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‘ power outage the night wind has its own sound now . #haiku #senryu

‘ cold shivers the dogon mask a perfect fit . #haiku #senryu

‘ a new hat feather I read about upward thermals . #haiku #senryu #senryusunday

#dogs #busyday

This week’s Fallen Petals post (sorry for the lateness). Commenting on Haiku and Senryu Featuring poets: @myxlp.bsky.social @pippaesque.bsky.social @8rid6et.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @evecastle.bsky.social The Lotus Eaters and Charlie Brown open.substack.com/pub/thesehai...

The Lotus Eaters and Charlie Brown

A Fallen Petals post.

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‘ breathing Gandhi atoms we settle our differences . #haiku #senryu

‘ reunion old friends in new faces . #haiku #senryu

‘ one word— slightly cooled raspberry jam on warm buttered bread . #haiku #senryu

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‘ downsizing … one toothbrush in the glass . #haiku #senryu

night swim with each stroke a new Van Gogh

‘ rain i open the patio door to nirvana . #haiku #senryu #senryusunday

‘ I believe my neighbour drives a ufo . #haiku #senryu #senryusunday

‘ zig-zagging through the wildflowers a shortcut . #haiku #senryu #haikusaturday

‘ the urge to call mom or was that mom calling me . #haiku #senryu

‘ our daughter’s birth do we really need to name her . #haiku #senryu

‘ morning air I slowly inhale the valley . #haiku #senryu

‘ garden weeds daydreaming that I’m adam . #haiku #senryu

‘ harbour cafe generations of salted cod permeates . #haiku #senryu

‘ sunday stroll surprised to see my shadow with a cane . #haiku #senryu #senryusunday

‘ daisy petals I add a new option . #haiku #senryu #haikusaturday

I accidentally did a ‘quote repost’ instead of a repost. So if I ‘quote repost’ someone and someone likes my repost, the like doesn’t show on the owners original post? Isn’t that a bit unfair to the original poster. #mybrainhurts @bsky.app

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John Guzlowski@jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 3w ago

HEAVEN When I get to heaven, I expect to find my mom and dad and my sister at the kitchen table in our old apartment on Evergreen Street in Chicago. My sister will be 5 years old again. I'll be 3. My mom will put her perfect poppyseed cake on my plate and tell me to sit and enjoy.

America's Aliens My piece about what it was like coming to America as refugees in the early 1950s and what it's like now for refugees appears in the online journal Vox Populi. Just click on the link: voxpopulisphere.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/j...

John Guzlowski: America’s Aliens

When we stood on the deck of the troop ship General Taylor in 1951, looking out at the gray harbor of New York, my parents didn’t see the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of easy promises.

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‘ neighbourhood dogs creeping a little closer to my fire . #haiku #senryu

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‘ the old carpenter speaking in and out of metric . #haiku #senryu

‘ spirited back to a place I’ve never been inuit throat singing . #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday