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ftwaijing

@ftwaijing@mastodon.social

Freelance illustrator, professional pet-sitter, haiku poet, sabre fencer, devout atheist, cassgender panromantic demisexual, INFJ, quiet nonconformist, she/her.
Creator of https://mastodon.social/@swingtimecomic.
Location: Australia
Website: www.waijingdesign.com
Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/WaiJingDesign

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ftwaijing, to Haiku
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My suffering is
exploited, put on display;
I must sell my pain

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

Apparently today I chose angst :P

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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Don't think that you know
all my needs; you never give
what I can't ask for

You don't hear me when I say
'I wish you'd listen to me'

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #angst

ftwaijing, to illustration
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I love my work as an illustrator. I also love my work as a pet-sitter. I absolutely love it when my two jobs collide.

This is a pencil portrait I drew for a pet-sit client.
Pet portraits can be commissioned through my Etsy store, click the link below to order yours (hurry spots are limited)

www.etsy.com/.../custom-pet-pencil-portrait

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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Everything you are
is what I am not; I wish
I were more like you

Perhaps then, I’d love myself
the same way that I love you

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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We don’t talk about
our feelings; you assume that
I don’t have any

I admit they’re hard to find,
scattered shards inside my heart

💔

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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How high is the moon?
What does it matter? It is
far out of your reach

#haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

Unfortunately my camera hates night photography, so this photo doesn’t do it justice (not that the poem does either)

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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Quiet stretches on
expanding the house; I am
lost in the silence

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

A slightly more awake poem

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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My sleep-haze dulled brain
cannot clear itself; it needs
washing with coffee

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

Apparently my sleep-hazed brain thinks this is a poem 🧠💭💤

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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The clouds get lower
the higher you go; heaven
has drawn its curtains

#haiku #senryu #haiga #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

Photos from the top of Redhead Bluff, just before a storm broke

image/jpeg

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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She has wings; yet she
never learned how to use them
She stays in the nest

watching others soar the sky,
wondering how freedom feels

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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I want to have you
in me, deep as you can go,
lodged inside my heart

Buried where the love I have
throbs for you and engulfs you

mcc, to random
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Lately, a lot of people have been interested in the alternative operating system "Haiku". But remember, if you install Haiku but don't set a desktop pattern with a seasonal reference, then you're not actually running Haiku, in that case it's Senryū

ftwaijing,
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@mcc most also leave the kireji ‘cutting word’ out of the code

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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Cereal, then milk
in that order; the reverse
is a travesty

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems #facts #truestory

ftwaijing, to illustration
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My entry for the Folio Society Book Illustration Award ☠️🌸🔪

This one was very personal. I'm a longtime fan of @neilhimself, possibly the nicest man on the planet and an astonishingly good writer.

So many artists and illustrators who have influenced me went into this. There's a lot of me in in two, parts of it are old art I drew nearly 2 decades ago.

I hope Neil and the judges like it 🖤

#illustration #art #artwork #drawing #handmade #handdrawn #traditionalart #artist #Gaiman #NeilGaiman

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ftwaijing, to poetry
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It is perilous
to stay with you; yet I can't
leave to save myself

Part of me loves that you could
destroy me so easily

#MastoPrompt #perilous #poem #poetry #micropoem #SmallPoems #haiku #senryu #tanka @stevencudahy

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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You're my oasis
away from the love-parched world.
I will drink you down
until my thirst is slakened,
and my heart is drenched in you

I have no idea if 'slakened' is an actual word, but I'm going with it (I guess I could replace 'is slakened' with 'has been quenched' but it doesn't sound as cool)

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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Everything I am
is for you; you have made me
a better person

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #lovepoem #romantic

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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Did you think I would
believe all the lies you told?
The truth betrays you

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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I have been alone
all my life; even when I
was with company

In the middle of a crowd,
I could still find solitude

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #angst #solitude #loneliness

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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Just see things my way;
I have had feelings for you,
to which you’ve been blind

You say you don’t love me; yet
you can’t look me in the eye

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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You're young as you feel
What your heart experienced
has aged you decades

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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I won't be ignored
Much as you try, you cannot
deny I exist

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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What is it I want?
If I knew, I would get it;
but I have no clue

Sounds like this one is either about finding a deeper purposes in life, or trying to decide what to order from Menulog :P

ftwaijing, to Haiku
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Lay it all on me
I can handle it; I won’t
take it lying down

The burdens I carry just
allow me to show my strength

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