PoetiCalli

love this one!

Leap forward, clock!
If only America
Could do the same

#haiku #poetry #flowers #nature

Steady rain.
Chortling Robins
Sweet symphony!

Bright red berries
Disappearing
Happy birds!

#Haiku, #poetry, #birds

Much needed rain
Plum tree blossoms
Soon will be falling

Fruit or leaf?
Unseen genetic decisions
Amazing

#haiku #poetry #flowers

An Introvert Tries to do Marketing I close my eyes and typeCreative EnergyAlive and freeMarketing makes me feelIncompetent and queasyStrange dichotomyBooks need two breaths of lifeAuthor's inspirationReaders' validation As I launch my new book, I feel myself cowering at the prospect of trying to make it known to people. I keep coming back to some words penned by Robert Service, the poet of the Yukon gold rush:

Some thoughts on book marketing #haiku #poetry #books #freebook #reading #psychology #fairytale #authors #writing #nature #birds #horses

Dreams, Fairy Tales, and the Search for Self What is the earliest big dream you can remember having in your life? By “big” I mean a dream that left behind very vivid images and powerful feelings of connection to mystery. I may be odd in this respect, but this has always been an easy question for me to answer. I can place the dream quite precisely in time because of a geographical move my family made, which was a big psychic event for me.

#authors #books #freebook #reading #fairytale #haiku #poetry #neurodivergent #introverts #nature #horses #psychology #magicalrealism #writers

Caliginous
Dark, Misty, obscurity
Like a dream

Matutinal
Of the morning
Bright Dawn, first birdsong

#haiku #poetry #obscurewords

Sweet!

Slumbering nature
Strange it seems that with age
I miss you, snow

#haiku #poetry #nature #art #snow

wood block painting by Kawase Hasui

Tangled vines
Silhouettes across the wall
Full moon's artistry

#haiku #poetry

A lost fragment of a dream
Floats into view
Late in the day

Believed extinct
In the morning
The image is somehow rekindled

Ordinary life recedes
Attention riveted
The image is all

The mystery is real
Interior, transcendent
The cosmos in a dream
#haiku #poetry #nature #dreams #psychology

I have a dream
That one day soon
This evil will recede

That the true content
Of our national character
Will triumph

It's more than a dream
A belief, a fact
A matter of time

#haiku #poetry #Martinlutherking #minneapolis

Sensing longer days now
Near Gramma's birthday
Happy remembrance

#haiku #poetry #wildflower #nature

"Warrior's plume" an uncommon winter wildflower

Yes!

Thank you!

Scruffy coyote
You're back, in your winter coat
But wait ...

Tufts of thick fur
Patches of bare skin
Left leg raw and red

Many fear you, hate you
Maybe they don't see
How hard your life is

#haiku #poetry #nature #coyote

love the rainbow!

Wildflower blue
Democratic blue
A year of triumphant blue!

#haiku #poetry #wildflowers #nature
Pacific Hound's Tongue (the leaves look like a canine tongue), a common forest wildflower

I know it sounds trite
But may our collective path forward
Restore sanity and light

#poetry #newyear

Sometimes I feel wounded when I encounter non-understanding in people (this happens rarely these days). It was one of those little magic wow!! moments when I read your bio here. Happy new year!

challenges? Always fretting that my pace of reading/writing is sooo slow compared to others. I use dictation for my email, which helps. Though I read slowly, I remember things very well, and am always making connections in my mind. I think the dyslexia deepens my connection to words and stories.

Thank you!!

I'm happy to meet you here!

I hoped that Bluesky
Might be a nice place
For a poet who's shy

And so it has been
The community here
A bright spot in my year

#haiku #poetry #holidays
Thank you and Happy Holidays to everyone!!

I'm also dyslexic!

As a lover of birds
And poetic flights
I wish a merry solstice to all
And to all a good night!

#poetry #solstice

Mountain bikes, hikers
Tiny salamander
Treacherous crossing!

#haiku #poetry #nature #salamander

Red berries, silver bells
December daffodils
I miss white snow

"Toyon" berries, a California native plant. Waxwings love these!!

I haven't checked in for a while. So easy to lose touch! You still have beautiful posts

"Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all."

--Rime of the Ancient Mariner
#poetry