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I'm ever so proud that for the third consecutive year my work is featured in The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology. This year it's Volume 6. Out now,

Other artists, writers and poets whose work is featured are:
@haikushack , David Ellis, Azelle Eric, Sherri J Moye-Dombrovsky, Uswa Majeed and D.R. James.

All info:

https://mastodon.world/@haikushack/115214820088311067

@abpositiveart @bookstodon @bookstodon.com

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«birthday»

mine was good

i had thai with my daughter
and her guy
who she's still with
and still madly in love with
and her job sucks
and she hates it
but she's making it happen

and I'm so happy,
and that's the best gift
I could have asked for

but she gave me weed too

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Sniff
Baking
Cookie smell
Grandma's cooking
Unmistakable -
Rich tantalising scents
Resistance impossible
Heaven - a moment on that tray
Fingers poised, waiting for approval
Once we have seized the day, all that's left - crumbs!

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Hpy Bdy

I am not here.
Not really. And not as you
read these imaginary words
resisting the urge to flee
the page crowded white
words filling every pixel .
Coffee unhelpful in
the face of great opposit
-ions bouncing every where
but where I wish
To be, I must choose

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‘Something or Other’

Patience in a nutshell:
I have none
And everything’s electric
Sizzling with ambition
Lost in seconds passing
Drags away my soul
Each breath a tiny whisper
Heaving life into the night
Scattered dreams a haunting
Train-wreck crashing through
My desiccated brainwaves
Superheated with emojis
Vapourware a hunted bunyip
Seeking hard the pathway forward
Shards of glass all flaming hot,
Yet beyond that hell a fountain

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"Remnants", a volume of Haiku and Senryu, available for paperback and e-reader, through:
Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/2dyxuks6
Rakuten Kobo: https://tinyurl.com/3vu3yr86

Amazon Author Home: https://tinyurl.com/fc3njxup

DM me to enquire about signed copies (prices will vary according to location).

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StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, seeks event proposals from poets, publishers, workshop facilitators & performers for 2026, scheduled to be held online & in St Andrews, 13–15 March

The theme for 2026 is “You Are Not Alone”

Submit proposals by 11 August

https://stanzapoetry.org/take-part/artist-proposals/

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"A Deeper Sky", a collection of my longer (not haiku / senryu) poems, up to the end of 2024, is available on Amazon and Rakuten Kobo. Paperback, hardcover and e-reader. If interested in a signed copy, DM me to discuss.

amazon .com link:
https://tinyurl.com/DeeperSkyAmazon

For Amazon UK link, see my author homepage:
https://tinyurl.com/fc3njxup

Kobo link:
https://tinyurl.com/DeeperSkyKobo

Boosts appreciated.

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