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so many truths
too many thoughts
going through your head

more songs released in
a single day than in
the year 1989

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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almost intelligent
do I influence ai
it’s not x, it’s y
the axis of evil
shifts

.

#tanskenga #haiku
@littleonion.bsky.social
#itsnotdyingitsflowering #tanka #micropoetry @gavinwade.bsky.social

.

more streaming
the tears and cigars
of showbusiness

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#tanskenga #haiku
@littleonion.bsky.social
#tanrenga

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fire and touch
vessels for eating
drinking, storing, gathering

there is no
merely in witnessing
to be held, handled, honored

they tell me I have
an enduring commitment
to experimentation

to reestablish the bonds
that tie me to the
universe

.

#fourhaiku
#haiku

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almost intelligent
do I influence ai
it’s not x, it’s y

.

#tanskenga #haiku
@littleonion.bsky.social
#itsnotdyingitsflowering

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morning walk
my wife brushes blossom
off my eyebrows
we pollinate anything
with a sweet scent

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#blossom #haiku #tanskenga

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morning walk
my wife brushes blossom
off my eyebrows
we pollinate anything
with a sweet scent

.

#blossom #haiku #tanskenga

.

morning walk
my wife brushes blossom
off my eyebrows

.

#blossom #haiku #tanskenga @gavinwade.bsky.social #poetry #walking

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Wrath moves
from Texas to Brazil
to marry Venus
they say it’s all
written in the stars

.
#tanskenga #love #tanka #poetry @gavinwade.bsky.social #brasil

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Wrath moves
from Texas to Brazil
to marry Venus

.

#tanskenga #haiku
@littleonion.bsky.social

.

the graffiti artist sprays
flowers through the night
lily‑banked morning
a girl steps outside the myth
and does not return

.

#tanskenga #haiku

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the graffiti artist sprays
flowers through the night
lily‑banked morning
a girl steps outside the myth
and does not return

.

#tanskenga #haiku

.

lily‑banked morning
a girl steps outside the myth
and does not return

.

#tanskenga #haiku #micropoetry @gavinwade.bsky.social #poetry

.

after eating
my hundredth billionaire
I ascend to heaven

the star of Lakshmi
over a hexagram
under pentagrams

.

#twohaiku
#haiku

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I blame no one
living my best life
in Chinese proverbs

best to use loppers
not secateurs
to cut off a finger

.

#twohaiku
#haiku

.

Wrath moves
from Texas to Brazil
to marry Venus

.

#tanskenga #haiku
@littleonion.bsky.social

.

it arrived
as a stray artwork
it still is
the cat works out how
to work the cat flap

.

#tanskenga #haiku
@littleonion.bsky.social @gavinwade.bsky.social #cats #tanka #micropoetry

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Israel has seized
and taken more than half
of Gaza’s land

Bashō always leaves
the campsite in better shape
than he finds it

.

#twohaiku
#haiku

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the glow steadily
diminishes as the light
is released

retain control
of the method
of your exhibition

.

#twohaiku
#haiku

.

it arrived
as a stray artwork
it still is

.

#tanskenga #haiku
@littleonion.bsky.social

.

one eye beam
four angle irons
polished German pillars

what’s the difference
between minor
and major chords

.

#twohaiku
#haiku

The Specials - War Crimes (Official Music Video) YouTube video by TheSpecialsOfficVEVO

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black death
huge murders of crows
over Tel Aviv
can you hear them crying
in the rubble of Beirut?

.

#haiku #tanskenga #warcrimes #specials #tanka #endwar #micropoetry
@littleonion.bsky.social @gavinwade.bsky.social youtu.be/ecne2tgIjnk?...

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black death
huge murders of crows
over Tel Aviv

.

#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social

.

still there
after the fire
the fire alarm
all the film studio’s
neighbors hate them

.

#haiku #tanskenga

.

still there
after the fire
the fire alarm
all the film studio’s
neighbors hate them

.

#haiku #tanskenga

.

still there
after the fire
the fire alarm

.

#haiku #tanskenga @gavinwade.bsky.social #zen #fire #micropoetry

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morning mud
my joints loosen
through the ache
build with the materials
that are to hand

.

#tanskenga #haiku

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morning mud
my joints loosen
through the ache
build with the materials
that are to hand

.

#tanskenga #haiku

.

morning mud
my joints loosen
through the ache

.

#tanskenga #haiku #pain #poetry #micropoetry @gavinwade.bsky.social

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all ancient trees
lend me your shadow
give me the strength
the ward sister asks me
to sign a DNR form

.

#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social #dnacpr #tanka #micropoetry #hospital