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Jo Monk
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Seeker after beauty, joy and hope. Lover of cats, coffee, comedy, and small beauties. Easily distracted by sparkly things.
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🖼 Anne Pratt, C19th.
Fern illustration
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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soft morning~
the mailbox wears
a little hat of snow

#haiku
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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frozen apricot sky~
snow falls
softly, softly

#haiku
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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the headlights’ cool gaze
simplifies these thorn hedges
flat as a stage set
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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she knits by lamplight /
each yarn loop a quiet tale /
warmth woven in words

#haikufeels
#yarn
#haiku
#prompt
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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‘Flowers’ - #RSThomas
(Between Here and Now, Macmillan)
#Blodau #Flowers
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem
Text of poem - Flowers. But behind the flower is that other flower which is ageless, the idea of the flower, the one we smell when we imagine it, that as often as it is picked blossoms again, that has the perfection of all flowers, the purity without the fragility. Was it a part of the plan for humanity to have flowers about it? They are many and beautiful, with faces that are a reminder of those of our own children, though they come painlessly from the bulb's womb. We trouble them as we go by, so they hang their heads at our unreal progress. If flowers had minds, would they not think they were the colour eternity is, a window that gives on a still view the hurrying people must come to and stare at and pass by?
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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@marymonkart.bsky.social Cool dude weasels dancing to the Pet Shop Boys! You know what day it is......
celestineandthehare.com Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 2d
Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing. Today a bit of Pet shop boys and it’s a sin.
Dance like a weasel you know you want to!
#weaselwednesday
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend… if you have one.” — George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

Churchill’s reply: “Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second—if there is one.”
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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raking leaves ~
the wind and I can’t quite agree:
one for you, one for me…

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (rake)
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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According to accounts by the monk Bede, Cuthbert would stand in the cold North Sea for prayer. When he would emerge, otters would come to the shore to warm his feet with their breath and fur. This led to him becoming the patron saint of otters.
Art my own.
#Folklore #Otter #Cuthbert #Art
A little watercolour sketch of an that I finished today. I'm not sure what I think of it, but I'm saying it's finished.
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Crushed by the weight of time
A feather is fossilised
into flightless stone

#haikufeels #crush #haiku #amwriting #writingcommunity
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Marianne Stokes (British, 1855–1927). The Net Mender (1899-1900, oil on canvas).
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Nikolai Astrup (Russian, 1880–1928). Foxgloves (1909, oil on canvas).
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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@anniearyfridd.bsky.social Look!
davemeredith.bsky.social Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 4d
Today's alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme is #GullsInFlight. Thousands of Black-headed Gulls in flight and thousands still on the water at Hurleston Reservoir in south Cheshire, England.

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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As found on this morning’s walk..absolutely no filters or manipulation..this is wonder at the side of the road. ✨
A leaf with raindrops on it lies among other leaves. This leaf has amazing tones of yellow and green and brown.
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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☘️ This beautiful sculpture was built by the Irish people to honor the American Choctaw Indian tribe. They were grateful because in 1847 the Choctaw people sent money to Ireland when they learned that Irish people were starving due to the potato famine

Co. Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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A puddle
fracturing underfoot
- winter moon.

#dailyhaikuprompt winter moon
#haiku 🌙
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Remember, remember, it's Yule in November,
Sparkly tinsel and snow
I see no reason
why the Christmassy season
should last all year long - ho, ho, no.
#poetry #christmas
Sean Bean in fur cloak from Game of Thrones saying 'Brace yourselves, the "it's not Christmas yet" memes are coming'
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Purring in the dark
tabby cat curled up cosy
in her duvet cave
#haiku
Tabby cat curled up on a white fluffy blanket
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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shabana.bsky.social Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 8d
Paul Evans (British, b. 1954). Winter Dusk.
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Not Going Out Tonight - a #haiku

Umbrella with owls
Staring at me through the rain
Far too wet to woo.
White umbrella with pattern of blue owls on it
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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against this darkness
millions of tiny stars
rain in windowlight
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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...for the bluejay
in the morning wind
a gentle rain...

#haiku #poetry #infiniku
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Look how close this sign is.
Look how close this sign is.
September 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM