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Dave Radley
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I am a man rich in years
but modest in accomplishment
for whom poetry offers
a last humble hope of redemption


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Dave Radley @daveradley.bsky.social · Nov 21
Kindness has no colour
compassion has no hue
when you mix the world together
love is what shines through
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Autumn turns her face
winter slyly takes a step
a freezing wind blows

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt #micropoetry
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Bruised like an apple
fallen, forgotten, you hung
once, so high and proud

#dailyhaikuprompt (fallen)
October 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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How I wish that love was a paste
which we could use to simply fill
the hate-wrought cracks
splitting our country

But love is a salve
which we must spread each day
wipe off the bitter words
and let the healing come

#Poetry #Poem #BlueskyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky
October 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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here beneath a tree
dappled sunlight strokes your skin
such simple beauty

#dailyhaikuprompt (dapple)
September 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Sandman

I am the sandman
waiting at the shore
looking to the horizon
hoping for more

But when you are the tide
nibbling my toes
what are my chances
God only knows

#Poetry #Poem #BlueskyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky
September 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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sure in your footsteps
risen high on your shoulders
wish you could see me

#dailyhaikuprompt (footsteps)
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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how a simple glow
captured in a furtive smile
fires a lonely heart

#dailyhaikuprompt (glow)
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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soft pink and yellow
floating in a sea of green
a single lotus

#dailyhaikuprompt (lotus)
September 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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we are harvesting
the bitter fruit of hatred
let us sow some love

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt (harvest) #micropoetry
September 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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the grapes left hanging
on the vine, patient harvest
makes the sweetest wine

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt (vine) #micropoetry
September 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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like an ice-cream swirl
the summer days have melted
dripping into fall

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt (swirl)
September 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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true love is not forged in passion
it's molded in clay of compassion

#senryu #dailyhaikuprompt #micropoetry
September 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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the valley shrouded
in pearlescent chiffon mist
the edge of Autumn

#dailyhaikuprompt (mist)
August 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Reposted by Dave Radley
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Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.
August 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
daveradley.bsky.social
Regret

how the lark that spared
its wing must suffer to hear
the valiant sing

#senryu #dailyhaikuprompt #micropoetry
#Poetry #Poem #BlueskyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky
August 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Killing Time

If ever I had some time to kill
I'd kill it slow with a bitter pill
Make it suffer, squirm and squeal
For flying past on its taunting wheel

#Poetry #Poem #BlueskyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky
August 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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a lone sandpiper
teetering on the shoreline
peeps a plaintive call

#dailyhaikuprompt (sandpiper)
August 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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the grasshopper called
to his katydid cousin
across the wide pond

#dailyhaikuprompt (katydid)
August 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The great secret is
that there is no great secret.
You are the universe
and all the miracles it contains.
Let that be enough.

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August 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Genetically
99.9%
identical
a miniscule
difference
separates me
from any
other
my brother
why would
I not
love him?

#Poetry #Poem #BlueskyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky
July 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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night is creeping in
so come in from the meadow
it's pasture bedtime

😊
#dailyhaikuprompt (pasture)
July 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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a gentle breeze sends
ripples through the balmy day
willow leaves glinting

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt (balmy) #micropoetry
June 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting.
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
Sir Jon Cunliffe: put public ownership back on the table!
From day one, the government’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” - a.k.a the Cunliffe Review - has ruled out the solution that 82% of the British public want: public ownership. ...
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June 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM