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landseasky.bsky.social
Alpenglow Raevyn
@landseasky.bsky.social
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They/them, AuDHD, Jumano Apache & Euro-American, Druid, UU, knitter, wounded healer, chaser of poetry, healing, songs and the numinous. Let’s make the world better.
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#NoKings Colorado Springs showed up.
October 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Little brown acorn
Fallen whole upon my path
Pocket full of joy

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry

I found this today and kept forgetting it was in my pocket, which made for excitedly sharing the acorn multiple times today. Look at the acorn! So cute and perfect!
A dark brown acorn with the cap, sitting on a gray cloth with red Kashubian stitching partially visible at the edge and corner
September 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Protested on the holiday weekend between hot air balloons and driving kids around. Ran into friends. Contacted an arts group involved with political theater, poetry and music. Good times. Good times.
#WorkersOverBillionaires
Three light-skinned friends at a the Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day protest in Colorado. One holds an American flag partially visible at the edges. An elderly light-skinned man and veteran sits on city hall’s steps. He is wearing a black t-shirt with a three-circle Venn diagram. The three circles say, “1984,” “Brave New World,” and “Fahrenheit 451.” The center says, “you are here.” He is wearing a white pin that reads, “thanking veterans every day.” Sidewalk chalk art at the steps of City Hall during the Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day protest. It shows the planet earth and words reading, “Workers of the world unite!”
September 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Summer disorients time
Blurs into heat and growth

Then in August
My walks take me
To searching leaves
For shades of red and yellow
Browning acorns on the branch

And so when September comes
I know when I am

#poetry
A light brown acorn almost ripe on the tree with the oak’s leaves fanning out around it A single red Englemann ivy leaf that has fallen on the ground, which is covered in wood chips
September 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Found in spring
Elder bushes dancing
Between pavement and buildings
From flower to fruit
How I wonder
At how well you feed this world
Bursts of berries darken
In summer sun and rain
Making welcome
For birds and weary walkers

#WildWalkPrompt cluster
#poetry
Rip deep purple elderberries on the bush, about half to a third of which have been taken by birds.
September 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Vibrant blazing star
Within a cut-down prairie
A bright spark of hope

#wildwalkprompt vibrant
#poetry #haiku
Blazing star flower stands alone in a mowed prairie
August 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Just a couple of druids
Hanging out
In a creek
By a creek
With a creek
Sank into a sandbar
Might as well stay in the water
Say hello to crawdads
Tell stories of water
Of gathering up cattail roots
How stories of the land
Mean everything

#poetry #druidsky
August 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Bright bee’s buzz pauses
Atop the curly gumweed
Listens to the wind

#dailyhaikuprompt buzz
#haiku #poetry
A bee with a red section of abdomen atop a curlycup gumweed flower
August 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Fallen from the oak
Feeding the prairie acorns
A small abundance

#wildwalkprompt acorn
#poetry #haiku
#naturephotography
A single brown acorn with cap on the ground A single brown acorn on the ground, still attached to a cluster of leaves, which are green but drying from having fallen from the tree.
August 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Vibrant blazing star
Defying the mower’s blade
Teach me resilience

#poetry #haiku #bloomscrolling #blazingstar #prairie #naturephotography #nature
A single stalk of blazing star, aka gayfeather, stands brightly in a prairie field that has been recently mown. The rest of the plant has been cut down along with all the grasses and plants in the field. This one flower stands above, having recovered from last week’s mowing.
August 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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I’m making stocking for my cousin’s kids. Here’s a panel design for the one who’s getting a tree.
#knit #knitting #fiberarts #folkart #wip
Graph paper chart pattern written in pencil. The pattern centers a pine tree with two squirrels beneath it and snowflakes in the sky around the tree.
August 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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And so it is
With seed heads spreading tufts
Of next year’s brightness
Berries on the branch lay tart upon my tongue
The leaf tints red
And brown upon the ground
Where lies the blackbird
Caught and left behind
Another year
Is turning

#poetry
#naturephotography #bloomscrolling
Green leaves in dappled sun with a few leaves edged with red hues and one fully reddened. Leaves on the ground, some more decayed and some bright orange brown with yellow edge. Another lies fresh and green. Thistle with one purple crowned flower and multiple spilling seed tufts Reed seed heads at the end of a reed
August 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Thousand tiny blooms
Welcoming winged visitors
Field within a field

#whistpr bloom
#poetry #bloomscrolling #naturephotography
A thousand tiny blooms in the center of a sunflower
August 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Hawthorn branches guarding life
Since Slavic tales of vampire nights
These call for stakes of hawthorn’s strength
Their berries redden as fresh blood
As winter haunts the mind with tales
Have all the flutterings been caught?

#poetry #vampire #hawthorn #folklore #wildwalkprompt
A black and white drawing from The Slavic Myths by Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapsak. It shows prominent male figure lying prone with gaunt features and eyes wide, while a black butterfly escaping his mouth. Four men stand in silhouette at the top of the hill he lies on with farm tools as weapons just after having killed him (the first time).
August 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I’m pretty sure if I shrunk myself and crawled inside, there’s a whole magical world in there.
A hole about 9 inches across at the base on a large stump.
August 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Sunflower shining
See all my tiny petals
Each brings a new joy

#poetry #haiku #micropoetry

LOOK AT THE TINY PETALS on this gorgeous sunflower. ❤️🌻

#bloomscrolling #sunflower
Close up of a sunflower full of the tiny inner flowers, with none of the outer petals present.
August 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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What To Do With Tears

#Spokenword #poetry, which makes this image obviously the wrong format. Haha. I gotta learn more ways to do this. 🙃
Poem titled “What To Do With Tears” by Rae Blaisdell (note: poem is truncated due to inadequate space in alt text) Unsettled senses Uncertainty of presence Which in itself has said a lot Listening to Mohawk author Alicia Elliot tell tales of what she calls “depression” A Mind Spread Out On the Ground And here is mine Weaving between these stories And a group of white-skinned witchy women Who do not see my gender Let alone how I was born With blood run deep within this land And then, a protest against fascism and my own against colonialism Already I’m not present Feel apart Some part of me still standing in a creek Letting go, rigidity and control Maybe this was some of it And then rehearsing for a time Consumerism is required Executions and quotas Gathering materialism Consequences of individualism And I am even more invisible A white-washed body In a white-washed world Materialism my worse nightmare Of isolation from a world of beauty Nature and connection Where is the hope in this? Where is the message For the masses Who will come and see this play? And then I’m thinking How my journeys into unconscious depths of trauma Leave me facing waves Facing women of this land We are wave and we face wave upon wave We hold it back and yet we burst And we are crazy Maybe Yes Sometimes we are crazy Spread out on the ground Suspended These white-skinned women Might welcome tales of fae and aliens And I have woven in the rage At all these highways and these humans In this land’s most sacred groves But I tie it with a bow Of how the mother ocean welcomed me They show relief These white-skinned women Do not wonder how to wrangle rage Not like this Not against them They can rage against a patriarchy Laugh at Medusa’s petrifying gaze They aren’t at the protest though They aren’t on the stage They tell me not to expect those men to change Release things into rivers and to flame But not in screaming Not in standing at the corners With our gaze unbreaking …
August 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Red castilleja
A favorite flower
Childhood’s earlier memories
Sipping nectar from their straws
On rocky hillsides
Grandmother sharing plants
We try not to fall down the scree
Learning the land

#poetry #bloomscrolling
Red castilleja flower, aka Indian paintbrush.
August 4, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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The protest today was kind of odd. More like a fair with signs and speakers, but that did mean opportunities to find and support efforts for change and meet people. Decent turnout, but not as many as for the previous two big ones.
A young light skinned woman sits on a stone wall outside of a city hall on a clear day. Against the stone wall is propped a sign made to look like stone that reads, “Keep democracy alive 1776 - ? Stop TRUMP” The woman holds a blue sign that reads, “Stop pretending your racism and hate are patriotism” In the background can be seen two shade tents, a few people, a city hall building, and two US flags. A partial wall that is the sign for a city hall. Propped on the wall, covering the City Hall words are signs. One looks like stone and reads, “Keep democracy alive 1776 - ? Stop TRUMP” Two blue signs read, “Not all conservatives are pedophiles. Some merely condone it because they’re in it for the racism and hate” Another reads, “I wish for you what you wish for immigrants”
August 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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August flowers flare
Between times of bud and seed
Keep the bees busy

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #bloomscrolling
#thistle #yarrow #balloonflower #oregongrape
Oregon grape with full berries Twin white balloon flowers. Smaller closed balloon flowers are blurred in the background Pink yarrow flowers of varying shades Globe thistle flower of lavender color
August 3, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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White sap sticks fingers
Buds gathered for future coughs
Grindelia laughs

#haikufeels
#poetry #haiku #micropoetry
Curly cup gum weed (grindelia) plant with sticky white resinous sap visible in the centered flower.
July 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Time in the hilltops
Storytellers unwind tales
Returning with more

#poetry #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #naturephotography #bloomscrolling

Currants and flowers from my overnight in the hills with my storytelling group.
Oceanspray flowers Wild onion flowers White yarrow flowers Red currants in a light-skinned hand wearing a ring with moon phases on it.
July 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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#PoemsAbout #glamour
#poetry
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Poem on white background with gold filigree edging. Poem reads: once glamoured my house covered in fairy prisms and spells none could find it without announced intent I caught myself this way too it’s lonely as invisible blending into mirrored walls distrusting ones who say they see still living between worlds I wonder how to wear the sparkle still be seen
July 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Tiny violet
Sentinel to mountain spring
Let me see wonder

#vss365 #violet
#poetry #naturephotography #bloomscrolling
Tiny white mountain violets next to small saplings of fir trees.
July 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Favorite mountain view
Peaks and sky and singing birds
Cradled by water

#ourpoetryx
#poetry #haiku #micropoetry
Mountain valley view of a pond, the sky with clouds also reflected in the pond, buttes and mountains in the distance, and cattails with red-winged blackbirds.
July 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM