on that day
may flowers bloom
on Ivana's grave
his last shot so wide
it lands in Mirkwood

#tanka
#haikufeels (bloom)

the uncanny
stillness
of dandelions
in the wind
while I am
rocking

#tanka #haiku
#haikufeels (bloom)

Only as the Day is Long By Dorianne Laux Soon she will be no more than a passing thought, a pang, a timpani of wind in the chimes, bent spoons hung from the eaves on a first night in a new house on a street where no dog sings, no cat visits a neighbor cat in the middle of the street, winding and rubbing fur against fur, throwing sparks. Her atoms are out there, circling the earth, minus her happiness, minus her grief, only her body's water atoms, her hair and bone and teeth atoms, her fleshy atoms, her boozy atoms, her saltines and cheese and tea, but not her piano concerto atoms, her atoms of laughter and cruelty, her atoms of lies and lilies along the driveway and her slippers, Lord her slippers, where are they now?

#poetry #writingcommunity
#nationalpoetrymonth #poem

Another exquisite one from Dorianne Laux

I grew up in Iver. Years ago I saw the film Winstanley about the 'Diggers' in the 17th c. A daughter colony in Iver was mentioned.
Can you tell me anything about its history and in particular where in Iver they may have been located?

fly's last words
your mouth was open
it's the law

#haikufeels (open)
#haiku

There was always Forsythia in the garden of my childhood home. I'm sure the idea of putting a buttercup under my chin to see if I liked butter came from her. Connected thoughts.

folklore tells me
that if I put Forsythia
beneath my chin
I'll learn how much
I miss my mother

#tanka
#DailyHaikuPrompt
#yellow
#micropoetry

I'm a troll
fol de roll
Grandfather's
terrifying with glee
a new generation

#TankaThursday (troll)
#tanka

unattended
the eggs boil dry
and blacken
the present tense is a lie
I knew nothing in the moment

#TankaThursday (egg)
#tanka

Grandad
thinks he's acing
Social Media
hash tag fail

#haikufeels (fail)
#senryu

enclosure...
mapping the rich man's
larceny

#completethehaiga 144 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu

retired astronaut
counting down to
not going out

#haikufeels (zero)
#senryu

exam season
two physicists
tie the knot
with a cord of
infinite elasticity

#TankaThursday (knot)
#tanka

autumn gusts
only the Tai Chi master's hair
betrays him

#DailyHaikuPrompt
(gusts)
#haiku

or...

the window's open
and the room breathes
my heart
will rise and fall
in the air column

#tanka

the window's open
and the room breathes
I rise and fall
in the air column

#haikufeels (breathe)
#haiku #senryu
#micropoetry

more useful than God
or how to fold a flag
this old scout
carries in his pack
a knowledge of knots

#TankaThursday (knot)
#tanka
#micropoetry

on the porch in the dark
I listen to the tide
remaking the beach

#haikufeels (erase)
#haiku

breaking the rules
stealing honey
from the bees

#haikufeels (rule)
#haiku #senryu

on the towpath
one goose has told the other geese
a joke

#haikufeels (joke)
#haiku

neighbours
we can hear the laughter
but not the jokes

#haikufeels (joke)
#senryu #haiku

under the North Sea
a land, a home
that could not endure

#haikufeels (endure)
#haiku

that watch
at the back of a drawer
my father-in-law's
the ticker stopped
an age ago

#TankaThursday (watch)
#tanka

I still think about this a lot.

decoding
the dance of her sister
she found this flower

#haikufeels (decode)
#haiku

all along the bank
fearing the storm's
moved the stepping stones

#haikufeels (bank)
#haiku

saving the glossiest paper
for pictures
of the eclipse

#haikufeels (gloss)
#haiku #senryu

our idle chitchat
shamed by the industry
of the squirrels

#haikufeels (idle)
#haiku
#poem

I'm an old man
who lives in the hills
but I feel the tug
as each spring tide
disrupts a memory

#TankaThursday (memory)
#Tanka

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