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  1. night breeze / stirring / the chimes | #haiku #poem #micropoetry
  2. so like driftwood / the deeply worn planks / of the farm store’s floor | #haiku #poem #micropoetry
  3. @amoz1939 So nice to hear from you! :- D Thank you for the RT on “bad dog”.
  4. choruses of bad dog / bad dog / fill the crowded room | [From a dream!] #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry
  5. RT @KrisLindbeck: Storm clearing / from the cheap apartments / kids come out to play | Stations of life differ, but children are the same.
  6. RT @ten_ten_ten: waiting room / under unchanging lights / we all have the same face | Says so much about this common shared experience…
  7. Thank you, @vonguyenphong22, @ravenflew, @bigmax722, @beezknez, @cirrusdream, for recent RTs! :- )
  8. humid noontime . . . / fragrance of cut grass / baking in the heat | #haiku #poem #micropoetry
  9. (4) grieving the loss / of something I did not have / crescent moon | (From @JSAbsher’s book Night Weather.)
  10. (3) dawn fog / lifts the fallen rain / as high as the tree tops | (From @JSAbsher’s book Night Weather.)
  11. (2) low sun / raking the leaves / into long shadows | (From @JSAbsher’s book Night Weather.)
  12. (1) wet with rain / shirts on the clothesline / drying twice | (From @JSAbsher’s book Night Weather.)
  13. Enjoying @JSAbsher’s book Night Weather! Here are 4 poems that strike me as particularly fine:
  14. Thanks so much, @cirrusdream, @alotus_poetry, @vonguyenphong22, @itsWanda, @winterthur, for RTing my #tanka “we stand and breathe”! :- )
  15. @Pookandgrace, @poemblaze, @vonguyenphong22, I appreciate the RTs on “half-buried stone” — thank you! :- )
  16. scent of berry bush / and sun-warm turf . . . / we stand and breathe / rooted to the rutted earth / and reaching like myrtles | #tanka #poem
  17. half-buried stone! / once again he chips / into the water hazard | #Haikuwordgame (chip-water-stone) #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry
  18. RT @ericcoliu: moonlit night/the smell of steamed rice cakes/fills an attic room | Aroma rising, filling a rustic attic apt flooded w/moon…
  19. RT @gennepher: tree branches ~ holding stars ~ up in the sky | A childlike perspective. Refreshingly innocent and lovely. :- )
  20. @Haiku_News Thank you for recent RTs, Dick! So glad we stay in touch! :- )