted phase where most of to do list starts “find…”
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
End of year getting myself sorted phase where most of to do list starts “find…”
oh dear Phil
“I hate it when I’m giving a reading and someone in the audience makes that little moaning sound.
As if life were cute and thoughtful. That’s what failure sounds like. “
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/phil...
“I hate it when I’m giving a reading and someone in the audience makes that little moaning sound.
As if life were cute and thoughtful. That’s what failure sounds like. “
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/phil...
Phil Hall : Talking of Duncan by the Hawkesbury River
Robert Adamson and Juno Gemes (2009) Credit: Juno Gemes I don’t believe Australia exists, though...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
oh dear Phil
“I hate it when I’m giving a reading and someone in the audience makes that little moaning sound.
As if life were cute and thoughtful. That’s what failure sounds like. “
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/phil...
“I hate it when I’m giving a reading and someone in the audience makes that little moaning sound.
As if life were cute and thoughtful. That’s what failure sounds like. “
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/phil...