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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
(2/2) ...I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom. Like art." ~Toni Morrison
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/09/2026
🚨 OCTOBER 17 — NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY! With our democracy at stake, we're showing up again to promote unprecedented voter participation in the midterms. Our goal is to translate the historic protest power of No Kings mobilizations into a massive wave of voter turnout.
NO KINGS
NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
VOTE EARLY
OCTOBER 17
NOKINGS.ORG
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Something happened on the day he died..." All our heroes and legendes are passinge. Thei have done so much. Thei have given us so much. Thei have showne us the waye. It ys tyme for us to be our owne heroes and legendes. Ich knowe, Ich am not at all readye eyther! But heere we go. Hande yn hande.
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
solar eclipse . . . looks the same from over here #haiku #eclipse #outofrange
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Yn a worlde where the humanityes are being systematicallye defunded by both the righte and the lefte, the internet ys one big seminar about the meaninge of *The Odyssey.* Ther ys a lesson yn thys somewher. And the lesson ys: funde the humanityes.
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
overcast morning in July… feeling a fall #haiku
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
breakfast a scroll of oatmeal #senryu
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Their goal is to create so much chaos and so many crises that it starts to feel like nothing you do makes a difference. Don’t believe it. Every action matters. Keep showing up and remember the resistance will prevail!
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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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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
@terrydresbach.bsky.social Happy birthday to Ron! I hope you both have a fabulous day. 🥳🎂
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
morning reset the news replaced by blue hydrangeas #haiku #senryu
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
goal!! ⚽️ every country’s roar sounds the same #senryu #haiku #fifa
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
solstice sun warms my last photo of dad — the longest day #haiku #solstice #summersolstice #FathersDay
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
honeymoon — cutting my feet on hidden coral #senryu #senryuslam #prunejuicesenryu
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
his reflection grows in the pool algae bloom #senryu #senryuslam
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
The FIFA Prize for Literature 

Following the success of their Peace Prize, FIFA establishes a literary prize judged by the footballers at the world cup. 

(image of trophy)
 
 All does not go well...
 
Players arrive at games exhausted by reading hundreds of novels and heatedly debating their merits long into the night. 

(image of tired players on pitch reading)

The south American teams boycott the tournament when an official disparages Isabel Allende's use of magic realism. 

(Image of players angrily leaving)

Seventeen plavers receive red cards after a discussion of radical honesty in the works of Karl Ove Knausgaard turns into a brawl. 

(Image of players fighting)

However, all is forgiven as Joyce Carol Oates takes the thrilling final to extra time, before losing on penalties to Haruki Murukami.

(image of Haruki holding the trophy aloft)
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Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Anyone potentially interested in a senryu slam next weekend??? #WritingCommunity #poetrysky #SmallPoemSunday
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thought-provoking thread. @terrydresbach.bsky.social
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
@completethehaiga.bsky.social #completethehaiga 145 #haiga #haiku #senryu
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
one sunny day blooms after a week of clouds #haiku #spring
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Many thanks to @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social for including my haiku collection from NaHaiWriMo in their latest issue! So many wonderful verses from haiku writers around the globe in this, and every, issue. ❤️ Here are two I hope you like:
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
@completethehaiga.bsky.social #completethehaiga 144 #haiku #haiga #senryu
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
family reunion the slow dissolution of adulthood #completethehaiga 143 #haiga #haiku #senyru
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Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
From James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time #booksky 💙📚
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as pos-sible, for the sake of those who are coming after us. 6
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
spring heat — frying an egg on my snow shovel #haiku #poetry #climate
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Liz Field (she/they)🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦❤️⚡️💙 @lizlovesmusic.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Happy spring equinox to those of us in the north! This day always makes me think of this poem by e.e. cummings
'i thank You God for most this amazing' by e. e. cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any-
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of all nothing-human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Would love to see more excerpts of Democrats speaking! Thanks for posting, Aaron.
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
tadpoles explore the novelty of limbs — drivers' ed #dailyhaikuprompt tadpole #haiku
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
@completethehaiga.bsky.social #completethehaiga 142 #haiku #senryu #haiga
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The best reason to become a poete ys that you will make more moneye than you kan figure out what to do wyth. All those poetes flyinge arounde yn their private jets. Sittinge yn private booths at concertes. Addinge yet anothir pool to their thirde vacacioun hous. Poetrye: do it for the moneye.
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#completethehaiga 141 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu @completethehaiga.bsky.social
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A nation that calls itself a “Christian nation” cuts healthcare and food assistance for millions of people, yet instantly funds wars without question. Jesus fed the hungry, healed the sick, and told Peter to put his sword away. May we understand the hypocrisy.
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Many thanks to guest editor Nancy Brady for including my haiku in her long list of #haiku on domestic creatures. thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
early spring drones on — blood moon #haiku #senryu #poetrycommunity
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freginold @freginold.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
fighter jets— rattling plates in the soup kitchen #haiku
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John Hawkhead @haikuhawk.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Redaction #haiku #epsteinadministration #Basho
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
early morning walk — robins already on break #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt - robin #poetrycommunity
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
winter wind sparrows feast beneath the cedars #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt -seeds
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
strip of plastic woven in a winter nest making do #haiku #poetrycommunity
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It ys a moost terrible tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum unpredicted moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir, that doth helpe you thrugh. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
now leap from the top of the swing #senryuslam #poertyslam
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
tinnitus quasimodo rings my decibels #senryuslam
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peggyvanslp.bsky.social @peggyvanslp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
diva final walk on the red carpet #senryuslam #completethehaiga
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
All these CEOs stompinge around graspinge for moneye and biohacks and powere but the best way to lyve forevir ys to make people laugh and be part of unforgettable storyes that make them feel less alone. Love and art and comedye are cosmic and eternal. The worlde will remembir the true stars.
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Terry D @terrydresbach.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Please share this far and wide. No matter how far away you may be from Minnesota…you can help!!!
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Terry D @terrydresbach.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Today's Poem brought to you by the great and wise Octavia Butler:
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