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Mark Tate

@markstate.bsky.social
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Inspired by: Michelle Obama Muhammad Ali Kamala AOC Ms Crockett numerous writers including Toni Morrison Basho Merwin. See www.markstephentate.com Walking Scarecrow (poems) won BLP Book of the Year (2023) ©️ posted poems. No DMs

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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 4h
Goodnight Bluesky geese and their cacophony
geese
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 7h
California
Cherry blossoms in Northern California (not now, but I was thinking about Trump destroying trees)
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 8h
France
France
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 10h
Horsetail Falls, Colombia River Gorge, OR. #WaterfallWednesday
waterfall one of six or seven viewed in Colombia River Gorge, OR.
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 10h
Director chairs at Director Park, Portland Oregon #RedWed #WackyWednesdayArt #ColorADay #WaterfallWednesday
red chairs. balcony. overlooking a city park named after someone named Director.water scene in Director park
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 10h
#RedWed door accessories
turtle sculpture near a red door
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 13h
Breaking: this will be all the decorating I’ll do for Halloween. #minimaldecorum
web
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 13h
lemon-flowers | universally | bee | laden | sunlight | breathing #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt #PacificRim
lemon flowers (autumn)lemon flowers and bees (autumn)
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 16h
Searching for a star to wish on — good morning all you lovelies — it’s coming
evidence of sunlightjust a sliver of lightpittosporum in a wash of sky
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Goodnight Bluesky Continental divide Costa Rica
a small rental car takes on the continental divide in Costa Rica
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
sunlight 10:00 a.m. leaning against the car my jaw dropping about the bees in the gaura
the Gaura is such a pleasant colorful star in this sunlit garden
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
these stolen apples are fresh and crisp #apples #AOFoto
Apples
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hawai’i in a calmer time, both pics taken by my son #TideOutTuesday
Hawai’i pic taken by my sonHawai’i pic than by my son
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ancient Coyote
Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art 
I can’t read the artist credit, apologies
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Portland Oregon architecture #BlueTue #ColorADay
lots a blue in the sky
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#RockinTuesday #TideOutTuesday
shallows
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
another pic while walking #barn
barn behind a neighbor’s house which is inundated in morning sunlight
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
oaks in sunlight #ThickTrunkTuesday
morning sunlight in a grove of oaks rural back roads
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sunrise—the tree of the hawks’ nest #ThickTrunkTuesday
at the top of this 125 foot fir hawks have made their nest and for many generations have brought up their young
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good morning Bluesky
sunrise here approx 6:38 a.m. — hear owls east
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Goodnight Bluesky Costa Rica
rainbow (Costa Rica)
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
flower #PinkMon #MinimalMonday
flower pinkie
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
irony #MinimalMonday
enormous tree. enormous sky. enormous sun.
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
moon in a blue sky #BlueSkyMonday
early morning sky turning blue with moon
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
when clouds got in the way 🎼 #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday
a mountain of clouds blocked the sun
AKA cloud mountain
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Canada geese coastal flyway to Laguna in autumn heat Russian River watershed a migratory anomaly #tanka #waka #short-formpoetry #habitat
Canada geese morning route to Laguna
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sunrise
sunlight evident on cloud formation
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good morning Bluesky
curve of the road
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
coastal forest | firs | owl | 3 a.m. chill | squawking #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt chill night
trees in forest night
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goodnight Bluesky
glassware and our host (costa rica)
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goodnight Bluesky
web and sunlight
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
two buckets of equal weight, balanced over her shoulders … loneliness milk, sadness milk, poured, mixed together in her abode #tanka
rural setting
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The ground is the bottom of the sky —Robert Creeley, Life & Death, NDP, “Signs” #BNWmacro #ImageAndVerse
shadowswires
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Breaking: it has been reported that there is a rabbit on the moon … but now we have this confirmed report—an ant on the moon!
ant ant ant ant ant !!!!!
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
orange bobbles #OrangeSun #ColorADay #FourthPlace
orange bobbles (rose hips)
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yell up to the people in the basket and they’ll yell down
hot air balloon with blue sky
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good morning Bluesky sunrise with clouds trees moon waning—ten thousand acorns #haiku #ImageAndVerse #Stunday
Sunrise with clouds trees and moon waning—ten thousand acorns
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goodnight Bluesky
sunset in a land far away
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4:45 p.m. (PST) 104.8 * Fahrenheit on the front porch, 84.3 (back porch shade) and this little bird is staying put in the fountain under the Kiwi and Lady Banks #SmallBirdSaturday
small bird not moving from the fountain under Lady Banks and Kiwi leaves during the heat
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
see the light , share the light #BNWmacro
black n white , a light in a restroom at the dentist’s office
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Timber Hill — green side #GreenSat
trees on Timber Hill are green
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#BlueSkyArtShow #3rdPlace #GreenSat plus all the other colors that are relevant #ColorADay
hotair balloon this morning
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning Bluesky
cabin nestled in trees morning sunlight
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Goodnight Bluesky
sunset west coast — tomorrow should be near 100 Fahrenheit
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#FlyDay #scape #BWFri (stretched)
crowscrowscrowscrows
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#BWFri #scape #ColorADay #ForestFriday #juxtaposition
trees and fogtrees and fogtrees and fog
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
new variety apple … Jimothy gold
a misshapen apple small free fall and jokingly called Jimothy gold a new variety
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
black and white muted by fog and pre coffee stupor (too early rise west coast) … [oh, shit, I meant ta put all that in alt] 🐈‍⬛
trees in fogtrees in fog
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
country road back into the forest with woodpecker sounds #ForestFriday
road off-road trees fence various woodpecker sounds
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Scape , interior with light through window , yonder dream , methinks
assisted living
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