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Dr Steve Fleischer

@stevefleischer.bsky.social
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Dual national (🇬🇧 /🇩🇪 ). PhD in quantum physics. Ex-Hong Kong (32 years), now North Yorkshire. Interested in writing, physics, history, travel, aviation. OCD/bipolar. Published poet. Tries to be kind.

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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 15h
across cosmic deep sailing the particle winds— mourns lost companion #vss365 #haiku #sail
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
rain clouds paint it black hailstones swirl in jagged dance— crossfire #hurricane #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
wrapped safe in my arms where your sorrow cannot reach— your sheltered #harbour #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
high atop the rushing Rhine brushing hair like golden twine, crooning a lamenting cry sits forlorn fair Lorelei forsaken by her one true love her siren song floats from above, entranced boatmen hear her call drifting, doomed, lured by her thrall #vss365 #lure
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
nameless horror stirs— at the #Mountains of Madness, ancient blasphemy #vss365 #haiku #mountain If you like Lovecraft's stories I highly recommend the books illustrated by François Baranger.
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
delicious daydreams cuddling under azure skies mere #cloud cuckoo land #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#stormy night descends hope is merely delayed death— the void does not care #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#explore every pore sensual lips brush hot skin— languid afternoon #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hail Imperator! morituri te salutant— let the games #commence #vss365 Pollice Verso (Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872), showing a murmillo standing over a defeated retiarius. In Latin class I was taught that thumbs up meant death. Opinion still divided. (8 syllables in the middle sorry!)
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thank you very much. 🙏 ✨
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#autumnal shadows summer sun fades from my heart— your warmth still lingers #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
every fibre of my being says stop! don't try and attempt #sanguine it's not you you're black bile melancholy broken the least of the humors the one that's not humorous but i have to write this because i'm worthless don't like this i don't #vss365
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
psychotic pathways #esoteric labyrinth— my bipolar brain #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
shifting desert dunes hot sand soothed by cool moonlight— rippling #eloquence #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I love the Yuletide cuisine, But the bowls are quickly picked clean I am always too slow, And let others go, A Christmas #naivete scene. #vss365 #limerick
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
warm reminiscences a #mélange of memories— sunlight through dried tears #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#mélange of moonbeams spills across our empty bed— ice cold memories #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you very much, Rachel! 🙏
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
lily pad sojourn egret stalks but prey jumps clear— frog's #intuition #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tethys lays #moonglade across Titan’s methane sea dark waves dream below #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
dead stars seed the dark nebula kindles new suns cosmic #palimpsest #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
chiffon #silhouette embroidered with soft starlight— translucent desire #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
cane toad secretion— witch's deadly ingredient toxic #elixir #vss365 #senryu
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
falling autumn leaves— evening birds sing soft chorus #console grieving trees #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#empathetic tide— gently caresses the shoreline soothing sunbaked sand #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
the years melt away imperceptible in our youth noticeably ever faster now small droplets of memory slipping like warm #wax from life’s guttering candle only a stub remains but your light and warmth endures #vss365
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes they do. I just Googled it, Helena Bonham Carter was just 18.
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lucy Honeychurch Sweeps out unwanted suitor A #broom with a view #vss365 #senryu
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
diy electrician clumsy fingers grip live wire - you fit like a #glove #vss365 #senryu
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thank you for your lovely comment, Bethany. 🙏 ✨
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
you collected my hurtful words in a tear-filled #tissue yet still you stayed believing in me when i didn't #vss365
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
restless lonely nights fading dreams brush my #pillow remind me of you #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
memories frayed thin like an aged #poster bleached to the pallor of forgotten summers, tattered edges flutter like the wings of birds of a paradise we knew, distant halcyon days when your soft touch once lit my world #vss365
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
mist-swaddled freighters lamentation of foghorns #cords of sunlight soothe #vss365 #haiku #cord My photo (20 March, 2016 - East Lamma Channel, Hong Kong)
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Einstein liked order "the Old One does not play #dice" his oft-quoted phrase but uncertainty prevails probability describes #vss365 #tanka Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics & wrote to Max Born (Dec. 4th 1926) "Jedenfalls bin ich überzeugt, daß der Alte nicht würfelt."
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'd write a limerick for #towel But the only rhyme is bowel Which sounds a bit crap And I'd get a bum wrap (!) And someone will likely call foul #vss365 #limerick
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
reason pares my dreams Occam's razor's harsh judgment cuts me to the quick #vss365 #senryu #razor
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thank you very much!
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
thinning #soap bubbles iridescent entropy ephemeral light #vss365 #haiku
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's hard to believe that 41 years ago today this gorgeous woman married me. Whatever I have achieved in life has been due to her support, belief in me, and love. She has endured my bouts of poor mental health with strength and understanding. You are the love of my life, H. ❤️❤️
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thanks Monique!
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#remote stars gaze down their cold light beckons me on into endless void a lost soul adrift in an indifferent universe #vss365 #tanka
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🙏😢
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i am #ashamed of my yesterday but i am not #ashamed to say sorry to say you matter to admit I miss the fun it’s simple, really and it weighs heavy #vss365
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thank you so much, Beth 🙏
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I was having a sad day. Thank you. 🙏
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
i #cling to quiet sympathy words trapped behind a veil of caution i see your unhappiness from the edges wishing i could lift it yet I stay still helpless, frustrated afraid my comfort might bruise you more #vss365
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
the #garden of lost dreams lies still ’neath pallid sky all hope withered every path crumbled to ruin walled by ache & sorrow now only silence grows here i walk alone among the ghost‑scent of rotting blooms requiem for sweeter days to a future spoiling into silent decay #vss365
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
70's phone box romance the #urge for one more "love you" after the pips stopped #vss365 #senryu
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Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A man had a large, bulbous snout From which copious hairs did #sprout His wife grabbed a clump Yanked hard with a thump Which caused him to curse, weep and shout! #vss365
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