golden collar bells
spoil the hunt for chickadees
empty-pawed ninja

#haiku #senryu

falling from gray skies
trickling down clear mountain streams
raging into white
#DailyHaikuPrompt #calm #haiku #prompt

beyond the asteroid belt
we thought
drifting into empty space
off balance
lost our connection
only briefly
gravity
that #trickster
pulled us down its well
accelerating us
toward its time-dilated depths
six hours of frantic science
thirty years of messages from home
screaming in
all at once
#vss365

Looking forward to looking back on all of this. There are no puppets at the end of my strings, no buttons or levers to manipulate, only time, that great behemoth, marching us through and beyond this time of uncertainty and sorrow, which no human can stop. This too shall pass.

light, silent wings
snow-bright blossoms turn gray
the crane's shadow

#vssdaily #blossom #crane #haiku #prompt

with skin of many tones
over gray and brittle bones
he lives in every climate zone
builds towers, tools, and homes
speaks words and writes in tomes
invented globe-connected phones
scared to lose all that he owns
prefers to live alone
#vss365 #man

it's raining
8 families are dealing with cancer in a 4x4-block square of suburbia
we're complaining about having to replace windows

the room
four beige corners
spinning ergonomic chairs
electric screens of varied size
and its dark-framed window

I am not trapped inside
like the others

the setting sun
yellow on the moving clouds
sneaks into view
soaring
beyond the jagged edges

suddenly, secretly
I am flying
free
for a moment

boasting all winter
evergreen needles resist
bright, singing blossoms

#DailyHaikuPrompt #equinox
#haiku #poetry #prompt

pie on the porch
sunny Spring afternoon
cold, winter lingers

#Haiku

Corner on the market
Kitty corner
Certain corners of society
Corner table
Craft Corner
A Corner lot
Just around the corner
Dark corners of the internet
Out of the corner of her eye
Getting cornered about time shares
Painting yourself into a corner
Promoted to the corner office
#vss365 #corner

bright jagged twine
strobes above thick skies
clouds like curly fries

#DailyHaikuPrompt #lightning

emotions
like chemicals
and maybe, actually, chemicals
resist
grand, dramatic force
instead
cut patient, sentimental
pathways, deep
into the granite
they fester now
eddying without end
spinning
and spinning faster
slick mossy slickrock
sends my soul
skittering
down the waterfall

#poetry

The angry beast
He comes again
Lurks behind familiar doors
And waits for them to open
I swear I don’t remember
Undoing the latch
Or turning the knob
Instead it is the habit
Tear my flesh again
I beg of you dear friend
Remind me what it means
And why it matters so much
To bleed like this, alone

time cards: 'cuchik'
canyons of clustered cars
sixteen hours to live

#DailyHaikuPrompt #evening
#senryu #haiku #prompt

porchlight pales against night
the cat's cold breath lingers
its ghost fades on the stairs

#haiku666

slow low words echo
we're beyond the fluffy pews
on cold metal chairs

#haiku

Taste the blood behind your teeth, think of night skies poured from the cups of crescent moons, and chant the words they carved into your back skin. One more tier of monetary sacrifice and you'll no longer even have to think: the truth will flow into you like rain in an empty valley.
#vssdaily #cult

when the music dies
and all the colors fade
not even ghosts await
behind the doors at home
the most familiar face
avoids a simple glare
when only time is left
no breeze nor summer fair
then the time arrives to wallow
let salty silent tears
burn down your cheek
savor it, for it is real
#vss365 #ghost

Go watch the movie Bugonia, no spoilers or trailers if possible. Lots to discuss if you like thrillers/cinema. Great acting and storytelling, great soundtrack, sad, funny, real, imaginative.

#moviereviews #cinema

thrum like a 'copter
hooves dainty upon my skin
takes a bit of blood

#DailyHaikuPrompt #horse #mosquito #prompt

what matters the most
compared to what matters now
the most matters now

Thanks Abe

the chair sits empty
where a bard once played
his rosy cheeks a shadow now
music tried, tested, resonated
echoes still within the concert hall
I saw him once on bus 403
a vacant stare beyond the pane
imagined a cheering applause
only a fantasy, still a world away
as we veered onto 34th
#vss365 #veer

you will never see
hear, taste, touch, nor even read
all that life can be

#DailyHaikuPrompt #rage #eggplant #prompt #senryu #haiku #poem #micropoetry

P.S.

books, dusk, homemade flan
find some beauty near at hand
life will soon feel grand

Do not become the enemy
Avoid unnecessary violence
Against the state and its protectors
Comply with all the proper laws
And keep the streets clear
Do not #stoop to such lows
As to mimic the long-forgotten,
Lost-cause-heroes, dead
Their nameless, shallow graves
Dug by villains of another time
#vss365

snowless muddy cold
clumps of yellow winter grass
cloudless purple skies

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#prompt
#haiku
#poetry

It can't be that
diffiCult to see
other peoplE are
humans, like you
esCaping poverty
forging lonely pAths
our huNgry, foreign shores
far Better than dismal, failed
economiEs at home, ruled
by self-serving Despots
under kings' crowns
our fAthers found
these saMe shores
made New homEs
Despite natives

I watch you cut bread
Kitchen shears dividing crumbs
Better than my knife

back to work for ye
swab the decks and trim the sails
remember the sea

#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#micropoetry
#pirates