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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her

@michelerule.bsky.social
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Poet/Writer. Proud mom and grandma to both humans and pets. Disabled. Recovering politician. Chocolate lover. Human rights friendly. Coeditor at @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social. MicheleRule.ca for more.

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thanks so much, @moritherapy.bsky.social! I'm still in a bit of disbelief, but so honoured! #haiku
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Canadian Geographic @cangeo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Can Geo Story of the Day: The quiet crisis in B.C.’s parks 🌲 In Princess Louisa Inlet, ranger Ming Neil has spent years caring for the land. But as B.C. Parks faces staffing and funding challenges, more of that responsibility is falling to local communities. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4hc5WT1
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The lone ranger and the quiet crisis in British Columbia’s parks
With B.C. Parks stretched thin, Ming Neil’s career in Princess Louisa Inlet shows the limits of love for the land — and what happens when community fills the funding gap
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So pleased to reveal the cover of my upcoming chapbook, Home Looks Different From Here! Moon painting by @frithjof.bsky.social. Preorder now at michelerule.ca/home-looks-d... #canadianpoetry #poetry #chapbook
On the left, a black background with a watercolour painting of the moon and the text Home Looks Different From Here and then the words Michele Rule. On the right, bright blue background and the words Cover Reveal!
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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good morning friends! Here is issue 81, full of lovely rain haiku! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/09/issu... #haiku
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Issue 81 – Rain Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
Thank you so much to those of you who have submitted haiku for the winter advent calendar! We are enjoying them so much. There is still time to submit as the deadline is October 31st
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Sealey Challenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Happy DAY 1 of the Sealey Challenge!! The Sealey Challenge is turning 10 today! Let's make this a summer of savoring poetry, celebrating diverse voices, and reading in community 🎂 #sealeychallenge #readmorepoetry
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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Welcome to these haiku poets whose work has never appeared in the Solitary Daisy before! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/08/issu... #haiku #haikusubmissions
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Issue 79 – Welcome Daisy Newcomers - The Solitary Daisy
We did enjoy the haiku from the newcomers and gave them a serious reading. Sorry if we missed anything else! All the rushing did inspire this month’s prompt
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Send us your haiku!!
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Congratulations Adrian!
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The dog days of summer #pierrethedog #mexicanchihuahua
A small brown dog with big ears sleeps stretched out on a paisley brown cushion on a brown rattan bench in the shade.
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Congratulations to @michelerule.bsky.social for having this powerful haiku included in The Zen Space Summer Showcase and Anthology 2026. thezenspace.wordpress.com/experience/s...
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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Summer haiku part 2! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/07/issu... #haiku #haikujournal #haikusubmissions
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Issue 78 – Summer Haiku Part Two - The Solitary Daisy
We cannot thank you enough for paying off the loan for our dear friend’s grandmother’s pacemaker! She is doing so well, walking around the hospital corridors and attending physio. She will be home soo...
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Karen Mason @kmason10.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our home IS native land. #rethinkcanadaday #truthandreconciliation #curtiswilsonartist #indigenousflag #thisisindigenousland
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy Canada Day!
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Do you care about good transit, affordable housing and public services? Are you voting in B.C.'s municipal election this year? Answer this quick survey! www.dogwoodbc.ca/municipal-su...
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Take our short survey about B.C.’s 2026 municipal elections.
Help shape the campaign by filling out this survey to share what matters most to you.
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⋆。˚☆⋆Tré⋆☆˚。⋆ @tregallery.com · 08/06/2026
Being featured alongside Nancy Orr, T. Nakae, Sally Quon, and Sarah Paris in #Haiku Girl Summer is a true humdinger! 😳 Thank you so much, Allyson Whipple (@teatimehaiku.bsky.social)! I'm very honored. 🙏 www.haikugirlsummer.com/bird-nerds/ #PaintbyWords #ECK #poetry
This is a composite screen shot from the Haiku Girl Summer website.

The background is white, the teal Haiku Girl Summer logo is square with a Hokusai style wave at its center. It rests at the top. Within the logo, around the wave, the Haiku Girl title font arches down over the top and Summer arches upward at the bottom.

My newest haiku is positioned mid-center in a black font:

red horizon
an albatross 
trims the tides

Tré
Blue Ridge, Virginia, USA

Fun facts: The albatross can sleep while flying. An adult's wingspan reaches up to 11 feet! They can fly continuously for 10 years before touching ground. Their average lifespan is 30-50 years but they can live up to 70! Wow. What a magnificent bird.
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Two-Story Writing Challenge on July 30th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/two-story
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Two-Story Writing Challenge — nycmidnight
The Two-Story Writing Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create two original short stories in 72 hours.
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is a beautiful program that sends quilts to residential school survivors. Please sign to help them secure more funding. c.org/G8bFYxYjw2
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Sign the Petition
Support Funding for Quilts for Survivors
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Happy Pride from Pierre the Dog! #kelownapride
A small brown Chihuahua dog looks at the camera. Around his neck is a garland of plush velvet flower petals in pink, red, yellow, purple, blue, green, turquoise, and green.
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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Head out to the islands with our latest issue! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/06/issu... #haiku
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Issue 76 – Island Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
moonlamps — the flow of a fluther island-blooming after ‘reef aquarium’ by Miko San Sheikha A., Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Dog invented his own game 🎾 and it’s wonderful
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I just wrote a Leadnow letter: Demand MPs: Stand up to Big Oil and protect our future. Write one here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/cl...
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Demand MPs: Say NO to Alberta to BC Pipeline - Leadnow
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char @accxrdingtochar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
if you aren’t watching the pwhl finals
a picture of a trouth with the text “Whack! You’ve been whacked with a wet trout!”
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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This week's Fallen Petals post. Five of the best Haiku/Senryu on Bluesky. Featuring poets: @shinobazupond.bsky.social @oevermann.bsky.social @flip89db.bsky.social @8rid6et.bsky.social @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social Motel Bibles and hot flashes open.substack.com/pub/thesehai...
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Motel Bibles, and hot flashes
A Fallen Petals Post
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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Sea Creatures! Enjoy this latest issue of the Solitary Daisy 🐟🐠🐡🦈🐚 thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/05/issu... #haiku
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Issue 74 – Sea Creature Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
This contains another column by our excellent commentator, Sean B. Wright. You may not know that Sean writes several columns on Substack. Sea Creature Haiku
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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Judges @michelerule.bsky.social (Out of Range), Betsy Ellor + @ianpowens.bsky.social + Jill Pabich + EM Panos + E.F. Sweetman (A Time You Had to Act like Someone You're Not), and Amita Basu (Into the Wild) WANT YOUR MICROS! 5 minutes of life, 100 words.
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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
@finnwritesstuff.bsky.social's work appears in Writer’s Digest, Geist, Pulp Literature, CBC books & more. @mspicone.bsky.social/수영 is a Korean American adoptee with 3 chapbooks: Anti Asian Bias, Adoptee Song, This Tenuous Atmosphere. @michelerule.bsky.social is a disabled writer from Kelowna, BC.
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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Here they are - the winners of the 2026 Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/04/issu... #haiku
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Issue 73 – 2026 Haiku Contest Winners - The Solitary Daisy
Wow, wow, wow, is all we can say! Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2026 Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest!
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fransbiebaut.bsky.social @fransbiebaut.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I participated in the Chronic Pain Project in Vancouver, Washington, twice now with written word entries. I was pleased that they asked me to do an artist’s video interview. Enjoy! #chronicillness #poetry
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My Interview With The Chronic Pain Project - Michele Rule
I participated in the Chronic Pain Project in Vancouver, Washington, twice now. I was pleased that they asked me to do an artist's video interview.
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy Easter and welcome Spring! The hyacinths are blooming just in time!
A close up photo of one pink and one purple hyacinth on a green background. A hyacinth is a flower from a bulb with a thick stem and multiple five petaled blooms on the stem.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
PS still not flat
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Add your voice!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/03/2026
Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🫶
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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A delightful collection of bird haiku, along with three special Haiku Month collections makes this our most haiku filled issue yet!! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/03/issu...
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Issue 71 – Birds Of Spring Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
The Solitary Daisy 2026 Haiku Contest is well underway with over 175 haiku already received! Deadline is April 4th at midnight PT. Birds of Spring Haiku
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
For #LongCovid Awareness Day, we’re releasing the 2026 Long Covid Fact Sheet! This is a list of key statistics about LC, using recent data to reflect contemporary risks. We hope this will be useful for journalists, policymakers, patients, & others! /1
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2026 Long COVID Fact Sheet – Patient Led Research Collaborative
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
🚨DAMN‼️Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew doesn’t mince words about Trump and the conflict in Iran. Saying the quiet part out loud, this war is a distraction from the Epstein Files and Trump is “public enemy number one” when it comes to the economy. Bravo Mr Kinew, more of this please‼️
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/03/2026
Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure will have major long-term environmental repercussions, experts have warned, as monitors admitted they were struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from the widening war.
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The bombing of Iranian oil facilities is causing a health and environmental nightmare
Acid rain, toxic air, contaminated water and soil, and the possibility of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Canada's Natalie Wilkie captures 2nd biathlon gold, 4th medal of Milano-Cortina Paralympics Salmon Arm, B.C., native collects 11th career Games medal www.cbc.ca/sports/paral...
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Canada's Natalie Wilkie captures 2nd biathlon gold, 4th medal of Milano-Cortina Paralympics | CBC Sports
Canada's Natalie Wilkie captured her second biathlon gold of the Milano-Cortina Paralympics on Friday, winning the women's standing sprint pursuit for her fourth medal in as many events.
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Issue 70!
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'm am so excited about BC switching to Daylight Saving Time and never 👏🏻 switching 👏🏻 back again! ⏰
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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The prompt for our next issue is Signs of Spring! What does that mean to you in your part of the world? Submission deadline is Sunday, March 8. Full details here: thesolitarydaisy.ca/submission-g... #haiku #senryu #haikusubmissions
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Submission Guidelines - The Solitary Daisy
The Solitary Daisy Journal runs on a fortnightly schedule (every two weeks). In each issue there is a prompt. Haiku written to the prompt will be considered
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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
More haiku from the Solitary Daisy Haiku Month prompts! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/02/issu...
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Issue 69 – Calendar Haiku Part Two - The Solitary Daisy
Last month, I attended an on-line workshop put on by Angela Leuck of Haiku Canada on creating your own haiku chapbooks.
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Frithjof @frithjof.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
For the #BlueskyArtShow I tried something new. This little #Round snail is done all in ink and no watercolour. Ink and shirt-studs on paper.
My drawing of a snail with jewelry eyes
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Dillon is a friend of a good friend of mine. His immigration application was denied. His work supporting families in BC as a social worker is truly impactful. He needs help to cover legal fees & related expenses. Please donate or share to support him during this difficult time. gofund.me/3ed8ee181
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Donate to Help cover legal fees after an abrupt immigration detention, organized by Dylan Fox
My husband Dillon works at BC Children’s Hospital as a mental he… Dylan Fox needs your support for Help cover legal fees after an abrupt immigration detention
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Had fun playing with paper and glue today - first time in a while! This is called "Away With Water". #collageartist #collageart
A rectangle piece of cardboard covered with magazine print as a background. In the foreground are mountains and an overhead shot of a seashore. Overlaying these are a variety of bathtubs, fish, lamps, plums, and a bowl of cucumber salad. There are also the words twist, bright idea, fish, and take a trip glued over other elements of the collage.
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
GOLD 🇨🇦🥌 FOR CANADA GRANITE GLORY HAS BEEN RESTORED BRAD JACOBS. MARC KENNEDY. BRETT GALLANT. BEN HEBERT. OLYMPIC CURLING GOLD WHAT A TEAM. WHAT A WIN. CHAMPIONS
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rrolke.bsky.social @rrolke.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Yes. Yes Yes. Canada won gold. Woo hoo. #curling #canada #olympics @thecurlingnews.bsky.social @grandslamofcurling.bsky.social
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Curling in the Back Lane Terry Annany n.d.
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