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Tracey Wheeler
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Dermatology specialist nurse and poet. Interested in faith, politics, humour, empathy, art, poetry.
All the good stuff.
Stone within passage tomb, Gavrinis, Gulf of Morbihan, France.
#StandingStoneSunday
April 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Pentre Ifan, Preseli Hills, Wales.
A favourite place.
#StandingStoneSunday
April 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There is someone near me on the bus who is CUTTING HER NAILS. The sound of the clipper...aaaargh.
Tell me this isn't part of the New Normal??
February 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Punxutawney Phil
Saw a shadow: not six weeks -
Four years of winter.

#haiku
#groundhogday
February 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
January days
The cold bites the swelling buds
A glimmer of hope.

#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt (glimmer)
January 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is not as it should be:
The Earth, in her prime,
should be shaking new life- forms from her skirts.
Basking in the rays of her closest star,
she should feel safe and satisfied:
Instead, she clutches her dearest to her breast,
fans her face, and wonders how
to escape the coming storm.
January 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Reposted by Tracey Wheeler
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The patterns I form
Recall a wagon, a plough,
a great shining bear.

#haiku
#ursamajor
#dailyhaikuprompt (bear)
January 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Raking the embers
Stacking wood, lighting the flame:
beginning anew.

#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt (beginning)
January 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Favourite ugly/beautiful photograph taken this year.
Málaga station, morning light.
December 31, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Roasting these chestnuts
might improve the flavour: but
the peeling's a pain.

#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt (chestnut)
December 25, 2024 at 12:22 PM
After the long wait
and frantic preparations
the longed-for day is short.

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt
(short day)
December 24, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Crystalline water
Lightly dusting the cold earth
Each snowflake unique.

#haiku
#snowflake
##dailyhaikuprompt
December 23, 2024 at 8:17 AM
The tilting towards
the hot sun begins afresh:
halfway through the dark.

#haiku
#solstice
#dailyhaikuprompt
December 21, 2024 at 7:19 PM
On waking, knowing
this clear day is just for you -
my heart leaps for joy.

#haiku
##dailyhaikuprompt
(Clear days)
December 8, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Sharp leaved, red berried,
Holly shouts its warning loud:
Only birds should eat.

#haiku
#haikudailyprompt
(Holly)
December 7, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Celery forest
In a sea of nettles:
A challenging salad.

#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt
December 6, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Their heads lost in mists
While their toes burrow in earth:
mountains dwarf the world.

#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt
December 5, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Caramel feathers
Puffed up against the cold:
The sparrow's winter quilt.
#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt
December 4, 2024 at 11:03 PM
I unexpectedly met Boris Johnson last night.
He was charming. Reasonable. Nice handwriting.
It was all a dream.
Dammit, my subconscious has forgiven him.
November 26, 2024 at 7:44 AM
REVIEWING GETTING TO THE BUS STOP 10 MINS EARLY ONLY TO FIND BUS IS 20 MINS LATE...in haiku.
Time has no meaning
What is time? A vague notion
life will start again.
November 25, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Apparently it's #standingstonesunday -who knew?
Here's a favourite of mine, taken on a misty morning at Avebury.
November 24, 2024 at 1:27 PM
REVIEWING CHRISTMAS MALL SHOPPING...in haiku.
Twinkling tinsel tat
Crowds and Mariah Carey:
No snowflakes in sight.
November 23, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I know it will cause a fair bit of unpleasantness in the UK, but it's hard to take a storm called Bert seriously.
November 22, 2024 at 10:44 PM