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Steve Peterson
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Former teacher. Part-time poet. Dog lover. Amateur photographer. Hiker. Canoeist. Reader. Oak woodland restorer. Clean energy advocate. Driftless Area, NE Iowa […]

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that kind of joy –
a sky so clear
I touch the Pleiades

#dailyhaikuprompt | clear sky
#smallpoems
#gratitude
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I see my crooked grin
on my grandfather’s face –
binding threads

#dailyhaikuprompt | thread
#smallpoems
#ancestors
January 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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hard right turn from nowhere to nowhere

#StreetPhotography
#rural
#Iowa
#Photography
A rural winter scene. An ice and snow covered gravel road leads into the distance, but disappears over a slight rise. Snow covered fields and woodlots to the sides of the road and in the distance. To the right, a yellow right turn sign stands out as the only colorful object in a bleak winter landscape. Above, layers of white and dark clouds.
January 1, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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snow squall over a hay field

#LandscapePhotography
#Photography
#Iowa
Dark clouds appear to rush above an empty, mowed hay field in the winter time. Hay stubble pokes through a light layer of snow. Between the field and the clouds, a thin light gray line.
January 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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that kind of joy –
a sky so clear
I touch the Pleiades

#dailyhaikuprompt | clear sky
#smallpoems
#gratitude
December 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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waiting –
all day
the icicles grow

#dailyhaikuprompt | icicle
#smallpoems
December 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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gate

#BlackAndWhite
A metal gate shot from the dark side looking out into bright sunlight. The slats and bars of the gate are very dark against the bright white of the outside. To the right is a smaller gate that looks and functions like a door. The overall feeling is abstract. The straight lines give the photo a mechanical feel.
December 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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A weathered sheet of ice at the Grand Marais, MN breakwater, Jan 2025.

#BlackAndWhite
#monochrome
Shows a shiny sheet of ice eroded and dimpled by wind, water, and sun. The sun angle makes the indentations dark and the high parts light, creating an interesting abstract light and dark pattern.
December 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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high above this blizzard
a cold winter
moon

#dailyhaikuprompt | cold
#smallpoems
#Iowa
December 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reposted by Steve Peterson
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Being aesthetically impaired I rarely post photos or art, but this…

A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow, Poland | Marcin Ryczek
A photo where left half is entirely white (with barely visible footsteps indicating it's snow) and right is dark grey water, with a man standing on the bank and feeding white swans and some birds flocking toward him
December 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reposted by Steve Peterson
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#silentsunday
A string of multicolored Christmas lights, along a weatherworn fence.
December 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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snowmelt off the woodshed roof

#BlackAndWhite
#monochrome
A closeup of a thin icicle against a blurred dark background. The icicle picks up light from a gray sky and dark from the surrounding trees, creating abstract patterns of light and dark that seem to come from within the icicle itself. The tip of the icicle appears frosted from the tiny air bubbles frozen within the drip. The overall effect is a moody, abstract play of light and darkness, which is a favorite topic of mine, I guess.
December 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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#silentsunday
A long view over a foggy valley. Layers of bare-branched trees fade into the fog. Dark trunks nearer and ghostly gray farther away. In the background, a barely visible hillside in faded yellowed grass.
December 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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bubbles in lake ice

#monochrome
#BlackAndWhite
Large frozen bubbles of air on an icy surface. Smaller bubbles have left vertical trails below the surface of the ice. I think the combination looks like jellyfish with long translucent "arms" hanging below.
December 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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pin oak leaf melting into the snow

#Photography
A closeup of a reddish-brown pin oak leaf with deeply indented leaf edges and sharp points on the branches of the leaf. Veins show prominently. The right side of the leaf has melted into the snow and then it appears snow drifted over the melted part and that, in turn, began to remelt.
December 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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what can we bear –
on my father’s nightstand
a half-done crossword

#dailyhaikuprompt | bear
#smallpoems
December 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@BriefPulseNews/115788109966709186

I'm guessing that if this vote actually COULD get Thiel to leave, Californians might vote in droves.
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December 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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a Christmas day
pratfall –
the mirth of Christ

#dailyhaikuprompt | mirth
#smallpoems
#icypath
December 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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sunrise through the fog across the valley

#BlackAndWhite
#LandscapePhotography
Several lines of trees fade into the fog below a gray sky. The grainy photo has a painterly look to it.
December 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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silent night
inside the fog
a coyote chorus

#dailyhaikuprompt | night
#smallpoems
#rural
December 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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round bales wrapped
in the flag
claiming ground for ‘Murica

#dailyhaikuprompt | hay
#smallpoems

This is a "thing" that I haven't seen before this year...
December 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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winter garden
harvest time for
finches

#dailyhaikuprompt | garden
#smallpoems
December 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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lamb shanks
braised under a quilt
of garlic

#dailyhaikuprompt | quilt
#smallpoems
December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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winter solstice –
the first chapter
of a book

#dailyhaikuprompt | solstice
#smallpoems
December 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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sleet pings off the window --
in the spruce
chickadees hunker

#dailyhaikuprompt | sleet
#smallpoems
#Winter
December 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Ice against a solid gray sky
#BlackAndWhite
An icicle outlined in black against a solid light sky. Dark air bubbles frozen in the ice.
December 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM