Rachel Armes-McLaughlin

my phone sleeps face down
a small animal acting
like it’s not hungry

#haiku

A "ghost sign" from Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Ghost signs are remnant murals from many years ago and hold historical significance. My husband taught me about them when we saw this one. I took this photo following my father's funeral on December 7, 2024.

history bleeds through
time worn layers from years gone -
paint bloomed then faded

where air touched it, like warm breath
on a cold, dark evening

#DailyHaikuPrompt #breath #CoolEvening #haiku #tanka #poem #poetry #GhostSign #mural #history #ArtHistory #art #SiloamSprings #Arkansas #photography

Love this song.

#poetry #poems #poet #poetrycommunity

Girrrrl whatever 🤪😂💖

This is fun!!! @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social of COURSE you are the person I interacted with most 🫶 Looks like @annemorrigan.bsky.social, @yeehawpoems.bsky.social, @rayhourigan.bsky.social, and @ignorantfairy.bsky.social are the next most frequent.

from @anisota.net :
anisota.net/harvest

Thanks for sharing, @226press.bsky.social and @ignorantfairy.bsky.social!! 🫶

All, sorry I forget to thank many re-shares. They are always appreciated.

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A "ghost sign" from Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Ghost signs are remnant murals from many years ago and hold historical significance. My husband taught me about them when we saw this one. I took this photo following my father's funeral on December 7, 2024.

history bleeds through
time worn layers from years gone -
paint bloomed then faded

where air touched it, like warm breath
on a cold, dark evening

#DailyHaikuPrompt #breath #CoolEvening #haiku #tanka #poem #poetry #GhostSign #mural #history #ArtHistory #art #SiloamSprings #Arkansas #photography

My daughter Phoebe and I had a poem published at Collaborature this week. We wrote it together when she was 9, using those little magnets you arrange to form sentences on the fridge, which of course makes it my favorite poem ever!

"Mad Dark Winter Sky" collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/12/mad-...

I love this!! Isabelle and I write magnet tile poems, too ✨️

New painting! I’ve always been fascinated with bogs and came across this one in Ireland.

Danielle Eubank
Connemara Bog I
Oil on linen
30x24 in

#connemara #irelant #art #bog #national #park #water #reflection #losangelesartist #seascape #laartscene #painting

Wow!! How detailed. Great job 👏

By Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social

#poem #poetry #love

Picture from my lawn this morning

frosty, foggy dawn
ice crystals stretching on roofs,
lawns - winter beauty

#haikufeels #stretch #haiku #poem #poetry #winter #frost #photography

This reminds me of what a friend told a screaming fan, when I was shooting a red carpet event LA:

"Don't have heros, darling. They're just people, and people who don't deserve your respect will disappoint you."

Very nicely written. ✨️✍️

It seems
if you’ve been
alive long enough
those you once admired
will disappoint you

#emoetry #poetry

YouTube video by Salamonh Blue October: Calling you

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 9: The first song you'd put on a mixtape to a crush

This is closest I could get - there is no one song I could see myself sending to every crush I have ever had. Hubby and I used this as our recessional at our wedding reception 🥰 His favorite band.

#music is #poetry

Picture from my lawn this morning

frosty, foggy dawn
ice crystals stretching on roofs,
lawns - winter beauty

#haikufeels #stretch #haiku #poem #poetry #winter #frost #photography

frosty, foggy dawn
ice crystals stretching on roofs,
lawns - winter beauty

#haikufeels

a woman in a pink dress is smiling with the words name 's aphrodite below her ALT: a woman in a pink dress is smiling with the words name 's aphrodite below her

I meant to put the "old" description by the photography tag, not the goddess tag 😆

A Venus' Looking Glass flower I found many years ago. Only just learned its name today - Google Lens didn't exist back then 😆

Venus looking glass
beauty and resilience
like small, wild iris

#DailyHaikuPrompt #WildIris #haiku #poem #poetry #bloomscrolling #photography #mythology #venus #goddess (old - from a crappy phone in 2011)

When I found this (almost 15 years ago...jeeze...), I thought it looked like a tiny iris.

Long hair

#poetry #poems #poet #poetrycommunity #poem
A poem: Schrodinger's Grief

A...candy jane 👀😁

You're welcome!! 💖

a cartoon drawing of a person holding a pen over a jar of ink ALT: a cartoon drawing of a person holding a pen over a jar of ink

My lift to the sky today goes to @irk-irwell.bsky.social - great poems and they could use more followers!

#LiftToTheSky #poetry

My family and I watched this birds late yesterday afternoon/early evening

just #enough light left
for one last, lingering flight -
birds drift over us

#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #birds #photography

This is how the tree looks to me when taking off glasses
#ArtAdventCalendar #WeekXforXmas #Alphabetchallenge

Not today Santa.