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Silvia Passiflora
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Silvia Passiflora, a Southern Gothic folk poet and Grammy®-considered songwriter, guides listeners with ukulele, banjo, and spoken word offering safe passage past life’s cliffhangers. www.silviapassiflora.com

📍Nashville / Atlanta & the South 🚗💨
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#1222 Grizzled

Grizzled, defeated
Rodin’s burghers walk to death
pardon stays their grief

#haikuhorrorprompt #grizzled #catastrophe #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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📸 Musee Rodin
From the Rodin museum’s site: Monument to The Burghers of Calais Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) This monument, commissioned to Rodin in 1884 by the city of Calais, celebrates the collective sacrifice of six notables who went to hand over the keys of the city to the victorious King of England at the end of the siege of 1346-47 during the Hundred Years' War. The six characters are individualized, united on the same base, but independent. Alone facing their destiny and death, they do not look at each other, do not touch. Simply dressed in a tunic, with a rope around their necks and bare feet, the condemned men begin their slow funeral march. Rodin gives each figure, studied naked before being draped in the condemned man's tunic, a particular gesture and movement - from despair to abandonment, from confidence to resignation.
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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#1199 Repair

Kintsugi repair
gold joinery for broken
china — flaws as art

#Haikufeels #repair #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
Example of kintsugi, the Japanese art and philosophy of repairing broken china with powdered gold or silver so that the repair becomes art, showing the flaws.
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#1195 Blue

Art Institute news:
The Man with the Blue Guitar
sang Chicago Blues

#blueskyrelay #blues/blue #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Pablo Picasso, “The Old Guitarist”, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1903.
Singer-songwriter Silvia Passiflora stands in front of Picasso’s The Old Guitarist, popularly known as The Man with the Blue Guitar which is in the permanent collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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#1159 Transient

The #hottiemobile —
transient musician packs
her life for the road

#blueskyrelay #transience/transient #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
#hottiemobile
Poet and musician Silvia Passiflora in front of the #hottiemobile. She is wearing a green floral Hawaiian gown with a ukulele with pink strap. One hand rests on the rear view mirror. Nashville.
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Thank you for the reposts and the kindness. If I miss a reply, know I still felt it. I’m grateful to share this little sky with all of you. 🎈
Silvia Passiflora in a hot air balloon mural in Nashville. She is holding her ukulele and wearing a tie-dye dress and straw hat.
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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#1109 Piano

Who could forget her
performance on the piano —
with “on” in air quotes?

#MichellePfeiffer #FabulousBakerBoys
#penstricken #writingprompt #inspiration #piano #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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Still of Michelle Pfeiffer on top of the piano in “The Fabulous Baker Boys”
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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#1107 Issue

End-of-year full page
Best of Atlanta issue
Blues ukulele

#vss365 #issue #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
#AtlantaMagazine #BestOfATL22

This was a surprise and honor from my first year of performing. I’m so grateful for the early recognition, it inspired me. 💗
Silvia Passiflora holding ukulele in a full page year-end publication for Atlanta Magazine 2022 for their Best of ATL issue.
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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#1084 Design

Golden ratios
Fibonacci sequences
Design perfection

#whistpr #design #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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#1025 Numinous

May those who seek their
love’s numinous twin behold
it first from within

#Writers #Poets #BlueSkyRelay #numinous #writingprompts #writing #fiction #poetry #BlueSkyWriters #SkyPoets #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
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November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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#996 Rot

Strange fruit, Durian
My senses tricked: nose smells rot
Tongue in ecstasy

#haikufeels #rot
Split open durian tropical fruit with its custardy segments to the side. Behind is a whole durian showcasing its spiky exterior.
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#994 Herd

Unlikely power
Herd of protestors wearing
green inflatables

#haikufeels #herd
Image appeared in WIRED
Protestor in Portland wearing green inflatable frog costume facing ICE agents.
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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#961 The Grammy® is Not a Trophy

They misunderstand,
the Grammy®
is not a trophy.
It’s a doorway,
and sometimes the novice knocks
just to prove the door exists.

————-

“Novice” derives from the Latin novicius (“newly come”) — used in monasteries for those beginning the vows
The poet-songwriter, Silvia Passiflora, in full-length floral gown bathed in purple stage light. Her shadow cast upon the wall behind. She has a ukulele strapped across her body as she gathers her gown to take a deep bow before the audience.
October 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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#959 The Queen’s Reconnaissance

The Queen does not chase.
She watches.
And the world, sensing her patience, rearranges itself to be chosen.
Closeup of the poet’s tiara
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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🎨💙 Florentinae
For Your Grammy® Consideration in Best Spoken Word Poetry Album

“The Man with the Blue Ukulele” — a track, a spoken word piece inspired by Picasso’s painting. Apple Music.

#SilviaPassiflora #Florentinae #FYC #SpokenWord #PoetryAlbum #PicassoInspired #GrammyConsideratio
October 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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#947
#ghastly behavior
from social trolls and haters
Why not ghost instead?

#haikufeels
#poetry
Poster for poetry group in Bluesky. The prompt is the word “ghastly” which appears in the middle of the flyer.
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Tin Foil Lunch

My experience as an immigrant kid. I later became a world-class chef and started my own boutique catering company. But I’ll never forget the childhood switch from foil lunches to baloney sandwiches.

#immigrant
#poet
September 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#944
And so I endure,
ignoring the gaze,
I endure for the river that drinks from my shade,
for the sparrow that lands
without asking my name.
Poet, smiling, holding a clay bird whistle.
September 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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#943

#Future Me thanks you —
Present Me — who took the leap
without thinking twice

#haikufeels
#grammyconsideredartist
#fyc
Poet in full length gown bathed in purple stage light taking a bow. She has a ukulele strapped across her body.
September 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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#942

#Long love letter ends
crumpled up in the draft pile
I sent emojis ❤️💕💓❣️

#haikufeels
#long
Image from a haiku club, the prompt is the word “long”
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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#940

Saturday left its baseball cap behind
There was no sun to remind it at the end of day
Sunday will have to pay a visit to return it
thrilled at the thought
Poet wearing baseball cap that reads: Nashville, Music City USA
September 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Hello!
September 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Rap soliloquy from “Moon Pillow”.
September 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Dear Adam, I sent you an invitation written on an apple…

#fyc
September 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Birds and Bees, an Appalachian love ballad on ukulele. #fyc
September 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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“The Heir of Blossoms” from Florentinae: Spoken Word Concertinas in Sacred Gardens #fyc
September 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM