Here is a macro nature photo I took of a pink-purple lilac cluster with two buds at the mid-upper-left starting to open. Between their four curled petals is a magenta x-shape of brightness. The background is a green bokeh of leaves. Light through the blossoms delicately whispers, "Hi, I'm warm and soft, my sweet perfume will soothe your heavy heart." Happy National Poetry Month! My latest haiku is dedicated to new beginnings: guardians at the gate lilac's scent swings open

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guardians at the gate
lilac's scent swings
o p e n

#BlueSkyArtShow #Openings
#EastCoastKin
#Cassiopeian #Guardians

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #photography #macro #BloomScrolling #ImageAndVerse #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrymonth

National Poetry Month is off to a fantastic start! This is Volume 1 Issue 1 of Only Human: English Language Senryu. The cover image features a bokeh of warm light and figures in a crowd. Two in the center appear to be facing left, wearing jacket, and holding hands. Alongside the cover, floating in white space on the right, I placed one of my two senryu published in the issue: candle meditation a lace moth smacks my face

Issue 1.1 of Only Human: English Language Senryu is live! Congratulations everyone, I'm honored to be included. Thank you, AJ Wentz and David Oates; it's a wonderful collection!

Here's one of my two senryu in the issue. Read more on their site below.

#Senryusunday #senryu #NationalPoetryMonth

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Nice! Congrats!

Chronically Creative: making art when you're in pain | Substack Living the creative life while dealing with chronic illness(s) and how I use creativity as medicine. Including some personal essays and poetry. Click to read Chronically Creative: making art when you're in pain, by K Raffa, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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#blog #writing #writers #mentalHealth #innerCritic

When audio glitches cause you to listen to your recording of a post 80 thousand times, you lose that bit of your brain that can determine whether it’s good, or the most annoying thing ever written.
Guess you’ll just have to listen and judge for yourself.

Moving by Erica Mason on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 3:00

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I love this brilliant lady so much. The new album is 🔥🔥🔥
#ericaMason #greatMusic #spokenWord

I love her so much.

Canada just released a National Freshwater Science Agenda — 10-year priorities, 800+ contributors, including Indigenous experts & knowledge holders. A good first step. Now we just need the political will to fund it. 🧪🐟🦤

www.canada.ca/en/environme...

this very act of treason places all of america, all us bases across the world, and all service members at risk. It removes any of our allies to want to come to our aid…

the fact our congress is NOT moving to immediate impeachment of the entire administrator makes them co-conspirators

Me too. 🐉🦋

#DailyHaikuPrompt: “Gusts/Dragonfly"

Dragonfly surfs the
wind gusts like waves of water
made of smoke and dust.

#poems
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#PoetryDaily
#Haiku
#FreeVerse
#ArtOfWords
#MicroPoetry
#SkyPoets
#BlueskyPoets
#vss365
#vssdaily
#BlueskyPoetry

An incredibly fabulous orange cat rolling in grass showing his rather ample butt cheeks.

#spring time in the rockies and the chubby buttcheeks are in full bloom.
#cats

You are so right. And you used the word “mercurial” so I’m doubly impressed 😏

@birdiefalling.bsky.social
you’re the only one who wanted to see my stick.
😔
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Close up of a short, knobby stick (possibly the worlds coolest stick. Who am I kidding. It is DEFINITELY the world’s coolest stick.) it kind of looks like a long skeleton finger, held in my fingers in front of me against a grassy background

You guys!

Want to see my cool stick?

At the top of my fucking lungs Realtime revelations, rage and revenge

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Finally got my first and only hardcopy of my graphic novel STELLAR. My Goal is to reach 500 readers and only 70 left to go. If you've read it already, you're the best, if you haven't u can read the PDF Version it's free. thanks for all the support, really 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
READ AT: Iranzye.gumroad.com

My latest post is about sharing your creative work, even when it doesn’t turn out how you’d like.
Also, my work is always 100% AI free.

#noAI #writing #chronicIllness #queerWriters #SignalBoost

Thanks! And thank you for the repost too.
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the tadpole struggles
yet life always finds some way
the tail lets go

#dailyhaikuprompt #Tadpole #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #Resilience

#dailyHaikuPrompt Bloom/wings
moon blooms full in a
field of indigo dotted
with stars like eyes of

all the animals
who wake at night; and all dark
things with wings take flight
#poems
#poetry
#PoetryDaily
#Haiku
#FreeVerse
#ArtOfWords
#MicroPoetry
#SkyPoets
#BlueskyPoets
#vss365
#vssdaily

This is a macro nature photo I took of blueberries blooming. A green stem angles in from the upper-right corner and places the blossoms at the mid-left side. There's a cluster of five pink buds in the center and three white bell-shaped blooms surrounding them. In the blue-green background, the bokeh holds another cluster of bright pink buds to the upper-left. Winter heals many wounds. Some of us think of hibernation as a hindrance, a stifling of progress, or a forced rest. But what happens when we take the time our bodies need to recover? We heal. For those of us with chronic illness, which is not an injury but a state we navigate daily, healing becomes a circle, not a line with a beginning and an end. We all carry these bruises, whether visible or internal, and it's important to acknowledge that we're each doing our best. I wish you all deep healing and comfort. This thought inspired my latest senryu: crush of black and blueberries the bruises we heal

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crush of black
and blueberries
the bruises we heal

#BlueSkyArtShow #Horizontal
#EastCoastKin
#Cassiopeian Heal

#SenryuSaturday #senryu #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #photography #macro #BloomScrolling #ImageAndVerse

Blog Post zero: a users guide: re-release with audio! the post where I started it all off…by trying to alienate the normies

I seem so much younger in October of 2024.

If you want to check out my newsletter, this is the best opportunity!
Give it a listen.
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Blog post zero: a users guide Please note: this blog contains explicit language...probably a lot of it.

re-releasing my first post with audio.
I even got myself a new pop filter so you don’t have to listen to my pops and plosives…
#chronicIllness #chronicIllnessArtists #writing #queerWriters

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#dailyHaikuPrompt “laughter/plow"

her laugh plows through my
white picket defenses-breathless
making me reckless.
#poems
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#PoetryDaily
#Haiku
#FreeVerse
#ArtOfWords
#MicroPoetry
#SkyPoets
#BlueskyPoets
#vss365
#vssdaily
#BlueskyPoetry

@jorjafox.bsky.social thanks for sharing this! I’ve gotten really into this album. What a voice! 😍

I love the Monterey bay aquarium. Haven’t been there in way too long.
Thanks for sharing.

Jellyfish…the lava lamps of the sea.
So delightfully weird. Mesmerizing.

Stan Prokopenko and the Kangaroo-fetus Monster  Sharing your failed attempts isn’t cringe, it’s generous.

Yet another post!

About mutant sheep and kangaroo monsters, “bad” art and staying at least kinda sane-ish while trying to do “the artist thing"
oh, and as always: 100% guaranteed too unhinged to be written by AI.
#artAdvice #artists #writing

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