Magedah Shabo

Aww yay! This is my first year using one and it’s so nice 💕

I’m obsessed with the cats and I think I see a Hobonichi 🤍🤍

Thank you!

How beautiful! 🤍🖤

A white crescent moon against a blue sky. 📷 Dreamcatcher

Sometimes she gently whispers...

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

metallic wind—
maple leaves flash
their silver sides

the one who died
I think of as a flower
blooming on the tree

--Yukie Noma

逝く人を木に咲く花と思いけり　野間幸恵

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

I like when I’m standing in a gray, shadowy place and a sunbeam illuminates distant trees and clouds with a warm orange glow. Feels like a sign.
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Beacon
8”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel
Available on my website

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

tall clouds
above the highway—
I drift

#haiku
winter quince
enough for
the birds

September 20th 2024
Hollyhock

An abandoned pair of wooden structures tucked into a forested area. One is a larger cabin‑like building with weathered boards and the other is a smaller, more dilapidated shed. They sit just beyond a guardrail and a narrow body of water, with dense evergreens rising behind them.

"The world is full of places. Why is it that I am here? This place, this time? But you are here. The world is where you are."
— Wendell Berry

💛✨

Macro photograph of an abalone shell

Microcosm
#421 taken 8:53 pm
#photography
#art #abstractart #macrophotography

#DailyHaikuPrompt #barley

morning breeze
on the barley
a small blue butterfly

Lights #oilpainting #art

🤍

long wet rags of mist
in the scraggly teasel-field
larks sing from the ground

Photograph a bird standing in a whiteout scape

To hear, one must be silent.

Ursula Le Guin

maelstrom -
full moon dreams
sucked in by the sea

(pic: wolf moon, desaturated and the Atlantic Ocean near l'Île d'Oléron)

#ImageAndVerse
#photography
#seascape
#haiku
#poetry
#mono
#blackandwhite

Photo of trees in mist with gray sky, with one tree prominently on the right and a couple trees less visible in the bottom left corner. It’s not black and white but almost appears so.

quiet moments welcome
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#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #WomensArtBlueSky #Photography #PhotographersOnBlueSky #OregonCoast #Ocean #Mist #Trees #Oregon

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

summer drive
still pointing out
the horses

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

sparrows
despite the lightning
go on gathering

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics Clip HD | The Mortal Storm | Warner Archive

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch or (Rewatch) "The Mortal Storm" (1940) - Dir. Frank Borzage, about the rise of Nazism (starring Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan).

It so infuriated Joseph Goebbels that he banned it in Germany & also all MGM films.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12s...

I am re-reading my twitter archives, downloaded when I quit in early 2024.

Here's a #haiku inspired by a tanka from 2018

nothing I have
(night wind in bamboo)
has ever been mine

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett

#haiku
depths behind
the stars
we can’t see

Noticing the joy, calm or even mundanity in little, everyday things, in the face of all these big, awful things may seem pointless at the least, but it is a recognised technique for helping sensations of anxiety and overwhelm, so I will continue to do it for myself and for you. x x x

"Iris Agate" is a name used for a finely-banded agate producing a spectacular display of color when it is cut properly and illuminated through its very thin bands. [📷 Cosmic Aura Crystals]

Thank you!