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#HaikuHive

Wednesday‘s #HaikuADay was inspired by the beautiful full Strawberry Moon I saw on my way to the airport that morning. (I was on the freeway so the photo is not mine).

Strawberry Moon 2025

Strawberry Moon glows—
Named for harvest, not for hue,
Still ripe with magic

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BooksandCoffee4Me Oh, that last line is perfect! 💛💛💛 12m

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Eggs

Untitled | Unknown

#haikuaday 6-13-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@TheBookHippie @TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

AnnCrystal 💕🐝🙏🏼🐝💝. 2h

JenlovesJT47 💛🐝🖤🐝🐝🐝 2h

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DebinHawaii

How to Be Alone | Tanya Davis, Andrea Dorfman

#HaikuHive

Catching up on my #HaikuADay Tuesday‘s was inspired by me having to fly to Hilo with work colleagues-different needs, airport timing & wanting to talk about work. My introvert soul likes to be left alone. Will they ever guess that? Probably not…I play extrovert pretty well. 😉

Airport introvert—
Don't sit by me, I‘m reading.
See you at the gate.

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JenlovesJT47 Can hardcore relate to this 💛🐝🖤 3h

AmyG Can relate, too. 2h

Eggs Good one👏🏻 I‘m always reading where it‘s peopley 2h

AnnCrystal A troublesome problem 👏🏼🐝👍🏼📚🐝💝. 2h

TheBookHippie 🙃 2h

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BooksandCoffee4Me

Sweet Dreams Lullaby | Betsy E. Snyder

For my friend‘s little girl who is having some rough days. ❤️

#haiku #haikuhive #haikuaday

BooksandCoffee4Me #Haikuhive #haikuaday #haiku
@dabbe @bellabella @TheBookHippie @TheSpineView @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47 @lil1inblue @DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @mimi28 @Jari-Chan @Itchyfeetreader
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TheBookHippie ♥️ 4h

dabbe This reminded me of the time when I first had to teach British poetry to honors sophomores. Beyond simile, metaphor, and personification, I knew next to nuthin'! 🤣 So, I tried to learn a few harder ones. Like “chiasmus“, which your 1st and 3rd line exhibit stunningly! An incredible use of a special kind of repetition. 👏🏻🖤🐝🖤👏🏻 4h

JenlovesJT47 Aww this is so sweet 🥰💛🐝🖤 4h

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CBee

Haiku: Asian Arts and Crafts for Creative Kids | Patricia Donegan

Me today. Luckily, it all happened in close proximity and it‘s been a less klutzy day since then 😂🤪 #haikuhive #haikuaday

CBee @dabbe @Kristy_K @DebinHawaii @TheBookHippie @bellabella @JenlovesJT47 @TheSpineView @lil1inblue @julieclair @Reggie @Eggs @AnnCrystal @BooksandCoffee4Me @vivastory @jdiehr @mimi28 @itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan
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TheBookHippie Menopause=more clumsiness 😵‍💫🫣🤦🏻‍♀️ 4h

CBee @TheBookHippie so funny you commented because 1) this is so true, and 2) I looked up klutz and it comes from the Yiddish word “klots” 😁 4h

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TheBookHippie @CBee ♥️♥️♥️♥️ 4h

dabbe Are you just starting menopause, you young thing, you? (quite a person question to ask publicly, but I couldn't resist!) If so, boy are you in for some rollercoaster rides! 🤣😍🤣

P.S. Your words make me giggle but also want to send you a 🤗. #atthesametime! 😍 4h

AmyG I come from a long line of klutzy women. I‘m sorry. Life is hard. (edited) 2h

CBee @dabbe I‘ve been in perimenopause for probably five years now. And nobody EVER prepared me for this dumpster fire!! My body is betraying me, I swear …. But I‘m glad to make you laugh. Gotta do that to keep from crying (or not. Cause crying is just a daily thing now apparently 🤪). (edited) 22m

CBee @AmyG that it is, my friend 🤪😬😂 22m

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DebinHawaii

Heliconias of the World | Raymond J Jerome

#HaikuHive

Alas, due to work & adulting, I have fallen behind on life, Litsy & my postings on a #HaikuADay since Sunday, so expect some catch up.

Monday‘s haiku was inspired by seeing some heliconias in the morning last week & thinking about how I love the bright colors.

Tropical brushstrokes—
Heliconia flares bright,
painting morning‘s glow

Kristy_K, TheBookHippie, JenlovesJT47, Reggie, vivastory, Eggs, Itchyfeetreader, jdiehr, TheSpineView, CBee, dabbe, Jari-chan, lil1inblue, julieclair, AnnCrystal, bellabella, BooksandCoffee4Me

TheBookHippie Pretty. 9h

TheSpineView Beautiful ❤️🌺💛🐝💛 8h

Eggs Beautiful bloom and lovely haiku👏🏻🫶🏻 8h

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JenlovesJT47 So gorgeous 💛🐝🖤 6h

kspenmoll Such color! So beautiful! 6h

dabbe Gobsmacking flower and words! 🖤🐝🖤 4h

AnnCrystal 😍 The beauty captured so well in your Haiku 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🏵️🐝💝. (edited) 4h

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dabbe

Phoenix Rising | Karen Hesse

#haikuaday
#haikuhive

And so it begins. Someday I will move. I hope. The hottest day ever recorded here was 122ºF (50ºC). This Saturday we'll be about 10 degrees away from that. And it's only June. And not even officially summer. Counting the days until fall. 🍁

But it's a dry heat!
People who've never lived here
simply can't say that. 🔥

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ChaoticMissAdventures Oregons biggest coffee shop last year hired a CEO from Phoenix, and they announced yesterday they are moving everyone from Oregon to Phoenix so they can all work "together in person". I am sure the Oregon people are going to love this weather..... 11h

JenlovesJT47 I say to people who say that — hot is hot is hot! Speaking as a Floridian. ☀️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🌊 11h

TEArificbooks Do they get what a dry heat feels like. Image thousands of hair dryers placed directly on your skin on every inch of your body on full blast. That‘s what it feels like when it is 120+ outside. We had our air conditioner serviced today to make sure it is in top form for the summer. We are at the point of do not shop or leave the house in the afternoon. Shopping is done before 8 am or after 8 pm. 11h

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JenReadsAlot Gross 11h

AmyG I‘m sorry. Dry heat or not…that‘s brutal. 11h

AnneCecilie I can‘t even imagine this. I start complaining about heat when it‘s a little of half of that temperature 10h

Hooked_on_books Sticking your head in the oven is a dry heat, too, but I don‘t recommend it. I lived in Phoenix for a couple years and wowza, the heat there is something else! 10h

IriDas There is a difference between dry and humid, yes. But they both suck so I‘m not sure what their point is. 10h

julieclair We lived in Dallas for several years, and while the temps didn‘t rise as high as yours, it was a dry heat. And I remember walking outside and feeling like I‘d slammed into a wall. The heat felt like a solid, physical thing. Here in South Carolina, the humid heat feels more like a smothering, clinging hug. It envelopes you. But as @JenlovesJT47 says, #HotisHotisHot and extreme heat is miserable. 10h

Susanita I always think of the comedian John Pinette talking about going to Las Vegas in the summer: “But it‘s a dry heat, Mr. Pinette,” they told me as they loaded me into the ambulance. 10h

TheSpineView @julieclair A perfect description of humidity. Hot is hot and I don't want to try out 110. 10h

TheSpineView Dry is still hot. 💛🐝💛 10h

Amor4Libros At least you have fall to look forward to. It's just hot all the time in the Dominican Republic 😂 9h

MommyOfTwo I don‘t want temps that high but warm enough to go in the pool. It‘s been cooler here than usual. We got in the pool yesterday when it was 82° but now we are back to low 70‘s and 60‘s ? 8h

Eggs Dry 112: like opening the oven door set at 400 degrees and stepping in 🔥 crisp…I feel ya 8h

ShelleyBooksie Wow - such opposites- I'm grumpy because it's June and only 15 Celsius here and rainy. That heat is intense! 5h

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures Would that be Dutch Bros? They won't know what hit 'em! 🔥 5h

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 I grant you, though, that 100+ º+ humidity over 50% is just soup boiling on the stove. 😅🔥😅 5h

dabbe @TEArificbooks 🎯🩵🎯 If we don't get the dogs out for their walk before 7 AM, #fuhgeddaboudit
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dabbe @JenReadsAlot 🎯🩵🎯 5h

dabbe @AmyG I know it's Phoenix, and that's what to expect, but every damn year I still go through sticker shock. 😳 5h

dabbe @AnneCecilie It's a true desert out here. 5h

dabbe @Hooked_on_books #iyktyk, right? 🎯🩵🎯 5h

dabbe @IriDas “Their point“ as in my point in this haiku? I've had enough folks in my life from out of state who like to tell us Arizonans that we should be grateful it's only a “dry“ heat and not a humid one. Of course, they've never truly lived here for an entire summer (where we do have a monsoon season where it will be 110+ degrees AND 60%+ humidity) to experience the entire spectrum of heat. That's what got on my nerves today and had me write this. 5h

dabbe @julieclair 🎯🩵🎯 5h

dabbe @Susanita OMG! 🤣😅🤣 5h

dabbe @TheSpineView Not with the % of humidity you get there! 😅🔥😅 5h

dabbe @TheSpineView TY! 🖤🐝🖤 4h

dabbe @Amor4Libros Oh, no, is it? 😳 What's the lowest it gets there? I am so sorry you have to experience that! I'd say 80º + 80% humidity is equal to 110º here with less than 10% humidity. Both are tough, aren't they? 🔥😅🔥 4h

dabbe @MommyOfTwo Do you have a spare bedroom? I'm on my way! 🤣😅🔥 4h

dabbe @Eggs I know I speak for the Texans, too, right? #ifktyk🔥 4h

dabbe @ShelleyBooksie I seriously teared up reading this. Is there any chance it'll be that cold at the end of July? #agirlcandream 😅🔥😅 4h

IriDas @dabbe No, I got the haiku and groaned when I saw your temps, what‘s the point in them saying it in the first place. I‘ve heard it too, having lived in SoCal‘s desert. My ex mil once claimed that after 105F, all heat felt the same. 😂 She had never lived inland. People are so weird about the weather. Why can‘t folks just empathize? 4h

dabbe @IriDas I'm super weird about it because I have lived here most of my life, and I know how horrible it gets. And yet I still can't stop bitching when that first week of that 105+-you-know-will-be-here-until-the-end-of-September season starts.

P.S. I lived in Escondido and understand that inner climate perfectly; it's basically Phoenix! 🔥 Yet the ocean is a hell of a lot closer for you! 🤣 4h

AnnCrystal Crazy, just crazy 🐝🙏🏼🏜️🌤️⛅🌥️🐝💝. 4h

IriDas @dabbe Really? It‘s worse there? I used to console myself by saying “well, at least I don‘t live in Arizona.” 😂 🥵 4h

dabbe @IriDas Now THAT'S funny. 🤣😍🤣 4h

JenlovesJT47 Yes, so true! Just got back from the grocery store at 9 pm and I‘m sweating 🥵 it‘s 90 something here and so humid. 4h

Leftcoastzen Wish I could be gone May 15th to the beginning of October 3h

MemoirsForMe Oh my! Time to stock up on ice cream and popsicles! 🍦 3h

Eggs @dabbe 🙌🏻🙌🏻 2h

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JenlovesJT47

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows | John Koenig

nodus tollens: the feeling that the plot of your life doesn‘t make sense to you anymore.

Nearly five years gone,
the merry-go-round from hell
still won‘t stop spinning.

Dunno about you all but it feels like my life crashed & burned right around the time the pandemic started. I feel like I‘ve been living in a Twilight Zone episode ever since!

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #DOOS

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe @TheSpineView @TheBookHippie @DebInHawaii @lil1inblue @Kristy_K @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @bellabella @AnnCrystal @Eggs @Reggie @jdiehr @vivastory @CBee @Mimi28 @Jari-chan @Itchyfeetreader 12h

TheBookHippie 🎯 12h

dabbe Or the movie DONNIE DARKO. 🎯🩵🎯 12h

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JenlovesJT47 @dabbe Donnie Darko is such a great movie! 11h

julieclair Perfect graphic for such a spot-on real haiku. My fear is that this Twilight Zone world is actually what the real world is now. 😲🌪️ 10h

TheSpineView Yes! 💛🐝💛 10h

willaful I feel you so hard. 6h

AnnCrystal True! A full length Twilight Zone movie 👏🏼🐝🙏🏼🌃🐝💝. 4h

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JenlovesJT47

The Little Nugget | P. G. Wodehouse

An ode to Nugget:

I‘m saucy and sweet,
but not a nugget you eat;
I have little feet.

Nugget is the little baby runt of the litter and is just the cutest thing ever. She has adorable little munchkin legs. Can‘t get enough of her! 🐈

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #catsoflitsy #Nugget

TheKidUpstairs Oh my gosh, that little face! 😻😻😻 12h

GingerAntics Oooooh, hello Nugget!!! 12h

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Bookwormjillk Those eyes 😻 😻 😻 12h

readingjedi I'd die for Nugget 😍😍😍 12h

dabbe Your words bring out her personality. 🤩 #niftynugget I can't wait until she grows into those ears! 🖤🐾🖤 12h

Itchyfeetreader Those eyes !! 10h

julieclair Oh my gosh! Can you send her to me? Put her on a plane right now! I‘m allergic but I don‘t care!!! 😻😻😻😻😻😻 10h

TheSpineView So cute! ❤️🐱💛🐝💛 10h

ShelleyBooksie Awww, nuggie 5h

AnnCrystal Beautiful Nugget, those eyes! Your the cutest cartoon kitten who has pitter-pattered into reality 👏🏼🐝👍🏼😍💕😻💝🐝💝. 4h

Ruthiella 😻😻😻 4h

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TheSpineView

Unknown Book 7535597 | Unknown Unknown

#PoetryMatters #HaikuaDay @dabbe #Day12

@CBee @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @TheBookHippie @Eggs @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47 @bellabella @DebinHawaii @lil1inblue @AnnCrystal @jdiehr @vivastory @Reggie @Mimi28 @Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

Itchyfeetreader Oh this is perfection. I am hoping for some@of that soothing tomorrow 17h

julieclair Oh… so perfect! ☀️☀️☀️ 17h

Eggs Oh So Lovely ☀️ 15h

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JenlovesJT47 Gorgeous 🌞💛🐝🖤 13h

Deblovestoread Amen! 13h

dabbe This works for me perfectly ... in autumn or winter. Now, if I looked towards the sun, my whole face would blister! 🤣 🖤🐝🖤 12h

Eggs @dabbe Truth☀️ 🔥 😵‍💫 7h

AnnCrystal Beautiful truth 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🌞🐝💝. 4h

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