deep in the dark leaves the first of the blackberries their shining faces
Catherine Baker
@catbake.bsky.social
Writer and editor in educational publishing.
to refresh a sense of wonder at sixty new glasses #dailyhaikuprompt #senryu
In a dry cooling wind, the insects were mostly hunkered down this morning, some head-down & saving energy, but still some had nectar brunch in those ever-giving stalwarts along the narrow strip of wild called the #dykeapproach path. I heard not a single moan about hose bans. #plant-insectresilience
white spray the wave bows to itself To study the self is to forget the self. — Dōgen Zenji mount fuji waiting without waiting #AugustAnarchy #puentehaiku #poetry #haiku @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
public bus sailing past brown grass for miles #DailyHaikuPrompt #SenryuSunday #haiku #senryu #poetry
Small lake in the woods full of light and reflections as the wood thrush sings. HDT ~ August 4, 1852
Senryu is born from each individual person. Regarding modern #senryu, Shinako Tokizane listed 10 points:
running early to escape the heat it finds me anyway and drags me along
my high school boyfriend turns fifty today I wonder if he remembers that time in his house beneath the wall of school pictures when he showed me Cinema Paradiso and we cried instead of making out
Down the orchard aisles, in the thick, new, wet grass, the little girl ran for the joy of running.
Goodnight from the passengers of the glass-bottled SS Hookland Star, wondering why they never reach their intended port. Goodnight from Jemima Wooton, stretched full of wicked dreams of how to punish her brother for immolating her favourite Sindy doll. Goodnight from Hookland.
We drive darkening, ghosted roads. In these last minutes of solar alchemy, every turn is towards folklore. We become one with the land's long memory. One with a hodology where every traveller is another time's temporal shade. We become high strangeness. – #DAKilroy, 1982
stone fruit the pit in my stomach #vss365 #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #WritingCommunity
lightning at sea; a crumbling block of stone breaks from the tower, falling.. #♡ᝰ.🖋️ #haiku #dreampoem #poetrysky #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #micropoetry
the photographer walking along any street aware of the light #dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of HAIKU STORY: a tale of conflict and reconciliation in 5-7-5 www.HaikuDiem.com/story Today’s 5-7-5 haiku was originally posted on Feb 10, 2023 #daily #haiku #micropoetry
high tide my back pushed against the tower wall as the water climbs so do i #♡ᝰ.🖋️ #dreampoem #5lines #poetrysky #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #micropoetry
#senryu by returning contributor,Joseph P. Wechselberger (IG: @jwech15 ). Joseph has been writing haiku since 2018. His work has been Touchstone-nominated / long-listed many times and widely published and anthologized elsewhere. #haiku #poetry #honeymoon
jdubqca.com/2016/08/04/m... MISS MUFFET'S HAIRY NEMESIS #poetry <Aug-2016>
miss muffet’s hairy nemesis
the fly keeps hitting the screen bouncing off of it and plowing into it again as if jumping on a vertical trampoline I wonder why he just doesn’t relax on the screen and take in the warm august bre…
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sunlight pale as rain supporting this ten-year oak a broken tree-guard
walking through heatdaze Green Man keeps to the shadows under weary oaks