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🎶✍🏽📚Composer|Author|Poet Founder www.HaikuFest.com
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Black Music Month is incomplete without this discussion‼️ ✅ Left of Black www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9DA...

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now playing: Betty Carter SPRING CAN REALLY ⚪️ HANG YOU UP 🔵⚫️ THE MOST ⚫️⚪️ 🔵

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The hardest truth I learned about this world is that truths get harder the longer I live. . .

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June just ain’t #BlackMusicMonth w/o piano phenom Hazel Scott 🎶🎹 www.google.com/search?q=haz...

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Dallas, deep red, oil-soaked, and MAGA-aligned is now flooded with anti-Trump protesters. A city once thought untouchable has joined the rebellion. The tide is turning.👏💙👏😎

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¿What’s your fav song for #FathersDay  Mine are “Song for my Father” by Horace Silver m.youtube.com/watch?v=CWeXOm… Luther Vandross’s “Dance with my Father�� m.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDxJr�Jr…

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Happy #FathersDay to all #Dads 💙 🩵 💙

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❤️ Happy heavenly #FathersDay  to the best #Dad and #Grandfather that ever lived. i love U to life‼️

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sunlight sashaying between rows of poplar trees taking tall grass breaths ~ regina harris baiocchi ✍🏽 #dailyhaikuprompt 🍃 6/11 tall grass breath #image @Nicky13Johnson

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Sign seen at No King Rally via France 24. "No faux-king way." I like that.

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shades of green in springtime’s pulse twin whispers #dailyhaikuprompt green 🌿🌿🌿

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from dark spring water a steady ocean heartbeat murmuring the blues #dailyhaikuprompt spring water dark #image Vila Franca Islet, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal © ARoxo/Getty Images

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Gorgeous 😎

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sunset takes a breath pauses on the porch railing then slips out of sight #dailyhaikuprompt (breath) #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #haiku

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The US has celebrated #BlackMusicMonth in June since 1979. We celebrate contributions of African American #musicians, #composers, #performers, #songwriters, etc. 🖤🎶🎙️💙🎹 ✍🏽❤️ ✅ Hale Smith, pianist & composer of “Contours for Orchestra,” (1962) m.youtube.com/watch?v=zZEW...

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Brooks Day 2025 i spoke against #erasure, for “Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun” by Angela Jackson, read 3 poems: Girl in the Front Yard, Artists’ & Models’ Ball by Gwendolyn Brooks and yours truly’s “beatitudes”. So happy, nourished to commune with Sista #Poets 🚺📚✍🏽

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Happy heavenly birthday to Our Mrs. Gwendolyn Brooks, who holds the record as the longest reigning #Illinois #Poet #Laureate. Celebrate Brooks Day with us today at 2:00 PM CT in Ms. Brooks’s sweet home #Chicago 919 South Ada Street 🆓 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤 📚✍🏽 www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/...

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Here's hoping you have the most Saturday of Saturdays. ☮️🕊✌️

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Variation on a Theme by Gil Scott-Heron

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If U’re in town, I’ll be one of the Legacy Poets celebrating Our Mrs. Gwendolyn Brooks’ life thru poetry, fiction, etc. 🆓 Pls join us Saturday: National Public Housing Museum, 919 South Ada 6/7/2025 at 2:PM FREE 🆓 📚✍🏽

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#BlackMusicMonth is about celebrating the unchartered waters of #jazz ❤️‍🩹🖤💚🎶✍🏽 youtu.be/J7YxJD7x99E

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We’re halfway thru the week. U’ve got this‼️

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Day 88.

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🚲 😎Happy World #Bicycle Day🚲😎

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How are you celebrating #BlackMusicMonth 2025? Listen to, share, perform, program music by African American composers beginning with yours truly ❤️‍🩹 🖤 🎶 ✅ my #ChicagoJazzFest set m.youtube.com/watch?v=bc1t...

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I agree with this Janice Mirikitani quote. Do U?

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GM, All. Happy Friday 😎

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#poetry #poems #poet #poetrycommunity

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night sky framing my thoughts with stars ~ regina harris baiocchi #haiku #poetry 💫 #writemap 341 frame

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i spied Nina sitting in Central Park today weekend music behind her eyes #Fibonacci #poetry #NinaSimone 📸@SVG_Collection 🖤🎶✍🏽🎹🎙️❤️

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new light of the day streaking thru Venetian blinds forming long shadows #poetry #musing #writemap 340 form

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I bet money if we all went out into the streets and chopped it up and laughed with each other (even without knowing each other) like we do on this app we could change the world. #blacksky

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She is so blue! No filters or color editing. Grew this from seed for the first time this year and I am speechless. #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #seeds #GYO #FlowersOnFriday 🌱

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#FlowerReport

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Y'all..she was lost in the wilderness for 3 weeks. She had to splint her own leg, pop her knee back into place, survived by foraging (which she is an expert in) and melting snow, and she did all this while having ballerina syndrome! See her interview here. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTja668Mx/

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