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Eve Castle
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I write poems & short stories. Published. Retired to Colorado ‘24. TX escapee. #Resist

I’m writing/submitting. Also on Medium now. Be kind, especially to yourself #SafeSpace

Host #TankaThursday #TankaPoem prompt since Jun‘19 #poetry #haiku #tankapoem
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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 3d
tanka weekly #poetry challenge

February 12, 2026

this week’s prompt:

romance

write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
Tanka Society of America
Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tank...
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
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eugenemcparland.bsky.social
#Ukraine President
Volodymyr #Zelenskyy awarded Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych the country's medal of freedom after he was disqualified from the #Olympic skeleton competition over his "helmet of remembrance," which depicted athletes killed since russia's invasion

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February 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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lake-life-girl.bsky.social
Happy Valentine’s Day! Go out and spread love, joy and kindness. Love > Hate.
💌💋❤️
Background. Hands holding a red heart.
February 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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anamariacaballero.bsky.social
A pleasure to be interviewed by Spanish platform The Artichoke on elevating poetry as a visual artform.
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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starjet.bsky.social
I didn't know anything about the jingle dress and thought maybe others may not.

www.ncai.org/news/the-his...
The History of the Jingle Dress Dance | NCAI
The National Congress of American Indians - Defending Sovereignty since 1944
www.ncai.org
February 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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josephfasano.bsky.social
A day that celebrates Love doesn't have to be about Eros. Here's something for those other great loves in our lives.
Love Poems for Our Friends     Where are the poems for those who know us?   Not for star-crossed loves, for agonies of desire, but words for those who go with us the whole road.   How would they start, I wonder? You let me crash when I was new to ruin. You came to me though visiting hours were over. You held me when my loves were done, were flames. Yes, we will lose a few in the changes. But these are the ones who save us: not the charmers, not the comets of wild passion, not the ups-and-downs of love's unlucky hungers,   but the ones who stand by our shoulder at the funeral and lead us back to the city of the living and put our favorite record on the player and go away, and come back, always come back,   with bread and wine and one word, one word: stay. —Joseph Fasano
February 14, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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josephfasano.bsky.social
For Those Who Are Alone
on the Feast Day of Love
For Those Who Are Alone on the Feast Day of Love Love, they say, but your table has no place for it. Dance, they say, but your body aches from changes. Feast, they say, but the bread is hard and dark. Listen. I know that you are broken. But maybe you are only broken open. Say it, say it, say it: Tonight, when the others are dancing in each other's arms, do this, do this little infinite thing: break the bread and sip the wine in silence and then, in the garden of the starlight, lie down in the dark scars of your own arms and be there, be there with that stranger: not a lover, not a new love, not a wooer, but the one life that has known you, and has chosen you, and despite because despite because of everything wants you to be more of what you are. —Joseph Fasano
February 14, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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joelamport.bsky.social
The sea professes
its love to the sky all day
To the land it hurls abuse

#haiku
Winslow Homer
February 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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bluehaiku2.bsky.social
LOVE BITES

#failedcandyheartsayings
February 14, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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poetguygabe.bsky.social
a kiss is a kiss
unless it's the kiss of death
so I kissed the past
and let it fall from my arms
'cause I no longer need it

#vss365 #kiss #tanka
February 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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graywyvern.bsky.social
#tankapoem, #tankathursday
February 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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cinnatus.bsky.social
wan sunlight
slinks into
shared fences, brittle grass
my pen—
inks only dust

#micropoetry #tankapoem #5lines #tanka #poetry
February 13, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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tracymar.bsky.social
AFTER THE SNOWFALL TANKA
Within the silence
of suspended thought, the storm
dissolves. Peace descends.
Listen to the falling snow,
the stillness after snowfall.

#tanka #tankapoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #haiku
#haikupoem #inkmine #blueskypoets #winter #snow
February 14, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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ireneaddie.bsky.social
winter’s toll
crumbling limbs
I ease into stillness
without my piano
a way of touching life

#tanka #haiku
#TankaPoem
#tankathursday
#SenseWrds 176
crying, resilience, broken
February 14, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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graywyvern.bsky.social
#tankapoem, #tankathursday
February 14, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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joypops.bsky.social
valentine’s day~
the shopkeeper wraps my book
in pink paper

#haiku
February 14, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.
February 14, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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artalina.bsky.social
My Valentines Day ku

to all the valentines
before this one…
several in fact

#haiku #senyru
February 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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naumadd.bsky.social
The last haiku belongs in this triptych about a traveler and his trek through the snow:

worn snow-
another
passing

pristine snow...
not one more
step

dusk…
breaking snow
alone

#haiku #poetry #triptych
February 7, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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branacos.bsky.social
In the Wild Painting watercolour on paper

#art #abstractart #abstractartist #watercolour #watercolourart #watercolourpainting #outsidepainting #pleinair
February 14, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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ireneaddie.bsky.social
Valentine’s Day
a bouquet
sandpaper kisses

#caturday #senryu
February 14, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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ireneaddie.bsky.social
new moon
the long exhale
of going unnoticed

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 AM
evecastle.bsky.social
it pierces my heel
as i walk in the bedroom
my late wife's comb

#Haiku by Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
(from book Classic Haiku, Tom Lowenstein, 2007) #micropoetry
February 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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ignorantfairy.bsky.social
It's Saturday the 14th February

Today's #7syllablesentence #prompt

is

#jest — a joking or mocking remark

Hope you're gonna have fun and run with it! 😁✨️🃏

#writingcommunity
An index finger balancing a red bubble that contains the text: jest - a joking or mocking remark
February 14, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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poetsheikha.bsky.social
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Pleased to have a haiku in The Solitary Daisy's Issue 68!

Do visit the link to read some excellent haiku!

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#شيخه
#sheikhawrites #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

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February 14, 2026 at 2:42 PM
evecastle.bsky.social
“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

— Robin Williams (as John Keating in Dead Poets Society) #quote #love #poetry
February 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM