Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Moistened moss Astride a Rose-ribboned river Veiled violets Emerging, erupting Longing light #vss365 #marvel #acrostic #micropoetry 2154
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Words could sustain her, like blueberry, persimmon, slapdash cacophony words she could chew and taste #vss365 #sustain #5lines #micropoetrystatic.klipy.comPersimmon GorgeousALT: Persimmon Gorgeous 3176
Reposted by Susan OkapiWriter Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026bus stop tea I sip the last drop of summer ~ Andrea Cecon / ‘Short’ buff.ly/hhEmz15 #haiku #haibun #3lines 041
Reposted by Susan OkapiThomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026winter coming— we make a list of soups #haiku #poetry 49718
Reposted by Susan OkapiBarico @njbarico.bsky.social · 15/09/2026#tanka #5lines #poem September nightfall no one around to play fetch with a dog brings a leaf back to the tree 041
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026She’d forgotten her hat—icicles were forming on the ends of her hair—and her shoes were wet from the Chicago streets, but the ancient fur-lined gloves grandma gave her protected her. #vss365 #glove #vignette 4123
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It held her dreams and captured her tears, but never her losses. Those happened elsewhere, in text messages and rooms with beeping machines. If only her pillow had arms to cradle her. #vss365 #pillow 282
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Always Reaping rising Resolve roaring In intensity intimacy Vast valued Everlasting #vss365 #arrive #acrostic #micropoetry 5154
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Descend for love, friends, family fall for loyalty compassion nature’s beauty and you will rise #vss365 #descend #micropoetry 293
Reposted by Susan OkapiBarico @njbarico.bsky.social · 31/05/2026when her mom is not looking a little girl shares her tomato with a rabbit #5lines 032
Reposted by Susan OkapiGerhard Oevermann 🐦⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 27/07/2026edge of the marsh grass one heron lifts her left foot then the whole morning #haiku 0338
Reposted by Susan OkapiIrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026the old blanket waits holding every quiet night we survived together #dailyhaikuprompt #Blanket #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets 3427
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Shadowed summer snow Undulating Marching Masking mountains Inlets, inspiring Transience #vss365 #summit #acrostic #micropoetry 3153
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Winsome weapons, wet Alternating attacks Tossing, teasing, tagging Energizing elegiac evenings Reviving resolutions. #vss365 #5lines #micropoetry #water #acrostic 192
Reposted by Susan OkapiCatherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 10/04/2026last night’s forgotten rain dropping from a leaftip into something new 03613
Reposted by Susan Okapiscmom2jrjr.bsky.social @scmom2jrjr.bsky.social · 10/04/2026#vss365 #sing after when grief was new (what an awful phrase) out walking with your dog now my dog I would find myself humming a song I used to #sing “There is someone, walking behind you, Turn around, look at me…” and I knew I just knew it was you letting me know after 1112
Reposted by Susan OkapiVironika Wilde @vironikawilde.bsky.social · 10/04/2026If you are afraid to #sing, to dance, to speak because you once battled the system and lost. Time for round two. You are more prepared now. #vss365 #poetry 1176
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I pray for reflective souls, not a beautiful reflection and peaceful minds and protests, not waters or discussions and always always Infectious love. #poetry #prayer #love 251
Reposted by Susan OkapiAlex Nobody @a-nobody-2206.bsky.social · 14/02/2026She came in mid air Made me forget my own name And life before her #lovestory #haiku #3lines #micropoetry #senryu #vss365 #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #haikucommunity 0111
Reposted by Susan OkapiTracy Marks @tracymar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026HAIKU If we can contain sadness, we become larger containers for love #haiku #haikupoem #3lines #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #inspiration #transformation #grief #love 062
Reposted by Susan OkapiMagedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 21/02/2026#DailyHaikuPrompt (late) #haiku ten years after the last phone call autumn rain 0346
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Happy Valentine’s Day!media.tenor.coma wicker basket filled with yellow roses and white baby 's breathALT: a wicker basket filled with yellow roses and white baby 's breath 010
Reposted by Susan Okapiher ghost @justasilvia2.bsky.social · 04/01/2026weird ones wear no tags others rush to pin their words on our wild edges #Haikufeels #Tag #haiku #writing #writingcommunity #micropoetry 3242
Reposted by Susan OkapiNichole Johnson @nicholejohnson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026#Poetry #Poems #Invisible #Lost 051
Reposted by Susan OkapiEzekial @mi3.bsky.social · 02/11/2025what am I some sort of #creature that inhabits our planet what am I do I have a soul what am I am I a result of certain conditions all coming together what am I who am I why do I live hold me close just now kiss me for I feel lost in this uncertain world #vss365 2183
Reposted by Susan OkapiJenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026new year's slow start by the cold water's edge shorebirds searching #DailyHaikuPrompt (plover) 05111
Reposted by Susan OkapiPS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 02/01/2026- words fade into birdsong; my heart succumbs to their lyric, i have found my locus, here, where love is no longer an abstraction, but instead, a meadow of wildflowers, thick with pollen and color unbounded. - #poetry #vss365 1288
