Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her
@michelerule.bsky.social
Poet/Writer. Proud mom and grandma to both humans and pets. Disabled. Recovering politician. Chocolate lover. Human rights friendly. Coeditor at @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social.
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Poetry Readings On The Theme of Love - Michele Rule
Just to round off the month of love, a poetry reading I took part in is now up on Spotify!
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Listen to my award winning poem, Falling in Love with Life Again #poetry #womenpoets #canadianpoetry #winecountrywritersfestival #weesparrowpress
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I love Chantal Hebert's ability to be honest and authentic in telling Canada what her political experience is telling her. @chebert18.bsky.social #cdnpoli
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I love Chantal Hebert's ability to be honest and authentic in telling Canada what her political experience is telling her. @chebert18.bsky.social #cdnpoli
The little haiku journal that Sally Quon and I coedit! Please share widely - we want to hit 1000 followers! #haiku
Thanks for all the spookiness! Today's issue of the Solitary Daisy is now available. Please share widely! #haiku #haikusubmissions
Issue 62 – Spooky Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
Wow, your spooky haiku were so awesome!! Such a great variety of eerie ideas. Had our spines tingling!
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November 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The little haiku journal that Sally Quon and I coedit! Please share widely - we want to hit 1000 followers! #haiku
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TORONTO BLUE JAYS FOR THE WIN
The Toronto Blue Jays take two of three from the defending World Series champions in their home stadium. It’s a dominant 6-1 Game 5 victory.
The Jays are coming home to Canada 🇨🇦 with the chance to win the World Series on Friday. Buckle up folks.
The Toronto Blue Jays take two of three from the defending World Series champions in their home stadium. It’s a dominant 6-1 Game 5 victory.
The Jays are coming home to Canada 🇨🇦 with the chance to win the World Series on Friday. Buckle up folks.
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
TORONTO BLUE JAYS FOR THE WIN
The Toronto Blue Jays take two of three from the defending World Series champions in their home stadium. It’s a dominant 6-1 Game 5 victory.
The Jays are coming home to Canada 🇨🇦 with the chance to win the World Series on Friday. Buckle up folks.
The Toronto Blue Jays take two of three from the defending World Series champions in their home stadium. It’s a dominant 6-1 Game 5 victory.
The Jays are coming home to Canada 🇨🇦 with the chance to win the World Series on Friday. Buckle up folks.
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THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES
October 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES
I remember these horrific murders like they were yesterday. The Johnson and Bentley families should not have to keep going through these parole requests! Deny parole now! c.org/NzMnpDFFX7
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Deny Parole in 2026 for Convicted Mass Murderer David Ennis (aka David Shearing)
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October 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I remember these horrific murders like they were yesterday. The Johnson and Bentley families should not have to keep going through these parole requests! Deny parole now! c.org/NzMnpDFFX7
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Issue 60 is out! Haiku full of moose and beavers - we love it! Enjoy!
Issue 60 – Moose & Beaver 🫎🦫 - The Solitary Daisy
Last weekend Sally and I attended the Wine Country Writers Festival in Penticton, BC.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Issue 60 is out! Haiku full of moose and beavers - we love it! Enjoy!
Time to order Beyond Blue, an anthology edited by @christinamyers.bsky.social and Olga Nwobosi! I have the story of my postpartum depression in it! Published by @caitlinpress.bsky.social #canadianpress #postpartumdepression
September 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Time to order Beyond Blue, an anthology edited by @christinamyers.bsky.social and Olga Nwobosi! I have the story of my postpartum depression in it! Published by @caitlinpress.bsky.social #canadianpress #postpartumdepression
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Phew! Doing our best here to catch up! Enjoy this hilarious issue of the Solitary Daisy! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/09/issu...
Issue 59 – Funny Senryu - The Solitary Daisy
I love these cooler days and even cooler nights, when all the tourists have gone home and the beaches are empty.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Phew! Doing our best here to catch up! Enjoy this hilarious issue of the Solitary Daisy! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/09/issu...
