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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

There are no answers, but there is kinship. A gentle and unexpected presence when I need it most. An ordinary moment suddenly everything but. Try to explain it if you will, but I call it magick. 💚 #edgeland #nature #eurasianrobin #spiritofplace #natureonprescription #naturewriting #animism

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I was the featured poet at the Mann Library throughout May Gratitude to Tom Clausen for inviting me. a gilding of dust between library stacks . . . sun through the pines Presence, 2014 Selected by the late Stuart Quine. #haiku #shortformpoetry #mannlibrary #poetry #poem #nature #naturewriting

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

And then there was light! Tiny badass blooms among the storm debris. Every year, a reminder, if ever there was, of the innate will of life that dares us to dream and hope. 💚 #snowdrops #naturewalk #badassnature #theforcethatthroughthegreenfusedrivestheflower #edgeland #natureonprescription

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I had the privilege of entering the liminal world of Little Egret again this afternoon. S/he was seemingly oblivious to the traffic din and the shrill of the railway crossing barriers coming down. It was an off lead dog that broke the spell. #littleegret #egretfishing #edgeland #nature #winterwalk

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

It's 44 years today since my father died. He lives on in me, my children, in my dreams and poems. #haiku #poem #poetsofbluesky #snow #interbeing #grief #shortpoem #micropoetry #3lines #loss #ancestors #family

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The painterly winter skies are the perfect backdrop for reflection as opposed to making resolutions I won't keep. Today, I am as grateful for this commentary on 'A Thousand Thens' as the day I first read it. #haibun #haiku #poetry ##writersofbluesky #nature thehaikufoundation.org/claire-evere...

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

It's often the case that the strange behaviour of other birds alerts you to the presence of a hawk. Two crows were mobbing my buzzard friend in a sugared almond sky (too fast to photograph). Somehow she reminded me I'm stronger than I know. #edgeland #nature #walk #buzzard #mentalhealth #winter

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Today's edgeland walk. And it seems I stumbled upon a shapeshifter. It felt like a guilty pleasure as if I were Actaeon watching Artemis bathe. The playing field to my right, the railway track to my left. #edgeland #winterwalk #littleegret #buzzard #shapeshifter #nature #naturewriting #birds #walk

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Mood yesterday on my walk to work. A thin place for two to three miles. A moving through stillness that demanded reflection and a rare (for me) monoku. #monoku #oneline #onelinepoem #haiku #writingcommunity #writersofbluesky #nature #naturepoem #onelinehaiku #thinplace #poem #fog #naturewriting

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

a red mitten in a drift of snow gone, that tiny hand . . . but still we talk of birds and other minikins #tanka from 'Nest' published in Haibun Today, March 2018. #walk #longtailedtits A minikin is a small, dainty thing, a darling. From the Middle Dutch Minnekin, diminutive of minne, love.

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My kind of celebration. A tranquil late afternoon walk along the lane just a few minutes from home. We were gifted with lotties (longtailed tits), too. #Yule #natureonprescription #gift #midwinter #winterwalk #northyorkshire #sunset #sunsetclouds #celebration #natureconnection #longtailedtits

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

🌟 weighing life's burdens against its joys . . . a night of freight trains and starlit frost First published in Cattails about a decade ago. (It feels like yesterday). #tanka #5lines #micropoetry #poetry #poem #poetsofbluesky #smallmoments #midwinter #mindfulness #memoir #blueskypoets

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Winter Solstice 2020 we hoped to see a 'Star of Wonder'(Jupiter and Saturn apparently aligned and appeared like a “double planet” for the first time since the Middle Ages). This #haibun was republished in a couple of prestigious anthologies and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. #CHOonline #haiku

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I had no desire to join the madness today. Instead, I chose an edgeland walk in the late light to see if my friend was there. She (I've decided) didn't disappoint. I could just make her out from the scrawl of old nests in bare trees, not once, but twice, in that liminal place. #buzzard #thinplace

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A #tanka throwback on a gloomy, wet, and windy day. The poem was first published in Presence and did rather well in the Seashell Game, 2012. My daughter provided the artwork a year or so after she inspired the poem. A personal favourite. #poem ##poetsofbluesky #nature #writing #kingfisher #poetry

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If there is a god of small things, I imagine this is how he is appeased. They will surely come, those other days, the ones that knock us sideways. But let’s not think of them now. #comforts #flower #morningwalk From 'Small Comforts' #haibun published in A Hundred Gourds (1: 4 September 2012).

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Throwback #tanka First published in A Hundred Gourds over a decade ago. Another platform reminded me. And I can still see that swan pair somewhere on the Swale one afternoon in late summer. A reminder of how poetry can bookmark a moment. #micropoetry #presentmoment #swans #love #poetry #poem #haiga

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

“I am grateful for what I am and what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” ~ Henry David Thoreau #walktowork #thanksgiving #thelittlethings #glimmers #redberries #holly #splashofcolour ##natureonprescription

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"Stay awhile!" I was running late for work this morning, but I found a moment to set down my thoughts, albeit briefly,and breathe in frosty whorls of robin song beneath a blue, blue sky. #stayawhile #commute #walkingmeditation #sitspot #bench #birdsong #self-care #smallmomentsofcalm

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The days grow ever shorter, but there's light to be found in unexpected places. Who knew that walking to work could be such a lesson in paying attention, pausing, and connecting? "Hello, what's your name?" #glimmers #slowdown #walkingmeditation #nature #naturetherapy #natureonprescription #flowers

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The County Hall pond on my workday walk, looking as if Monet might have had a hand in it. Last week, it was cloudy glass with the fish nowhere to be seen. Now, the lily pads are letting go like the trees. In the summer, one fraught morning, there was a kindness of dragonflies. ##smallmomentsofcalm

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

It may not be particularly special to anyone but me, yet here I've seen egret, kingfisher, buzzard, treecreeper ... Late afternoon, the beck is storm-muddied and high, but as a lone moorhen bobs and dabbles against the current, my thoughts start to slow. #sitspot #mindfulness #edgelands #nature

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Another chance to meet Henry in a #haibun over on Substack. #nationaltreeweek open.substack.com/pub/claireev...

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The older I get, the more I find value in the gaps, the negative space (known as ma in Japanese) that makes sense of the things around it. With this week's cold weather and now strong winds on the way, the trees will soon be bare and there will lots more gaps to absorb and balance us.

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Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Henry, the tree who never fails to speak to me on my workday morning walk. He's even been known to call me back to whisper something. And he's been immortalised in a poem, or several ... #nationaltreeweek

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