Tracy Marks
tracymar.bsky.social
Tracy Marks
@tracymar.bsky.social
Online instructor in continuing education (creative writing, literature, personal development). Poet. Author of 4 books. Counselor/consultant. Read classics, international, quality sci fi/fantasy, interfaith books. Love nature photography, music.
WINTER HAIKU
A bare tree, split trunk,
head buried beneath the soil,
performs a handstand

#haiku #haikusaturday #haikupoem #3lines #poetry
#poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #winter #tree #nature
February 14, 2026 at 7:08 AM
AFTER THE SNOWFALL TANKA
Within the silence
of suspended thought, the storm
dissolves. Peace descends.
Listen to the falling snow,
the stillness after snowfall.

#tanka #tankapoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #haiku
#haikupoem #inkmine #blueskypoets #winter #snow
February 14, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Some people make judgments about the past based on values and developments today, without considering the perspectives of yesterday.

HAIKU
"I don't like Shakespeare,"
my English student told me,
"He writes in clichés."

#haiku #haikusaturday #3lines #poetry #poem #Shakespeare #literature #edusky
February 14, 2026 at 7:04 AM
TANKA
Ice dance: elegance,
two skating as one, melting
into each other
close, apart, then close again.
At best, lovemaking on ice.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #figureskating #skating #iceskating #icedance #Olympics
February 9, 2026 at 8:34 AM
HAIKU
Winter sunflowers
on the sill happily stretch
toward light. My heart sings.

#haiku #haikusaturday #haikupoem #micropoetry
#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
#winter #flowers #nature #inspiration
February 8, 2026 at 6:53 AM
TANKA
At home in my nest
like a fledgling, unable
to fly, big mama
afraid to risk frozen wings
feeding in winter.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#poetrycommunity #inkmine #winter #nature
February 8, 2026 at 6:51 AM
HAIKU
Do we need to be
broken apart before we
can be rebuilt whole?

#haiku #haikupoem #haikusaturday #micropoetry #3lines
#poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #transformation
February 7, 2026 at 4:16 AM
A friend sent me this beautiful, meaningful poem. I retyped it and saved it as an image so I could post it here.

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #inspiration #transformation #spirituality #selfhelp
February 7, 2026 at 12:14 AM
NAANI
Don't mistake the light
at the end of the tunnel
for the bright blinding headlights
of an oncoming train.

NAANI: a poetic form from India which totals four lines
of 20-25 syllables

#micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
#skypoets #poem #inspiration
February 6, 2026 at 8:07 PM
HAIKU
branches buffeted
by winter gales surrender,
bend, sway, extend, dance.

#haiku #haikupoem #3lines #micropoetry #poetry
#inkmine #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #winter
#trees #nature
February 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM
TANKA
After the strip tease
of autumn, trees bare, exposed
to cold, snow, ice, sleet,
sink deep into roots, renew
themselves, readying for spring.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#inkmine #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #nature
#trees #winter #spring
February 3, 2026 at 8:13 AM
FEBRUARY: A HAIKU POEM
A little lighter
each day, a little later,
sunset, a little

earlier, sunrise.
Slowly, anticipation
will awaken. Spring.

#haiku #haikupoem #micropoetry #blueskypoets #skypoets
#poetrycommunity #3lines #inkmine #winter #nature #inspiration #spring
February 1, 2026 at 4:51 AM
HAIKU
Waxed amaryllis -
No need to have a green thumb.
Winter flowers bloom.

#haiku #haikupoem #micropoetry #poetry #poem #inkmine #3lines #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetrycommunity #flowers #winter #nature
February 1, 2026 at 4:02 AM
SNOW DRIFTS HAIKU
These snowflakes afloat ---
flung through air by sudden squall,
downward fall. Snowdrifts.

#haiku #haikupoem #haikusaturday #micropoetry
#blueskypoets #skypoets #inkmine #poetrycommunity #winter #snow #nature
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
TO READERS OF MY POETRY:
I post my political poems (mostly tankas, though not often) in my other BlueSky account -- You can follow me there too! bsky.app/profile/trac...

#poetry #poetrycommunity #tanka #writing #blueskypoets #nokings #wethepeople #indivisible #saveourdemocracy #democracy #moveon
January 29, 2026 at 3:00 AM
BILLY COLLINS POETRY
Experience & discuss 15-20 humorous, quirky, perceptive and delightful and ingenious poems by Collins. 2-session online community ed course, February 10 & 24 EST
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#poetry #poetrycommunity #billycollins #blueskypoets
#literature #humor #litthings #author
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January 28, 2026 at 5:31 AM
HAIKU
twenty one inches
the calm after a snowstorm
silent wonderland

#haiku #haikupoem #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine
#poetrycommunity #skypoets #blueskypoets
#winter #nature #snow
January 28, 2026 at 5:21 AM
TANKA
Again, ordering
too many library books,
more than I can read —
this tempting literary
buffet of delicacies!

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#poetry #library #books #reading #literary #litthings
January 21, 2026 at 10:41 PM
TANKA
We must be careful –
building card castles in life
is risky. Lacking
firm foundations or solid
networks of support, we fall.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #poetry
#poetrycommunity #skypoets #blueskypoets #micropoetry
January 21, 2026 at 8:59 AM
TANKA
January light
a month past solstice, the sun
softly glimmering
golden through the crisp, cold air
sparkles upon fresh snow. Hope.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikupoem #micropoetry
#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #inkmine #nature #winter #inspiration
January 21, 2026 at 6:22 AM
PLENITUDE, a sijo
Though you think you’re not enough
you struggle because you’re too much.
A vast country of talents
is awakening inside you.
Not many people get to be
king of such immensity.

#sijo #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #inkmine
#poem #blueskypoets #skypoets
guide to sijo | sejong writing competition
www.sejongculturalsociety.org
January 19, 2026 at 10:36 PM
DIRECTIONS, a tanka
You can find my house
at the junction of hopeless
and hope, ten yards past
the grey fence of fear, across
from where the faith flowers bloom.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#poem #skypoets #poetrycommunity #inkmine
January 19, 2026 at 7:56 PM
HAIKU
A snowy owl
spreads its wings, glides through the air.
A silent angel.

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#haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #3lines #inkmine #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #nature #birds #owl #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #angels
January 19, 2026 at 7:53 PM
CINQUAIN
Wanting
to be the ham
and cheese in your croissant,
warm and melting in the bread of
your arms

#micropoetry #poetry #cinquain #inkmine #skypoets
#blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #poem #love
(Cinquains are five lines of 2-4-6-8-2 syllables)
January 19, 2026 at 6:52 PM
January 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM