Laughing Monkey

making my way home
checking the mail
there's a letter
from the dead one
things fade into the background

#gogyohka

#DailyHaikuPrompt #MorningGlory #note

morning glory
a blackbird sings high notes
from a bare branch

my kid
eye to eye
with a frog -
i re-read
Zora's "Their Eyes
Were Watching God"

#sedoka

A worker harvesting strawberries in muddy ground

Chocolate covered strawberries are a great #ValentinesDay treat. Let's give a cheer for workers like "Eva" who was laboring in Ventura County CA. She had to trudging through slippery muddy rows to bring this sweet fruit to our table. #WeFeedYou

there’s a ton of ambiguous grief and possibly shame floating just under my conscious and i won’t deny i have been struggling with a really strong temptation to fall back into the bad old self-harm and worse habits to cope with it

i know instead i need to find a way to really feel the feelings

nestled
in the world of dreams
a morning storm
walks through town
with heavy feet

#gogyohka

under dark pines
the miller’s wife
fills her basket
with moon-pale
mushrooms

#UnknownFairyTales
#tanka

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My poem "Briar Rose" has been published in the new edition of Stygian Lepus!
You can check it out here:
www.stygianlepus.com/edition-32/ #writing #poetry #writingcommunity #fantasy #poetrycommunity #speculative

Illustration by Kate Greenaway from Kate Greenaway by M.H. Spielmann and G.S. Layard, London, 1905. #booksky #artsky

maybe my favourite fox portrait I've ever drawn, plus some more flora and fauna of Scotland 🧡🦊🐰

red foxes and mountain hares, an orange tip butterfly, harebells and trailing azalea 🌷🐇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I've got 2 books out on sale on Amazon - both Sci-Fi stories. "Veritas" ia wide ranging epic & Guilty a sharp exciting thriller. Why not check them out? 💙📚🪐
#scifi #books #sciencefiction #bookstoread #fiction #SciFiBooks #SciFiReads #Futuristic #BookSky

running out of sake
it's time to get serious...
moon-gazing

Issa
#haiku

Lanoue, trans.

love this!

New Plein air from my studio window.

… plane loothe unbearable lightnessof peeing — Timothy Daly

A new verse from returning contributor Timothy Daly:

plane loo
the unbearable lightness
of peeing

— Timothy Daly

Pink flower floating in a dark water colored stream.

patriarchal society
and mansplaining be damned
little do they realize
we gifted ourselves
a one-way ticket to paradise

#micropoetry #poetry #writer

I enter a password
yet frost
doesn’t disappear

Fumiko Sato
#haiku

Fay Aoyagi, trans..

dark, damp day
the child in wellies
waterproof

#vss365 #haiku #poetry

autumn dusk
silvering
the crow’s feathers

#haiku

©️ Cristian Berga

Nada de Palestina

Februllage 2026
Day 13 - Watermelon.

#Februllage
#Februllage2026
#FebrullageWatermelon
#analogcollage

Boxes filled with lemons at the side of an orchard

"Javier" harvest lemons in the Springville CA area. As he works through the dense leaves picking and sorting lemons, he protects his arms with gloves and leather sleeves to be safe of the two inch thorns that can prick him. He earns $35 per 900 lb bin #WeFeedYou

… Yippee-Ki-YayMotherMay I-beamMe up scotch tapeMe home countryRhoads scholar! — Keith Snow

A new verse from returning contributor Keith Snow:

Yippee-Ki-Yay
Mother
May I-beam
Me up scotch tape
Me home country
Rhoads scholar!

— Keith Snow

… shark-infested teddy bears kahu — Roberta Beach Jacobson

A new verse from returning contributor Roberta Beach Jacobson:

shark-infested teddy bears kahu

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

©️ Cristian Berga

De raíz.

Februllage 2026
Day 11 - Plant.

#Februllage
#Februllage2026
#FebrullagePlant
#analogcollage

watching the downpour
from under a temple
bell

Issa
#haiku

Lanoue, trans.

A worker bent over harvesting strawberries

"Juan" has been working in the strawberries in Santa Maria CA for 14 years. "Right now I'm picking strawberries, and I'm working fast because I get paid by the box. I have to pick as many as I can each day. I get very tired from bending over all the time." #WeFeedYou

Electric Dyson Olive your trad wifea high priestess,smelling of sulphur — Richard Magahiz

A new verse from returning contributor Richard Magahiz:

𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝘆𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲

your trad wife
a high priestess,
smelling of sulphur

— Richard Magahiz

These farm workers are preparing for the strawberry harvest. They're weeding & removing the runners (leafless stems) that can steal nutrients from the plants. This step will also make it easier for workers to move efficiently and harvest more during the harvest season. #WeFeedYou

#haiku
three spoons
each making
its own stain

Red lipped Smokey and a Diet Coke #oilpainting #art