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A.C.Juniper

@acjuniper.bsky.social
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I'm here as a beginner poet. Also a wife, teen boy-mom, non-practicing physician, rare chronic illness patient, philosophical thinker. ENFJ/INTP Canadian living in Treaty 6 territory and hikes/runs/scrambles the Rocky Mountains in Treaty 7 whenever I can.

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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 35m
#SomethingEveryday #Thunderbirds Sept 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada to acknowledge cultural genocide of Indigenous Peoples, honour survivors, and work to grow together with mutual respect. This is my offering.
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Golden larch forest, alpine meadow: Sacred places where I want to stay. How did I dare enter there, Knowing I must go away?
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#SomethingEveryday #HappyGoose The happy goose found her perfect nesting site. The camper top was high, dry and warm in the sun. That she had to defend the spot from attacks with numerous snowballs and a few brooms only confirmed it's desirability. Given all this, she was shocked when every egg 1/2
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#SomethingEveryday #Rivers #LateToTheParty Today I feel grief Not even this alpine creek Can stream it away
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica #Can'tRememberTheSpelling There once was a girl who liked limericks But hated when people were big dicks So she'd take up a pen Write a verse about them So her laughter could shimmer quick
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm reposting this poem for #SomethingEveryday #Pirate which apparently also works for #PoetsOfDoom #prompt although I can't remember exactly what form @daveashleypoet.bsky.social specified that I dubbed "Ashlean" 😆 @sonnetsmith.bsky.social I still hope to plunder some prose...
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William Duemler @wduemler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, Matey! #aiart #digitalart #aiartcommunity #pirate #caturday
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#SomethingEveryday #RiceCrispyCakes #fail Early in the pandemic, I bought a “spring edition” of Rice Crispies that featured some green and blue crispies. Since all was snow and mud outdoors, I planned to boost our spirits by making them into cakes, shaped as flowers. I had never made them before.
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cool evenings close warm days the golden hour, hours long early autumn: summer's swan song The floods themselves washed away left the old crusty banks as new riverbed under-quilts the secret swing hangs still, over their musty damp There, join I upside-down rise - soar - crown fall - arc - fly
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The evenings are cool now with the long golden hours of summer's swan song that is early autumn The floods that have washed themselves away made crusty old banks bow down into fresh lining for the riverbed still damp beneath the secret swing So, I, too ascend soar crown fall upside down all
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#WildWalkPrompt #orange @sonnetsmith.bsky.social It’s been almost a year, Quill, my friend Orange you happy to see me again?
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Stefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#vss365 @darkxfer.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social @ladydecrescent.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social - I do not know. What do you see in me? What colours are the shades you are looking through? Perhaps the lenses are green. It would explain why you walk over me, all the time,... 1/7
I do not know.
What do you see in me?
What colours are the shades you are looking through?

Perhaps the lenses are green.
It would explain why you walk over me, all the time, as you must think the lights are on permanent "go".

In that case, I must appear to you in autumnal orange and brown.
Maybe you think I'm fallen like a leaf beneath your step.

Under a scarlet moon I might seem to bleed.
Though you'd show no satin aftercare, no steaming vigour, no repair.

Or, when your heart weather fluctuates again, as it does, all colours may fade while you reminisce about a dashing proxy - unreachable until you find back to level water.

But be cautious with what you believe to know. Your filters can only ever be a vestibule to who I truly am. Until you dare to have a look with your naked eye:

Onto black canvas spill shades of pink out of my Kintsugi heart - once broken, now mended with the gold of Komorebi light.

Dew sparkles from a flexible, yet steady branch of a tree caressed with leathery hands until it grew strong.

I may be wounded, but I won't yield to any rovers trying to rule my song.

Most do. A malaise I learnt to spot and let burn until it turns black. I use it for my canvas. It brings out the bright colours, you know - of the bistro table and the gladiolus my heart is painting.

This is where I am going to sit in tranquil quiet and commence.
What exactly?
I do not know.

© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think @jenthorne.bsky.social is unaware of how truly apt her poem is (again). ❤️ "Everybody that reads [her] finally has to concede... youtube.com/shorts/Dra6B...
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#SomethingEveryday #cloud Figures in sky’s storyboard for imaginative play Blanket Veil Shroud Screen for sunsets’ magnificent display, Vapour Mist Cloud
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#SomethingEverday #care #BskyWriters #WritingCommunity I’m OK, are you OK? Except I want to hang with yous all day So for now, I’ll simply say Wishing you light along your way
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This reminded me of these #MisheardLyrics that a couple girlfriends honestly believed as teens. And I'm Too sexy for your party Too sexy for your party No way I'm disco dancing I'm an IGUANA You know what I mean?
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Third response for how we "use" math every day. As my newly 18 year old son says: engineering = applied physics = applied math. Even if you don't remember, it's good to have What bears needed load? Why do bridges last so long? Answer: triangles! 😃
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#SomethingEveryday #numbers #PythagoreanTheorem For the changing curve You need the hypotenuse Formula's input (There was no line tool, so excuse my badly drawn ones. The hypotenuse provides the diameter and then radius to calculate the new curve needed so the counter fit in the space.)
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here is my first rebuttal to wonderful @sonnetsmith.bsky.social piece. Apparently I found it, um, deeply moving! 😆😂 A couple pictures of the windows I referenced is in the comments!
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#MenOnMonday #LiftToTheSky I just came across this initiative and in a time of rising toxic masculinity, am so glad to see good men being celebrated. A few for today. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @bundtkake.bsky.social @arliden.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#SomethingEveryday #book Inspired by @jenthorne.bsky.social's poem, this is also a pre-Bluesky write where I challenged myself to create a poem using the titles of every book and magazine that were on my coffee table. References are listed in the comment.
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#Re-lyricization #SelfCare ("Look Away" by Chicago) When you’re missing hours of sun Not ready for Autumn Look away, Baby, look away When leaves first turn gold and brown And have fallen to the ground Look away, Baby, look away But you love trails outside So I guess you have to see the waaaaay 😢
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#WildWalkPrompt #wildfire The creek chatters cheerily on Does not need to know why So much wildfire smoke Now fills the sky
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Do not cry for Sneeshy, Or mourn him, gentle Jen; 'Tis but one of his many heads, And, soon, HE WILL REIGN AGAIN!!! ⛄️
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#PoetsOfDoom #local We are way too recent a population with lots of immigration to have much of a local dialect - or else I'm too immersed in it to recognize! Most of it centres on the context of our climate. Second pic is the translation.
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#SillySeptember #InteractivePoetry Sneeshy was a fearsome beast Yes, was, that's what I said You say you don't believe me? Behold! Here is his head!
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Goodnight Bluesky, Goodnight, hush, Goodnight lone coyote In the dusk
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#SomethingEveryday #GingerCat Ginger cat, agile and fast Grey eyes that never dim Knows his worth, hard to get – so, yes, I married him 😏
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#PromptCombo #morning In the morning, optimism Rising like the sun Plans far too many things to do Before the day is done Guaranteeing disappointment By evening time will burn. So I add more dreams to ease the pain – When will I ever learn?!
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yeeorcas poems 🌱 @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I would like to #lifttothesky both @jenthorne.bsky.social and @madp03t.bsky.social. They're both extremely inspiring people who pour themselves into their poetry and are pillars of the community 💕 also don't forget today is the deadline for I Smell Toast! What a cool project they're doing for us 🎃
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Today I will #LiftToTheSky @yeehawpoems.bsky.social who is so engaged in sustaining the work of so many. Both by supporting writing and other forms of art, and especially by actively encouraging the people themselves. Her #Cassiopeian prompt for this week is even the word "sustain".
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#WildWalkPrompt #sandstone Hoodoo/fairy chimney of glacial till, clastic conglomerate - are you sandstone still?
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#WildWalkPrompt #trickle #PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Me too. What he said. It's important to me too. 👇 #community
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When a glacier just drops a massive pink rock in a random spot. Pink rock. With smaller pink rocks embedded in the pink conglomerate rock. Truth is stranger than fiction, and nature blows my mind!
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#WildWalkPrompt #shadow
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The lunar eclipse is so cool!! So cool, in fact that I feel compelled to share very suboptimal pictures of it.
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#SomethingEveryday #luck Good luck Bad luck Hard luck Windfall – but such randomness is needed to have choice at all
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Alpine pollinator at work - I just don't know its name.
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I tried to follow your blackout poem #PoetsOfDoom instructions @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social really, I did! But then this happened out of a playlist of acoustic mostly cover songs. (All the playlist songs, only reordered and the adjoining italicized text added.)
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Here is my final #PoetsOfDoom diamond poem, and it's not even a sneaky song parody! #NonsenseVerse #Humour
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Today's #PoetsOfDoom diamond poem song alteration is of "All the Diamonds in the World" by Bruce Cockburn. @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social I blame you both for this! youtu.be/NEOnAUW9Zyc?...
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We call the pink flowering plant "Fireweed" because it is one of the early pioneer plants to grow in an alpine burn area, as you can see here. Ironically, the sky is hazy with wildfire smoke.
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
All natural coloured mineral springs. Also naturally acidic (pH~3) and toxic, but still beautiful!
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Here, for @sonnetsmith.bsky.social is my #PoetsOfDoom diamond-series-poem song-adaptation of "Diamonds in the Soles of Her Shoes" by Paul Simon. For some reason, I felt the need to visually arrange it like a wind chime/ sun-catcher thingy. I also sing it (badly!) in the comments.
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wait! How did I almost miss this??! @sonnetsmith.bsky.social the day's not over in parts of the States! Pick me! Pick me! *cue the music to "Party in the USA" by Miley Cyrus
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So much happens that is off the page off the wall that I need pages upon pages to process it all! And thanks to you who are reading my pages for sharing in my messy stages Being human is hard; life's journey can wear to the bone. But it's good in your company, not adventuring alone. &+🌚
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
OK @sonnetsmith.bsky.social here is my #PoetsOfDoom diamond song parody number 2! "Never Enough" from the musical "The Greatest Showman"
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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Since @sonnetsmith.bsky.social kinda asked for more song parodies, here, to the start of the chorus of "Chandelier" by Sia, is my #PoetsOfDoom diamond poem:
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