Caroline Johnstone
@carolinejohnstone.bsky.social
Poet (Hedgehog Press) & author (Dare to be Happier, Welbeck) General magpie 🧐Scotland and NI. I don’t check DM’s.
What then is beauty
A patch of brightness
Ammonite spirals
#Paisleypattern #mandala #everydaysketchbook #sketchbookrevival #micropoetry #haiku
A patch of brightness
Ammonite spirals
#Paisleypattern #mandala #everydaysketchbook #sketchbookrevival #micropoetry #haiku
June 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
What then is beauty
A patch of brightness
Ammonite spirals
#Paisleypattern #mandala #everydaysketchbook #sketchbookrevival #micropoetry #haiku
A patch of brightness
Ammonite spirals
#Paisleypattern #mandala #everydaysketchbook #sketchbookrevival #micropoetry #haiku
The Salt Path saved my life in 2020/21 when so many awful things happened one after the other on top of Covid.
Enforced homelessness
Heartbreaking illness
Six hundred and thirty miles
Walking the salt path
One step at a time
#raynorwinn #thesaltpath #collage #mixedmedia #chaiku #poem
Enforced homelessness
Heartbreaking illness
Six hundred and thirty miles
Walking the salt path
One step at a time
#raynorwinn #thesaltpath #collage #mixedmedia #chaiku #poem
June 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The Salt Path saved my life in 2020/21 when so many awful things happened one after the other on top of Covid.
Enforced homelessness
Heartbreaking illness
Six hundred and thirty miles
Walking the salt path
One step at a time
#raynorwinn #thesaltpath #collage #mixedmedia #chaiku #poem
Enforced homelessness
Heartbreaking illness
Six hundred and thirty miles
Walking the salt path
One step at a time
#raynorwinn #thesaltpath #collage #mixedmedia #chaiku #poem
New brush sweeping clean
Banned books, ideals, films, words.
Democracy dies
#haiku #bannedwords #1984 #America #democracy #micropoems
Banned books, ideals, films, words.
Democracy dies
#haiku #bannedwords #1984 #America #democracy #micropoems
May 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New brush sweeping clean
Banned books, ideals, films, words.
Democracy dies
#haiku #bannedwords #1984 #America #democracy #micropoems
Banned books, ideals, films, words.
Democracy dies
#haiku #bannedwords #1984 #America #democracy #micropoems
April 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Original Spring Poem written by me. About age 8 🤣🤣
April 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Original Spring Poem written by me. About age 8 🤣🤣
The challenge was a poem just using one initial letter. Mine was E
#Elon #emperor #empathy #educationmatters #equalityforall #diversity #ElonMusk
#Elon #emperor #empathy #educationmatters #equalityforall #diversity #ElonMusk
March 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The challenge was a poem just using one initial letter. Mine was E
#Elon #emperor #empathy #educationmatters #equalityforall #diversity #ElonMusk
#Elon #emperor #empathy #educationmatters #equalityforall #diversity #ElonMusk
Happy St Patrick’s Day x
March 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Happy St Patrick’s Day x
March 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I wrote this after watching a programme with Alexander Armstrong on Poveglia. None of us had any idea that Covid lay round the corner …
March 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I wrote this after watching a programme with Alexander Armstrong on Poveglia. None of us had any idea that Covid lay round the corner …
Dead letter boxes
For a Long Walk to Freedom
Green vines saved stories
#RobbenIsland #SouthAfrica #CapeTown #NelsonMandela #longwalktofreedom #prison #apartheid #Haiku #micropoetry
For a Long Walk to Freedom
Green vines saved stories
#RobbenIsland #SouthAfrica #CapeTown #NelsonMandela #longwalktofreedom #prison #apartheid #Haiku #micropoetry
March 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Dead letter boxes
For a Long Walk to Freedom
Green vines saved stories
#RobbenIsland #SouthAfrica #CapeTown #NelsonMandela #longwalktofreedom #prison #apartheid #Haiku #micropoetry
For a Long Walk to Freedom
Green vines saved stories
#RobbenIsland #SouthAfrica #CapeTown #NelsonMandela #longwalktofreedom #prison #apartheid #Haiku #micropoetry
Seems apt to post this tonight
#America #StatueofLiberty #freedom #Russia #Ukraine #poetry #poetsofinstagram #democracy
Elegy for the Statue of Liberty
Once, she was a beacon of hope
for the world.
Now she stands
a lighthouse turned inward
warning the world
to stay off her shores.
#America #StatueofLiberty #freedom #Russia #Ukraine #poetry #poetsofinstagram #democracy
Elegy for the Statue of Liberty
Once, she was a beacon of hope
for the world.
Now she stands
a lighthouse turned inward
warning the world
to stay off her shores.
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Seems apt to post this tonight
#America #StatueofLiberty #freedom #Russia #Ukraine #poetry #poetsofinstagram #democracy
Elegy for the Statue of Liberty
Once, she was a beacon of hope
for the world.
Now she stands
a lighthouse turned inward
warning the world
to stay off her shores.
#America #StatueofLiberty #freedom #Russia #Ukraine #poetry #poetsofinstagram #democracy
Elegy for the Statue of Liberty
Once, she was a beacon of hope
for the world.
Now she stands
a lighthouse turned inward
warning the world
to stay off her shores.
Slender stemmed seed-head
Holds out hope for the future
Life’s fragility
#haiku #micropoetry #hope #seedhead
📸 Penny Mail
Holds out hope for the future
Life’s fragility
#haiku #micropoetry #hope #seedhead
📸 Penny Mail
February 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Slender stemmed seed-head
Holds out hope for the future
Life’s fragility
#haiku #micropoetry #hope #seedhead
📸 Penny Mail
Holds out hope for the future
Life’s fragility
#haiku #micropoetry #hope #seedhead
📸 Penny Mail
20 years ago it was my hen night - and we ended up at a concert following the horrendous Boxing Day Earthquake and Tsunami in the Indian Ocean
I was thinking about that recently
Boxing Day Tsunsmi
#Tsunami #Indianocean #BoxingDay #Glasgow
I was thinking about that recently
Boxing Day Tsunsmi
#Tsunami #Indianocean #BoxingDay #Glasgow
February 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
20 years ago it was my hen night - and we ended up at a concert following the horrendous Boxing Day Earthquake and Tsunami in the Indian Ocean
I was thinking about that recently
Boxing Day Tsunsmi
#Tsunami #Indianocean #BoxingDay #Glasgow
I was thinking about that recently
Boxing Day Tsunsmi
#Tsunami #Indianocean #BoxingDay #Glasgow
Frosty morning light
All paths however broken
Visible silk now
#haiku #micropoetry #morninglight #spidersweb #silk
📸 Penny Mail
All paths however broken
Visible silk now
#haiku #micropoetry #morninglight #spidersweb #silk
📸 Penny Mail
February 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Frosty morning light
All paths however broken
Visible silk now
#haiku #micropoetry #morninglight #spidersweb #silk
📸 Penny Mail
All paths however broken
Visible silk now
#haiku #micropoetry #morninglight #spidersweb #silk
📸 Penny Mail
A pop of colour
Though decay is all around
Love springs eternal
#Haiku #Spring #Micropoetry #Forest #Woods #Valentine #Love
📸 Penny Mail
Though decay is all around
Love springs eternal
#Haiku #Spring #Micropoetry #Forest #Woods #Valentine #Love
📸 Penny Mail
February 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A pop of colour
Though decay is all around
Love springs eternal
#Haiku #Spring #Micropoetry #Forest #Woods #Valentine #Love
📸 Penny Mail
Though decay is all around
Love springs eternal
#Haiku #Spring #Micropoetry #Forest #Woods #Valentine #Love
📸 Penny Mail
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️🤣❤️
February 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️🤣❤️
The path is winding
The wood is bitter, silent
Footprints and tracks
#Haiku #micropoetry #windingpath #winter #footprints #tracks
📸 Penny Mail
The wood is bitter, silent
Footprints and tracks
#Haiku #micropoetry #windingpath #winter #footprints #tracks
📸 Penny Mail
February 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
The path is winding
The wood is bitter, silent
Footprints and tracks
#Haiku #micropoetry #windingpath #winter #footprints #tracks
📸 Penny Mail
The wood is bitter, silent
Footprints and tracks
#Haiku #micropoetry #windingpath #winter #footprints #tracks
📸 Penny Mail
In dark winter woods
There will be a leaf somewhere
Clinging to summer
#haiku #micropoetry #woods #leaf #winter #summer #resilience
📸 Caroline Johnstone
There will be a leaf somewhere
Clinging to summer
#haiku #micropoetry #woods #leaf #winter #summer #resilience
📸 Caroline Johnstone
February 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
In dark winter woods
There will be a leaf somewhere
Clinging to summer
#haiku #micropoetry #woods #leaf #winter #summer #resilience
📸 Caroline Johnstone
There will be a leaf somewhere
Clinging to summer
#haiku #micropoetry #woods #leaf #winter #summer #resilience
📸 Caroline Johnstone
Snow sifted gently
Sequoias planted in parkland
Strength through the ages.
#snow #haiku #micropoetry #park #strength #sequoias #DumfriesHouse
📸 mine
Sequoias planted in parkland
Strength through the ages.
#snow #haiku #micropoetry #park #strength #sequoias #DumfriesHouse
📸 mine
February 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Snow sifted gently
Sequoias planted in parkland
Strength through the ages.
#snow #haiku #micropoetry #park #strength #sequoias #DumfriesHouse
📸 mine
Sequoias planted in parkland
Strength through the ages.
#snow #haiku #micropoetry #park #strength #sequoias #DumfriesHouse
📸 mine