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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Greetings followers and followees . . .! As of the current time this account is in hiatus. I'll be posting on my main account @weirdmelbs.bsky.social. Clem 🌵

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HookTurn @hookturn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

😮🫨😡 A scurrilous lie put about by antibayardists . . .! “Of noble bearing”, I could accept “Wholehearted, almost dementedly courageous, self-deprecating”, yes, yes and yes But . . . “supreme self-confidence of ignorance . . .!” How much did they pay you @susiedent.com?

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Last week’s featured poet on the #Australian #Haiku Society #HaikuOz was Margaret Conley: landscape by Fred Williams rearranged by mining (For non-Oz folks: Fred Williams was a very distinctive Australian painter) #AustralianHaiku australianhaikusociety.org/2025/03/03/f...

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology

This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is New South Wales poet, Margaret Conley.

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I like to include one typo in every I write

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

That’s a pleasure One of my interests is haiku poetry and to me there is a haiku-like quality in your pictures Great stuff ~

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I love it when I come across one of my favourites from the other place, here and active on #Bluesky It’s worth scroll down through Maxim Peter Griffin’s feed to appreciate the breadth of their vision ~

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This week’s featured poet on the Australian Haiku Society’s website #HaikuOZ is Fiona H. Evans: desert rainstorm a flood of wildflowers #haiku #AustralianHaiku #HaikuAustralia australianhaikusociety.org/2025/02/…

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This week’s featured poet on the #HaikuOz website (from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth #Australian #Haiku Anthology) is Mark Miller, from #Shoalhaven NSW. Here is a “ #monoku “ by Mark: “inside the ocean the names of all the rivers” australianhaikusociety.org/2025/02/03/f...

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology

This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Mark Miller, who resides in Shoalhaven, on the south coast of New South Wales.

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I’ve been enjoying the #EnCypted podcast by Jasper L’Strange (surely that can’t be his real name can it?) Mostly Mr L’Strange reads classic #ghost stories in his . . . strange . . . quavering voice But sometimes he reads his own stories ⬇️ which are excellent 💀 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...

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"Strange Bedfellows" by Jasper - EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast - Apple Podcasts

Podcast Episode · EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast · 31/10/2023 · 1h 5m

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I wish I could say this was unbelievable But it’s all too believable

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Roger Patulny @rpatulny.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hi everyone. Authora Australis is calling for stories, poems and artworks. Submissions for Authora Issue 9 ‘Cracks’ are now open! Submissions close Feb 28, 2025. Link below, cheers: www.authora.net/submit

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Librarian would probably be a perfect job A nice amount of social interaction but mostly fairly quiet and non-confrontational But as you say, health comes first

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Totally and it is so easy to slip from completely well mean discussions of other people into snark No working must be a challenge Quite apart from the finances I think I’d miss the sort of enforces social interaction (and . . . um . . . lots more people to gossip about)

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’d say I follow 48 of these. The two exceptions are: - oversharing with people at work - gossiping about people who aren’t there

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I’m rereading #Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles #Maturin which I first read more than twenty years ago There is an (on purpose) misquote of Shakespeare: to “verify untrue things,” in the language of Dogsberry . . . The misquoting and the sentiment both seem appropriate these later times #Gothic

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Well I’m not big on using prompts usually But here I thought – how is anyone going to improve on just those three words? Brevity ~

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Melbourne poet Robyn Cairns was featured on the Australian Haiku Society #HaikuOz website earlier in January industrial skyline where the rain makes rust That feels like a very #Melbourne / #Naarm #haiku indeed australianhaikusociety.org/2025/01/13/f...

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology

This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne poet, Robyn Cairns.

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

(Just reading the comments under the article and it seems like a few others had the same idea 🙂)

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Honourable mentions to: “EnCrypted” read by the fabulously named Jasper Le Strange “Classic Ghost Stories” (and Classic Detective Stories) read by the boringly named Tony Walker – a fellow nurse And “Nocturnal Transmissions” read by Australian Kristin Holland is pretty good too (small doses only)

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I forward this article to my brother He said – “this article reads like Sebold” Not sure if Billy would be flattered, but it is high praise from my brother ~

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Folks – if you haven’t given Mr Jim Moon’s various podcasts a listen, do yourselves a favour . . . . . . a wonderful voice for reading weird tales Also another brilliant feature of the podcasts is the music (also provided by Jim under a pseudonym 😊)

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

💚 There’s quite an active haiku community here in Australia 😊

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Each week the Australian Haiku Society #HaikuOz features a poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology. This week it’s Gary Colombo de Piazzi: bead of sweat another drop of salt— outback lake #haiku #AustralianHaiku australianhaikusociety.org

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haikuoz - the enjoyment of haiku

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Question: The crushed leaves of what #Australian native, will turn water bright blue? (It can be used to make a test for different kinds of bacteria) For the answer, and a new #haiku, read on, gentle reader, read on . . . clembyard.com/2025/01/18/c...

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Christmas Comes Late (or Not at All)

Busaria & Crepe Myrtle It’s the second week of January and I’ve just got back from a week spent at a caravan park, in Porepunkah, in the Ovens Valley, three hours north of Naarm / Melbourne. Bu…

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Ham is always cheap after Xmas . . . but free? Disclaimer – this ham is #FreeVerse, rather than #FreeRange PS. Check out Elese’s website – great photos of #Naarm / #Melbourne and elsewhere

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Much better 💚 Thanks Kathleen 💚

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Let’s see . . . lilac strolling raindrop That’s the haiku

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

TY 💚 Not as bad as the first time I had it but it definitely took the wind out of my sails for a couple of weeks

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Hi All 👋🏼 🌊 I’m back (after a nasty bout of COVID) I’ve written a new post about flowering gum trees & #haiku & the heavy rain we get here in #Naarm / #Melbourne at this time of year (a 1 minute read) no epiphany – just flowering gums  and radiata pine clembyard.com/2025/01/08/f...

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Flowering Gums, Epiphany & Summer Rain

no epiphany –just flowering gums and radiata pine I saw the first flowering gum trees coming into bloom two days before Christmas, so I guess you could consider flowering gums one of the kinds of C…

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

No problem Christa – I’ve added you 🙂

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Of course 🙂 I’ve just added you ~

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

There are a few “rules” but they aren’t all agreed on by modern English language haiku poets I think the haiku journals Frogpond and Modern Haiku are good places to start – you can find then on line if you’re interested

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A few days ago Dick Whyte @dailyhaikai.bsky.social challenged us to add a “cap” to a #haiku by #Issa that he had translated. So now I’ve written a haiku in response & illustrated it with a sketch. already fallen from the branches – two other moons clembyard.com/2024/12/16/m...

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Many Moons

This week Dick Whyte, who posts as Daily Haikai on Bluesky (@dailyhaikai.bsky.social), posted his translation of a haiku by Issa: this morning hanging in the pines, third moon Dick went on to say: …

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hi Everyone, Dick Whyte and his @dailyhaikai.bsky.social account is now added to the haiku starter pack He’s posting some great stuff so give him a follow if you haven’t already c.

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Morning Jim (he says at 9.13 pm Melbourne time)

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Context for international readers: Murramarang is a National Park in New South Wales, Australia Murramarang Aboriginal Area is site of largest midden on the South Eastern Coast More info. on Middens ⬇️ www.firstpeoplesrelations.vic.gov.a…

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Note: Leanne is the current president of the Australian Haiku Society (HaikuOz)

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

our shadows falling across the ancient midden— Murramarang This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian #Haiku Anthology, is Leanne Mumford. #HaikuOz australianhaikusociety.org/2024/12/…

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Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It isn’t spring any more but the evenings here in South-Eastern Australia have been lovely ~

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