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Rob Keim
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Flash fiction and nonfiction writer, poet, collector, teacher, dog dad, home chef, all-around dabbler, arts enthusiast and patron, and more. Invented “The Blitz” poetry form
#haiku #vintage #typewriter

There is no one here
It takes two to start counting
And to multiply
June 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Old typewriters have
No one in their number row
So all old ones are Ls

#haiku #poem #vintage #typewriter
June 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
#haiku today for a quick picture project

0.25 mm pen on wooden yard stick
May 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A #haiku scratched out on this gray day:

I shake out my shoes
in this drizzling rain- but
the pebble remains

#poetry
May 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Some weekend reading while camping. Really good so far, explaining the confluence of influences from China, Shintoism, and Buddhism in Japanese culture surrounding both poetry and death

#haiku #poetry #books #reading
May 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’m happy to have had a poem I submitted selected for the Syracuse Poster Project which this year celebrated iconic Syracuse businesses!
#haiku #poem #pasta #syracuse
May 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
1939 Life Magazine
Plus Googly Eyes equals
Pure magic
#funny #vintage #googlyeyes
April 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
We may be done with winter, but winter isn't done with us.

A bit less traditional #haiku for this morning:

April showers May help
flowers, but this mid-spring snow
bends their tender necks

#poem #snow #April
April 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Last year’s #haiku contest prize notebook with the original haiku:

black line in blank space
calls to my red-feathered thoughts
rest here a moment

Inspired by my photo of the male cardinal…a poet rectifies the space between the line and the void.

#writing
April 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
three hundred stickers

wait for the magic of our

students’ first haiku

#haiku #teaching #poetry #writing
April 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Fun with googly eyes #funny #googlyeyes
April 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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FRIDAY DANCE PARTY
March 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Cheers, it’s Friday!

Time to stop taking things so seriously!

Do something inconsequential this weekend, and do it for yourself.

#Funny #Googlyeyes #vintage #fun
March 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Library work / chill time #worklifebalance #library
March 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The obstacle is often the path #zen #quote #art #zentangle
March 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A couple minutes with MS Paint and I have a new and more welcoming door sign!
#teaching #rainbow #Ally
March 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Brevity magazine rocks. And so do barbers!
January 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Sunday morning, freezing rain, fire going.

I open Poetry magazine and read “If I Were an Ewok…”

Masterful, devastating, and beautiful.

I had to sit with the resonance of it for a bit before reading it aloud to my wife. She cried.

Thank you for this poem.

#poetry
February 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I like to try new poem styles sometimes. #blitz #poetry is fun! I like how it kind of turned into a zombie invasion at the end. I did not see that coming...and I wrote it!
December 15, 2024 at 2:20 PM
I’ve given Gregor Samsa a makeover, and I think he looks fabulous #art #metamorphosis #fun #Kafka #Classroom_decor
February 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Having a bit of fun with Googly-eyes is one of the cheapest bringers of joy possible #funny #Googly-Eyes #album
January 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
January 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I glued a plastic piece of cheese to Anakin’s head, and I think he really likes it! #cheese #art #fun
January 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I frequently refer to this sign I made in my classroom. I don't know where I picked the quote up from, but it works in so many situations. #work #teaching #classroom #work_ethic #inspiration #writing
November 20, 2024 at 2:36 PM