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A dirt path through a grove of redwood trees
I need a walk. Whoβs with me?
Grove of Old Trees, Occidental, California
#nature #selfcare #photography #art #redwoods
Prepping today for my very first #poetry #reading! Very excited to announce that #HotSprings #PoetLaureate Kai Coggin has asked me to be featured #poet at Wednesday Night Poetry (WNP) in Hot Springs, #Arkansas on March 25, 2025. WNP is the longest-running poetry open mic in the nation and has π§΅
#ηζ #tanka #poem
moonset at the beach
with the sandbar gone
the heron flies
to the other side
of the world
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#ηζ #tanka #poem
luckily
I can still find her
roaming in the thick March fog
thanks to the scent
of her perfume
A light brown toad with a wide, dark brown stripe running down their side! They are covered with lots of tiny, spiky bumps! A row of larger spiky bumps runs from their parotoid gland down their side, forming a border between the light brown and dark brown colors! They also have large spiky bumps on their cheeks and forelegs and have a slight crest running from the tip of their nose and around their eyes, connecting to their parotoid gland!
Our friend the Campbell's Rainforest Toad lives in eastern Chiapas in Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, and the Maya Mountains of Belize! They look similar to the quite common Gulf Coast Toad, but unlike that toad they tend to keep to themselves! (photo by Jason Headley)
#δΏ³ε₯ #haiku #poem
I run out of ink
and let the wind and the rain
finish my drawing
#δΏ³ε₯ #haikuj #poem
out of ink
I say the poem
one more time
#haiku
when there is no moon
hogging the winter sky
the stars talk to each other
A. broad-bodied pale with with small dark spots and short stout spines swims away from the viewer over a coral reef.
Side view of a chonky spiky spotted fish built a little like a flat-bottomed boat.
Porcupinefishes are like the corgis of the fish world - chonky, oddly-shaped, and with a perpetual slight smile. They are fairly fast swimmers but tolerant of a slow respectful approach. #fish #oceans #scuba #diving #coralreefs
A small dark brown toad with pale green splotches on their face, back, and legs! The bottoms of their feet are bright yellow! They are crouched down in light colored gravel!
Our friend the CΓ³rdoba Toad lives in the high-altitude plateau of central Argentina's CΓ³rdoba and San Luis provinces! They prefer rocky areas where they hide under rocks during the day and come out at night to feed! (photo by Franco MontaΓ±o)
#ηζ #tanka
that moth who flew
out of our open window
came back one night
to view the flame of
our new blue candle
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she hides my book
of mysteries
in a misty moor
and asks me to use
deductive reasoning
to find it
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I met my favourite goose today and it didn't fly away .. Anser indicus, aka Bar-headed goose.. mid Hampshire, England
Some of the Most Amazing #Trees From Around the World #photography #TreePhotography
Link for more photos and information: mossandfog.com/some-of-the-...
#ηζ #tanka
that moth who flew
out our open window
came back one night
to view the flame of
our new blue candle
#ηζ #tanka
when she sleeps
I hear her talking
to the moon
and waiting
for a reply
#ηζ #tanka
a quiet walk
in the canyon
she asks whose face
do we want to see
carved on a rock
30 seconds of zen #LinnRun #trailrun #mountainstream #relax
suddenly
the dog stops barking...
lotus blossoms!
Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826)
#haiku #micropoetry
Tr. David G. Lanoue
Date of #poem: unknown
#Stunday
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WXXI listener Jonathan Black and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.
#δΏ³ε₯ #haiku #poem
somewhere by the lake
a lost cat and a lost dog
share a drink of snowmelt
Rising ocean temps blamed for massive die-off of marine life. "Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 [fish] populations in the northern hemisphere.... They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#δΏ³ε₯ #haiku #poem
ignoring the scarecrow
the crows nibble what's left
of the snowman
Thirteen measles cases have been reported at an immigration detention center in El Paso according to state and federal officials.
#ηζ #tanka
spring nightfall
before they hop away
a girl kisses all the future princes
hanging around
the pond
one day
a stone got stuck
in a yoga pose
until the wind
and the rain
teamed up
to turn it over
#veryshortstory