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C. K. Crawford
@christacraw.bsky.social
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Fueled by tea and my love of haiku, photography, nature, and art.

My amazing partner:
@bill-crawford.bsky.social

My posts:
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C. K. Crawford @christacraw.bsky.social · Jun 20
fresh peas
the familiar unzipping
of summer

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (fresh peas)
Reposted by C. K. Crawford
silby.bsky.social
cappuccino dregs
copyedit marathon
coffee-acrid sweat
christacraw.bsky.social C. K. Crawford @christacraw.bsky.social · Jun 9
sweat rings on me
and the coffee table
hot night

#haiku #poetry #SenryuSunday #dailyhaikuprompt (hot night)
August 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
christacraw.bsky.social
pressed in
Plath
meadow flowers

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (meadow)
July 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
christacraw.bsky.social
pining for flowers
parched
earth

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (parched)
July 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Reposted by C. K. Crawford
jennygaitskell.bsky.social
stratus nebulosus
if only I could go
where my shadow goes

#DailyHaikuPrompt (overcast)
July 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
christacraw.bsky.social
binned jazz— what a wonderful world in pieces

Many 🙏 to editor Tony Pupello for including this one!
tsuridoro issue 28 July/August 2025
#poetry #tsuri-dōrō #poetrycommunity #monoku

For the whole lovely issue, visit: tsuridoro.org/issue-28-jul...
binned jazz— what a wonderful world in pieces
July 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Reposted by C. K. Crawford
zennaivy.bsky.social
#dailyhaikuprompt, #haiku, #poetry

small hands
offer great treasure
pebbles
July 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by C. K. Crawford
shinobazupond.bsky.social
Nice to find myself in such good company. Thanks to editor,
Kelly Moyer (Failed Haiku #110). #haiku #senryu

Full Issue available here: failedhaiku.com/2025/06/30/f...
Screenshot of a haiku/senryu, which reads: "a bare bough - why am I troubled by the wind? Tim Chamberlain Shinobazu Pond 俳句" from 'Failed Haiku,' Vol. 10, Issue 110 (July, 2025), p. 144.
July 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
christacraw.bsky.social
kingfisher—
some of us need
to dive deeper

#haiku #senryu #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (kingfisher)
July 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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magedah.bsky.social
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

blushing amber
the sunset heart
of the plum
July 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Reposted by C. K. Crawford
maoandthesparrows.bsky.social
Tiny yellow flowers growing along the Madawaska’s shore.
June 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
christacraw.bsky.social
embracing summer
morning glory bravely
trellises herself

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (trellis)
June 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
christacraw.bsky.social
let’s all
begin again
new moon

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (new moon)
June 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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silby.bsky.social
overcast night sky;
uncertain constellations
of teeming fireflies
christacraw.bsky.social C. K. Crawford @christacraw.bsky.social · Apr 20
every star has
an understudy
—firefly

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (fire)
June 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by C. K. Crawford
vickyoutenphoto.bsky.social
Yellow wagtail on some wheat

linktr.ee/vickyouten...

🪶🦉 #birds #wildlife #ukwildlife #nature #photography #ThePhotoHour #yellowwagtail
June 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
christacraw.bsky.social
summer solstice
again we tip our hats
to the sun

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (solstice)
June 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
christacraw.bsky.social
fresh peas
the familiar unzipping
of summer

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (fresh peas)
June 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Reposted by C. K. Crawford
ireneaddie.bsky.social
moss and stone
some of us thrive
in the shadows

#Brida #bridahaikus
#bridahaiku #haiku
#gardening #gardensky #gardeningfeed #moss
#stone #shadow
#bloomscrolling

📷 mine
My shade garden with layers of stone and perennial plants.
June 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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jennfel.bsky.social
our first
flirtatious moment
fireflies
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku
June 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
christacraw.bsky.social
firefly dusk—
how brief the life
of a shooting star

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (fireflies)
June 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
christacraw.bsky.social
sun flowers
together we reach
for the sky

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (sun flower)
June 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reposted by C. K. Crawford
silby.bsky.social
fog-tangled willow
tears trickling from your branches,
why do you weep so?
christacraw.bsky.social C. K. Crawford @christacraw.bsky.social · Apr 15
letting the trees
cry on my shoulder—
misty morning

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (misty)
June 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
christacraw.bsky.social
sweat rings on me
and the coffee table
hot night

#haiku #poetry #SenryuSunday #dailyhaikuprompt (hot night)
June 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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silby.bsky.social
canvas sails gullwing–
cumulus drift west, and I
follow where they lead
christacraw.bsky.social C. K. Crawford @christacraw.bsky.social · Apr 12
daydream—
and with a breath
the clouds sail west

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (dream)
June 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by C. K. Crawford
stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
waxwings and catbirds
strip the Juneberry –
summer circles and settles

#dailyhaikuprompt | hydrangea / Juneberry (serviceberry)
#smallpoems
#Iowa

* My "yard" in NE Iowa is all native plants; the difference between "woods" and "house" is blurry. I remember hydrangeas from my childhood in town […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
June 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM