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sunshine
that faraway look
thoughts of spring

the clever swallow
flees a looming snow drift for
the southern sunshine

#dailyhaikuprompt Snow Drift Swallow
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a snowdrift covers
yesterday’s tracks --
her memories

#DailyHaikuPrompt | snowdrift
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The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 16 December 2025 is:

#semester

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

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I will wander to the woodland
Where the laden trees await
-- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nutting Song
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/paul-laurence-dunbar/nutting-song/

Pausing, in my walking,
to ponder the sound
of the wood and all
that we should appreciate
in these days of constant
rambles - this quiet reduces
the daily chaos to shambles -
and I am now following
the fox into who knows where

#SmallPoems for Advent Of Joy

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@Aphelion

pain, given time's weight,
can mass gravitas enough
to nova as joy

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #pain #sadness #joy #time #gravity #gravitas #nova #metaphor

no holly berries
in the stew for you #boho
you'll thank me later

#dailyhaikuprompt Stew
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With crown of holly
#Boho - chic freewheeling ways
Profuse chick magnet
The season to be jolly
Ho Ho Fa-la-la-la-laaaa

#dailyhaikuprompt Profuse
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku #tanka
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Rich dark meat and veg
Well worth the prep and stove time
Warm bowl of comfort

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#Writing #DailyHaikuPrompt #stew 


after his death
my father’s workbench –
a rich stew of unfinished projects

#DailyHaikuPrompt | stew
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#Remembering

The #MastoPrompt for Monday 15 December 2025 is:

#refresh

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

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And he sings all the day
— Lucy Larcom, The Brown Thrush
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/lucy-larcom/the-brown-thrush/

Every stick,
a stage

the tree, as
theater

us, as
audience

#SmallPoems for Advent Of Joy

a rabbit bolts across the snow
followed by
a yelping dog

#DailyHaikuPrompt | hare (rabbit in my neck of the woods)
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a gate chain
clanks in the wind
.
rural wind chimes

#DailyHaikuPrompt | chimes
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#rural

With tentative hand,
I reach out, hopeful,
And am rewarded with
a nuzzle
and a gentle purr.

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#MastoPrompt 14 December 2025 - hopeful.

practice your hope style
open hands, bright eager stance
movement into time
like you're future essential
clean sharp ambitions
implacable optimist
relentless kindness
sharp enough to cleanly slice
cynicism's bitter reins

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#MastoPrompt 14 December 2025 - hopeful.

your voice
like hot
hot
chocolate
burns all the way down
all the way
in the warmest
and wonderfulest
of ways
♡

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