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Tanja
@joypops.bsky.social
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I write tiny poems, read literary fiction (mostly women in translation), watch Korean and Japanese dramas and films, and dream about plants taking over the world.🌲🌲🌳✨️
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · Sep 25
autumn dusk
silvering
the crow’s feathers

#haiku
joypops.bsky.social
A path curves downhill between stone walls and wooden fences in a sunlit town with red-tiled rooftops. To the right, warm morning light glows on the steep roofs of houses, and behind them rises a church tower with a green, copper-tinted spire and a clock. In the distance, snow-covered mountains stand sharply against a clear, vivid blue sky. A cluster of red-tiled rooftops fills the foreground. Beyond them, a light mist settles over a valley of houses and fields, giving the scene a bluish haze. On a wooded hill in the distance stands a small church illuminated gently against the mist. Bare branches frame the view on the right, and faint mountains fade into the bright, cloud-streaked sky. A weathered stone wall runs across the scene, topped with old reddish roof tiles that are covered in moss. Behind the wall, a row of tall, leafless trees. Sunlight highlights the moss and the textured bark of the trees, giving the scene an early-winter feel.
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
joypops.bsky.social
A historic building with pale stone walls and red rooftops sits on a wooded hillside under a bright blue sky. In front of it rises a church tower with a green copper-tinted roof and a small golden clock beneath its spire. Bare winter trees surround the structures.
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
joypops.bsky.social
The light last evening was so pretty. 🥰
A small village sits at the foot of forested hills, glowing in warm, golden light from the setting sun. Above the slopes, thick clouds (tinted peach and rose) hug the hill tops, with a patch of bright blue sky opening in the upper right. In the foreground, a green field stretches toward the clustered houses and a white church with a tall steeple, all bathed in the same soft evening glow.
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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leighgoodwin.bsky.social
#art Diane Diederich
#haiku #micropoem

#resist
one tree, white sky, white earth, one track — footsteps, from solitude into joy photograph
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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leighgoodwin.bsky.social
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
the verticality of mountains falling through water to sea shores through solitude to the small homes that shelter us vertical cut paper landscape
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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catbake.bsky.social
gently extending
tiny snail-horns to the moon
ferns in the gutter
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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miya1156.bsky.social
Friday morning
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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jdubqca.bsky.social
jmattwaters.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/m...

~ the penultimate installment of my creative writing project

(26/27)
My Own Creation
by J Matthew Waters We sat in silence. The scent of brine and mistrust hanging in the air. Susan’s words—the real one is priceless—had cut to the core, leaving only a cold uncertainty. I brok…
jmattwaters.wordpress.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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jeffreadwrite.bsky.social
The Pond.
Just west of the Withy.
The Pond. The Pond. The Pond.
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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haikupoet.bsky.social
an autumn tree
its only decoration...
birdsong

#haiku
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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graywyvern.bsky.social
#tankapoem
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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leighgoodwin.bsky.social
Just for love,
in stormy times.
May we all
come safely through.

#resist

#poem thread 1/3
one gull in sunfall, and our stormy waters our misted islands — cold northland seas photograph
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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krislindbeck.bsky.social
all the poems
torn, crumpled, burnt
the songs unwritten
Evanescent as birdsong
sacred as spring's first frog

#tanka in response
oevermann.bsky.social Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 3d
A lot of what we call “the canon” is not “the best” so much as “the survived” - the work that got copied, funded, taught, archived, distributed, translated, reprinted, passed hand to hand.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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asurashaiku.bsky.social
it seems to have
a long, long tail
autumn's end

--Maya Okuzaka

長々と尾のあるごとし秋の暮　奥坂まや

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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asurashaiku.bsky.social
the sound of a thousand
people taking their seats
the rainy season deepens

--Maya Okuzaka

千人の着席の音梅雨深し　奥坂まや

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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haikushelf.bsky.social
on a day in fall
folding laundry
in a world of disorder

#haiku
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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haibunation.bsky.social
blustery day—
I handed my voice
to the wind:
by now it must
be counties away
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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muederkrieger.bsky.social
a well timed
jump out of the way!
autumn scree

#vss365
#InkMine #scree
#Haiku #micropoetry
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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muederkrieger.bsky.social
behind glass
the ancient redolence
in a bookcase

#HaikuChallenge #redolance
#thingstowriteabout #bookcase
#Haiku #micropoetry
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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muederkrieger.bsky.social
severe frost
in the castle keep
no fireplace

#DailyHaikuPrompt #frost
#thingstowriteabout #castle
#Haiku #micropoetry
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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muederkrieger.bsky.social
reflective,I
look at the passing year...
birds gone south

#vss365 reflection
#Haiku #micropoetry
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
joypops.bsky.social
pale dawn~
snow breaks sharply
at each step

#haiku
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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oyoguhito.bsky.social
out of nowhere
the fox mist stalks
the graves
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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oyoguhito.bsky.social
a breath of mist
the sound of a drip
then another
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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leighgoodwin.bsky.social
#art Constança Cabral
#haiku #micropoem

#resist
now is the season of rain: on bare twigs red hips of roses — love remains photograph
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM