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INK_John
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Stories in ink. Salt in my hair.
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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · May 21
He sings to the stars,
hoping one will fall for him,
the sky is unmoved.

#DailyHaikuPrompt
The moon glows behind tall, bare trees at twilight. Its light veiled by soft clouds, casting a dreamy halo in a deepening blue sky.
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lady-rain.bsky.social
Petals catch the light
As winter borrows
A smile…

#BloomOnPurpose #photography
#nature #ArtInNature
Winter sunlight dances on viola petals, revealing small, steadfast smiles of color.
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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jangoeswriting.bsky.social
Why not. Here’s today’s snip from my ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ #FanFic, for convenience …

#TheBestBangSinceTheBigOne
Jape Dhrgrt was a simple man. He worked, until very recently, as a salesperson for the Encyclopaedia Galactica. Having lost his job through lack of sales, in little part due to most of his own pitiful efforts, he had taken to flying around in his rickety old space ship in order that he didn’t have to return home to his wives, and their multitudes of children, and tell them that their only source of income had not only dried up, but had become so bereft of water that it had become, in effect, anti-wet, which was so dry that it actively repelled water to such a degree that rain storms would bypass his finances by a distance of, at the very least, a star system. Added to that, he had become aware that his favourite shop, where he bought varieties of leeches specifically grown to provide the tastiest of snacks while on the proverbial road, had closed down, apparently for the convenience of the customers, and the nearest shop, conveniently located some thirty-five light years away, had changed their opening hours, also for the convenience of their customers, to random single hours that equated to whenever the manager decided it was convenient for them. Conveniently, there was another branch, only a convenient extra fifty light years beyond the irregularly, but highly convenient, store, where, for your convenience, you could sit outside, in a convenient queue, talk through a convenient microphone to make your order, which would then, for your convenience, be completely misheard, lost, given something only vaguely similar and then, for the convenience of other customers, get propelled away by a convenient hyperspace shunt to a convenient part of the galaxy several hundred light years from where you wanted to be. Which wasn’t at all convenient, but it was better than getting the leeches sent by the inter-galactic post office, because that just opened up even more inconvenient problems.
December 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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hibiscus counts down
to springt
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#ImageAndVerse
#EastCoastKin
#OurPoetryX

#Stunday #Haiku #MicroPoem #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Macro #Bloomscrolling #visualpoetry
This is a macro nature photo I took of a red hibiscus with golden anthers. The crimson background petals create a velvety bokeh which makes the globular anthers pop like tobiko roe. Red and gold always makes me think of the approaching new year. In the Caribbean, these gorgeous flowers bloom throughout every season. While it’s cold outside, I often think of spring. Going through my flower gallery, I found this photo and haiku pairing to share today. placeholder hibiscus counts down to springtime
December 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
intjohn.bsky.social
At 20,000 feet, the plane rattled, as a grinning gremlin crawled from the instrument panel. He tightened one bolt and loosened another, tapping a discordant tune on the hull.
The engine smoothed to a hum. It winked, vanished, leaving the pilot terrified enough to make it home.

#ThingsToWriteAbout
December 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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rebeccabennettforcongress.com
I’m a patriot. I love this country. It’s why I joined the military, and it’s why I’m stepping up now.
December 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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authortracystjohn.bsky.social
Earth trembles
Under the boots
Of war
Mars has been
Ascendant
Since man breathed
His first

#vss365 #Mars
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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arwashington.bsky.social
#Prompt #Emoetry #art
#vindicated #poetrycommunity

Karma

They tried to rewrite you
With accusations and silence
pressed their version of the story
until the truth learned patience.

#Vindication did not arrive loudly
It came slightly-shifted
quiet, exact: as the lie collapsed
under its own weight.
December 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
The prompt for December 28th comes from a tiny kit I assembled yesterday… #typewriter #thingstowriteabout
A miniature Lego typewriter.
December 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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poetguygabe.bsky.social
Reverence
for life and death
and sorrow and joy.

Reverence
for not being ready to heal
until you're ready to heal.

Reverence
for liberating yourself
from the past you grieved.

Reverence
for meaning
and meaningless, too.

Reverence
for poetry and music
and silence, too.

#blueskyrelay #reverence
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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shaewritespoems.bsky.social
Inspiration lost
Found once again through the snow
The loudest silence

#haikufeels nature
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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vegansearchengine.bsky.social
Seeing grass for the first time after being rescued from a factory farm 🐷 💚.

From UNCHAINEDTV www.instagram.com/p/DSQPMd3iPwT/
December 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
intjohn.bsky.social
I love the framing.

They’re not wrong.

#Ukraine 🇺🇦
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a media conference at the EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. A ring of stars in the background ring his head like a halo. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
December 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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pianoniji.bsky.social
私とピアノから、大好きなクリスマス曲をお送りします🎹 🎄
心温まる素敵な音楽とともに、最高な一日を！
いつも優しい応援に心から感謝してます！❄️

From me and my piano, I send you my favorite Christmas song🎹 🎄
Have a lovely Christmas with heartwarming music 🎶
Thank you truly for your support! ❄️

#クリスマス音楽 #クリスマス #ピアノ演奏 #Christmas #piano #ChristmasSong
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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bookish33.bsky.social
#RockinTuesday
Nature took her paintbrush and her magic wand,
suddenly,
the ordinary became extraordinary
🖌️🪄💫

~ Wishes to you for a beautiful day!
#photography #ColorADay #lakelife
#ColourADay #BlueTues
Snow-dusted and ice covered rocks with clear icicles encasing bare branches by a calm lake. The cold blues create a serene, chilly atmosphere, highlighting winter's quiet beauty.
December 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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charrisonphotos.bsky.social
Beautifully contrasting blues and greens in this early winter moment in British woodland.

#winter #woodland #foggy #photography
Beautiful green leaves survive late into the year - early in winter, here contrasting beautifully with the blue fog and orange of the woodland floor.
December 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
intjohn.bsky.social
Nine reasons not to

The horizon doesn’t call

It stares She answers

#HaikuFeels #FreeHaiku
#HerosJourney #Threshold
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Happy #Solstice to all of #Yule! ✨️🎄✨️

hollow stump
deep silence gathers
notes of snow

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Published by @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social, thank you for honoring #haiku so beautifully. 🙏

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#PoetryCommunity
Issue 63 – Winter Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
For our upcoming issue, we want to challenge you to write a haiku or two inspired by music.
thesolitarydaisy.ca
December 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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lady-rain.bsky.social
Stars freeze into place
December tells me
Beautiful stories about Winter…

#SeasonOfWonder #WinterVibes
#Travel #Colorado #photography
First day of Winter: cold hands, warm heart, and the wonder of December.
December 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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c a w eclipse
ebony freeze frames
dusk's wool yawn

#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
#EastCoastKin
#inkMine #Freeze

#haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #ClassicMono #Sunset #BirdOfTheDay #QuietMoments
Here is a black and white photo I took of a forest crow flying over the sunset. A dip in the dark trees frames the towering clouds with soft leafy limbs. At the center, the sky yawns open with brightness, revealing the bird's body and curved wing silhouette in diffused sunlight. A taste of rain on the westerly breeze teased the moment with storm potential. I remember thinking: suns, planets, and moons play the eclipse game. Crows are no different. Little mischievous drops of midnight—loose upon our days. This new haiku is a fallen feather I picked up. caw eclipse ebony freeze frames dusk's wool yawn
December 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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arwashington.bsky.social
#BlueSkyRelay #Prompter
#reminisce #poetry #art
@blueskyrelay.bsky.social

Witching Hours

A wick leans forward
speaking inward fire
a darkness with no face.
Light arrives only to
reminisce briefly—
loosening its shadow.

A glint thins memory—
the veil lurks, eves dusk
solemnly drifting sleet.
December 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Dormant trees heal in winter through compartmentalization—as do we. This #NewYear, I wish for our old wounds to heal like dormant trees, so that we don’t have to carry them into the future.

bittersweet
december's coda
mends first wound

#Haiku #Poetry Published: Asahi Haikuist Network
ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
neglecting nothing in his song, I wept in my seat--Patrick Sweeney (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
www.asahi.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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poetguygabe.bsky.social
"The world is sacred.
It can't be improved.
If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it."

tao te ching, Stephen Mitchell translation
tao te ching, Stephen Mitchell translation tao te ching, R. B. Blakney translation
December 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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drippingwithwords.bsky.social
feeling it: pause. reflect. autumn to winter. maybe you'll join me in 'slow-down'.. pass this on.. wish a sweet-year-end to all, i do..

🩶🎸
-DWW

#pause #holidays #nature #art #rock #music #quotes #musicsky #songwriter #philosophy #writesky #bluesky #photography #sunset #sunrise #landscape #artist
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
intjohn.bsky.social
Amber lantern swings.
Midnight platform listening
for trains long silent

#HaikuFeels
#FreeHaiku
December 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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gxldsociety.bsky.social
They erased us from the textbooks. I’m putting us back in the story.

They buried our truth and hoped we’d stay silent.

ERASED isn’t a book—it’s a weapon.
Read it before they ban it. Share it before they silence it.

Get your copy now.
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May 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM