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Michael Muller (he/him)

@michaelmuller.bsky.social
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These days I read & write haiku with the amazing BlueSky community. I also do research at the hybrid intersection of HCI, AI, critical computing, and social justice. Co-chair of ACM SIGCHI CARES. Member of Fempower.tech, AccessSIGCHI.

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 3h
written and read - words flow changing shape #haiku #senryu
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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🌗 listen to the moon all her unsung lullabies #haiku #senryu
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 20m
fall colors furl fill fallow field fulling fungi fall feelings falling #Haiku (just for fun)
Two large orange mushrooms that sprung up during the three-day storm
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak." --Mary Oliver
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Sheikha A. @poetsheikha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
✨✨ whale fog earthly nebula of wildflowers ✨✨ #sheikhawrites #micropoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #vss365 #monoku #spec-ku
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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
from which star did you tumble? autumn wind Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826) #haiku #micropoetry Tr. David G. Lanoue Date of #poem: 1810
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here is a #senryu after a week of intense review-committee work: always rushing there going so fast people stare hurried to go where?
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I had thought of the acorn as a kind of herald. I much prefer your interpretation of the acorn as a unit of time, or maybe as an enactor of time?
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The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Keep an eye out for our #paperback copies to drop online and in #bookstores soon, but in the meantime please take a look at our free online version - and don't forget to #VOTE!!! #books #poetry #booksky #writing #protest #NoKings #resist #ICE #Trump #FDT #immigration #ReneeNicoleGood #AlexPretti
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“Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival” is now live
Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival is now available to read free on the site. It’s our third collection, and it gathers poets writing about ICE enforcement and immigration o…
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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#art Greg Vaughn #haiku #micropoem larches #resist
stone heights enlightened—
amber larches arise
from cold alpine earth

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
long work of our lives daylight rising and falling falling and rising
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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
hare at the wood’s edge pausing for one long moment your breath visible
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Jocelyn @jocelynx44.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
wild roses fade under the waning moon promise to return #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"How much color can a palette hold to hold up the sky?"
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
across a border staring as if a mirror we are on both sides #SenryuSunday
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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
soundly renouncing their obligations my knees #vss365 #SenryuSunday #senryu
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Gabby @gabbydp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wish you all a peaceful night 🕊️ Take care 🩵✌️
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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Acorns fall … the oak knows our secret knock. #HaikuSaturday #haiku
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you to all the kind haikuists and friends for your support today. I apologize for responding so late.
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Jo Hackl @johackl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Celebrating #haikuSaturday and admiring the way the blooms of this Jacquemontia tamnifolia vine untwist into full bloom (and breaking a few haiku rules): buds beginning, start unspinning unfurling pet- als stretch wide, seek sun #poetry #haiku
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Jo Hackl @johackl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dogwood berries, ready for the fall #JoyScavengerHunt
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Jo Hackl @johackl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Celebrating #haikuSaturday: berries bob and bow acorns sift through limbs and leaves bird banquet below #haiku #poetry #nature
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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
equinox the next century arrives by acorn #VersionsHaikuSaturday #haiku #HaikuSaturday
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Susan (Morhar) Andrews @andrewssusanm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#HaikuSaturday #haiku seasonal visitors... acorns knock on rooftops Please add a version if you feel like it. If you want your version posted with the other versions please include the hashtag #VersionsHaikuSaturday.
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
fog helps me to know all blurs how little I know soft indistinct world #HaikuSaturday
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The weekend in the North American northeast will be "interesting" - cloud grey of warning ash grey smoke grey impending lead grey upon us mist spray of warning pelting driving impending sharp hail upon us Please keep safe
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Barico @njbarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#tanka #5lines #poem autumn storm when no one dares to climb the mountain the trees talk to each other and let go of their leaves
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
some hunger does not ask to be fed only held long enough to remember the shape of what is gone #Vss365 #Hunger #PoetrySky #Poetry #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin 📷 mine
A cluster of small yellow wildflowers growing from a rough patch of concrete beside the pavement, reaching upwards into the light.
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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hawk wrestles with lets loose the wind #haiku
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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Crimson maple leaves quietly heading home. #dailyhaikuprompt crimson #haiku
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𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖬𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍𝗒 𝖠𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗇𝖺 @mightyathena.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
𝐼 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼, 𝑡𝑜𝑜, ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔. #PaintbyWords | music #mobilephotography #photography #fibonacci #poetry #micropoetry
14 Nov 2020.  I didn’t have the location tag set on my phone and honestly cannot recall where I took this photo. I believe this shot is from a visit to one of the surrounding area’s op shops.  One never knows what unexpected treasure might be lurking.  Unfortunately, the paper wreath hanging on one of the shop’s walls wasn’t for sale. This wonderful piece of craftwork is constructed entirely from sheet music and is in the form of a blooming flower (think perhaps a carnation).  

