John North

Waait... England play Panama and Croatia?? This is the same World Cup as last time!!!

Kinpu Shrine, Yoshino, Nara, Japan

Photography by Hakuei_Photo

between branch and branch
the spaces where flowers were
filling with moonlight

cirrus-clouded
this soft winter moon rises
into sunset

#haiku

this bare silver tree
decorated for winter
yellow crabapples

Full of ideas for the new year at The Herb Farm. Mostly ideas about tea...

I flippin' did it!
It took me two whole hours —
but I wrote haiku!

#haiku #arspoetica

snow, the crow's tracks drawn
on icy breath of winter —
a language fading

apples on light veins
of silver – bright seeds floating
on a wine dark sea

glittering refrain
of constellations, their names
sung, quiet carols

and the milky way
the first brushstroke of its child
learning to see stars

I'm finding myself hugely inspired by Bluesky haiku community's haiku tonight! You're all amazing!

I'm finding myself hugely inspired by Bluesky haiku community's haiku tonight! You're all amazing!

snow
heavy in the trees…
the crow's breath

#haiku #poetry

snow, the crow's tracks drawn
on icy breath of winter —
a language fading

nights constellations
decorate cold silver light
glittering refrain

#dailyhaikuprompt. Cold night

the full moon
a lidless tin of
white gloss paint

#DailyHaikuPrompt (Moon, Paint)
#haiku

evening orchard —
apples
almost stars
#haiku #poetry

apples on light veins
of silver – bright seeds floating
on a wine dark sea

glittering refrain
of constellations, their names
sung, quiet carols

and the milky way
the first brushstroke of its child
learning to see stars

thin edge of the moon
the long ridge above the town
a sharpening stone

May all your nights still
be a sea of stars becalmed,
your heart gliding east.

#haiku

The Herb Farm on Instagram: "John + Yunnan = waxing lyrical while he makes your teabags" 2 likes, 0 comments - theherbfarm.co.uk on December 2, 2025: "John + Yunnan = waxing lyrical while he makes your teabags".

Hello it's #me
talking about how much I love #tea

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Having fun recently mixing teas

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I flippin' did it!
It took me two whole hours —
but I wrote haiku!

#haiku #arspoetica

The problem with Bluesky and indeed the internet as a whole is that people can actually read the words I write.

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I think this thought every day. Sometimes before I write the things. Sometimes during I write the things. Sometimes just after I write the things SO I CAN DELETE THEM BEFORE ANYONE SEES. Sometimes... too late...

When a poem becomes a prayer.

Siegfried Sassoon (1934)

#suave autumn ends
daylight steeped in bitterness
green #tea left outside

#vss365 #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #nature