Leaves of flame on stems 
black as bonfire charcoal,
birds: flick like embers.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - stems
#Poetry #haiku
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 River above fall 
to river below, refresh 
the woods, renew us.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - refreshing 
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 Spilling over floor
white light, bright as a lantern.
Behold: Hunter’s Moon.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - hunter’s moon
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Dried yellow leaves curled
tumble, dancing down the road.
Hope scuttles away.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - yellow leaves
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Crispness in the air,
flame of sun on golden leaves.
Cozy with the view.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - cozy
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Giggles and talking,
half-hidden truths said aloud.
Comfort of a friend.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - comfort
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Dull landscape: brown, grey.
haystacks wrapped like marshmallows,
speed past car window.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - haystack 
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 I wouldn’t trade fall
on this salt shore, but for one:
the red maple blaze.
🍁 

#DailyHaikuPrompt - maple
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Morning blaze in hearth,
hot cup of tea with honey.
Frost won’t chill me here.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - frost
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 The night chill subsides,
leaving behind dew on woods.
Thankful, not yet frost.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - night chill
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Geese flocking southward
overhead, the call is wrong.
Look up, graceful cranes.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - geese
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Crispness of morning,
Crisp as a bite, reminding:
apple picking time.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - Apple
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Ivory hydrangea
blossoms turned into salmon,
their autumn dresses.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - salmon
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Moon full in clear sky,
beam down to illuminate
barren fields below.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - clear sky
#Poetry #haiku
#PoetryCommunity 
#amWriting 

 Someday I’ll earn it,
that tattoo of my wild dreams,
Emblem of author.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - quill
#Poetry #haiku
#PoetryCommunity 
#amWriting 

 Morning comes on sweet,
silence savoured for long.
Birdsong interrupts.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - morning 
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Taste spice of pumpkin,
aroma of cinnamon 
hangs thick in the air.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - spice
#Poetry #haiku
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 Reflect sky so grey,
Mirror flat, slick on pavement.
Never disappear.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - puddle
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Flap of injured dove,
Panicked in helplessness.
Still forever stay.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - wings
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Era of sadness,
era of restful stillness.
Await laughter’s gong.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - laughter
#Poetry #haiku
#PoetryCommunity 
#amWriting 

 Sun fading away
this autumnal equinox.
Welcome, new season.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - twilight 
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Pound autumn pavement 
between steamy bouts of rain.
Wait for cooling mist.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - cooling
#Poetry #haiku
#PoetryCommunity 
#amWriting 

 Two Red Heads
  from 2004

1
Black satin adorns her,
sitting high above him.
Barely covered, she smiles.
Displayed: glorified.
Satin like the sheets—-
bra strap gracefully falling.

2
White as morning frost on window
pear-shaped bottom.
Small-chested, faceless,
emotionless, beneath.
Black and white print.

#poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #amwriting 

 Mist rolls in, a presence
clouding vistas, my mindscape
foggy as the view.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - fog
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Cool of the evening,
deny it as I try to,
heralds autumn’s eve.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - autumn dusk
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Recall the 90s:
wearing dragonfly necklace.
Mimic of nature.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - dragonfly
#Poetry #haiku
#PoetryCommunity 
#amWriting 

 Finally shut down my #wattpad and #nanowrimo accounts. End of an era but onward and upward! 

 Heroin Chic

 from 2024



Bubble butt

Thunder thighs

in the era of emaciation

parading as beauty.



My young self

thinking I’m just a brain

travelling in a 5’5” 125lbs

body

still

never recovered from that

special brand of

dysmorphia.



I wish I’d had a chance in this world

to be someone

to make something of myself

instead of having my

self-image,

esteem

skewered

over and over.

