Profile avatar
rickehling.bsky.social
physician, walker, poet. 🩺🚶✍️ 📷 🌿🌱🍽️ San Francisco 🌅 #poetry, #opinions, #flowers, #art, #awe. ©, or credited. outrage (when I must).
2,225 posts 655 followers 179 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 11 Comments 39

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

Happy #SmallPoemSunday #poetry #ekphrastic To @tomsnarsky.bsky.social and thanks to @j-tkelly.bsky.social for this great photo which I missed trying to avoid the news (which I’d still prefer to avoid but can’t)

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

as globe turns from peak blinding bright let’s dance bonfired ‘neath star cast night © Rick Ehling ✍️ 06/20/2025 #dailyhaikuprompt (solstice) #Haiku #haikusaturday #oceanbeach #bonfire #GGNPC #SanFrancisco

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

day had felt so long but it ended awash in cricket’s evening song © Rick Ehling ✍️ 06/19/2025 #dailyhaikuprompt (long days, long nights) #Haiku

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

#alphabetchallenge #WeekYforYellow © Rick Ehling 📷 06/04/2023 🌱🌿 A rarer yellow #California #poppy Eschscholzia californica, the coastal subspecies, E. californica subsp. californica var. californica On a walk at what is now #SunsetDunes, #SanFrancisco Recreation and Park Department

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

this song in my heart, mostly just backgrounded beat but when it decides to belt - lips part, tears flow, and other hearts flutter along © Rick Ehling ✍️ 06/18/2025 #tankathursday (song) #tanka #5lines

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#alphabetchallenge #WeekYforYellow #art #modernart STUDY FOR HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE (EARLY RISING), 1961 #JosefAlbers, 1888 - 1976 Oil on board 40×39 3/4” (101.6×101 cm) #HoodMuseumofArt, #Dartmouth: Gift of Ellen and Wallace K. Harrison, D50H, in honor of Nelson A. Rockefeller, D30

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

occasionally night fog parts to fireflied skies and wonder © Rick Ehling ✍️ 06/18/2025 #dailyhaikuprompt (fireflies), #Haiku

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

for #SmallPoemSunday a beauty by #JaneHirshfield yesterday we ripened a bit

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

#NoKings in #SanFrancisco. It took well over an hour for the crowd assembled at Dolores Park to queue up for the walk to City Hall. Here a look down Dolores, the park to the left was still really crowded.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

#SFSidewalkHaiku #224 all of the answers, still questions and clues rest in nature’s changing hues © Rick Ehling ✍️ 06/07/2025, 📷 05/12/2025 #dailyhaikuprompt (green leaves) #Haiku #haikusaturday #NoeValley #SanFrancisco 🌱 #abutilon

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments