elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs
banner
pleides.bsky.social
elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs
@pleides.bsky.social
Poetry, Micro-poems, Nature, Walking, Reading. East Coast Canada. No DMs. Banner Photo by me.
jersey calf online
we used to say they looked
like deer

#dailyhaikuprompt (calf) #haiku

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
October 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#bookrecommendation "Day Breaks at the Bottom of a Blue Sea by David Oliver Cranmer" (at Amazon) @haikubycrane.bsky.social I enjoy David's poems here so bought his new book. The moving titular poem has a crane fly stuck in candle wax. There are Human emotions. Connections with Nature. Good book!
July 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
daring red dress
with extravagant flounces
show-stealing poppy

#Haiku #Poppy #Flowers #Red
June 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Who's going first?
Slipping out of woolies
Magnolia bud

#DailyHaikuPrompt (no prompt)
#haiku #spring
April 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
[ Poems that have stayed with or influenced you. 1 Poem/ day. Images (with alt text) or links. ]

Day 10 - my last selection "A Few Words on the Soul"" by Wisława Szymborska Another cool poet. 😎 #Poemchallenge #poetrysky

www.best-poems.net/poem/few-wor...
middlestage.blogspot.com/2007/07/wisl...
March 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Choose Poems that have stayed with or influenced you.
1 Poem/ day for 10 days . Screenshots (with alt text) or links.

Day 9 - "A Light Exists in Spring" by Emily Dickinson

She's cool 😎 #Poemchallenge #poetrysky

allpoetry.com/poem/1363082...
March 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Choose Poems that have stayed with or influenced you.
1 Poem/ day for 10 days . Screenshots (with alt text) or links.

Day 8 - "The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
My Mom liked it; she'd recite the 1st & last verses.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45896/... #Poemchallenge #poetrysky
March 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Choose 10 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One Poem per day for 10 days. Screenshots (with alt text) or links.

Day 7 🕷️🕸️ A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/...

#Poemchallenge #poetrysky
March 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One Poem per day for maybe 10 days. Screenshots (with alt text) or links.

Day 5 Walking Across the Atlantic by Billy Collins
- for my poetry pals on the other side of the "Puddle"
#Poemchallenge #poetrysky
allpoetry.com/poem/1432718...
March 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One Poem per day for 20 days. Screenshots (with alt text) or links.
Day 4 - Tree by Jane Hirshfield
#Poemchallenge #poetrysky
www.poemhunter.com/poem/tree-61/
March 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One Poem per day for 20 days. Screenshots (with alt text) or links.

Day 3
#Poemchallenge #poetrysky

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49457/...
February 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One Poem per day for 20 days. Screenshots (with alt text) or links.
Day 2
#Poemchallenge #poetrysky
It's a poem I studied in grade school. I live on the island Acorn writes about.
canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca/acorn/poem1....
February 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One Poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just screenshots (with alt text) or links.

Day 1

#Poemchallenge #poetrysky
February 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I just wrote a #triolet

(here's how - poets.org/glossary/tri... )
February 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
hydrangea heads
soon will dislocate and tumble
across snowy yards

#DailyHaikuPrompt (Viburnum) #haiku
December 13, 2024 at 5:46 PM
husks of rose-hips
hang their shriveled heads
on bare stems

#DailyHaikuPrompt (dried fruit) #haiku
December 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM


winter frosts ferment
red-cheeked holly berries
(tipples for waxwings)

#DailyHaikuPrompt
(holly)

***********
photo by Jim Leonard of Cedar Waxwing snacking on holly berries - Project Feederwatch
feederwatch.org/wp-content/u...
December 7, 2024 at 5:30 PM
winter frosts ferment
red-cheeked holly berries
(tipples for waxwings)

#DailyPoetryPrompt (holly)

***********
photo by Jim Leonard of Cedar Waxwing snacking on holly berries - Project Feederwatch
December 7, 2024 at 5:20 PM