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HaikuHedgehog

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prefers the deep woods small, occasionally prickly creature of few words #haiku #tanka #senryu #haibun #haiga haikuhedgehog.wordpress.com

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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the spider goes hungry its web catching only the early autumn rain #haiku #haiga
green day lily leaves covered in droplets; at the center is a web with a single droplet above a small spider
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
october skies the asters enthusiastically greet their namesake #haiku #haiga
A row of "October sky" asters, with pale bluish-lavender petals and bright yellow centers, blossoming in a freshly-mulched bed
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Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bit of joggin after work to decompress and pretend im runnin' away from myself #tanka
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#fungifriends 🍄📸
Thick-stemmed mushroom growing on the forest floor next to a couple of green leaves. The leaves may be the start of a sapling. The mushroom cap is orangeish, the stem starts out orange and deepens to red. The overall shape suggests some variety of bolete, but I didn't pick it to check the underside.
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#fungifriends 🍄📸
A single mushroom with a wavy orangish-brown cap and a white stem sprouts from the base of a tree trunk, along with a single tiny fern frond
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Blackskhaiku ✨🖤 @blackskhaiku.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
to arrive at ones destination requires the will to first embark #VSS365 #prompt #haiku #blackskycreatives #writingcommunity
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andre/a losi, poetry & art @scrivolosi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
a new year begins noticing wisdom's etching what do your lines say? ©️ andre/a losi 2026 #haiku #photography #nature #poetry #art #mindfulness #westcoastkin
Beach wood structure with old waterlogged chains and textured wood in foreground
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#fungifriends 🍄📸
A tiny beige mushroom sprouts up in a thick bed of vivid green moss on a fallen log
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No idea if the scene spoke to her somehow, or she just thought it was pretty. As a child, I never thought to ask. gilt worn at the rim i don't know why she kept it my grandmother's plate the sole reason i keep it that long-forgotten meaning #tanka #micropoetry
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#fungifriends 🍄📸
Cluster of fan-shaped mushrooms growing out of the end of a log. The mushrooms have stripes of browns and russets and orange, with a wide fringe of white where the edges are actively growing. It looks like some kind of Stereum, a false turkey tail.
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American Sijo @americansijo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The finiteness, of our remaining time; the uncertainty, of its extent. I will not know, our final goodbye; until one day, there are no more greetings. No wisdom, can dissuade my tears; only remind me, to see you now. #sijo
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#fungifriends 🍄📸
Two clusters of white coral fungus sprouting for a small log on the forest floor. There's a fine tracery of what might be mycelium on the decayed bark. Two large curled leaves provide some scale for how small the coral clusters are.
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#fungifriends 🍄📸
Two large, mossy rotten logs with lots of leaf litter. A single, small beige mushroom on a long, thin stalk stands out among the moss.
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
To be fair, reactions were mixed. Some folks did enjoy them, others just learned to live with them. But this one stood out. in the tourist shops their image on all the merch but from a local an indignant diatribe "what're bears good for, anyway?" #tanka
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#fungifriends 🍄📸
Cluster of fan-shaped fungi growing out of a log on the forest floor. The mushrooms have bands of browns, rusts, and orange, with a thin band of white at the outer edge. I'm thinking this is a "Stereum ostrea", or false turkey tail. But I can't confirm it, though, because I didn't pick it to check the underside.
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Overhauled my back garden bed today to put in all native perennials. I hadn't even gotten some of them in the ground yet when I saw this... tiny hovering bee eagerly inspecting the new arrivals #haiku #haibun
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#fungifriends 🍄📸
A decaying tree trunk hosts moss and clusters of 2 kinds of mushroom. I'm guessing these are a cluster of tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius), and a couple clusters of past-their-prime oysters (Pleurotus pulmonarius). I only did a photo safari, so I didn't pick or cut any of these to confirm the indentification.
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I found out later that butterflies slowly flap their wings while sitting on the ground like that to warm up, not cool off, but why let facts get in the way of a #haiku ? It was enjoying the sun, I was enjoying the shade... the swallowtail and i fanning ourselves in the dappled forest shade
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#fungifriends 🍄📸
closeup of a small cluster of bright orange mushrooms with bell-shaped caps on the forest floor
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
a resounding tock fat raindrops and green acorns on the cabin roof #haiku
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#fungifriends 🍄📸
Nidulariaceae crucibulum, or "bird's nest fungus". A cluster of tiny, rusty orange cups sits on a bed of mulch. Some still have a cover, but the open ones look like they have "eggs" inside. They're actually the peridioles, which contain the spores.
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Paddleboarding tonight, the warm water was swarming with them... as above, so below standing on the boundary where the two realms meet moon rising over the board moon jellies gliding beneath #tanka #micropoetry
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My friends once had our own "CD of the month" club; we took turns making and sending mix CDs to each other. I rediscovered them the other day, but found to my dismay that CD-Rs do indeed suffer from bit rot as the dye layer degrades. digital decay the skips and static of a college mix CD #haiku
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Carl Setzer @carlsetzer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
sunlight descending gracefully dancing within luminous petals #haiku #summer #fl
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
an unfinished tale open, empty on the ground half a robin's egg #haiku
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
heat wave subsided midst scorched leaves and barren stalks the early last bloom #haiku #haiga
a single red and yellow day lily blossom in a bed of withered leaves, and empty stalks where the other blossoms fell
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
the heat dome shattered rich petrichor rises the land's sigh of relief #haiku
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I wasn't sure at first if it was still alive until I saw it stir and resume foraging. sleeping on the job the bee takes a well-earned nap on a flower bed #haiku #haiga #haibun
A single bumblebee on a cluster of white flowers
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The water was unusually clear yesterday. I didn't realize that area was so shallow, nor that there was so much activity under the surface. tiny schools swerve, swarm weaving through the water weeds ahead of the board #haiku #haibun
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
the sound of water an indignant beaver’s parting tail slap #haiku
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
last call the hummingbird finishes his drink by firefly light #haiku #micropoetry
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I was reading on the porch when this one, perched on a wire, interrupted. impromptu solo the insistent mockingbird performs even just for one #haibun #haiku
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I personally haven't felt very poetic lately, so I'll step back and let nature step up to the mic.
a pale bluish violet crocus with a splash of yellow at the center of each petalmostly white bearded irises, with a pale lavender tint in the upper petals, and yellow centersred mini roses
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
A less common variety of "bachelor buttons" (Centaurea montana); I'm pleased it overwintered so well.
Closeup of three purple "bachelor buttons" flowers (Centaurea montana)
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
persistence plastic shreds deftly woven into the bird's nest #haiku #micropoetry
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Figuring out how to fit the most dishes into the washer while still getting them clean is basically boring, grown-up Tetris. #miscellany
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
the bumbling bee as unsure of the trail's path as i am #haiku
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Twofer! endless subtleties the mathematical elegance of hen and chicks true to its name not just overwintered, but thrived sempervivum #haiku #haiga
A cluster of perfect purple "hen and chicks" (Sempervivum) in various sizes
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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🌿 somehow I get to be part of the pattern #haiku #senryu #rainforest
Looking up from under the canopy of a giant tree fern in El Yunque National rainforest in Puerto Rico. The fern fronds are bright green, and there is a black dotted pattern that goes around their edges, like tiny teeth
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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
#SenryuSunday #senryu a night of falling stars and nothing to wish on
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Went hiking with a friend this weekend. He picked this trail because it led to a particular spot. I had to enjoy it vicariously through him, since I was still getting over a head cold. a distant childhood hiking in etna's shadow the scent of pine groves #haiku #haibun
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
When you need to clean the salt off, but the washer fluid immediately starts to freeze and blur the view, anyway... both irked and awed tendrils of frost ferns spreading across my windshield #haiku #haibun
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Ms.Tastey 🕷️ @littlebitespoetry.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
#haiku #micropoetry
A haiku that reads 

judged by my cover
i am a story
lost in translation
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We've been in a days-long deep freeze around here. I threw some birdseed out on the crusted snow in the back. in a day, the seeds had disappeared with tidy holes cast once more; dusk found tracks pressed on sun-softened snow brief respite from the famine #tanka
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I know it's just atmospheric effects and air pollution, but still... sallow winter moon casts her jaundiced eye on us her judgement silent #haiku #haibun
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This area had a fair amount of snow followed by rain that froze overnight. I went to clear it this morning, and made a delightful discovery. old childhood magic walk over the crusted snow leaving no traces #haiku #haibun
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Spotted on a recent hike...
Tree slowly swallowing up a "no hunting" signTree that has swallowed all but one small corner of a "no hunting" sign
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Found it flipped over like that; not sure how it happened. We have had some high winds in this area lately.
Flipped over white mushroom, showing the gills, lying on a fallen branch, surrounded by leaves.
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I thought it was a cat at first, until it turned and looked at me while crossing. green foxfire glare in the glare of my headlights urban nightlife #haiku #haibun
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HaikuHedgehog @haikuhedgehog.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
#fungifriends
Large mushroom, slightly withered around the edges, on a fallen log with moss and lichen
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