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#haibun #storm #poetsofdoom @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social Part of a longer haibun. 'from Wadsley to the Lower Don,' in the context of the city of Sheffield where I live, stands for 'all over the city'.

#7SyllableSentence #7SyllableSquad #7SyllableSunday #lurk #bite Lions lurk, lope, leap and bite.

#7SyllableSquad #7SyllableSentence #7SyllableSunday #edge #past Camp at the edge of the past.

Ruin a song by adding “In My Pants” to the title. Set Fire to the Rain in my Pants

#TrioletJam #totter totter, grinder, tramp

Crusty grandees Hearing the case for fair wages Or compensation for lives Ruined or lost Through poisonous air and Lack of the most basic care Exit, stage left, with a laugh #acrosticoctober #CHORTLE @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

Grigoravich succumbed to the spell On the eve of the equinox. Only Matrona, though blind, knew, Sensing his suffering as the quills Erupted through his flesh. #acrosticoctober #goose @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

#WildWalkPrompt #prompt #blueskypoets #river

This is a tardy but still unfinished poem for last week's tremendous #PromptCombo prompt from @jenthorne.bsky.social #Doors title: Things I did not do after taking this photograph

#AcrosticOctober #Railway @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

my birthday no, no Mr Gardener not ripe, not ripe at all! #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

sunrise has a treat for the wolds I sneak in at the back #haikufeels (treat) #haiku (the wolds are areas of rolling hills in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, U.K.)

Drop some doors!!! (Roskilde, Denmark)

I saw the pie then I saw the thief Father I have sinned #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #pie

school outing the crocodile slows to watch the geese #haikufeels (follow) #haiku

#promptcombo #doors @jenthorne.bsky.social an old poem while I procrastinate "Five Kinds of Cat-flap"

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged So in contrast to my haiku here's a long piece (in three parts). The Gift of Grace

I'm rather prone to writing haiku about birds... @emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged. over ridge and furrow the rise and fall of a swallow -- that twig's still not right ! coots are building -- the crows build the tree back into itself

Jill the maths teacher has chills. Today she's multiplying. #7syllablesquad #7syllablesentence

hatchlings the cuckoo chick knows what to do #haikufeels #hatch #haiku

#AcrosticOctober #POEM Pedestrian musings measured in feet Or firecrackers spitting sparks Emotion recollected in tranquility Muses abound. "What larks!" #Wordsworth #Dickens

decay Autumn's gift to us all #haikufeels #decay #haiku #Autumn

#AcrosticOctober #Squirrel Seeing them Quarrel over acorns Unaware of the fox In the shadows Reminds me of our Restless bickering and Everlasting Love until death

Last week I found a little cache of poems I'd forgotten about. This is one of them. Plenty of #sky, not a lot of peace #PoetsofDoom @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social

Sixpence in my stocking Halfpennies on her eyes Images of Kings and Queens Nothing there but lies Yes, nothing there but lies #AcrosticOctober #poem #poetry

#fragmentsfriday @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #winter *Uncle Joc* we made an igloo which was not an igloo just a pile of wet snow hollowed out

#AcrosticOctober #PUMPKIN Previously in 'Pumpkin Diaries' Under 'Seasonal Experiments' My followers saw me making a 'Pie' Knowledge of the result has been Incinerated and Now we will move on

somebody or something is cackling it could be geese or it could be my mother #haikufeels (cackle) #tanka

#AcrosticOctober #GOLDEN #poem Grey is the colour Of my true love's Honda Left on bricks by thieves Donovan preferred mornings Evening is my subtle tablecloth Newly rinsed and hung on the stars

#31DaysofGraves day 2: Urn Holywell Cemetery, Oxford Regenald Walter Macan, the father of Eric and Robert, was the Master of University College, Oxford The first quotation is from the Wisdom of Solomon and the second from Prospice by Robert Browning.

#31DaysofGraves Day 1: flower waterlilies Holywell Cemetery, Oxford Jane Sophia "died at the Provosts Lodgings Oriel [College]" in 1887. Her brother Charles Carmichael Binning Monro was a landscape artist and inventor of a well-known type of watercolour box/palette

#31DaysOfGraves starts TOMORROW! Welcoming posts from graveyards, cemeteries, or related places throughout October. No rules - interpret however and wherever you want, but AI is strongly discouraged. Image is the New Jewish Cemetery in Kraków. #cemetery #graveyard #heritage #genealogy

gasps at the aerobatics food for the hawk #haikufeels (gasp) #haiku

This prompt passed me by, but here I am... #PromptCombo #11Lines @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

what flowers what foliage may grow from a promise! #haikufeels (promise) #haiku

it's been fun if I come back it will be for this #senryusunday #senryu #haiga

"A kestrel! A kestrel!" I'm watching out for bumps in the road #haikufeels (bump) #haiku

Oxford - the thrill of the familiar places where I knew them but I'm walking in the shadow of their absence #TankaThursday #thrill #tanka #micropoetry

Björn won with a perfect lob. #7syllablesquad #7syllablesentence

I'll castle on the Queen's side. That's not a euphemism. #7syllablesquad #7syllablesentence

Division is part of life. Multiplication also. #7syllablesunday #7syllablesentence

a petty crime this nettle does not deserve my wrath #haikufeels (deserve) #tanka #haiku

the same sun fierce in its circularity that Euclid saw #haikufeels (circle) #haiku

They are all beneath contempt. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence

@rwldproject.bsky.social Sheffield Daily Telegraph 8 Dec 1920 (from FindMyPast). (I was actually researching the newsagent, who is buried in our local cemetery.)

a knock in daylight means another delivery bookcases sigh and stacks topple in my dreams #TankaThursday (knock) #tanka

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).