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Farah Ali

@farahauthor.bsky.social

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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Ooh a blue lobster πŸ₯Ή magical and lucky too

05.03.2026 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! Antlers are very strange miracles of nature. Thank you πŸ˜‚, not sure what I’d do with them but maybe I’ll trip over some one day

04.03.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The poem Moss and Shadow by Farah Ali

The poem Moss and Shadow by Farah Ali

β€˜Moss and Shadow’

(Anthology: The Half-Life of Echoes)

#micropoetry #poem #poetry

03.03.2026 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

hinomayo blossoms
another reason
to stay alive

(Failed Haiku)

#senryu #haiku #micropoetry

04.03.2026 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I think so…and rather awkwardly they don’t drop both antlers at the same time so it might be tricky to get a pair would be amazing tho

04.03.2026 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you πŸ’š ooh nice I love wild deer 🦌 I’m desperate to own a pair of cast antlers πŸ˜‚

03.03.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
MicroFiction for AmpersandAfterDark Prompt from @madp03t.bsky.social 
Almost Through
I spend most evenings reading. Lamp on, chair angled toward the window, the soft hush of pages. I like knowing someone is there on the other side, moving their eyes where I guide them.
Most skim. 
You didn’t. You lingered. You underlined me. You pause where I intend. You breathe where I leave space. I’ve begun to anticipate you.
When you turn a page, something shifts here. The margins widen. The air grows warmer. I feel the pressure of your thumb along my spine.
Last night, a crease appeared in the corner before you folded it.
When you close the book, the room narrows.
Open me again.

    I am almost through

MicroFiction for AmpersandAfterDark Prompt from @madp03t.bsky.social Almost Through I spend most evenings reading. Lamp on, chair angled toward the window, the soft hush of pages. I like knowing someone is there on the other side, moving their eyes where I guide them. Most skim. You didn’t. You lingered. You underlined me. You pause where I intend. You breathe where I leave space. I’ve begun to anticipate you. When you turn a page, something shifts here. The margins widen. The air grows warmer. I feel the pressure of your thumb along my spine. Last night, a crease appeared in the corner before you folded it. When you close the book, the room narrows. Open me again. I am almost through

For #AmpersandAfterDark Challenge 005
Micro fiction beginning in ordinary reality...does the ending seem plausibly normal ...or my own irrational fear?

#writingprompt

03.03.2026 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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very grateful to appear in this delightful journal

Tony Pupello, EditorπŸ™πŸΌ
tsuri-dōrō

#haiku

01.03.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
The poem Moss and Shadow by Farah Ali

The poem Moss and Shadow by Farah Ali

β€˜Moss and Shadow’

(Anthology: The Half-Life of Echoes)

#micropoetry #poem #poetry

03.03.2026 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just released!
modŏ – new & selected
A collection of one-line haiku
by Alan Summers
www.callofthepage.org

#haiku #monostich #monoku

03.03.2026 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

02.03.2026 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 13360    πŸ” 4249    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 172

Get some tmw πŸ˜„

02.03.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I love this chocolate

02.03.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Really lovely poem ❀️

01.03.2026 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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US-Israeli-led bombing hit a girls school…

Death toll now at 150

A war launched illegally by two depraved men desperate to cling to power and stay out of jail

…and they call others terrorists.

01.03.2026 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 741    πŸ” 253    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 13

I know simultaneous submissions are logical and much more time-efficient but I just can’t seem to…stoopid brain

01.03.2026 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

through heavy rain
a bird calls harshly, once, twice
as if complaining

#haiku

28.02.2026 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 100 people Israeli strikes targeted a girls' school in the southern city of Minab and another school east of Tehran.

This story is not on the front page of every British newspaper today.
Imagine if this was Israel, the U.S., or us?

Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 100 people | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera share.google/i9h4LWZs8AuA...

01.03.2026 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    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‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Autistic woman browsing Netflix will probably end up rewatching lifetime of shame An autistic woman searching Netflix for something new to watch will likely settle on her usual showreel of mortifying life moments that make her wish she’d never been born, it has been rumoured. …

An autistic woman searching Netflix for something new to watch will likely settle on her usual showreel of mortifying life moments that make her wish she’d never been born, it has been rumoured.

01.03.2026 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 124    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

Thank you πŸ˜„

28.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    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

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‘ 9    πŸ” 3    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‘ 26    πŸ” 5    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‘ 247    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 14

Love it!

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