Which reminds me, perhaps I should sit down and play my piano : )  This week’s #PaintbyWords prompt was a good reminder to embrace my music.  

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𝑠𝑒𝑒
𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐
𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒
𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡
𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼, 𝑡𝑜𝑜, ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔. 

#PaintbyWords | music
#mobilephotography #photography
#fibonacci #poetry #micropoetry
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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
all we were all we could have been water without edges rippling wind
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"I pluck your sturdy petals, make tea. Imagine I can read the desiccated pulp. A kind of sacrament to taste and be tasted. When I am one day buried in the dirt, I offer my frame, tissue, heart. You didn’t ask me to live on like this. I’m asking you." ``Patrycja Humienik, "Magnolia" 1/2
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Patrycja Humienik on “Magnolia”
Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
equinox my hopes or regrets neither here nor there #DailyHaikuPrompt (equinox)
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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Storm abates wind drops - blank canvas. #dailyhaikuprompt wind, storm #haiku
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came" --Wendell Berry
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David @haikubycrane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
thick fog coat thins to fragile threads over mist soaked field #haiku #fog #nature #GodsCountry
Fog rolling through the trees to cross an open manicured lawn.
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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
grey scrolls of incense reminding us of our souls eternal, restless
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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
sky in the river tongues of windflipped willow leaves the same silver light
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Pelzerb @pelzerb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Morning rested upon the fields, and for a moment, I was young again— spending summer days beneath a #SouthCarolina sky, working on my grandparents’ farm beside the loving hands that taught me love. #ImageAndVerse #Stunday #SilentSunday #SkySunday #MobilePhotography #Zen #Photography #ECK 09/26
A broad green South Carolina field beneath a blue morning sky with soft white clouds, bordered by tall grass and a weathered fence post.
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Gabby @gabbydp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That beautiful glow, captured by the trees, who decide to exchange their evergreen garb for the setting sun’s golden light.🌲✨🌲 I wish you all a peaceful night 🕊️ Take care 🩵✌️
Trees with the sunlight shining through
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Hege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
northern wind the birch tree still brimming with almosts #SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #haiku #micropoetry
yellow-leafed birch trees, fallen leaves in the ground, green patchy lawn in the foreground
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#SFSidewalkHaiku #272 summer’s story’s written in sun’s passing pull © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 09/19/2026 📷 05/14/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (quill) #senryu #Haiku #haiga #senryusunday ☀️🌱 #acanthus #bearbreeches #SanFrancisco #BernalHeights
A north planted dwarf white bear’s breeches reaching for some sun
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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
on one cheek I gather morning sunlight and turn into a bird --Shinko Tokizane 片頬に朝日集めて鳥になる 時実新子 #senryu #translation
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Rina @rina2012.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Chrysanthemum Still summer or fall? Sometimes you're caught in between feeling different. #PaintbyWords #SenryuSunday #Haiku #Poetry #Stunday #ImageAndVerse #photography #Art #ECK #bloomscrolling #FlowersOnSunday #SundayYellow #nature #thelittlethings
A close-up shot of several vibrant yellow, densely petaled chrysanthemum blossoms in full bloom. A large flower stands at the center, surrounded by other slightly offset blossoms against a dark, shadowy background.
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a gust of wind scatters birch leaves upon the lake #haiku
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
red begonia blossoms in the dusk, she lowers her voice to a whisper #haiku
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Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
thought enters the eye becomes concept forms image: births the idea #SenryuSunday
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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
in the rain gutter too wildflowers have sprouted Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826) #haiku #micropoetry Tr. David G. Lanoue Date of #poem: 1804
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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
leaky memory… the name of our sailboat drifting away #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (leaky)
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