Day 30. A talent/skill
training phrases
to (jump through hoops)
—word wrangler
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Day 29. A pet
your favorite breakfast
freeze-dried worms—
river slider
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Day 28. Family / Friend
little blue parakeet
running around in circles
at my great-aunt’s house
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Day 26. A daily item
morning coffee
warm in my lap
a dachshund
Day 27. Something that happened today
well-dressed
in cranberry and olive—
brussels sprouts
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Day 25. A form of expression
I wait for characters
to reveal themselves—
writing fanfic
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#poetry #writing #WritingPoetryAboutWritingFiction
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Julie’s losing hand of Bananagrams, which looks like a mini Scrabble board. She misspelled woad as wode and her kids disqualified her win!
Day 24. A moment this week
all of the board games home for Thanksgiving
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#poetry #haiku #monoku
PS Thought I won that one but I was DQ’ed for misspelling woad. 🤷♀️
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Day 23. A challenge
sweating through
thorns and bramble . . .
blackberry pie
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Day 22. A tradition
bundling them up
in the back of the car . . .
winter lights
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Day 21. A story
a train table
surrounded by memories—
bookstore story time
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#poetry #haiku #memories #Borders #BarnesandNoble
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A screenshot of Rush’s The Pass with all the lyrics struck through but this: electrical storm raging on a rocky ledge stars explode the sea
Day 20. A song
I thought it would be fun to try a blackout of a song I like (spoiler: it was not “fun”!) This is a one-liner (a tanka?) with source material of Rush’s The Pass.
electrical storm raging on a rocky ledge stars explode the sea
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#poetry #erasure #blackout
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Day 18. A touch
cold nose
under warm blankets
a soft dachshund
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#haiku #poetry
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A screen grab of Kandinsky’s Several Circles: An abstract painting of numerous overlapping colored circles of various sizes on a black background. A large black circle offset over a blue one creates a blue crescent moon that draws your eye. The overall flavor is whimsical, though, almost as if that big eye was looking into another world.
Day 17. A piece of art
several circles
past the Milky Way . . .
Wassily Kandinsky
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Day 16. Knowledge
mom used to say
you can have it all
but not at once . . .
the dying sun
the rising moon
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#tanka #poetry
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Day 15. A season
woodsmoke—
picking dried leaves from
the dachshund’s belly
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#haiku #dachshund #dogs #autumn
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Day 14. A sight
staring contest—
the Carolina wren
on a wooden fence post
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#haiku
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I got a little behind on the gratitude challenge, so you get two today! ❤️
Day 12. A texture
tiny giggles—
the bumpy texture
of berries
Day 13. Abilities
telling stories
just like grandma—
my dad’s laughter
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Day 11. A holiday
singing war tunes off-key
summer vacations
with grandpa
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#haiku #VeteransDay
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Day 9. A place
Carolina lowcountry—
our pontoon boat drifts by
a pod of dolphins
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#haiku
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Day 8. A book
my childhood imbued
with tesseracts and love . . .
one wrinkle at a time
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Day 7. A memory
a tiny bluegill
flies around her head . . .
grandma catches a fish
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#haiku #fishing
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Day 6. Nature
eddies of leaves
swirling across a highway
the course of nature
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#haiku
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Day 5. A sound
sunflower chip chip chips of a cardinal
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#haiku #monoku
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Day 4. A food
sharing tiramisu
with chocolate shavings . . .
our sweet friendship
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#haiku
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Day 3. A Color
Okay, this is way too long for a #haiku or even a tanka. So I posted a #haibun to my blog. I’m still in the early green stages of writing haibun, but I enjoyed this. Hope you like it too!
starsinmysugarbowl.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/b...
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Day 2. Technology
telephone, iPad, computer—
so many ways
to say I love you
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One of my friends posted this November #gratitudechallenge on FB (not sure the original poster). I thought it would be fun to post a gratitude haiku/senryu a day instead. What are you grateful for?
Day 1. A smell
lavender & pine soap—
easing my way
into the holidays
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#Haiku
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