John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 6hTimer says zero -- a button, waiting, unpushed -- John Locke: "I was wrong" #haiku #haikufeels [hatch] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 040
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Beneath packed snowfall lie autumn's crinkled leaves, each pending spring's unclench #haiku #haikufeels [decay] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 1121
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Preserve me from harm in the night, O Lord -- the halls are oddly quiet #haiku #haikufeels [harm] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 090
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Glow-in-the-dark things -- aren't we all? Each star, each thought against night's black void #haiku #haikufeels [glow] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 0100
Reposted by John KerlJRBHaiku @jrbhaiku.bsky.social · 04/10/2026on a lonely isle reliving his excellence banished emperor #HaikuFeels (Banish) #senryu #haiku 071
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Self in the mirror Cringe-thoughts of old misspeakings No! A brand-new day #haiku #haikufeels [banish] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 060
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Despite all my rage, I am still just a ... man with a pretty good life #haiku #haikufeels [cage] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 0101
Reposted by John KerlRachel artist @rachelsantel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My body a cage, Made from this earth, it decays, Inside my soul thrives.” #haikufeels #rachelsantel 0111
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Some people titter, some chortle, some guffaw -- but the cacklers -- too much! #haiku #haikufeels [cackle] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 080
Reposted by John KerlEric Montgomery @madp03t.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Waves enter sea caves loose stones cackle in the dark tide pulls them away #haikufeels #prompt #cackle #poetry #haiku #writing #5amwritersclub #poetrycommunity 0182
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026An alarm clock tolls -- door, walls, name come in focus -- a good dream's last gasp #haiku #haikufeels [gasp] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 0140
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Daughter and grandson -- not copies of the self -- yet attached by likeness #haiku #haikufeels [copy] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 090
Reposted by John KerlAlison Frankel @alisonfrankel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How is this idiot of a Senator, not to mention the clown-car aides who made that ridiculous poster, still holding his head up after falsely accusing Smith of perjury based on his completely imaginary conspiracy theory? 162
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A spilled bowl of soup Dad: Why are you so careless? A little boy shrinks #haiku #haikufeels [shrink] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 1141
Reposted by John KerlHege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026watching the first migratory birds turn south quiet wind storm #DailyHaikuPrompt (wind storm) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry 04411
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I smiled, I waved Across the street, he nodded, and checked his wristwatch #haiku #haikufeels [cool] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 080
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Rosy-fingered dawn awaits over horizon, holding out chances #haiku #haikufeels [promise] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 0110
Reposted by John KerlJenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026night skies listen ssh silence is survive talk only signs #SciFaikuSaturday #inkMine 05010
Reposted by John KerlJenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026let me be the old cat's slow stretch into a sunbeam #DailyHaikuPrompt (sunbeam) 49125
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just five months along she was a bump -- now fourteen, calls me "brochacho" #haiku #haikufeels [bump] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 070
Reposted by John KerlHaiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the highway between my brain and mouth could sure use a speed bump sometimes 0183
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Vegetables yield heart health -- doc happy -- and I -- strengthened by plant life #haiku #haikufeels [produce] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 050
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Absenteeism decontextualizes underperformance #haiku #haikufeels [absent] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 040
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It appears as though the itchy collar stitches connive against me #haiku #haikufeels [seem] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 050
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026J'attends, mes amis -- I wait so very long, I'm restraint incarnate #haiku #haikufeels [attend] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 050
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Audience members Cooling themselves, spreading out in triple meaning #haiku #haikufeels [fan] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 040
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just an inch per year, or less -- continents groan -- Himalayas rise #haiku #haikufeels [inch] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 040
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Beep beep beep beep ... flat A soul has gone gently into that good night #haiku #haikufeels [monitor] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 0120
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The desert in June, bereft of night, denied rain, bakes, aches for monsoon #haiku #haikufeels [dry] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 070
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Does faith move mountains? It kneels in candlelight, chapelled, and hoping #haiku #haikufeels [kneel] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 030
Reposted by John KerlChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yf thys skeet doth recevye 10,000 reposts ther wil be a *Ted Lasso* and *Slow Horses* crossovir episode. 616554
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Boost us to the moon -- strap in and take us with you -- fly, O Artemis! #haiku #haikufeels [boost] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 0100
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A grey beard, gone long; cheek stiff to razor, hand still; what will this erase? #haiku #haikufeels [employ] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 140
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Cat's head bent to dish -- fang and claw abandoned now -- tamed, humbled, served #haiku #haikufeels [deserve] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 030
Reposted by John KerlJenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026zoo monkey gazes you and me seeing ourselves staying together sharing this bittersweet and unforbidden fruit #TankaThursday (zoo) 0419
Reposted by John KerlJenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026long slow golden afternoon dream between sycamore leaves #DailyHaikuPrompt (dappled) 04415
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Those I once envied totter on, emburdened, as much changed as I am #haiku #haikufeels [envy] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 060
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Life's a balance beam -- email, diapers, crutches -- hands full, we wobble #haiku #haikufeels [beam] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 030
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Peony blooms droop, leaves tightened like stingy fists -- distant thunder cracks #haiku #haikufeels [help] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 030
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Work day grinds us down, and -- grass duly touched -- we look up at the stars #haiku #haikufeels [ground] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 010
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What if the saucer plucked up lost cow, dropped it home with cow family? #haiku #haikufeels [rescue] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 020
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Drunken alien in wheat field, seeking ship -- trouble has cropped up #haiku #haikufeels [circle] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 030
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Confused, I looked east -- found dawn's dim glow, pink-fingered -- awaited the light #haiku #haikufeels [orient] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 030
John Kerl @johnkerl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A plate of mussels. Most yawn; one remains tight-lipped. Eater, crack it not. #haiku #haikufeels [forbid] #blueskypoets #writingprompt 0110
Reposted by John KerlIcarus 🎃 Dumpsterfire @pluperfectidiot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026There is a specific kind of tired where you're too tired to go to bed because going to bed feels like another task. I have finally arrived. 0184
Reposted by John Kerl🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 11/09/2026From a purely dollars-calculus point of view human beings are expensive capital investments and we shouldn't let them go without a fight 0113
Reposted by John KerlWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11/09/2026But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. 13485101
