Greetings followers and followees . . .!

As of the current time this account is in hiatus.

I'll be posting on my main account @weirdmelbs.bsky.social.

Clem 🌵

Cheers!

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On hiatus ~

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A scurrilous lie put about by antibayardists . . .!

“Of noble bearing”, I could accept

“Wholehearted, almost dementedly courageous, self-deprecating”, yes, yes and yes

But . . . “supreme self-confidence of ignorance . . .!”

How much did they pay you @susiedent.com?

Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is New South Wales poet, Margaret Conley.

Last week’s featured poet on the #Australian #Haiku Society #HaikuOz was Margaret Conley:

landscape
by Fred Williams
rearranged by mining

(For non-Oz folks: Fred Williams was a very distinctive Australian painter)

#AustralianHaiku

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne poet, Robbie Coburn.

This week’s featured poet on the Australian Haiku Society’s #HaikuOz webpage is Robbie Coburn:

again answering
the telephone to silence
summer rain

#AustralianHaiku #haiku

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I like to include one typo in every I write

3rd John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku The Australian Haiku Society is proud to announce the 3rd running of the John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku. This award is a biannual international haiku competition open to poets from all over the…

A reminder for those interested in Australian Haiku that entries for the John Bird dreaming award close on 1st March.

#haiku #AustralianHaiku #HaikuOz #JohnBird #JohnBirdDreamingAward

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Tasmanian poet, Julia Wakefield.

This week Julia Wakefield is the poet featured on the Australian Haiku Society #HaikuOz website:

a cloudless day
gulls stitch the cliff edge
to the ocean

#AustralianHaiku #haiku

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That’s a pleasure

One of my interests is haiku poetry and to me there is a haiku-like quality in your pictures

Great stuff ~

I love it when I come across one of my favourites from the other place, here and active on #Bluesky

It’s worth scroll down through Maxim Peter Griffin’s feed to appreciate the breadth of their vision ~

This week’s featured poet on the Australian Haiku Society’s website #HaikuOZ is Fiona H. Evans:

desert rainstorm
a flood of
wildflowers

#haiku #AustralianHaiku #HaikuAustralia

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Mark Miller, who resides in Shoalhaven, on the south coast of New South Wales.

This week’s featured poet on the #HaikuOz website (from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth #Australian #Haiku Anthology) is Mark Miller, from #Shoalhaven NSW.

Here is a “ #monoku “ by Mark:

“inside the ocean the names of all the rivers”

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"Strange Bedfellows" by Jasper - EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast - Apple Podcasts Podcast Episode · EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast · 31/10/2023 · 1h 5m

I’ve been enjoying the #EnCypted podcast by Jasper L’Strange (surely that can’t be his real name can it?)

Mostly Mr L’Strange reads classic #ghost stories in his . . . strange . . . quavering voice

But sometimes he reads his own stories ⬇️ which are excellent 💀

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I wish I could say this was unbelievable

But it’s all too believable

Hi everyone. Authora Australis is calling for stories, poems and artworks. Submissions for Authora Issue 9 ‘Cracks’ are now open!

Submissions close Feb 28, 2025. Link below, cheers:

www.authora.net/submit

Librarian would probably be a perfect job

A nice amount of social interaction but mostly fairly quiet and non-confrontational

But as you say, health comes first

Totally

and it is so easy to slip from completely well mean discussions of other people into snark

No working must be a challenge

Quite apart from the finances I think I’d miss the sort of enforces social interaction (and . . . um . . . lots more people to gossip about)

I’d say I follow 48 of these.

The two exceptions are:

- oversharing with people at work

- gossiping about people who aren’t there

Dull Pink *Rumbling* Today is the Invasion Day / Australia Day public holiday here in Australia. I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, on whose unceded land I was born, and live, and work,…

Dull Pink *Rumbles*

A post about summer in South Eastern #Australia . . .

. . . and, of course, #haiku . . .

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I’m rereading #Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles #Maturin which I first read more than twenty years ago

There is an (on purpose) misquote of Shakespeare: to “verify untrue things,” in the language of Dogsberry . . .

The misquoting and the sentiment both seem appropriate these later times

#Gothic

Well I’m not big on using prompts usually

But here I thought – how is anyone going to improve on just those three words?

Brevity ~

Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne poet, Robyn Cairns.

Melbourne poet Robyn Cairns was featured on the Australian Haiku Society #HaikuOz website earlier in January

industrial skyline
where the rain
makes rust

That feels like a very #Melbourne / #Naarm #haiku indeed

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(Just reading the comments under the article and it seems like a few others had the same idea 🙂)

Honourable mentions to:

“EnCrypted” read by the fabulously named Jasper Le Strange

“Classic Ghost Stories” (and Classic Detective Stories) read by the boringly named Tony Walker – a fellow nurse

And “Nocturnal Transmissions” read by Australian Kristin Holland is pretty good too (small doses only)

I forward this article to my brother

He said – “this article reads like Sebold”

Not sure if Billy would be flattered, but it is high praise from my brother ~

Folks – if you haven’t given Mr Jim Moon’s various podcasts a listen, do yourselves a favour . . .

. . . a wonderful voice for reading weird tales

Also another brilliant feature of the podcasts is the music (also provided by Jim under a pseudonym 😊)

💚

There’s quite an active haiku community here in Australia 😊