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this morning
the stillness of
a violet sky
#DailyHaikuPrompt | violet
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#Rural
waking to the wildness
of coyotes
waning crescent moon
#DailyHaikuPrompt | moon
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Okay, so it is official now. My poem 'Kiss' won fourth prize, and my poem 'Soap' won a Judge's choice award in the Ontario Poetry Society Ultrashort poetry competition. Very happy with this.
Max 8 lines of max 8 words each.
A book of the winning poems will soon be available here.
https://theontariopoetrysociety.ca/Ultra-Short-Poem-Competition-2025-Winners-List.html
Edited 150d ago
our entangled lives
wild grapes
#DailyHaikuPrompt | grapes
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on a corner of the Milky Way
the local owls ask
existential questions
#DailyHaikuPrompt | milky way
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early spring lantern
.
the brightness of
cardinals
#DailyHaikuPrompt | spring lantern
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porch light
the crickets
pause
#DailyHaikuPrompt | lamplight (porch light)
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high in the tree
a red bellied woodpecker
inspects the shriveled apples
#DailyHaikuPrompt | high
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morning glories and meadowlarks –
stories my father told
of his boyhood farm
#DailyHaikuPrompt | morning glories
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Edited 2d ago
aging mother –
pelicans
return to the river
#DailyHaikuPrompt | pilgrimmage
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#Caregiving
blue note
a cardinal’s song stirs
a warp in time
#DailyHaikuPrompt | note
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