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Finally, here is our Newcomers issue with a shortened version of material because Sally and I are both still recuperating from our big adventures! Enjoy!
Issue 58 – Newcomer Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
Haiku sounds like I’m Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.
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September 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Finally, here is our Newcomers issue with a shortened version of material because Sally and I are both still recuperating from our big adventures! Enjoy!
Pharmacare shouldn't depend on your postal code nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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August 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Pharmacare shouldn't depend on your postal code nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...
It's great to live in a country where you can meet the prime minister and take a selfie together 😊🇨🇦
August 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
It's great to live in a country where you can meet the prime minister and take a selfie together 😊🇨🇦
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
Have a little fun with Leapfrog, first published in @litsharkmag.bsky.social 🐸 #poetry #canadianpoets #womenpoets
Leapfrog - Michele Rule
The trail to the pond was beckoning wave of willow branches chirp of grasshoppers
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August 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Have a little fun with Leapfrog, first published in @litsharkmag.bsky.social 🐸 #poetry #canadianpoets #womenpoets
Thrilled to have one of my haiku appear in @teatimehaiku.bsky.social 's Haiku Girl Summer! Thanks to guest editor Jessica Allyson! #haiku
July 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thrilled to have one of my haiku appear in @teatimehaiku.bsky.social 's Haiku Girl Summer! Thanks to guest editor Jessica Allyson! #haiku
Nonviolent climate activist Zain Haq was deported from Canada on January 26, 2025. Immigration Minister Lena Metledge Diab still has the power to #BringZainHome. Send him a letter today: www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/br...
Bring Zain home - Dogwood
Nonviolent climate activist Zain Haq was deported from Canada on January 26, 2025. Immigration Minister Lena Metledge Diab still has the power to #BringZainHome. Send him a letter today.
www.dogwoodbc.ca
July 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Nonviolent climate activist Zain Haq was deported from Canada on January 26, 2025. Immigration Minister Lena Metledge Diab still has the power to #BringZainHome. Send him a letter today: www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/br...
July 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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In preparation for the launch of our new campaign for pain management for IUD insertions we are asking for stories! If you have a story about an IUD experience that you would like to share, go to our website www.accessbc.org and click the ‘Share Your Story’ link at the bottom of the pages.
June 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
In preparation for the launch of our new campaign for pain management for IUD insertions we are asking for stories! If you have a story about an IUD experience that you would like to share, go to our website www.accessbc.org and click the ‘Share Your Story’ link at the bottom of the pages.
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Happy Saturday from the male Spicebush Swallowtail.
#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #SwallowtailSeason
#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #SwallowtailSeason
July 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Happy Saturday from the male Spicebush Swallowtail.
#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #SwallowtailSeason
#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #SwallowtailSeason
I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. Be part of the actions this September: drawtheline.world?utm_source=b...
Home | Draw The Line - For life, for people, for the planet.
Join us this September to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence; for a future of peace, clean energy, and fairness.
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July 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. Be part of the actions this September: drawtheline.world?utm_source=b...
So pleased to have a haiku on the theme of "books" in the latest issue of the Haiku Canada BC Yukon newsletter! #haiku #haikucanada
July 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
So pleased to have a haiku on the theme of "books" in the latest issue of the Haiku Canada BC Yukon newsletter! #haiku #haikucanada
I'm so excited to have a story in this upcoming anthology!
Edited by Oga Nwobosi and @christinamyers.bsky.social, Beyond Blue is a collection of deeply personal essays, in which mothers from all walks of life share their experiences with postpartum depression. Now available from Caitlin Press and everywhere books are sold: caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Beyo...
July 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm so excited to have a story in this upcoming anthology!
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Festivals and Celebrations in this new issue of the Solitary Daisy! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/07/issu... #haiku #haikujournal #haikusubmissions
Issue 56 – Festivals And Celebrations - The Solitary Daisy
Summer doesn’t know if it is coming or going here, with days over 35C then switching out to 23C in the blink of an eye.
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July 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Festivals and Celebrations in this new issue of the Solitary Daisy! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/07/issu... #haiku #haikujournal #haikusubmissions