Enjoying this last day of #WriteOut writing Haiku and free verse poems with the community at the Arboretum

If the world were a
fast falling fountain flowing
hope could spring up now
@wb2025

#haiku
#HaikuPoetry
#HaikuSunday
#writeout
#GibbonsFountain
#Pittsburgh,PA
#WriteOut

A fountain plaque honoring the Gibbon Family in 1968

A cement pathway leading to a fountain on the side of the Heinz Hall building in Pittsburgh, PA

Hope springs up like a
fountain spilling over heart
borders and fears too

The fall fountain falls
Gently on the hurting place
protecting one's peace

#haiku
#HaikuPoetry
#HaikuSunday
#writeout
#GibbonsFountain
#Pittsburgh,PA

Heinz Hall formerly
Lowes Penn Theater Nineteen
Twenty Seventh Year
#HeinzHall
#Pittsburgh,PA
#haikupoetry
#WriteOut2025

Schenly Park patrons
pass by under a blue sky
Love whispering nigh
##haikuSaturday
#WriteOut2025
@wb2025

Black woman with natural hair, sitting on a bench with a journal in her lap and and pencil in her hand, writing.

Dear WriteOut,
Oh how I 've missed you.
Let me count the ways.
Your light illuminates my path, your gentle breeze cools the heat of my thoughts, your blue sky sings of hope and healing, you are my solace and in your soft solitude I surrender.
#WriteOut2025
#JapaneseBotanicalGardens
#Pittsburgh,PA

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Bowl of blackberries with a cup of orange juice and a cup of coffee

I'm Blackberry sweet
Bubbling goodness inside
Some summer surprise
#haikuSaturday

#centralparkNY
#WRITEOUT

Cool!😃🩶

Registered for #NCTE25 & #CEL25! 🤓

#writers
#WriteOut
#poetry
#dreams

That big bright blooming Baltimore sun be blasting beams beautifully this blessed day!
#poetryshanigans
#GoodMorningEveryone
#giveyourworriestoGodandgetonwithyourday

Masdive gray cloud

Luminous gray clouds
Saturate summer dog days
Sun comes after rain

#HaikuSaturday
#haiku
Haiku&photo@wb2025

The last official teacher day was today! I miss my kiddos! Now is the time to rest, heal, learn, advocate, teach, grow, inspire, engage in self-care, and spend time with my daughters! #summervibes #summer2025 #schoolisoutforsummer

Jack just followed Zachariah's creek, hunting
freedom, his
head held low, feet moving,
faster than a flash of lightning, chasing down
freedom, like a starved hell hound, craving liberty, its marrow to satisfy his searching soul
@Peter Wentz Farmstead (Plantation) PA #Juneteenth

Juneteenth, is not just another holiday, it's a movement
#keepmovinforward

This was a beautiful moment in my classroom- my ELL who speaks very little English, voluntarily helped my bilingual students convert their poems into Spanish, for their Father's Day poems! I loved seeing student collaboration!

Nature, nestled
so beautifully beneath
an open heaven,
so peaceful,
tranquil,
picturesque,
masterpiece,
daunting,
mysterious,
rugged,
inspirational,
inspirational,
humble,
soaked in good gifts,
like an unfurled
leaf
left for the taking.
@WB2025

Cars driving on a bridge

Suspended above
The mirky unknown below
focused on the goal
#haikuSaturday

Photography and poem@WB2025

The Son never shifts
His position and purpose changes not for us
#haiku
Photography&text@WB2025

Single pink rose in full bloom

Plush petals blossom
pirouette in the sunbeam
flutters of joy spring
#Haiku & photography@wb2025
#haikuSaturday

One great poet inspires another 🩷🩷

Rainbows remind me
treasured days are possible
the pot of gold near
#haikuSaturday
#haiku
#poetry
#poetseye
Photography & Poem @WB2025

Gathering up some morning #haiku #poetry into a single collection - play.soundslides.com/2m4wzBYn

Pink flowers open with a center core of yellow

pastel pink petals
In praise of spring buds and sprouts
fragrance fills the air
#haikuSaturday
#haiku
#poem
Photography & poem @WB2025

Hope is that chord
crocheting gray clouds
to sunbeams,
you notice its pattern peeking along the frame of sullenness, waiting to balloon with joy
Photography & poetry@wb2025

Mother’s Day without you is like,
a petal-less long stem rose
like the ocean without
a single drop of water,
like the moon lit sky
without a single star
to promenade its presence,
Another day and hope is seeking
sorrowful souls to save,
my voice unfurls…”take me.”
Photography&Poetry©WB2025

Two turtles i. A green pond, sitting on rocks, facing the sky.

basking in silence
breaking free from our shy shells
summer sun-soaked

Photography & Haiku@WB2025
#haikuSaturday
#haiku
#poetry

Sense can be made of it: a small man threatened by a giant of a woman. But how dreadful! Dr. Carla Hayden is simply Champion–of literacy, freedom to read, of diversity equity & inclusion. The loss of her leadership in the LoC is immense. Dr. Hayden, may you land where your light continues to shine.