John North
@johnnorthwrites.bsky.social
Tea and haiku...
Based in Cumbria UK.
Poetry & links at johnnorthwrites.blogspot.com
Co-owner at theherbfarm.co.uk
Based in Cumbria UK.
Poetry & links at johnnorthwrites.blogspot.com
Co-owner at theherbfarm.co.uk
Pinned
We’re a small family in Cumbria, bringing her grandparents’ herb farm back to life. If you would like to read and share our story, we’d be so grateful.
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
Bare branches take the dusk,
wi' glisk o' frost on t’lonnin.
A robin tips the silence —
the world tilts into stillness.
※ ※ ※ ※
😁 Enjoyed making this blend: a #jueju (絕句) - four-line classical Chinese poem form - which uses #Cumbriandialect
wi' glisk o' frost on t’lonnin.
A robin tips the silence —
the world tilts into stillness.
※ ※ ※ ※
😁 Enjoyed making this blend: a #jueju (絕句) - four-line classical Chinese poem form - which uses #Cumbriandialect
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Bare branches take the dusk,
wi' glisk o' frost on t’lonnin.
A robin tips the silence —
the world tilts into stillness.
※ ※ ※ ※
😁 Enjoyed making this blend: a #jueju (絕句) - four-line classical Chinese poem form - which uses #Cumbriandialect
wi' glisk o' frost on t’lonnin.
A robin tips the silence —
the world tilts into stillness.
※ ※ ※ ※
😁 Enjoyed making this blend: a #jueju (絕句) - four-line classical Chinese poem form - which uses #Cumbriandialect
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Give praise with water,
With storms of rain and thunder
And the small rains that sparkle as they dry,
And the faint floating ocean roar
That fills the seaside villages,
And the clear brooks that travel down the mountains
🌬🌦
#poem excerpt: Anne Porter
#art Eiko Ojala
#GiveThanks #resist
With storms of rain and thunder
And the small rains that sparkle as they dry,
And the faint floating ocean roar
That fills the seaside villages,
And the clear brooks that travel down the mountains
🌬🌦
#poem excerpt: Anne Porter
#art Eiko Ojala
#GiveThanks #resist
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Give praise with water,
With storms of rain and thunder
And the small rains that sparkle as they dry,
And the faint floating ocean roar
That fills the seaside villages,
And the clear brooks that travel down the mountains
🌬🌦
#poem excerpt: Anne Porter
#art Eiko Ojala
#GiveThanks #resist
With storms of rain and thunder
And the small rains that sparkle as they dry,
And the faint floating ocean roar
That fills the seaside villages,
And the clear brooks that travel down the mountains
🌬🌦
#poem excerpt: Anne Porter
#art Eiko Ojala
#GiveThanks #resist
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all day long indoors
waiting for the dark to lift
pinprickling stars
waiting for the dark to lift
pinprickling stars
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
all day long indoors
waiting for the dark to lift
pinprickling stars
waiting for the dark to lift
pinprickling stars
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This #NationalTreeWeek, we want to highlight how useful fallen leaves are for both our wildlife and our gardening needs. 🍂
They're used by hibernating wildlife like hedgehogs, form warmer micro-climates that protect garden plants and invertebrates and even create cosy beds for our staff! 😉
They're used by hibernating wildlife like hedgehogs, form warmer micro-climates that protect garden plants and invertebrates and even create cosy beds for our staff! 😉
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This #NationalTreeWeek, we want to highlight how useful fallen leaves are for both our wildlife and our gardening needs. 🍂
They're used by hibernating wildlife like hedgehogs, form warmer micro-climates that protect garden plants and invertebrates and even create cosy beds for our staff! 😉
They're used by hibernating wildlife like hedgehogs, form warmer micro-climates that protect garden plants and invertebrates and even create cosy beds for our staff! 😉
Black and gold; shade and spring light:
chiaroscuro through leaves
held in this cold hand.
Then - suddenly - November
is spring in Yunnan.
#reversetanka #tanka
chiaroscuro through leaves
held in this cold hand.
Then - suddenly - November
is spring in Yunnan.
#reversetanka #tanka
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Black and gold; shade and spring light:
chiaroscuro through leaves
held in this cold hand.
Then - suddenly - November
is spring in Yunnan.
#reversetanka #tanka
chiaroscuro through leaves
held in this cold hand.
Then - suddenly - November
is spring in Yunnan.
#reversetanka #tanka
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We’re a small family in Cumbria, bringing her grandparents’ herb farm back to life. If you would like to read and share our story, we’d be so grateful.
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
We’re a small family in Cumbria, bringing her grandparents’ herb farm back to life. If you would like to read and share our story, we’d be so grateful.
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
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"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
-James Taylor
-James Taylor
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
-James Taylor
-James Taylor
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
We’re a small family in Cumbria, bringing her grandparents’ herb farm back to life. If you would like to read and share our story, we’d be so grateful.
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
We’re a small family in Cumbria, bringing her grandparents’ herb farm back to life. If you would like to read and share our story, we’d be so grateful.
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
Happy #tankagiving
世の中は
常にもがもな
渚こぐ
海士の小舟の
綱手かなしも
If only the world
were constant —
like a fisherman’s boat
pulling its rope
along the quiet shore.
Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192–1219), Shōgun. Poet.
世の中は
常にもがもな
渚こぐ
海士の小舟の
綱手かなしも
If only the world
were constant —
like a fisherman’s boat
pulling its rope
along the quiet shore.
Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192–1219), Shōgun. Poet.
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Happy #tankagiving
世の中は
常にもがもな
渚こぐ
海士の小舟の
綱手かなしも
If only the world
were constant —
like a fisherman’s boat
pulling its rope
along the quiet shore.
Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192–1219), Shōgun. Poet.
世の中は
常にもがもな
渚こぐ
海士の小舟の
綱手かなしも
If only the world
were constant —
like a fisherman’s boat
pulling its rope
along the quiet shore.
Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192–1219), Shōgun. Poet.
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you delicate moon
slicing the cold into shreds
that bare-blade sickle
slicing the cold into shreds
that bare-blade sickle
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
you delicate moon
slicing the cold into shreds
that bare-blade sickle
slicing the cold into shreds
that bare-blade sickle
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The EU has published rules for the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies will all be monitored by every Member State. Target to reverse decline in Pollinators by 2030 and increase pops. A big step in conserving biodiversity environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...
Better monitoring to support restoration of EU pollinators
The Commission has adopted a new Pollinator Monitoring Scheme to help reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030.
environment.ec.europa.eu
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The EU has published rules for the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies will all be monitored by every Member State. Target to reverse decline in Pollinators by 2030 and increase pops. A big step in conserving biodiversity environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My wife and I are re-establishing a fondly remembered herb garden at our home in Cumbria. These old buildings - traditional long narrow cottage and barn - have been here several centuries, but our connection to the place goes back to Rachel's grandparents who founded The Herb Farm in the late 1940s.
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My wife and I are re-establishing a fondly remembered herb garden at our home in Cumbria. These old buildings - traditional long narrow cottage and barn - have been here several centuries, but our connection to the place goes back to Rachel's grandparents who founded The Herb Farm in the late 1940s.
up in the hills
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
up in the hills
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
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Winter arrived today
like an absence
noticed only in the deep quiet
between blackbird song
and the empty chair
at the table,
fields of unfathomed frost
separating us -
until the first tears
of meltwater
return the kiss of sunlight
and pass into memory.
#micropoetry #winter #poem
like an absence
noticed only in the deep quiet
between blackbird song
and the empty chair
at the table,
fields of unfathomed frost
separating us -
until the first tears
of meltwater
return the kiss of sunlight
and pass into memory.
#micropoetry #winter #poem
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Winter arrived today
like an absence
noticed only in the deep quiet
between blackbird song
and the empty chair
at the table,
fields of unfathomed frost
separating us -
until the first tears
of meltwater
return the kiss of sunlight
and pass into memory.
#micropoetry #winter #poem
like an absence
noticed only in the deep quiet
between blackbird song
and the empty chair
at the table,
fields of unfathomed frost
separating us -
until the first tears
of meltwater
return the kiss of sunlight
and pass into memory.
#micropoetry #winter #poem
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The rummage continues. Found two more of my poems in a December 2013 copy of Kaffeeklatsch, which the excellent Joey Connolly (now Director of @faberbooks.bsky.social Academy) launched while we were at University of @manchester.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The rummage continues. Found two more of my poems in a December 2013 copy of Kaffeeklatsch, which the excellent Joey Connolly (now Director of @faberbooks.bsky.social Academy) launched while we were at University of @manchester.ac.uk
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Completely forgot I wrote this poem about Gore Point on The Wash in Norfolk. Found it in @poetrybusiness.bsky.social 's The North No. 53 Autumn 2014.
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Completely forgot I wrote this poem about Gore Point on The Wash in Norfolk. Found it in @poetrybusiness.bsky.social 's The North No. 53 Autumn 2014.
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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His earthy hands, loam
from the allotment. Produce
never held for long.
Always given as gifts, seeds
of dreams grown into harvest.
#micropoetry #tanka
from the allotment. Produce
never held for long.
Always given as gifts, seeds
of dreams grown into harvest.
#micropoetry #tanka
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
His earthy hands, loam
from the allotment. Produce
never held for long.
Always given as gifts, seeds
of dreams grown into harvest.
#micropoetry #tanka
from the allotment. Produce
never held for long.
Always given as gifts, seeds
of dreams grown into harvest.
#micropoetry #tanka
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Old life lets go,
& in doing so
feeds new life —
may what is breaking in me now
nourish
the me I am becoming
in all this
rain.
#mushroom #shroomscrolling #autumn #lettinggo #poem #poetry
& in doing so
feeds new life —
may what is breaking in me now
nourish
the me I am becoming
in all this
rain.
#mushroom #shroomscrolling #autumn #lettinggo #poem #poetry
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Old life lets go,
& in doing so
feeds new life —
may what is breaking in me now
nourish
the me I am becoming
in all this
rain.
#mushroom #shroomscrolling #autumn #lettinggo #poem #poetry
& in doing so
feeds new life —
may what is breaking in me now
nourish
the me I am becoming
in all this
rain.
#mushroom #shroomscrolling #autumn #lettinggo #poem #poetry
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a revelation in St Mary’s Church, Whitby
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
a revelation in St Mary’s Church, Whitby
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM