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ignorantfairy.bsky.social
ignorance to needs
grifters collect influence
power balance shifts
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vanity talking
every wrinkle spray-tanned
lost in confusion
**
hampered by neglect
the president's fate became
mediocrity

#haiku #haikuset #emoetry #poetrycommunity
August 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
lighting a candle
vigil for forgotten souls
chests full of sorrow
***
tears unshed announced
oblivion's reprieval
cosmic sigh quiets
***
from new rainclouds fell
softest drizzle evoking
unthought ideas' glow

#vss365 #haiku #haikuset #poetry
#poetrycommunity #vigil
August 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
luminescent spores
floating on the first fall storm
mycelium waits

growing networks pulse
underground data feeds spark
new conversation

trees swaying gently
refilling mineral stores
stones smiling at night

#poetrycommunity #haiku #whistpr
luminescent #haikuset
August 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Another #FridayPoem and another #haikuset

Sometimes the only option is to write #poemsabout and the only solution is #riot or choose to lie among the ashes.

#poets #poetsofbluesky #AltText #haiku #HaikuSet #HaikuAltText
Witch Hunt by Dawn Mclachlan We watched eyes of hate And heard the rumours flowing And could have stopped them We saw gathered sticks Heard whispers of dreadful plans And should have stopped them Emboldened by lies They built their dreadful pyre We wished we'd stopped them We heard fire crack As the fanned flames scorched us all Praying it would stop At the bitter end We will lie in the ashes That consumed us all
August 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A poem for #poemsabout prompt #burnforthecamera
This #haikuset is for J who passed away suddenly at Christmas. So missed. So loved. “Sail on, float free, just be” Miss you.

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Flowers A haiku set For J Oh, how bright we shone In the gold times without end And the days of blue We rode on the breeze And spiralled through the long nights Blown by winds of chance In summers of youth We tossed our beautiful heads And felt immortal No thought of futures Or of winter boughs of grief No fear of old bones I picture you then Somehow lonely in a crowd And I remember © Dawn McLachlan
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
destroy your ego
deconstructing assumptions
making each stroke count
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demolish pretense
revealing softest layers
quills drinking spilt ink
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deflate saboteurs
inside and outside alike
honing finer crafts

#haikufeels #haiku #haikuset #writingcommunity #artistcommunity #poetrycommunity
August 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
fresh watercress leaves
delicious tongue tip tickles
mixed salad refined

memories of new
radishes and tart monks cress
mouth celebration

#haiku #haikuset #WildWalkPrompt #poetry
July 3, 2026 at 3:26 PM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
graveyard shift exchange
witches and vampires clashing
distant memories
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dawn coating the world
dew and colour banishing
remnants of night sky

#haiku #poetry #haikuset
#poetrycommunity
August 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #FridayPoem for #poemsabout prompt - #WaxTears

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Wax Tears by Dawn McLachlan The hill that you chose Frosted and bitter as contempt Do you like the view? Come, take steeper paths We’ll climb the highest mountains Into such bright air
July 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
shifting sands reveal
old patterns reemerging
zephyr scatters past
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hurt carried too long
becoming second nature
shedding skin too tight
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red dawn approaches
banishing shadowed remnants
grains of sand glisten

#poetry #haiku #haikuset #poetrycommunity
August 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
applied frequently
tincture of evergreen moss
forest floor brimming
**
Green Man's lifeforce fades
every tree cut or burnt
eternal waning
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claiming back our chants
spinning on verdant lifelines
shifting awareness

#Blueskyrelay #poetry #poetrycommunity #haiku #haikuset #writingcommunity
August 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
let's put some hexes
on multiplying sexbots
make them share cute cats

uncurse common feeds
applying inhuman speed
to get what we need

illusions will break
intended words slay the fakes
leave love in their wake

#haikuset #bots #love #magicsky
#poetry #haiku
August 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
is forgiveness earned,
remorse insubstantial,
happiness a choice?

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fast growing bamboo
unburdened by human grief
earns and gives nothing

○●○

just soft brown and green
swaying throughout winter's storm
bends, yet never breaks

#haikufeels earn #haikuset #senryu #haiku #poetrycommunity
February 4, 2026 at 1:26 PM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
dangerous journey
gleaning hope along the way
covering ages
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left with but a dream
luffing their sails of spun clouds
passing sorrow's depths
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wielding the waves like
weapons made of moonpearl cores
fending off voidbeasts

#seafaeringfolk #haikuset #7syllablesentence #haiku #poetrycommunity
August 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
writing haiku is
frowned upon, being lazy
just so many words
*
left unsaid: racking
of brains finding purposeful
cool combinations
*
just so many words
conveying meaning and sound
surge of striking lines

