Cave of Nacre

macro photograph of an abalone shell
#4 taken 5:57 pm
#art #photography #abstractphotography

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

a mess of our own ma(d)king
#oneline #senryu

I knew I could count on you to read the alt. 😂 Thank you! ⛅️✨

maybe the music
will find a way to keep going
on a lonely path in the park
when a musician stops playing
a bird starts singing

#poem #5lines

Backlit white dogwood blossoms and dark branches stretch across a bright blue sky, with sunlight filtering through the petals and soft-focus foliage in the background

You are the music while the music lasts.

— T. S. Eliot

#BlueSkyMonday
#FlowerReport
#BloomScrolling

The sun glows from behind a large cumulus cloud in a pale blue sky, with crepuscular rays fanning outward into the blue, conveying a level of enthusiasm that isn’t strictly required on a Monday.

I would prefer not to.

— Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

#MelvilleMonday
#BlueSkyMonday

Thank you, Rina! 🌿✨

Thank you, Luis!

Thank you! 🤍 🌾 ✨

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Single white Star of Bethlehem flower in cool light, growing low in the grass, shown in close-up with six petals and a bright yellow center, isolated against a dark, blurred background

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

— Walt Whitman

#ImageAndVerse
#FlowerReport #ECK
#BloomScrolling

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#InternationalHaikuDay #haiku

red legged beetle
I don't have time to make friends

Photograph of a 1989 paperback copy of The Haiku Handbook on a wooden surface in sunlight. The cover includes the subtitle “How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku,” lists the authors William J. Higginson and Penny Harter, and is decorated with blocks of pink, green, and blue.

Haiku happen all the time, wherever there are people who are ‘in touch’ with the world of their senses, and with their own feeling response to it.

— Higginson and Harter, The Haiku Handbook

#InternationalHaikuDay
#NationalPoetryMonth
#BookSky 📚💙 #haiku #poetry

Close-up of a violet flower in grass, with white, blue-veined petals. The background is a blur of deep green, with warm, golden bokeh from the setting sun in the top right corner.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

— Paul Éluard

#BloomScrolling
#FlowerReport
#FlowersOnFriday
#EastCoastKin

It’s reassuring to know it’s not always a mistake to disclose at work. I can also understand wondering why the kindness wasn’t there from the start. 🤍

Two dogwood flowers in cool-toned monochrome. Their semi-translucent petals, photographed from below the tree, stand against a clear sky, with the soft shapes of distant blossoms visible at the bottom of the frame.

Missed you today. Here are some dogwood blossoms.

#ClassicMono
#FlowerReport
#BloomScrolling
#photograohy

lakeside moon
the night as explained
by the frogs

#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of BRIDGE ACROSS THE SKY, an Angel Island verse novel (www.AngelIslandNovel.com).

Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Aug 19, 2013.

www.HaikuDiem.com

#daily #haiku #micropoetry

Sending so much love 🤍🕊️

homeless shelter -
honeysuckle by
the bus stop

#haiku #poetry

#haiku
a bite to
the wind in
dark green April

Thank you for your writing! I really enjoy it. 🤍

We wore meadows
spangled with bright weeds
we drank the wide sky
The season held us gently --
like all who love and will die

#SenseWrds Prompt 209 Patiently, Enveloping, Spring
#tanka

April wind
gently undressing
the wisteria

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

😄 Pigeon lovers unite!

Your Rothno series has genuinely made me look at Rothko differently/more appreciatively. I love it!

I’ve finally learned to do this. The alternative is burnout.

low in the grass
violet and buttercup—
polite complements

#DailyHaikuPrompt (yellow) #haiku

Oh #PigeonSky would love this 💗