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Lia Hayes
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Remember: poems are spells and meditation is health care.
#messyhaiku #mandalamaking
Pinned
"Optimism was advisable to wear"
-1984
#Orwellian
The empire wanes.
Between eruptions it wails
As we watch it burn.
#mesayhaiku #vss365
January 27, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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I pour hot water
into the frozen birdbath
think of my mother
do the birds miss her too?
my heart’s still broken

#TankaThursday frozen
#tankapoem #mpy draft from 2014 #micropoetry
January 25, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.
CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
www.nonviolent-conflict.org
January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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A really important moment to remember that meditation is only preparation for right action, never a replacement for it.
January 24, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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#SLIP

the enigmatic S.S. Voynich
prepping for its maiden voyage
unsourced voices
staticky tunes
arcane glyphs
and powder-drawn runes
resistant to standard brooms
unnerve the crew
of the engine room
but no time to ponder
portents of doom—
klaxons rage
as the Voynich slips
under the waves

#vss365
January 24, 2026 at 12:29 PM
I am a human
My thoughts are not fluid-
At least I'm not A.I.

#messyhaiku #seventeensyllables
January 24, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Old Merlin, the rambling wizard,
Was not daft but shrewd.
He carefully hid what he knew about magic; for a spell is more drizzle than downpour.

#magic #vss365
January 23, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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The people of Minnesota are an inspiration. They’re out in the freezing cold protesting ICE brutality and protecting their communities. They're delivering groceries to their vulnerable neighbors and forming human chains around schools during pickups.

We can’t leave them to do this work alone.
January 23, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The aurora borealis~
Unmoored from its celestial palace Travels in a Torus, from the magnetic End of beginning and back again.

The landscape dances, drenched in deep magentas; The dreamless sleep of a planetary being- undisturbed by the darkness.

#vss365 🌌
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 PM
One of my favorite authors said, "People don't want to read your story- they want to read THEIR story."

#writinglife #author #poet
January 22, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I've been sitting in front of a blank page for an hour and a half.
Sometimes a writer's life, is like that.
#poetry #journaling #waitingonthemuses
January 21, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Let time bend me back
To before the wind took you
To dance in the sky.
#messyhaiku
#vss365
January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
People on threads (meta) are mean. I live here now. Thanks for being lovely human beings ✨✔️🔊
January 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
occupy

dangerous barkeeps
occupy america
hubris served on ICE
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
That kooky burro sat
Under the cactus tree
Braying and moaning
about the heat of the day.

#vss365
January 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
It's all ick and ink
at breakneck speed
towards a future we DID conceive
but avoided...
The point is- we all knew better.
We shoulda fought harder for the underprivileged and the planet
So the children
coulda been protected...
It's a #travesty.
We're all guilty.
January 11, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Glitch the system.
Override their binary code.
We are not 8-bit souls.
Our hearts are carrier waves;
Asymptotic light rays
Of infinite hope.

#poetry #poemsforhope
January 11, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Horn #adorns the rhino,
poached for its price.

A tusk isn’t a flex either
elephants maimed
in a game by hunters
who know no shame.

Poor geckos captured
to cure cancer;
even whales are not safe.

What a disgrace,
the human race.

~rev
#vss365
January 8, 2026 at 1:47 PM
My form fades with age-
Ever more effervescent
Every. Single. Day.

#messyhaiku
December 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Mars, the god of war;
The ceremonial head
Of our mortal dread.

#messyhaiku
#vss365
December 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My recall withers
The deeper my mind wanders
Into the dream-realm.

#messyhaiku
#vss365
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Memory changes;
The more you revisit it,
The less real it is.

#vss365
December 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Keep the door open
Stoke the fire hotter, then
Leave me to simmer.
#messyhaiku
December 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
There was a young prince
Afraid to ask for favors-
Successor failure.

#vss365 #messyhaiku
December 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM