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Tanja
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I write tiny poems, read literary fiction (esp women in translation), watch Korean and Japanese dramas and films, and dream about plants taking over the world.🌲🌲🌳✨️
Pinned
autumn dusk
silvering
the crow’s feathers

#haiku
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incessant rainfall
makes its way down the chimney
an unwelcome wind

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poetry
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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derelict cottage
rising from the patio
fireplace’s chimney

#DailyHaikuPrompt (Fireplace, Patio)
#haiku
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Japanese garden at peace
I slap at a mosquito
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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you know
that you'll miss it
but it seems so far away

and then one day
you're living in someday

and oh, what a trickster—
time

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Happy Halloween! This one's from 2012 (Obama signs!). I loved taking our kids trick-or-treating. I hope all of you with little ones have a wonderful time tonight!
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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all down the thorn hedge
tracing the curve of the wind
the arc of a finch
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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November
raises
her hood
and waits

decay is
the dance card
she holds
in her hand
November 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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late morning sunlight
a gold leaf from the birch tree
moving through the chords
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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the end of the sound
of everything, the sound
of snow falling

--Maya Okuzaka

いつさいの音のはてなり雪ふるおと 奥坂まや

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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putting away the summer robes winter slow in coming #senryu
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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walking under streetlights the night quite chilly #senryu
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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medal of honor —
the knowledge how to
age with grace

#BraveWrite #honor
#Senryu #micropoetry
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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a whiff
of fading lavender...
single again

#InkMine #single
#whistpr #lavender
#Senryu #micropoetry
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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oh shit
reef shoes
storm swim
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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coney island
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Wednesday morning
#RoseWednesday
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Coming to a stop this morning on the Clear Creek trail #cycling
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Ambience...

Decorating the indoor perspective
Surroundings lit by candle light
Snugness wrapped up warmly
Outside the view is quite barren
Trees shivering in their emptiness
A setting of greys and charcoals
Inside the ambience simply hugs...

#MypoetryEileen2025
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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キンモクセイのかんさつ
昨日見逃したら、終わっていた
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Just sitting here, trying to decide which big mountain to climb. 🐾🐾🐾Hmmm
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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we have all created
a world in which
the word resilience
must be a means
of survival between
one another…
weight of sorrow

#poetry #writing
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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two paths so clearly separate
may yet lead to one way forward—
snail

🐌

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Miguel Catalan

#resist
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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in the rain I
remember poppies

cool flame,
silk against warmed skin

golden hearts in crimson
bending, bending

▪︎

now golden
hearts of dancing crimson

flames warm skin,
chilled with rain &

I remember
poppies

🌬🔥

#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#art Cherie Dirksen

#resist
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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our first chilly night
arrives on a strong north wind . . .
cooking spicy food

#haiku
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM