Jonathan Roman

#Poet & #Haiku dude.

🐋 #Spoutible: deftnotes

profile pic by @maud_larrois

[Jonathan Roman @deft_notes]

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the doors are closed
ahead of cold's arrival
but i am keen
on winter sweeping clean
all that festers in me

#TankaThursday
#vss365

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@SenryuChest @pippaesque Love this, O. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 It has this quality where the last line/word surprises me. I don't know why but I expected the word "feral" lol

[Jonathan Roman @deft_notes]

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dissolving
into the cool air
the call of an owl

—Susan Antolin
The Years That Went Missing

#Haiku
#Poetry
@susanantolin

[Jonathan Roman @deft_notes]

@susanantolin Same to you! I'll be posting more poems from your book periodically :) Well worth highlighting & sharing.

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@SenryuChest Likewise! I forgot how cool it was to be on here & read new work by great poets like yourself. I definitely miss it & I guess that's why I started creeping back.

[Jonathan Roman @deft_notes]

@SenryuChest Hey, Bluesky is just an alternative for me. I never know what's going on with this place, so it's good to have options :) I've browsed Threads, Spoutible, Mastodon, etc., & Bluesky just seems familiar enough yet different. I'm not gonna lie though—way less people there than here.

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@susanantolin

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who was she
when she wasn't herself
moonless night

—Susan Antolin
The Year's That Went Missing

#Haiku
#Poetry

[Jonathan Roman @deft_notes]

@mybookandbranch A late Merry Christmas to you, Laura. I don't have any snow to offer you, but there is snow in this poem from @MamaJoules:

https://t.co/qkWQFYWfj7

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a light dusting of snow
around the edges
of the windowpanes...
our hearts remember
the little things

—Julie Bloss Kelsey (@MamaJoules)
from The Call of Wildflowers:
https://t.co/CcLnVTgpAh

#NationalTankaMonth #Poetry

[Jonathan Roman @deft_notes]

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pixelated sky
a silver-scaled dragon
downloads me

#SciFaiKuSaturday
#Poetry

[Iryna (working for the wknd) @_Irene_Dreams_]

Season's greetings! 👽

I hope you will join us this weekend for #ScifaikuSaturday 💫

The #prompt word is SILVER

Thanks! ✨️
@PromptAdvant
@PromptList
@SciFiPrompt

#scifi
#scifaiku
#poem
Image: Pixabay

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the fragrance of plums:
carrying me back
to the cold

—Matsuo Basho
Basho’s #Haiku: Selected Poems of Matsuo Basho

#Poetry

[O. Préjean @CrockpotKu]

my first #senryu in Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole)

òrdonne linj—moman saj—fé senti pou mwin

(arranging linen—monman's wisdom—makes sense to me)

#senryu #kourivini #louisianacreole

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gentrification
less & less arroz
for the sparrows

Akitsu Quarterly
Spring/Summer 2023

#Poetry

[Pippa Encourages You to Lose the Checkmark! @pippaesque]

always all alone
he says
but the thing is
I'm surrounded
by snow

#tanka

[Pippa Encourages You to Lose the Checkmark! @pippaesque]

I'm not ok. Lots of us aren't ok. And the shitty part of this is not being able to say so. So let's get ok with our non ok-ness. I'm not ok. The world is not ok, and most people I interact with are not. And it IS ok for me, and others, to not to be ok.

[Jonathan Roman @deft_notes]

@mybookandbranch You've got the right attitude! It's good to see you as well (& to be back—kind of). Sorry I took so long to respond. I'm in & out over here. Also, I'm dabbling in Bluesky. Are you there as well?

[Jonathan Roman @deft_notes]

@mybookandbranch I'm glad 😊 Sometimes those curveballs can derail the day. Sounds like you were able to adapt!