Laughing Monkey

a crow's feather
on the forest path--
falling oak leaves

#hsiku

Photographer unknown, possibly by a young girl who was living @ the house @ time.
From undeveloped film found in a 120 yr old time capsule in the wall of a house
Developed by Mathieu Stern using cyanotype technique
#Caturday

diving into
the empty pool
Autumn leaves

#haiku

golden leaves falling
on the forest path--
Namu Amida Butsu

#haiku
#PureLandBuddhism
#Ippen
#nembutsu

Thank you, Chicago.

holding on
through the autumn breeze
the last ripe apple

#dailyhaikuprompt #ripe
#haiku #micropoetry

#dailyhaikuprompt #ripe #swing

ripe tomatoes
swinging to add fro
a house sparrow

morning light
revealing a world
of golden trees

#haiku

"One Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s knee was on his neck, another’s was grinding his back. Drenched with tear gas and pepper spray, George Retes might have wished that his 137 pounds were back in Kirkuk, Iraq, one of his Army deployments. Here's a glimpse of your tax dollars at work."

last call
a man and his demons
walk into the bar
#inkMine

i believe there are 4 states in which you can bypass law school by apprenticeship - but you still have to pass the bar - CA, VT, VA, WA

“My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul. Otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.”

—Carl Jung

Bestselling author Jodi Picoult pushes back after her musical is canceled by Indiana high school Jodi Picoult faces bans on both her books and a musical based on her novel “Between the Lines.” The superintendent of Mississinewa High School in Indiana canceled the musical last week, citing concern...

Author @jodipicoult.bsky.social is being banned in two mediums this fall — her books and now a high school musical.

“It’s devastating... kids who put in hundreds of hours of hard work had that torn away from them because of the objections of a single parent,” she says.
apnews.com/article/jodi...

#haiku
how did the feather
get stuck
on the ceiling

Old Polaroid shots.
Blurred candles at the party.
Irises flame red.

#BurnForTheCamera
#PoemsAbout

#haiku
pine boughs
move through
the mist

I follow
the small voice
out of the fog -

the white-throated
sparrows have
begun to sing
again

#poetry

Edward Bawden (1903-1989), linocut
#Caturday

“To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would, I don’t know, I wish it upon everybody. It’s heaven.” ~ Prince
Prince by Herb Ritts, 1991

Do not believe them.
Do not get used to this.
Keep your focus.
Stand your ground.

Hey, don’t fall asleep reading A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn or you’ll have weird dreams.

Farm workers wearing raincoats lined upturning in their picked strawberries

"Lia" works in the strawberry fields in Castroville, CA. She earns piece rate which means she works as quickly as possible. "Here I am in line waiting to turn in my box to be counted. It is raining. It's hard to work rapidly when we can slip due to all the mud." #WeFeedYou

the scent of wood
on the lumberjack's lap
rice with yams

--Aoji Sakurai

木こり木の匂ひをひざにむかご飯　桜井青路

#haiku #translation

fly on the mirror--
what does it think
of the other fly?

#haiku

sipping cold coffee
no longer unemployed--
first frost

#haiku

A worker with a bucket full of olives and his hands in the olive bucket

"Joaquin" shared this pic from where he is harvesting olives in Tulare County. He earns $6.50 per bucket. “This is my 1st season and I find the work dangerous as I continuously need to go up and down a ladder rapidly to harvest the olives." #WeFeedYou

gnawing a daikon
till it's gone...
the old man

Issa

#haiku

David G. Lanoue, trans.

sheets of rain…
outside
the sparrow

#haiku #poetry

#haiku
the sun
no longer goes down
fades if anything

A short reading from The Shoemaker’s Magician available in all bookstores today!