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How do you feel about the use of present tense in stories? It always feels awkward to me to use as a writer or to read as a reader. Short bursts of it are okay, though #writingq #WritingCommunity

Hello everyone.

The #7syllablesentence prompt for February 23 is #string

Feb 11-24 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social
Feb 25-March 3 ?

Let me know if you want to host #7SyllableSentence

Thank you for your fabulous posts! 🐬🦋🏝️🌊🐳

They seek him here
They seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell
That damned elusive...

This is a black and white landscape nature photo I took of Lake Champlain from the shore in Burlington Vermont. Elegant rays fan over the glimmering lake. Winter sun's bright reflection glows atop the right surface of Champlain and stretches left into a thin line of light. Brooding clouds, the prominent horizon line, and a textured expanse of dark waves all add contrasting layers to the image. It was an effervescent moment that paused time, and inspired my latest senryu: sparkling champlain i sip a string of pearls Fun fact: Perlage is a wine (champagne) term to describe the continuous stream of small bubbles, often called a string of pearls, that rise inside the drinking glass.

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sparkling champlain
i sip
a string of pearls

#EastCoastKin
#Stunday
#ImageAndVerse

#senryu #senryusunday #micropoetry #photography #nature #NaHaiWriMo #classicmono

Indubitably!

Thanks, Tré!! 😄

#HaikuFeels #jam

Morning light on fur,
Teddy bear considers jam
A serious affair

Photo by Mark Stanley and used with permission

grasping at faded,
#bleached blooms - I can't recall the sound of your voice

#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #grief #death #bloomscrolling #photography

Photo by Mark Stanley and used with permission.

Calling all monarchs 🦋🦋

Yes, I know! I misspoke. I meant that my first impression was that it had been cropped but when I looked closer I saw it was a white field and not a crop at all. It's one of those photos that you can look at for a long time and notice more & more things. Like the openings in the tree line. So cool!

Love your haiku and how you tapped into the possibilities that lie in an open field and on a blank canvas or page. My first thought was, I wonder why she cropped the photo like that.

Cendrine Marrouat’s black and white haiga painting depicts a curvaceously bare tree. Centered amidst tall wisps of grass, its trunk tapers toward the base and splits at the top. The delicate grey wash background denotes a dusky, serene mood. Paired beneath the artwork floats an inked haiku on the right: In spring how easily one forgets winter

Week 3 of #NaHaiWriMo, we embark on a holistic path into #haiku through the incredible #haiga #art of Cendrine Marrouat (@cendrinemedia.bsky.social):

In spring
how easily one forgets
winter

Join us next Tuesday for more Haiku Month #WolfPack Highlights.

#PoetryCommunity #poetry #VisualPoetry ✍️

Close-up of a small snow-covered tree stump in a winter forest. The snow is in such a shape of a person giving the stump a hug. The textured bark contrasts with the snow.

Lessons from Nature, vol.6

sometimes, we all need a hug…
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#stumpday #hugsarefree #forestfinds #photography

#WritingQ #WritingCommunity

She doesn’t fear Hell’s cages.
She doesn’t fear Heaven’s.

She fears that if she stops mocking the world long enough, she might actually want to stay.

And that is the cage.

Here is a landscape nature photo I took of a snowy field in the Shenandoah Valley. The field's white triangle of hill meets a wedge of snow-covered trees. A white sky above reflects the snow below. The smoothness of the top and bottom of this image is contrasted by the inky texture of trees severing the scene in half. As an artist and writer, I see paper everywhere. Negative space makes me want to recreate moments and fill in the blank. Being drawn in by this wintery expanse inspired my latest haiku: snowy field the vastness of a blank page

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snowy field
the vastness
of a blank page

#EastCoastKin
#ImageAndVerse
#Cassiopeian Vast

#haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Landscape #ClassicMono

Thank you,Niji. I always appreciate your prose and thoughtful insights.

I hope you find it! I watched the documentary on Netflix about their history and 100 year anniversary. It's fantastic if you get a chance to see it.

Thanks 😊 I agree 💯 I’m normally #FreeHaiku all the way, but for a rant about limits, I figured the 5/7/5 leash was the way to go 😄

#vss365 #dark

just before sunrise
time inhales the dark

The #dark tugs at me
with silver-tongued promises
of comfort and numbness,
absolution from the horrors of this
world

Yet I resist, eyes wide open
heart cracking in two
as I hang by a thread, remembering that somewhere in the haze above remains a sun

#vss365

The waves rose
as if to touch the sky
The ocean heave-ho'd
to give another try

#vss365 #poetry #writingprompt #touch

📸 free pik

Love! Also, I see a water 👻

The moon shining through trees and down on a secluded road in the middle of the night.

halo moon,
more snow
on the way
#haiku

This is a nature photo Tré took of a curved poplar branch in the snow. Beneath a white daytime gloom, the background's bokeh features falling flakes and an evergreen forest. A few snowflakes float, suspended around the limb. The scene provokes a chilled serenity that inspired Tré's latest free verse haiku: around poplar's snowy bend another short road

Week 2 of #NaHaiWriMo, we explore winter imagery with this #freeverse #haiku from Tré (@tregallery.com):

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around poplar's
snowy bend
another short road

Thank you for joining our Haiku Month Wolf Pack Highlights every Tuesday.

#PoetryCommunity #poetry #photography #imageandverse ✍️

Book cover reading “The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker” with two pressed leaves placed on the front. One is a large dark purple, star shaped leaf and a smaller pinkish red leaf.

Do I always get their jokes?
No.

Does their book press a perfect leaf? Absolutely.

#NewYorkerCartoons

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

Black-and-white studio portrait of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, a Native American woman in her thirties or forties, facing forward with a calm, direct gaze toward the camera. She has dark hair pulled back neatly into a bun, prominent cheekbones, and a serious yet composed expression. She wears a high-necked, long-sleeved dark Victorian-style dress with a patterned white lace or floral insert at the collar, creating a contrast against the solid dark fabric.

Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first #NativeAmerican woman to become a physician in the United States. A member of the Omaha tribe, she campaigned for public health & for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of her tribe.

#WomensPhysiciansDay #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine

IKR. Haikus are so limiting but also so liberating somehow 😄