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Melanie Phoenix
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January 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A collaboration with my beloved Terry.
#HaikuByHaiku2025
January 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Some dogjoy from Kashi & Magic.
#HaikuByHaiku2025
January 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
January 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
1/19/2025
January 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I didn’t imagine we’d be fighting this hard in 2025 to protect our nation and the world from tyranny. But here we are. In the long lineage of civil rights marches, today is the PEOPLE’S MARCH across this country. I offer a tanka and a paraphrase of great wisdom I heard Holly Near say last night.
January 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
1/10/2025
A flash of gladness in the midst of everything else.
#HaikuByHaiku2025
January 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
1/12/2025
Our lime tree, named Limerick, is tiny but mighty and productive. These limes turn yellow when allowed to ripen naturally on the tree, and they’re delicious!

#HaikuByHaiku2025 #Curiosity
January 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
1/9/2025
Watching the Southern CA wildfires from the other end of my beloved state, I remember those orange skies and how it felt like we’d never see blue again. What a gift to have crystal clear blue skies in Northern CA today. There is hope, my SoCal friends. I grieve with you and stand with you.
January 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
January 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
January 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
January 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
1/3/2025

A birthday haiku for my dear friend Lynette Schmidt. May we all be love-pollinators in this world like she is.

#BirthdayHaiku
January 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
1/3/2025

I promise myself
I’ll choose to be curious
rather than fearful,

enchanted like a
child to make every new wow
a sweet adventure,

and practice ‘til that’s
my default state again, like
once upon a time.

#HaikuByHaiku2025 #HaikuStream #Curiosity
January 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
For Jimmy Carter.

The reel includes a tribute haiku, the haiku post I made for President Carter’s 100th birthday, his signature in his book Always a Reckoning (which I found in a used bookstore that had no idea what a treasure they had in their stacks), and two perfect Mike Luckovich cartoons.
January 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Haiku for 11/24/24 and 11/25/24. #HaikuByHaiku2024
November 26, 2024 at 12:58 AM
11/23/24
After the Big Storm II.
PC me: Another view from my backyard. Grateful for those geese.
#HaikuByHaiku2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:40 PM
11/23/24

After the Big Storm I.
PC me: view from my backyard. Grateful to sit in sunshine again!
#HaikuByHaiku2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:39 PM
We’re in the thick of a mighty storm! Yesterday’s tanka and today’s haiku.
November 21, 2024 at 9:22 PM
11/19/2024

May it be so.

#HaikuByHaiku2024 #Tanka31Syllables
November 20, 2024 at 2:48 AM
11/18/2024
My first post over here! I’ve been writing daily haiku for years and posting them on those other platforms. Let’s see how it goes to post them here.

#HaikuByHaiku2024 #Tanka31Syllables #HaikuForHope
November 18, 2024 at 7:03 PM