 #poetry  

 Lodged in memory,
walks in these mountainous woods.
Bark like walnut shell.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - walnut
#Poetry #haiku
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 Monogamy is the original con, born of the dawn of the agrarian age. #fightme 

 Angle of the sun
direct leaves to fall, and deer
to move like dawn wraiths.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - deer
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 Sunset on the ridge 
vibrant colours paint the sky.
Cosmic orchids die.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - orchids 
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting  

 Squat driftwood lolling
on the edge of highest tide,
under the new moon.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - new moon
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Wind whips up tree tops,
Blow away thoughts of you.
New era commence.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - wind storm 
#Poetry #haiku
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#amWriting 

 Happy #caturday from Echo and Aurora, bird watching together. 😸😻 https://nostrcheck.me/media/3443fe6375fbc9966105d1142b460e9cf92bc7052057fdbb02b1fef7c52b5d48/38793e31d248ef51c323e40730439865be4ad1bace130f85f0021e7b5b37b51f.webp 

 Lamplight burning low,
heralding the summer’s end.
Dusk comes too early.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - lamplight
#Poetry #haiku
#PoetryCommunity 
#amWriting 

 Magnolia leaves
change to orange and falling.
There’s no stopping change.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - fall colors
#Poetry #haiku
#PoetryCommunity 
 #amWriting  

 Not feeling great today but struggling with unhealthy guilt at “wasting a day”. Still working on reframing that into “taking a much needed day off” or something… also it’s a Saturday so what’s being wasted?? #deconstruction  

 Rain soaked tile beneath,
raindrops still falling above.
Where has summer gone?

#DailyHaikuPrompt - soaked
#Poetry #haiku
#PoetryCommunity 
#amwriting 

 The day is ending,
dusk arrives and I’m frail.
Never liked goodbye.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - dusk 
#Poetry #haiku
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#amwriting 

 Sitting on the peak,
whole world stretched out at feet.
Clouds dancing above.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - dance
#Poetry #haiku
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#amwriting 

 Finding the original 1995
Buccaneers on Kanopy
brings me back to stumbling across
the VHS set in the library
watching with my best friend at 
16
pizza and laughter and gossip 
and the new series
caught between airplane naps
a couple months ago.

#poetry #memory #90s #libraries  

 Quick as a dancer
trained in tap, ballet, modern.
Fleeing to sidewalk.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - sandpiper 
#Poetry #haiku
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#amwriting 

 Scrambling children 
up ladder like grape trellis,
Grandma’s cherished vines.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - grapes 🍇 
#Poetry #haiku
#PoetryCommunity 
#writing
#writingcommunity 

 That forest of gold
of my youth, summer nights fill 
with song of crickets.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - cricket
#Poetry #haiku
#PoetryCommunity 
#writing
#writingcommunity 

 Midnight forest walk,
countless gas lanterns above.
Darkness swallows sound.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - lantern
#Poetry #haiku 

 Summer sun hiding,
the sky threatens July rain.
Balm for scorching plants.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - overcast 
#Poetry #haiku  

 4b, from 2024

When I was writing this one I was obviously focused on the b's. However, I realize in reading and re-reading that the metaphorical imagery came out of my childhood, in which a wooden spoon broke over the backside of a very close relative. So obvious in hindsight…

#poem #4b https://nostrcheck.me/media/3443fe6375fbc9966105d1142b460e9cf92bc7052057fdbb02b1fef7c52b5d48/29728311760a8a5d1a78326856a9309c759ca34271fa722386c43900b850871d.webp 

 I think I just got my second mosquito bite of the summer. #vancouverisland  

 It’s baffling to me how difficult it is for many of us, most of us, to imagine what a post scarcity world be like to live in. Then again I couldn’t imagine it, not so long ago. #postscarcity #imagine #economics  

 Reset Day, from 2024

For years while cleaning I've thought of this concept: that no matter how much time or effort I put into squaring away my space, my house will one day succumb to dust, grime, mold, and crumble into the earth. So are my Sunday efforts ever wasted?

#poetry #haiku #poem #journal #poetrynotebook #notebook #stationary @poetry@a.gup.pe https://nostrcheck.me/media/3443fe6375fbc9966105d1142b460e9cf92bc7052057fdbb02b1fef7c52b5d48/7a82d024062e54953e13267fdc08ed9784146a4600a83192bbb22a5360ccbf80.webp 

 On a pebbled beach 
we found where the rainbow ends:
the edge of the world.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - beach
#Poetry #haiku 

 Resting on my thigh,
muscles straining with the weight.
Whipper snippering.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - cut grass
#haiku #Poetry  

 Silent evening
interrupted by downpour,
insomnia ends.

 #dailyhaikuprompt - evening rain
 #haiku #Poetry