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Catherine Baker

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Writer and editor in educational publishing.

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in the dark kitchen
full of reflected rainlight
the bowl of my spoon

10.03.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

night...
the moon's light
sleeps on the awning

#DailyHaikuPrompt #moon
#vssdaily #awning
#Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

09.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Round and round, goes the starry wheel; but tonight, the brown sky hosts clouds.

Heaven’s eyes, have drawn their veil; now our planets, shall be glittering rain.

Yet in me, Venus has risen; time for astral storms, to pierce this dark.

#sijo

09.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The following haiku is presented on faded yellow background and illustrated with a sumi-e painting of a crow etched on the rim of a wheelie bin


garbage truck 
a crow
on the empty bin

The following haiku is presented on faded yellow background and illustrated with a sumi-e painting of a crow etched on the rim of a wheelie bin garbage truck a crow on the empty bin

garbage truck
a crow
on the empty bin

Find more haiku and haibun here: kasasagi.blog

09.03.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

.
petits soleils
Γ©clatant de jaune
le jasmin d'hiver sous la pluie
.
little suns
shining brightly yellow
winter jasmine in the rain
.
Hana K.
.
#δΏ³ε₯ #haiku #poetry
#poΓ©sie #nature
#DailyHaikuPrompt yellow

25.02.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Self tanner applied
a soft golden brown achieved
now, let spring begin.

#micropoetry #haiku #senryu #poetry

10.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hand out the music
To the birds in the tall trees
Then raise the baton

08.03.2026 05:07 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
haiku eye as eyes seize it

floodlit
the castle is floating
in the night sky

oyoguhito
#haiku
haikueye.blogspot.com

09.03.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

day-moon
faint thumb-print
on blue sky

#haiku

10.03.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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through the cracks
of a misdrawn border
one white lily blooms

#Photography Maria Carvalho
@immcarvalho.bsky.social

10.03.2026 08:55 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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back in the shack you’ll find it in the middle of somewhere surrounded by a fog in a field of woods discoverable through a natural maze filled with a variety of wildflowers walking through the door you swear you bec…

jdubqca.com/2015/03/01/b...

BACK IN THE SHACK

#poetry

<Mar-2015>

10.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Writer’s block
replacing the burned out
lightbulb

#haiku #senryu #poetry

10.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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peripheral ink
lightning flash of ebony
monarch butterfly

#vss365 #haiku

09.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
pink springtime blooms above greening trees and a road running through them

pink springtime blooms above greening trees and a road running through them

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tennessee hillside
pink and green in harmony
opposites attract

#vss365 #haiku

10.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Beauty in Common Things, black cover with elaborate gold decoration of flowers and foliage.

Beauty in Common Things, black cover with elaborate gold decoration of flowers and foliage.

Book Cover of the Day:

10.03.2026 06:31 πŸ‘ 401 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

grape hyacinth grows
in neighbor's yard

my daisies begin
to sprout

our days, longer
now

And in Tehran -

in Tehran, the streets
run red
with
fire

πŸ’”

#Tehran #Iran #war #poetry

09.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Photo of a waxing gibbous moon

Photo of a waxing gibbous moon

when everything ends
we are stardust to stardust
a return to #space

#vss365 #scifaiku #haiku #micropoem #poem #poetry #poet #writing #photography #moon (not the current phase pictured)

29.06.2025 03:19 πŸ‘ 637 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 9
The photo shows a  young white fallow deer circled by grasses and watched by a bird. The poem reads: sedge-ringed crow-guarded/ ivory untowered fawn:/ tapestry blessing

The photo shows a young white fallow deer circled by grasses and watched by a bird. The poem reads: sedge-ringed crow-guarded/ ivory untowered fawn:/ tapestry blessing

Photopoem shared 10th March 2026

10.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

mixing up desert and dessert
sand in my ice cream sandwich

10.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

early spring
beating in harmony
butterfly wings
#vss365 #haiku

10.03.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

after the floodβ€”
one sandal
up in the tamarisk
#haiku #poetry

10.03.2026 14:39 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸŒ–

drag racing the moon
down an empty highway
don't leave me behind

#haiku #senryu

10.03.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

in this
honeysuckle-rain
slowly
coming back
to myself

#tanka

10.03.2026 05:56 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a narrow path
through tall ferns~
somewhere ahead
a small bell
ringing

#tanka

10.03.2026 06:29 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i have come to wade but the cold water is in turmoil warm with the smells of other people rushing past to dive into the depths

#monostich #micropoetry

10.03.2026 03:53 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

silver needles
pulling threads of stars
across the midnight sky

#haiku

10.03.2026 08:06 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Still from Princess Kaguya anime: An old bamboo cutter in a bamboo forest, kneeling in front of a small glowing bamboo stalk from which a tiny girl appears.

Still from Princess Kaguya anime: An old bamboo cutter in a bamboo forest, kneeling in front of a small glowing bamboo stalk from which a tiny girl appears.

the old man
sets down his axeβ€”
from the bamboo stalk
a tiny girl blinks
at the morning

#5lines
#FairyTales

10.03.2026 07:18 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

all down the dark road
soft-cheeked little indoor moons
shine through the curtains

09.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the rain
and the tree
writing a life story

09.03.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iridescence Leaf 320 – Art Inspired Β  Hasegawa Senzan - Iris and Dragon Fly This poem was in part inspired by Hasegawa Senzan’s painting, β€˜Iris and ...

Iridescence
alighting
on a blue iris.

#δΏ³ε₯ #EnglishδΏ³ε₯ #δΏ³ε₯inEnglish #haiku

09.03.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0