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Becky

@beekyhd.bsky.social
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Mostly haiku, but I also dabble in cats, flowers, pretty things, and probably accounting.

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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
through the window she puts the chair on the cafe's table #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
britishhaikusociety.org.uk/01-english-h... Still more rules bookmarked #haiku #bhs #rules
britishhaikusociety.org.uk
English Haiku: A Composite View - The British Haiku Society
Haiku originated in Japan, but latterly it has become popular in an increasing number of languages and countries. Yet virtually everywhere where haiku has established itself - and that includes Japan ...
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can’t believe I didn’t have this pinned 🤦‍♀️ gendaihaiku.com/ito/new-risi... #haiku #japan #ww2 #persecution
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New Rising Haiku: The Evolution of Modern Japanese Haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
britishhaikusociety.org.uk/teaching-hai... Bookmarked for reference #haiku #bhs #teaching
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Teaching Haiku - The British Haiku Society
The British Haiku Society promotes the appreciation and writing of haiku. In this section of the website we offer materials and support for teaching haiku, an
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
gendaihaiku.com/research/kig... Bookmarked for reference #haiku #gendaihaiku #saijiki
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Muki Saijiki Table of Contents
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
research.gendaihaiku.com/dragonfly/DisjunctiveDragonfly.htm Pinned for later reference #haiku #theory
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The Disjunctive Dragonfly
The Disjunctive Dragonfly: A Study of Disjunctive Method and Definitions
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The discussions on the Wikipedia “Haiku in English” page are fascinating. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ha... #haiku
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Talk:Haiku in English - Wikipedia
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/20/l... “Artists are always working, though they may not seem as if they are…. They are like plants growing in winter. You can’t see the fruit, but it is taking root below the earth.”
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Are You Working: In Defense of the Invisible Labors of Creativitiy
Once, at the gym with a physicist friend, I was struck by how no one else in the room had any idea that while she was sweating on the treadmill with a blank stare into space, she was doing advanced…
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
it's taken on a life of its own ivy covered tree #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
apples on the tree and red bunting #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
September the rose more pink #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
September the rose more pink #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the cat comes home covered in seeds from long grass #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
urban autumn marijuana smoke on the breeze #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@lynneguist.bsky.social What is the level of spelling "OK" as "okay" Vs "okie"? Two people at my work do it. Is it common? Regional? Generational? 45yo 🇺🇸 = okay 22yo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 = okie always 30?yo 🇦🇺 = okie sometimes
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
bus stop is this jackdaw also waiting #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the bee and I sheltering from the rain #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
one moment the spider on the thread from the lamp #haiku #fourlines
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Our office skydiving 🪂 for the charity Give Blood 4 Good. I will be one of the jumpers 😳😱 As part of my fundraising, I will hold a #haikucontest in the comments of the fundraiser. The best 3 #haiku will have donations matched by me. Results to be published here. www.justgiving.com/page/becky-d...
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Push me out of a plane for Give Blood 4 Good!!
Help Becky Dwyer raise money to support Give Blood 4 Good
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Tea break contemplating which branch to cut #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sisyphus a snail climbing the wall #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
futility my cat brings back the hawk moth #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
he's talking about buying a house a starling outside #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
day's end shadows look over the bridge #haiku
Edinburgh: George IV Bridge: on the pavement the shadow of the bridge railing, a square with an X through the middle, the crossbeams of the X hold up a Circle. Inside the circle a four petaled flower with a small hole in the centre of the X. Three bars separate each circle. Two people are just starting to leave, their shadows break the pattern and we see their feet turn away from the camera.
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
On punctuation: These new devices [(!?;:)] allowed sentences to ramble along twisty paths of thought, opening up new realms of the self. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... (Paywall)
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Punctuation: A Generational Divide
Can parents ever learn to text like their kids? Should they even try?
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
meditation the seagulls laughing at me #haiku #senryu
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
hard times all round gutter daisy #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
this grey day lingering lingering heat #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
the beggar watching the family feeding the crows #senryu
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Turns out my mom likes Marlene Mountain.
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
a pigeon pecking clover by a red bull can
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
the sound of a tin can rolling across the bus floor (and back again)
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“AI writing never challenges the way we think or see….And this limitation reveals something important about the source of human creativity.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Excerpt from “What AI’s Style Tells Us About It” by Adam Kirsch, appearing in the Atlantic June 15th 2026:

AI writing never challenges the way we think or see. It can’t do so, even if you explicitly ask it to. And this limitation reveals something important about the source of human creativity. All writing, all speech, has to follow conventions; to know how to use a language is to know how other people already use it. But it’s also possible to find new ways of using it, to say things in a way no one has ever heard before. This possibility exists because we can appeal to something more fundamental than language—our experiences of reality, which are so varied and surprising that language can never exhaust them.

A great creative writer is someone who uses language in new ways to communicate new kinds of experiences—who replaces stereotype with reality, as Proust put it. LLMs are incapable of doing this, because they have no access to an experience or a reality that lies outside of language. It’s conventions all the way down. ChatGPT told me so itself when I asked how it developed its prose style. “What’s especially interesting is that from the inside, there is no experience of style at all,” it replied. An LLM “is simply generating the next token according to learned patterns. Yet from the outside, readers often perceive a distinctive voice.”
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
in-between here and there carnival art #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
hillside: tufts of grass tufts of sheep #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
the low whistle across the mouth of the cigarette bin #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
the boy chasing the balloon into infinity
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
“After all, there is not THE haiku: but EACH haiku.” ~Marlene Mountain thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/...
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Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
fastidiousness... after the rainstorm nothing #senryu
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
feeling old teacup roses fading again #haiku #senryu
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
of its own accord the fly goes out the window #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Interesting #haiku-esque poem in the Atlantic : www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... “I didn’t know any better geraniums a vibration against the ancient chalets” The Road Wound Upward By Karl Kirchway
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The Road Wound Upward
A poem by Karl Kirchwey
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Edinburgh Haiku Circles went on a ginko to the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens for inspiration for "rose" haiku. What would you say about these beautiful specimens?
A pink rosebud sits above a fully opened rose of a lighter pink. These had a soft gentle rose scent.A deep pink rose mostly open showing layers of petals is next to a rose bud that is a ball, fully closed, with the green leaves holding it closed, barely.The foreground has fragrant soft pink roses, but the picture focuses on the thorns behind them. Some are big, some are small, all look sharp. This was a climbing rose has declined to use the pergola, choosing instead to go for the path.We debated if this was a dog rose. The stems are thick with thorns, more thorn than stem. The flowers on here were double flowers with many petals, and smaller than typical roses but still smelling as sweet.
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The scent of this lilac is stronger than that of the just cut grass.
A lilac plant of a smaller variety with an explosion of pale pink flowers accented with small dark green leaves
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Presence Magazine is now open for submissions for #85! 📝 Got some #haiku #senryu #tanka or #haibun? Now open until 31st May 🌷🌞🍂⛄🌆 See the website for submission details. haikupresence.org/submit/
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Presence | » Submit
Haiku Presence
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
bed head the dandelion fluff clumped from rain #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
continuing down the road I realise I don't know where I am poppies
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
a broken fence the old man sweeps up petals #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Ah! this blossom fell in one piece #haiku
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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
and then the dog tells us to get on our way
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