Reposted by Susan OkapiMarilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social · 02/01/2026#DailyHaikuPrompt #plover heavy cloud a plovers whistle weaves through 0336
Reposted by Susan OkapiFebruary Grace @februarygrace.bsky.social · 31/12/2025the whole world will #dream of a fresh untarnished year for at least one day #vss365 #prompt for December 31, 2025 is #Dream 1174
Reposted by Susan OkapiAllyson Joule @allysonjoule.bsky.social · 31/12/2025I don’t want fireworks or resolutions or a calendar heavy with promises. All I carry into the new year is a quiet dream of your hands choosing mine without hesitation. Let the months be ordinary and the days unremarkable. If they end with your love, I already have everything. #vss365 #poetry #dream 2375
Reposted by Susan OkapiJenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 31/12/2025years end the streets littered with discarded dreams #vss365 #senryu 03912
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Determined daffodils Raucously race Enveloping entire Avenues and archipelagos Merrily multiplying. #vss365 #dream #acrostic #5lines 2112
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Tantalizing Rides Along arbored avenues, Veiled voices Echoing ethereal epochs, even Lighting life. #vss365 #travel #acrostic #micropoetry 3133
Reposted by Susan OkapiKjM @kevinjmackey.bsky.social · 23/11/2025buildings hidden behind a veil of mist... looking inward #haiku #3lines 041
Reposted by Susan OkapiHannatu @mamahannatu.bsky.social · 26/12/2025winter moon 🌝 warming vacant rooms by silver light #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt #senryusunday #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #verse #wss366 #vss365 1112
Reposted by Susan OkapiHege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 27/12/2025ghosts of Christmas past the mirth we always fail to recreate #DailyHaikuPrompt (mirth) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry 1254
Reposted by Susan OkapiBarico @njbarico.bsky.social · 05/10/2025#短歌 #tanka carrying a bottle of autumn I look for someone holding a flask of spring 052
Reposted by Susan OkapiMarilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social · 03/10/2025first sleepover... excited giggles from girls in pink pyjamas 0152
Reposted by Susan OkapiHege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 11/10/2025ultimate frisbee trying to catch the flight of vivid red leaves #DailyHaikuPrompt (vivid) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry Re-posted due to aggressive autocorrect changing the sense 0113
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 06/10/2025After skimming the 20 page contract, the partner replaced “in this Agreement” with “herein”. “Aren’t you lucky I’m here for you?” The associate nodded, focusing on his collar so her eyes wouldn’t roll. #vss365 #associate 382
Reposted by Susan OkapiHege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 05/10/2025feeling the crunch walking through past summers after a fall storm #SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry 1193
Reposted by Susan OkapiGerhard Oevermann 🐦⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 05/10/2025elegy for the version of me that lasted I walk through the woods and every leaf sounds like the word once what was I before I began narrating some stories end quietly some become weather most dissolve before the next update still I whisper to the cloudless air save draft #poetry 1151
Reposted by Susan OkapiTyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 25/09/2025The giants stare each other down. We watch from their toes, one misplaced foot and we are gone. But we don't act like we're subject to the whim of their #caprice. We shout at them, and each other, sure this giant will be the first to listen. We must sound as loud as butterflies in the wind. #vss365 0122
Reposted by Susan OkapiSands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Fixing my bike, hands full of grease, rode out to the rhythm of dawn’s #caprice. Driving through sunrise, paradise glows, splendour reveals itself as the morning grows. Scenery blooms, no longer bound life spins forward, good vibes all around. ~rev #vss365 1364
Reposted by Susan OkapiD.C. Swanson @dcswanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025So will our doom be petty cares or merely brute #caprice? To push up never-ending stairs and blindly pass by peace? There’s much to marvel at in life, but minds are far too strewn with fickle fruit and buried strife to mirror a poet’s tune. #vss365 poets.org/poem/yet-do-...poets.orgYet Do I MarvelI doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, 0142
Susan Okapi @susan-okapi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025It was easier to call it caprice than admit his memory was fading, but he still stopped to pet every passing dog and smiled when she brushed her hair. In these moments, he was still with her. #vss365 #caprice 2132
Reposted by Susan Okapi🧟♀️ JustEEEEEK! Gardner 🦴 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Home Aide Paul wished her a good morning but heard no response. She’d left him unplugged again; his #power supply was low. He called out a second time, vibrated, flashed a light. Nothing. After a third try he was supposed to call for help, but he wasn’t sure he had enough battery for both. #vss365 0162
Reposted by Susan OkapiSillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 08/09/2025In dribs and drabs did we grow outside our meagre halls of power in a small New Zealand town our signs homemade as we listened to the final speaker say that mere miles away from the carnage they were marching half a million strong and we few took hope as we left in the rain #vss365 0223