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Author of Dead Burying the Dead Under a Quaking Aspen. Words in Chicken Soup for the Soul, LitReactor, The Five-Two, Live Nude Poems & many others. 💬 No private chats.
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A spotted trunkfish goes SKKRRTTT in slow motion #spottedtrunkfish #swimminghandbag #trunkfish #boxfish #skkrrttt #slowmotion #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf

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nettle blossom— the family of ducks nest in a tractor tire — Published in Presence, #53, 2015 #haiku #poetry #poem

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Everything is such complete bullshit right now, but writing and reading poetry definitely helps.

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listen… a new bird is calling a traveler #haiku #poetrycommunity

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soft rain— silence falls from leaf to leaf

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#DailyHaikuPrompt #harvest harvest time remembering my childhood in hymns

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I recently became an octogenarian.

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The sky now turns green as the trees begin to breathe with vibrant new growth. #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #Newleaves

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. April sky so gray, a tint I know way too well. Disillusions me. Somehow I feel sympathy ... Sunshine stuck in yesterday. #tanka

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Letting space breathe so I can hear the sky's stories #Poetry

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let it be said of me that the mountains were her cradle and her playground was the sea #poetry

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red spectrum held light Spring deepens its painted hues leafless trees flower...

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smell of spring grass a ladybug launches from my finger #dailyhaikuprompt #grass #haiku #poetry

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Delighted to be part of Haiku Dialogue this week - thanks to Guest Editor Allyson Whipple. #haiku thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

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all the worlds he crosses to be at my window . . . lonesome moon #haiku

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forest sunrise through the fresh new leaves pools of green light #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

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I'm attending California Democratic Party's event, “Auburn Area Democratic Club Membership Drive” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/cadems/event...

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I walked down what should be a scenic country road but instead found trash strewn everywhere. I picked up a bag full and will go back tomorrow to get what you see in the picture. I’d like to say things were not like this when I was a kid but sadly some things never change.

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sweet herbal exhales bathing in the starlit sky finding peace of mind #haiku #micropoem #poetry #blazing #stargazing ✨

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. new green grass -- looks like hope feels like work #dailyhaikuprompt (grass) #senryu #haiku

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Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.

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Open carriages are nasty things. A clean gown is not five minutes' wear in them. You are splashed getting in and getting out; and the wind takes your hair and your bonnet in every direction. I hate an open carriage myself. #JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey

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grey spring sky grass waits impatiently for more rain #dailyhaikuprompt (spring sky) #haiku #spring #EarthDay 🌎🌍🌏

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As today is #EarthDay I wanted to explore biodiversity loss and what wildlife #JaneAusten would have seen when she stepped outdoors - how different was it really? So I did some digging around and the answer really shocked me: bit.ly/3EymeGD

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A cool break taken In a season hot with words. Relief in silence. #haiku #senryu

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Want to win a signed copy of TajMo's new album 'Room On The Porch?' Post photos and videos of your dogs using this audio with the hashtag #TajMo for a chance to win! 🐾🦴 @tajmahalblues.bsky.social

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Mark Gilbert (Tw/X: @ MarkgZero ) has likely been wondering what happened to this #haiku , submitted & selected long ago, but FreshOut has been saving it for today - #EarthDay #poetry #micropoetry #poetrylovers #earth #poetrycommunity #environment #climate #human

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a smudge of blackbirds swirling into evening... how fluid the shape of this sorrow —Debbie Strange Second Place, 2018 Fleeting Words Tanka Competition #TankaPoem #Poetry #5lines #Tanka neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2021/02/one-...

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. In the lush garden, I'm the shyest flower that keeps looking at you. #haiku

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cloudy morning illusions in a spring sky change with the wind #dailyhaikuprompt #springmorning #haiku #poetry #spring

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music fading… the sound of a heart in my head #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

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#DailyHaikuPrompt #hyacinth finished blooming now hyacinths store their perfume for another year

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crouching to smell the hyacinths -- a gift from you #dailyhaikuprompt hyacinth #haiku #Spring #senryu

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I promise to quit drinking if they give me the job.

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Yellowfin mojarras are the all-seeing, all-hearing sentinels of the Coral City Neighborhood Watch 🔮👀🐟🌆 #yellowfinmojarra #mojarra #spatialawareness #onpoint #otoliths #sentinel #neighborhoodwatch #staghorncoral #braincoral #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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ember ring-gate ash perilously paused life hangs in time - ❖ - wapiti bugle— reveille in the morning campers on alert #whistpr [perilous] #haikuchallenge [wapiti] #haiku #writingprompt #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets

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flight paths of small birds complicating the sunlight between the young leaves

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Hard pass. 🤢

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still burning… all the old letters I threw in the fire #DailyHaikuPrompt #fire #MicroPoetry#senryu #haiku

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They said I was drunk of course.

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