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Michael Gates
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I’m a freelance writer, editor, and book reviewer living in Buffalo, NY. I worked for Audible dot com (an Amazon company) for 15 years. Still recovering! Fan of Twin Peaks, David Lynch, and Haruki Murakami.
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Snow obscures dead leaves
War fog excuses vile deaths
Spring’s sun reveals truth
#haiku #poetry #photography
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Justice winds howl now
Oaks crack and fall to timber
Our fires consume them
#haiku #poetry #photography
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Don’t yield to fury
Or a teacup tsunami
Watch rivers flow on
#haiku #photography #poetry
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
First snow of the season. What season? Fall. But hey—it’s Buffalo! #photography #snow
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Reposted by Michael Gates
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Even in death’s midst
Humans can strive to blossom
Despots like leaves fall
#haiku #poetry #photography
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Swirling leaves drop now
Houses topple in fierce storms
Thus mad kings must fall
#haiku #poetry #photography
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In his autumn storm
Boy-king smashes his palace
Citizens rain tears
#haiku #poetry #photography
October 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Nature pauses now
Leaves rattle and berries fall
Soldiers too should cease
#haiku #poetry #photography
October 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Storms rage, branches crack
Nations tremble before fiends
Still birds chirp at dawn
#haiku #poetry #photography
October 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
World turns to chaos
Leave all kings to their chessboards
Enter woods and breathe
#haiku #poetry #photography
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A mad year’s sun sinks
Tyrants speak as leaves wither
Roots await fresh dawns
#haiku #poetry #photography
September 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Autumn comes quickly
Things die so beautifully
Nature needs no gun
#haiku #poetry #photography
September 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Moon gapes overhead
Nature grieves as Earth devolves
Flowers whisper why
#haiku #poetry #photography
September 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Men walk the windings
Birds observe yacking humans
How little we see
#haiku #poetry #photography
September 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Peaceful island life
Our mad world seems fictional
Until truths deluge
#haiku #poetry #photography
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Men talk endlessly
While flowers converse with winds
Still wars rumble on
#haiku #poetry #photography
August 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Man in a white house
Blackens all things he touches
Watch mountains tumble #haiku #poetry #photography
August 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The fish in my head
May often be piranhas
But then come angels #haiku #poetry #poem #photography
August 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reposted by Michael Gates
August 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
In the end, we all get recycled. Even the abiding stars dissolve, their dust congealing new panjandrums, spinning worlds of happenstance. Prepare to blossom. #photography
July 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Chimeric catastrophes multiply, the old fool dribbles calumnies. A tumulus of lies distends in a fantastic skyscraper. But this wavering mountain is only vapor. #photography
July 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Neighbor’s statement. #photography
July 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
You may think of him as Goliath. But he’s as fragile as an old balloon. When a man with a new thought, a slingshot full of diamonds, mounts the peak of verity, the monster will topple. #photography
July 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Do you hear it? The gears that were grinding for years and have now come off. Who will stop this maniac’s train? #photography
July 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM