@john34239

Traditional Poetry, Art, Haiku, Tanka, micro-poetry, verse. My poetry has been widely published for 45 years. … *Please* no mass tags, No Porn or group tags.

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#5lines plus on the last day of school, a broken oak stick, all the way down a white- picket fence
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2026 Sanford Goldstein Contest Third Place   budding branches tapping the window I think of how we missed out on having a child   Cezar Ciobica, Sr. Botosani, Romania #tanka #5lines #micropoetry #poetry #poem #shortpoem #awards
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Anglo-Australian artist Weaver Hawkins had to teach himself to paint with his left arm, after losing the use of his right arm at the WW1 Battle of the Somme. Here’s his Morning Underground / Dance in the Football Field / Going Round
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summer noon shade- two balanced wings against the blue #haiku #3lines #poetry knmatte 01:5:2021
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being a poet, I can only speak to you through a mask that looks like my own face January, a #Tanka Diary #mask #5lines
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2026 Sanford Goldstein Contest Honorable Mention   floating inside my mother's womb for nine months— how little she understood me   Pamela A. Babusci Rochester, New York #tanka #5lines #micropoetry #poetry #poem #shortpoem #awards
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climbing a broken ladder missing rungs midway taking another step knowing winter’s grasp cannot choke the call of spring a dawn like no other rising samsara stirring to light singing nembutsu good news in the air the pure land is here & now whenever we call upon you #FaithMap001
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#Tanka between the oak branches here . . . there . . . a hummingbird gone! John Wisdom
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The Vase just to hear the crash of a porcelain vase I lift it even higher and laugh John Wisdom
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a day of raking pine needles into perfect piles the sweeping winds John Wisdom
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Nilofar@HossainNilofarSep 6
. Wishing you a Sunday full of gentle light, deep peace, and soft moments. . 🖤
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A few special haiku from contemporaries into the rain filled bucket ... so softly hail stones ——— deep winter the grave digger sings in a low voice —-— becoming dusk — the catfish on a stringer swims up and down A few of my contemporaries.
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Mingmar Sadhana@Upasika1Sep 4
At #first, a rumbling was heard in the bowels of the earth then the glaciers melted in Gaia’s wrath When the bedrock crumbles when the Himal falls when rivers break their bounds and all life drowns On the wings of a prayer will you come, be my saviour? #WriteMap 575
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Mingmar Sadhana@Upasika1Aug 2
my psyche says to me I’m a collage of craving mosaic of melancholy in the recesses of my mind remain the taints of time traces of love remnants of rhyme a broken staircase I find that vanishes into the blue bats in the belfry ruins of memory #bionicanadian @bionicanadian
Kimberly@bionicanadianAug 1
Phrase: Ruins of memory Tag:#bionicanadian @bionicanadian for likes/RT Pic⬇️@FoxProse Ruins of memory, a voyage to her inner self. Setting off to sail to her subconscious mind. She sees cracks in the belfry opening up like a broken staircase, her psyche a wounded thing of time!
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Remarkable detail of material and lacework in this portrait of Madame de Pompadour as she worked on an embroidery frame, shortly before her early death from TB in 1764 (Francois-Hubert Drouais)
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a whole day listening to the wind among green leaves ... at night, an old lullaby emerges in me Daniela Misso tinyurl.com/3mkhxu4w #nature #lullaby #memory #tanka #poetry #micrometry #poem
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#Modern #Haiku Becoming dusk — the catfish on a stringer swims up and down ———— The chain saw stops; deeper deeper in the whiter woods a chickadee calls Robert Spiess Posted by John Wisdom … I sent Bob several haiku throughout the years.
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Bob Spiess himself.
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#Haiku #Lee #Gurga spot of sunlight — on a blade of grass the dragonfly changes its grip Lee Gurga … all the right ingredients for a perfect haiku. Lee was editor of Modern Haiku .. posted by John Wisdom
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The obvious craft of this haiku, is remarkable! Lee Gurga is remarkable.
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windless night — one ripe tomato drops from the vine This one, somehow, made to the Japanese books. I was pleased! John Wisdom
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#Haiku #blistering #Heat lemonade stand — only a five cents from a frosty pitcher the postman my only customer John Wisdom
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trees outside your hospice window grow new leaves — how can I mourn and rejoice in one breath Patricia Prime bit.ly/31vpTwI #illness #happiness #sorrow #tanka #poetry #micropoetry #poem
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Audrey Hepburn
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Leading Bolognese artist Lavinia Fontana’s Portrait of a Noblewoman (c 1580-90), before and after recent restoration. Which do you prefer? Fontana was the main breadwinner in a family of 13, but (surprise, surprise) her works were often misattributed to male artists
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