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RobertA Beary (they/she)
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Haibun Editor ‘Modern Haiku’
Awards: Winner - Bridport & Touchstone / Finalist - Rattle


📚 CRAZY BITCHES (selected haibun), CAROUSEL, THE UNWORN NECKLACE,
DEFLECTION, HAIBUN a writer’s guide


https://robertabeary.com
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robinsong all day the unmade bed

#haiku #towpathanthology
September 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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@rattlepoetry.bsky.social
🙏 editor @timothygreen.bsky.social
for featuring
*CRAZY BITCHES* my #haibun collection

Please have a listen and give us a ❤️ like

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Roberta Beary | Rattlecast 310
YouTube video by Rattle Poetry
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September 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
shortpoemz.bsky.social
mother gone
moonlight
shimmers
the last
white
rose

in memory Marie Beary

#haiku #deathpoem
September 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
shortpoemz.bsky.social
9.11
my brother
pauses
to breathe

Thinking of my brave brother today, September 11th.
#worldtradecentermemorial #nypdfinest
September 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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🙏 tsuridōrō editor/founder Tony Pupello issue 29 Sept Oct 2025
#haiku #micropoetry
September 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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new #haibun! inspired by @rhapsodyinblu.bsky.social
🙏 editors 💜contemporary haibun online issue 21.2 August 2025

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August 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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CRAZY BITCHES #haibun review excerpt…
Read in full Summer 2025 issue 39 FemkuMag I am deeply 🙏 for this close read with insightful commentary by founding editor Rowan Beckett Minor
July 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🙏 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award judges! Thrilled to see another award for my #haiku collection, Carousel🎠 (Snapshot Press,2024)
July 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Congratulations, @shortpoemz.bsky.social Incredible work as always! 💙
July 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Grateful to @‪brilliantflash.bsky.social
and its editor Dawn Lowe and @kathyfish.bsky.social
for her memoir immersion workshop. ‘10 Days After Grandma‘s Funeral’ - please have a read! brilliantflashfiction.com/2025/06/30/j...
JUNE 2025
Ten Days After Grandma’s FuneralBy Roberta Beary Mom tells me to go to the A&P for filet of flounder. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is about to start. She can hear the theme music. And she know…
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July 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
shortpoemz.bsky.social
stormy weather
blood on the thorns
of the apology

🙏 Tony Pupello editor tsuridoro #haiku, issue 28, July/August 2025.
July 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Couldn't be more pleased that I Still Dream of You, Ben by Roberta Beary @shortpoemz.bsky.social has been selected for Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist 2025. Thank you to @wigleaf.bsky.social @samanito.bsky.social @laughingyeti.bsky.social. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2024/02/09/i...
June 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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empty wind she says she’ll stop tomorrow

#haiku #addiction #monoku

🙏 editors @whiptailjournal.bsky.social
@komadorihaiku.bsky.social
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June 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
shortpoemz.bsky.social
new #haibun
Riding the Roller-Coaster
🙏 editors haikuKATHA journal
June 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

- Emily Dickinson
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry
May 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Thrilled to be a 2025 Moving Words Competition Winner
May 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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a robin centers
the sunset
    
tsuridoro issue 27 may 2025
#haiku #micropoetry
🙏editor Tony Pupello
May 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
shortpoemz.bsky.social
thanks, Kris! I appreciate your guidance here!!
krislindbeck.bsky.social Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · Apr 26
Click on the link, then page up to read a description and sample #haiku from the collection, including the one that gave its title

almost summer
the smell of wet paint
on the carousel

~ R. Beary
April 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
shortpoemz.bsky.social
Thanks Touchstone peeps! Thrilled to see ‘CAROUSEL’ taking a bow!

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April 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Grateful 🙏 💕🥳
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#haibun *Grief: The Uncut Version*
#TouchstoneAward

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2024 Touchstone Award Winner for Individual Haibun - Roberta Beary - The Haiku Foundation
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April 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I’m a Happy Camper
holding my new #haibun book
CRAZY BITCHES (MacQ 2025)
@claremacqueen.bsky
artwork by my brother Kevin
April 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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TY @timothygreen.bsky.social & @rattlepoetry.bsky.social for featuring print & audio of my #haibun !! Thrilled to be in this issue!
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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new #haibun

TINY LOVE STORY
🙏MacQueen’s Quinterly

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March 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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80 delicious haibun to savour by one of my very favourite writers, Roberta Beary @shortpoemz.bsky.social - all in one superbly illustrated book - ‘Crazy Bitches’! A treat for my weekend, and beyond…
March 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM