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William Hazel

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Books. Blogs. Travelogues. Perhaps poetry. I believe in ghosts, yoga, food trucks, local beer, and great coffee. Visit at williamhazelwrites.com

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Summer rain echoesโ€”
every drop against my heart
brings your face to mind.

#haikuchallenge
#haiku

08.07.2025 10:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Slow down. Read poetry.

02.07.2025 11:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sipping Red Now available.https://www.amazon.com/Sipping-Red-Poems-William-Hazel/dp/B0F3VXHDVK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FYWR0G4MKFK8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.UOvutKyg6mRBiFS5NRwLbA.EAU01JrUhbO_N4GzbBy4tGtaunMhA9BA58Z7wfDFjko&dib...

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02.07.2025 11:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Early coffee
brings your voice
in the hush before the light.

#haikuchallenge
#haiku

30.06.2025 03:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

four day visit
with my aging father
so much to unpack
#SenryuSunday #senryu

29.06.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

June turns thirty
acts twenty looks forty
all the days gone by

#haiku
#haikueveryday
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30.06.2025 10:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

firepits and
people we love
twenty ninth stokes bright

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#haikueveryday
ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

30.06.2025 00:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

twenty and now eight
fresh cut grass and a cold beer
dog day shade panting

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28.06.2025 20:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

wren rings clear high C
Alison Krauss would envy
twenty seven sings

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27.06.2025 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

leaving little words
along a wordless way
a twenty sixth trails

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26.06.2025 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hibiscus blooms
a bumble shoulders deep
twenty five feeds sweet

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ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

25.06.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Lexington Book Crawl Small towns with independent bookstores offer solace. Our recent adventure for hiking in the Shenandoah Valley found us staying just outside of Lexington, Virginia. Itโ€™s mostly identified with America...

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25.06.2025 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

twenty and four
turn up the heat
fireflies find love

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#haikueveryday
ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

25.06.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a twenty third moods
indigo in mellow tones
prelude to a kiss

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#haikueveryday
ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

23.06.2025 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

sundress soft falls
on a sun kissed twenty two
spaghetti strap slides

#haiku
#haikueveryday
ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

22.06.2025 21:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

twenty one
shows ID
barkeep buys a round

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#haikueveryday
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21.06.2025 21:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a twentieth brings
a solstice
with the mostest

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20.06.2025 21:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

another nineteenth
nervous breakdown
old songs resonate

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#haikueveryday
ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

19.06.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sky mirrors the sea;
two blues becoming one hue.
I fold into you.

#haikufeels #prompt #fold

18.06.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Folds straw, brings to lips.
Acid jeans hug her curved hips.
Fireflies dance in pairs. ๐Ÿ’ซ

#haiku
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18.06.2025 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

eighteen unbuttons
spring linen to navel
this tease of summer

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ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

18.06.2025 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

rain glossed crows
waiting on a wire
a seventeenth waits

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ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

17.06.2025 11:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

June turns sixteen
blossoming tan
and promising

#haiku
#haikueveryday
ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

16.06.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

fifteen times
around an impatient sun
these thundering nights

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15.06.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

blue highways
map a fourteenth
hidden valley waits

#haiku
#haikueveryday
ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

14.06.2025 09:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

finders are keepers
only for a while
friday thirteen masks

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#haikueveryday
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13.06.2025 11:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

twelve nights now
strawberry moon chalking
underbough of dark

#haiku
#haikueveryday
ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

12.06.2025 23:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A great blue heron standing at dusk, lakeside.

A great blue heron standing at dusk, lakeside.

some summer past
in the ghost
of my mind
I stand on the shore
and look towards
you

12.06.2025 12:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

she stands perfectly
still, glowing across star fields
sweet strawberry moon

#haiku #fullmoon

11.06.2025 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

like library dust
blue screen doom scrolls dulling
eleventhโ€™s shelves

#haiku
#haikueveryday
ยฉWilliam Hazel, 2025

11.06.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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