I got the book, thanks 🙏🏽 🤩 #wlchaiku

A new, daily work in progress | a walk of 136 paces | a rock displaced | a tree far from home | crows perfectly in place

using a @what3words location the basis of a #haiku
///novelists.caravans.strong

blocks of novelists
often stay in caravans
building strong structures

#walkingartist #wlchaiku

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Wow! Our #wlchaiku challenge brought almost 50 entries! With @sceptrebooks.bsky.social, @eandtbooks.bsky.social, @chiffchat.bsky.social & @harpernorth.bsky.social each offering up #books as prizes, tomorrow's discussion will be fun - join in here: walklistencreate.org/walkingevent...

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High over the muck
of an endless non-winter
the days had lengthened.

A weaving of words
To catch the ephemeral;
Breath, held on a page

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A few hours left before the deadline for #wlchaiku and the chance to win books by @pollyrowena.bsky.social @chantallyons.bsky.social and @sophieyeo.bsky.social thx to their publishers
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A seagull circling
silver creek calligraphy
writes my letter home

#hashtag #wlchaiku @walklistencreate

A new, daily work in progress | a walk of 1467 paces | watching melting snow transform to ice then water

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///educates.lift.hawks

nature educates
it can lift the darkest soul
just watch those hawks fly

#walking #walking-artist #wlchaiku

Gritstone edge contrasts
Inversion pale, heather soft
Shriek of grouse breaks peace
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breathing in the spring,
the forest in the morning
pine scent and wet leaves
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Veiled and spectral hills
Trees looming from the dense fog
A world stripped of scale

#wlchaiku #haiku

A haiku for the 'nest' prompt

Blackbird craftily
Approaches his sitting mate
In honeysuckle
#wlchaiku #haiku #haikuchallenge

I've been called barren
Like bogs. Yet here we both are:
Fecund. Sundew-kissed.
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Wind blows, rain falls on
Mole’s leaf-mould roof as she sleeps
And dreams of juicy earthworms.

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You have until midnight tonight (5/1) to enter our haiku challenge. Write a haiku on the theme: 'writing wild places into being'. Follow our Bluesky account @walklistencreate.org & share your haiku with the hashtag #wlchaiku One lucky haiku-ist will win a special prize! wlc.zone/6nx

a new, daily work in progress | a walk of 365 paces | walking a circle at sunset, winter Solstice

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku

///meanders.bends.feasted
river meanders
wide bends create broad mudflats
here wildfowl feasted
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A Tree Dreams in Winter

Bare arms reach in prayer,
Past winter's icy shoulder—
Spring starts to tickle.
#haiku
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A new, daily work in progress | a walk of 2145 paces

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///invisible.darkest.known

are invisible
moments sometimes the darkest
secrets to be known?

@walklistencreate #wlchaiku

#sunrise #garden #walking #haiku #artistsupportpledge #wlchaiku

A daily series of short garden walks at sunrise

trees, as if ghost ships
show themselves, then disappear
in morning's cold mist

A daily series of short garden walks at sunrise

I slowly walk in
the minutes before sunrise.
Sky filled with dark clouds

#wlchaiku #haiku

Masonry abounds
Set free from our chimney stacks
More lethal than hail

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With age we slow time
Walk to the rhythm of the waves
Rest. See sea birds fly

Woodpecker drummer
secret message for our ears
singing with the trees
#wlchaiku

puddles frozen still
jackdaws stride over hard earth
silence in the woods

#wlchaiku #haiku

Moon beams pure delight,
Venus waits silent and sure,
Night longs for the kiss. #wlchaiku @walklistencreate.org

Along the path leaves
Of deciduous trees try
Hard to tesselate
#haikuchallenge #haiku #wlchaiku

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