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Cemetery studies, Cemetery Friends In the distant past, an archaeologist Haikuist and storyteller Three score years and ten

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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 15h
This prompt passed me by, but here I am... #PromptCombo #11Lines @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Butt Road ( a Romano-British cemetery)

Trowel backwards on your knees
spoil to barrows,  barrows up the long planks 
to the heap.  The boing of bending boards.
Grave cuts in yellow sand, latest first. 
One inch spits. Expect the skull
at the east end. Coffin stain, ten inch nails. 
Carpals and metatarsals.
Toothpicks and a fine brush. 
No grave goods for Christians. 
(Exceptions for the old ways 
a flagon, hobnails, a cup)
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 19h
what flowers what foliage may grow from a promise! #haikufeels (promise) #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it's been fun if I come back it will be for this #senryusunday #senryu #haiga
A small but tall tea pot with creamy glaze and trails of blue roses and other flowers. Gold detailing on the tall spout and handle. (I'm in love)
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"A kestrel! A kestrel!" I'm watching out for bumps in the road #haikufeels (bump) #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oxford - the thrill of the familiar places where I knew them but I'm walking in the shadow of their absence #TankaThursday #thrill #tanka #micropoetry
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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
planetary turn— I take it this is about me #DailyHaikuPrompt | equinox #haiku #senryu #poetry
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Björn won with a perfect lob. #7syllablesquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'll castle on the Queen's side. That's not a euphemism. #7syllablesquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Division is part of life. Multiplication also. #7syllablesunday #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
a petty crime this nettle does not deserve my wrath #haikufeels (deserve) #tanka #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the same sun fierce in its circularity that Euclid saw #haikufeels (circle) #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They are all beneath contempt. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@rwldproject.bsky.social Sheffield Daily Telegraph 8 Dec 1920 (from FindMyPast). (I was actually researching the newsagent, who is buried in our local cemetery.)
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
a knock in daylight means another delivery bookcases sigh and stacks topple in my dreams #TankaThursday (knock) #tanka
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I never drive on the left. I never drive on the right. The truth is I never drive. In fact I've never driven except to fail my three tests. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#Poetsofdoom #Autumnal @jenthorne.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
Conkering 
 
What's missing
from Claude's trees
small boys 
throwing sticks 
into their crowns 
 
big brother
choosing a stick
that's almost a log
 
indifferent cows
(raw milk
made this arm)
 
heave ho
crack and rattle
behind the leaves
 
cascades
of green fruit
bursting 
to mahogany
 
and the thump 
of the stick
until it sticks
 
and summer ends
 
Coda
 
few memories
of those times
lodge in my 
high branches
 
what holds this up
or pins it down
is the scar across
my childhood
 
clockwise
and counterclockwise
eight seething lanes
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I do not love the kitchen slugs but I let them live #haikufeels (live) #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the usual fox padding somewhere at dusk #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
low tide uneasiness will roll back in #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #senryu
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's the Universe callin' God's not emptyin' the tombs. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
sorting a sensuous harvest 50 grades of grape #haikufeels (grade) #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My last move cost a bishop. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the reckoning is coming I choose to believe that these spiders spinning in the moonlight know more than all my professors #DailyHaikuPrompt #tanka #reckoning
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
summer is ending 42 things on my to-do list 1. Write a to-do list #haikufeels (number) #haiku #senryu
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
silhouettes shed their cow-ness in the sunset #vss365 #haiku #silhouettes
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the imperceptible industry of leaves becoming soil #DailyHaikuPrompt #soil #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
a sparrow is a splendid effusion among her people #DailyHaikuPrompt #splendid #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Mountain hares are turning white. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
she taps me on the shoulder with her fan I follow with my eyes and everything else #haikufeels (fan) #tanka
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
to absent friends the geese are leaving #haikufeels (absent) #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#AmpersandAfterDark @madp03t.bsky.social #boots A true story
What's done cannot be undone

Boots for walking 
Boots for work
One pair steps down
for another
The new guys waltz in
and waltz out
with a swagger

Wednesday night
bags to bins
and yes it's time 
the old boots 
grab 'em in 
the dim lobby
as I'm out the door
drop them with
the rest into
the unsavoury darkness

Thursday morning 
half awake, the
rumble of the lorry
the dull thump
of the crusher
the receding engine

Friday, ready
for a walk in the Peak
Tea and sandwiches 
Sun hat and long stick
By the door
two left boots
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here's me, looking at Euclid. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fate? It's all luck and physics. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Veille de Noël le « Père Noël » dans le salon ne me convainc pas #haikufeels (convince) #haiku #haikufrançais
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The ghosts came five nights running. I feared I would lack courage. But the fear quickened my heart. #7SyllableSquad #7SyllableSunday #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
splash down the flight controller at the pool #haikufeels (control)
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sticks and stones- let's take a break. The ice broke - I'm forced to talk. Morning has broken - clumsy! #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
mist on the moor the edges of all things dissolving #haikufeels (contrast) #haiku
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the buffer girls are in heaven see how heaven shines #haikufeels (buffer) #senryu In the heyday of Sheffield cutlery and silver, buffer girls worked long hours polishing the goods using powered buffing wheels. Their camaraderie and ribald language are legendary
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The sun insists on setting. I'm not inclined to stop it. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Name your favourite Bob
Bob from Blackadder II
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
in a dark wood Robert Frost hesitates an owl ventures an opinion #haikufeels (venture) #tanka
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
playing chess in the fading light did she pocket a pawn? #DailyHaikuPrompt
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Let's pretend I'm a poet. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
bed time and I pretend I wrote a poem today #haikufeels (pretend) #senryu
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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
after the auction a mouse inherits the barn #haiku #poetry
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Her hair's as black as midnight. Clichés are ten a penny. #7SyllableSquad #7syllablesentence
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
we walk a furlong in the heat to find the old milestone inch by inch our arguments become theatrical #TankaThursday (milestone) #tanka
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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My life coach carries a scythe. #7syllablesunday #7syllablesentence
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