David

Haiku by C. Oulens clouds removed the moon from a careless sleepy pond the frog framed for crime!

delighted to share that 3 of my #Haiku have been selected by #575haikujournal. Sharing the one published today.

Huge thanks to Editor #DJTyrer

#Oulens
#poetry #poetrycommunity #BlueskyPoetry #blueskypoets

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Sunlight flickers through
thin ice, patient catfish swims
in warming waters

#dailyhaikuprompt catfish/thin/ice
#haiku
#poem
#poet
#poetry
#micropoetry
#writingcommunity

I toss a silvery net across
the satin-rippled water
and gather in
my catch
of slippery stars.

#5lines #micropoetry #poetry

first autumn mist
on summers patchwork quilt
it's nearly time to pack

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#haiku #senryu #tanka

Charm defeated me
Turned off flow of syllables
Staring at the moon

#charm #haiku #haikupoem #575poem #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #haikufeels #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry #dailyhaikuprompt #haikusaturday #vss365 #vssdaily #senryu #haikuwriter #exercise

𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑥
𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡
𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡
𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
𝑖 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛

#FromOneLine 384 #prompt
#TankaThursday | #sunlight
#tanka
#2WordPromt | today, door
#grief

trees through the window
filled with the semblance of air
nearly convincing

I also like the title track, "Eminence Front.” Some hard rocking tunes on that LP.

diving in and out
of the clouds
little birds & thoughts

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#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

A field of corn
Violet bouquet, apple trees
Sweet blooms and blessings

#dailyhaikuprompt Corn violet

Paris #photography #blackandwhite

when i was
not
you answered
#haiku #senyru #poetry

skirting thin ice
the weight of swans
separating

#dailyhaikuprompt (thin ice)
#haiku

A field of yellow flowers with heads turned in different directions. The sky is hazy and gray due to wildfires.

smoke filled sky…
a field of sunflowers
loses its compass

#haiku #wildfires #smoke
#airquality #sunflowers #smartist
📷 mine

I was blue walking along the front last night. Ralph ask me if I was alright. The kids in the lodge are getting a bit noisy firing guns all over the bedrooms and jumping about. Hope Alan's Mum is alright. Ralph said I would soon be at home talking to Miss Meacock. No luck yesterday.

If you start a sentence with "I'm not racist, but..." you may be surprised to learn that you are, in fact, a racist butt.

feeding a stray cat
its wariness palpable
no touch! only feed

#haiku

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everywhere
memories of you
withered roses

#haiku #poetry #grief

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It will be on regular rotation.

alone—
I eat all the salmonberries
on the trail

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Honorable Mention, Porad Haiku Award, 2017

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry

Lone streetlight
Flowers hung around
Cast shadows

#cityverse

Somehow this band completely escaped my attention (how is that even possible?) and knowing we have similar tastes I had a listen and wow! Thanks, Jeff!

she thinks she's lost
but the dark
is just a road to dawn...
wings she cannot see
tilt her chin upwards
each time
she forgets the light

#Photography - Mary
@mjwyatt.bsky.social

#DailyHaikuPrompt #pear #buds

such optimism
in a bombed out garden...
unfolding pear buds

one summer leaf
spirals to the ground
fall practice

#dailyhaikuprompt

‘Poetry pulled me out of the abyss’: keeping culture alive in Kharkiv – picture essay Eastern Ukraine’s biggest city is unsettlingly close to the Russian border and vulnerable to missile strikes, but there is a determination to maintain a cultural life, and a poetry festival is testame...

“When Kharkiv’s most celebrated poet, novelist and musician Serhii Zhadan performs his own poems, some rapt audience members mouth along, clearly knowing the verses by heart.”
#poetry #ukraine
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CHOMP!!! #barracuda #greatbarracuda #chomp #mywhatbigteethyouhave #yawn #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Concrete poem in the form of a swan and its reflection. Swan and Shadow BY JOHN HOLLANDER (December 1966).

‘Swan and Shadow’ John Hollander (Poetry Foundation). 🦢 #poetry