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Farah Ali

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UK author of the Deerleap Hollow Series🦌🩸 ✍🏼 poetry including haiku tanka haibun Multi-award-winning Pushcart Prize nominated Touchstone Award shortlisted πŸ–€Horror movies nature books art gardening PhD.🌸ND🌸 Freedom for all πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ https://linktr.ee/farahauthor

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Thank you πŸ˜„

28.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

οΏΌβ™₯️

28.02.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

blood moon
fifty seven dead school girls
and counting
#senryu

28.02.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s unbearable

28.02.2026 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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empty vessel
echoes of once
chaotic good
and bad avatars hung
manifestations scratching
at the doors untouched
reality is broken in two
and the red waters flow

#micropoetry #poetry #writerslife

28.02.2026 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you πŸ˜„β€οΈ

28.02.2026 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two pieces of #microfiction

β€˜Worth a Pretty Penne’

β€˜Bee the Change’

(Nailpolish Stories)

28.02.2026 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

drumbeat of rain
against the old boat
the odour of rust

(Cafe Haiku)

#haiku #poetry #micropoem

27.02.2026 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Autistic woman celebrates rare burst of energy by running herself into the ground again An autistic woman experiencing a rare burst of energy has decided to mark the occasion by doing all the things that exhausted her in the first place. Navya Randhawa, 36, was recently forced to take a…

An autistic woman experiencing a rare burst of energy has decided to mark the occasion by doing all the things that exhausted her in the first place.

27.02.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 242    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 14

Love it!

28.02.2026 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For sure

27.02.2026 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watched Tarot (2024) not scary, a bit silly, but easy watching

#horrormovie #supernaturalhorror

27.02.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

drumbeat of rain
against the old boat
the odour of rust

(Cafe Haiku)

#haiku #poetry #micropoem

27.02.2026 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Stardust became her…a second skin in a world gone grey…

22.11.2024 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 240    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of minions are standing next to each other and one of them is saying woohoo yeah . ALT: a group of minions are standing next to each other and one of them is saying woohoo yeah .
26.02.2026 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Crustaceans are arthropods too in case that will convince you πŸ˜ƒ

But that’s ok fish are nice 🐑🐠🐟

26.02.2026 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

recovery
practising my smile
in the mirror

(Failed Haiku)

#senryu #haiku #micropoem

26.02.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Giles. Don’t get me wrong. I like fish. But have you considered switching to arthropods?

26.02.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh thank you

26.02.2026 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

recovery
practising my smile
in the mirror

(Failed Haiku)

#senryu #haiku #micropoem

26.02.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’–

26.02.2026 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

chiming purple
a cascade of wisteria
sways in the breeze

(Cafe Haiku)

#haiku #micropoetry

25.02.2026 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

All the time :)

25.02.2026 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

chiming purple
a cascade of wisteria
sways in the breeze

(Cafe Haiku)

#haiku #micropoetry

25.02.2026 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

emptiness…
lobster pots rust
on the seashore

(Chrysanthemum)

#haiku #poetry

23.02.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

emptiness…
lobster pots rust
on the seashore

(Chrysanthemum)

#haiku #poetry

23.02.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜warp and weft’

(tiny wren lit)

#poetry #micropoem #poetrycommunity

20.02.2026 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
let the papers 

lie

loose

stapled at edges
the pains 
collude

C. Oulens

let the papers lie loose stapled at edges the pains collude C. Oulens

For #fragmentsfriday a #micropoem
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#Oulens #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity

20.02.2026 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

visiting
her grave
a butterfly

20.02.2026 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

hospital window
the moon caught
in the IV drip

#modernhaiku

21.02.2026 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0