#haiku #haikuset #poetrycommunity
August 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
born from densest shade
fair skin and hair like moonbeams
wiry bodies gleam
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cast out by curses
meant to wither eternals
found deep sea's blessing
~~~
neither king nor queen
fierce warriors luffing sails
entering our realm

#haiku #haikuset #seafaeringfolk #poetry #specpo #poetrycommunity
August 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
gaze punctured his shorts
desire tempered by time
unleashed in short jolts
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body quivering
anticipation welled up
lost me in your eyes
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mind wholly emptied
swift sensuous catalyst
connecting thighs sigh

#queer #love #passion #haikufeels #haikuset #poetrycommunity
August 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
some lines become traps
snaring you in false pretence
trust in your instincts
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false prophets galore
serpentine sermon seeping
listen to your kin
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clamour for free speech
sly gambits to influence
your mind is your own

#haiku #haikufeels trap #haikuset
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
August 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
ignorantfairy.bsky.social
drink is cheap as fuck
in the halls of Bandegg'on
beware who enters
☆
leave forsaken coins
leave with a forsaken soul
damnation is free
☆
glowing in the gloom
sinners' hearts betray darkness
creping rule of doom

#Specprompt #poetry #haikuset #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
August 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Time for another #FridayPoem. Still struggling with the #poemsabout prompt this week so instead here’s the fresh start of a snowy day in a #haikuset
#haiku #poetry #poems #poets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #alttext #HaikuAltText #PoemAltText
Whiteout a haiku set by Dawn Mclachlan In the silent night Snow came down like memories and cleansed the landscape Smoothed to sugar-white Harshness sweetened to the eye Winter confection From the far forest Rooks rise in conversation Punctuating sky Now the dead trees In the disguise of winter Cannot be discerned In the pink of dawn An unexplored day stretches As if newly born
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #haikuset for @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #poetrytheme of #amphibian
Inspired by the magnificent toad that I have shared my allotment with for a number of years.
#haiku #poetry #poetrysociety #poetrycommunity
Bufo Bufo A haiku set By Dawn McLachlan Caught by the weather Pressed to ground by Autumn rain I sit with the toad The toad watches me Verrucose skin glistening Against the damp earth Watched by copper eyes From cautionary distance Tolerated space In the soft rainfall We wait in the fading light Just me and the toad
September 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
This week’s #FridayPoem from the #poemsabout prompt - #starcrossed

#poetsofbluesky #poets #lovepoetry #poems #amwriting #poetrysociety #poetrycommunity #haiku #haikusociety #haikuset #haikuAltText
You Are Here A haiku set by Dawn McLachlan I found a signpost In the torment of the storm It said “you are here” I trace a new route From where the map has worn through A thousand touches The contours vanish In the fading of the light But the hills remain In the dark of night Underneath the salted sky Our pathways align When the night has fled And morning light falls like rain I know you are here
August 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Friday Poem

#haiku #haikupoetry #haikuset #haikusociety #haikupoetry #poetsofbluesky #poemsabout #naturepoems #citypoems #haikuAltText #poemalttext #poets #fridaypoems
Sidings A haiku set by Dawn McLachlan In the grey city Hemmed in by rivers of steel Beneath concrete cliffs An island of green In the whorls of the railway Pressed in by fencing There, poppies still grow And foxgloves reach for the light Buttercups glow gold Inch by steady inch Bindweed stretches out tendrils Disguising chain link Bright swathes of daisies Buffeted by train slipstream Shimmer in twilight Moonlight silvers rails As a fox cuts through shadows Like a rusting knife Night trains rumble on In darkness, sidings unseen But vibrant with life This small patch of dirt This haven. This green life bridge Unkempt, not unloved ©️ Dawn McLachlan
May 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Time for another #fridaypoem
This time it’s for the #solstice

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Solstice Set by Dawn Mclachlan On the shortest day We climb up the sleeping hill Searching for life signs Tracks in frozen grass Slick with recent melting snow The earth ridged and brown A winter bruised sky A shard of blue splits the clouds Pierced by mournful skeins At the final ridge You reach out to take my hand Urging me higher Here we see the world In a thousand shades of green Stretched beneath our feet In gold light we see Despite the winter's great threat Spring will come again
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
#FridayPoem

#poems #poetry #poemsofbluesky #haiku #haikusociety #haikuset #HaikuAltText #PoemAltText #poetsofbluesky
Long Barrow a haiku set by Dawn McLachlan Curves of land and stone hint of secrets locked beneath this fecund landscape We dig among ghosts ashes of our history embers of the lost This place speaks to us with a voice of bead and bone Whispers of the past ——- Image shows pen and ink illustration of a long barrow entrance by William Boyd Dawkins (Creative Commons licensed)
May 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM