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Sallie Tierney

@seattlesal

Poet, novelist, photographer

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Sallie Tierney
@seattlesal Jul 1, 2017, 4:13 PM UTC

TOMATO HAIKU

Tomato cages fill with promise - Early Girl strains toward tomorrow.

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Sallie Tierney
@seattlesal Jun 24, 2017, 4:27 PM UTC

REFLECTION

This poem deals with that trickster, perception. REFLECTION Spring sun streams through a winter grimed window - and happy though I am to welcome warmth returning, such light reveals my lack, reproach…

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Sallie Tierney
@seattlesal Jun 23, 2017, 10:54 PM UTC

SUNFLOWER GARDEN

Sunflower-gold light pours through the sagging bean vines - rich vegetable broth.

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Sallie Tierney
@seattlesal Jun 23, 2017, 3:00 PM UTC

TAIL LIGHTS

On what promises to be an uncomfortably warm summer day I send my mind back to "normal" Seattle weather. Offering this haiku to cool us down: Tail Lights Driving across the dark bridge into an openin…

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Sallie Tierney
@seattlesal Jun 22, 2017, 4:08 PM UTC

LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF

Happy to join the steemit universe! I'm Sallie from Seattle (AKA) seattlesal. I'm a poet, novelist, Lord Byron scholar, trained yoga instructor, amateur photographer, and leader of a local writers wo…

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Sallie Tierney
@seattlesal Jun 22, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

DEATH OF LORD BYRON

Today in the US the Drumpf administration if ramming a vicious "health care" scheme down our throats. Untold numbers of people will die. Which got me thinking this morning of Lord Byron. You'll be qu…

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Sallie Tierney
@seattlesal Jun 21, 2017, 5:06 PM UTC

Waiting for Daybreak

WAITING FOR DAYBREAK It is not yet what I would call today, the sun not yet piercing black clouds in a black sky the garden only a memory of brilliance, a recollection of color and movement a charmin…

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Sallie Tierney
@seattlesal Jun 19, 2017, 10:55 PM UTC

The Day He Died

THE DAY HE DIED For Lonny Kaneko That morning I pruned the red lace-leaf maple tree, branches bleeding sap into a still-cold soil, crows circling over my head. Early light spoke of promises the earth…

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Sallie Tierney
@seattlesal Jun 19, 2017, 10:32 PM UTC

Coffeeshop Morning

COFFEEHOUSE HAIKU Morning Starbucks fills with noise and sweet steam - rain beats against the windows. Wind in umbrellas shifting direction, lifting litter at the curb. Umbrellas balloon outside in t…

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Sallie Tierney
@seattlesal Jun 17, 2017, 10:53 PM UTC

Today

There will come a time this day will be years ago - morning pass slowly.

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