#haiku

an algae-choked pond
fetid, noxious, putrescent
life's underbelly

#vssPoem #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry

#limerick

Niamh, when modeling for one Soho hosier,
hadn't quite fastened a crucial closure.
On the catwalk, she tripped;
both her skirt and slip dipped,
but quick wit spared her from full exposure.

#LimerickRhyme #SmallPoems #poem #poetry

#senryū

left wing mirror
of my Dad's grey Volkswagen
errant lawn dart

#haiku #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry

#senryū

bread machine thrums, slaps
brutalizes recalcitrant dough
hand turns a lazy page

#haiku #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry

#haiku

twined watch spring tight—
silent chimes that play in the breeze
weeping royal tears

#DailyHaikuPrompt: wisteria
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#MicroPoetry #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

#limerick

A barn owl in groves near Khartoum
would often confuse "whoo" and "whoom".
Rankled by his wife's mocking,
he at last just stopped talking;
wiser now, he just winks—and stays stumm.

#LimerickRhyme #SmallPoems #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

To a critic who wrote for The Echo
came choice words from the painter El Greco:
"What you know about art
would fit in a fart.
You jus' a big pain in da necko."

#limerick #LimerickRhyme #SmallPoems #poem #poetry

#senryū

beagle puppy
battle cry and sharp knives flashing
thunders across carpet

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#haiku

low thunder rumbles
gusts flee a lowering spring sky
larch leaves tremble

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#TheDailyHaiku mastodon.world/@THEDAILYHAIKU
#MicroPoetry #SmallPoems #poem #poetry

#LimerickRhyme

Not deigning for more wine to wait,
the Marquis lay siege to his plate,
but a large chunk of duck
in his windpipe got stuck—
now he rests in peas and roast potat'.

(Fetch a poultice and leeches, Dr Heimlich!)

#limericks #SmallPoems #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

#senryū

walkway over pond
from algaed shallows
crappie's doleful gaze—returned.

#haiku #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry
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#haiku

hunched over table
cocooned in thick terry robe
slurps of steaming soup

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#MicroPoetry #SmallPoems #poem #poetry

#kimo

Grains of sand slip through a narrow glass waist,
marking each path unexplored,
this mountain of regrets.

#TheDailyHaiku ( mastodon.world/@THEDAILYHAIKU ) #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry

#haiku

firs in the dumble
hide the snow-laden summit
the kinglet's nest

#575Prompt 337 ( toot.community/@aethelshane )
#TheDailyHaiku ( mastodon.world/@THEDAILYHAIKU )
#MicroPoetry #poem #poetry

#LimerickPoem

"A salubrious new year!" toasted Marty
and swigged blue champagne like a hearty,
then tripped heels over head—
broken hip, stuck in bed:
a most INsalubrious start, eh?

(#DailyHaiku zirk.us/@THEDAILYHAI... )
(#HaikuChallenge)
#limericks #SmallPoems #poem #poetry

#senryū

new year's day!
a nonsensical marker
in earth's orbital path

#haiku #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry
#TheDailyHaiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

#senryū

two cats stalk a crow
the magus spreads a black cloak
levitates, vanishes

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#haiku #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry

#tanka

after-dinner rest
breathing in mere contentment
absorbed in Walden
alongside lies a spaniel
snuffling, twitching, chasing hares

#haiku #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt mastodon.world/@dailyhaikup...

#limerick

A charlatan hawked oil of snake
urging gullible rubes to partake
it for chillblains and warts
and ills of such sorts—
and his tinctures cured some by mistake!

(Still, the law sent him up as a fake.)

#LimerickRhyme #vssDaily #SmallPoems #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

#senryū

top-grain remnants
fragmentary visions await
shaping, cobbling

#haiku #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry

#limerick

Woe betide the larcenous vole
who essayed an impossible goal:
to abscond in the night
with all presents in sight
and porter them back to his hole.

Mad Kane's Limerick-Off contest details here:
www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2...
#SmallPoems #poem #poetry
#LimerickOff #WritingPrompt

#senryū

amid yuletide sleet
bustle with precious burdens
slips and splashes

#haiku #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt; #575Prompt 315; #10WordsPoet

#limerick

If it would (beg your pardon) behoove
Your Grace kindly one's boots to remove?
Mud and grime from the tar pits
might ruin the carpets,
and of that would your mother approve?

#SmallPoems #poems #poetry

#limerick

A moderne of the name Celia Trent
caught all eyes at a Soho event,
but her parachute pants
caught the wind; and in France
they still talk of her sudden descent.

#LimerickRhyme #SmallPoems #poem #poetry

#senryū

a goldfish patrols
in its own aquarium
shark mojo

#haiku #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry

#haiku

allspice, cinnamon
infuse the morning porridge
inklings bubble, bubble…

#DailyHaikuPrompt #MicroPoetry #poem #poetry

CW: Bah, humbug!

#tanka

from every storefront speaker
spill forth rock noëls—
cloying and banal
travesties you loathe to hear
every other time of year

#haiku #MicroPoetry #SmallPoems #poem #poems #poetry

#haiku

the garden gnome
intones protective spells
in a lost vernacular

#MicroPoetry #SmallPoems #poem #poems #poetry
#vss365

#limericks

A habit of Vasco da Gama's
was to dress his dog up in pajamas
with a cape of 'good hope,'
a small gift from the Pope,
while the slippers and cap were his momma's.

(2022.4.8)
#LimerickRhyme: pajamas
#SmallPoems #poem #poems #poetry

#cinquat #poem

He storms in frazzled, ranting peevishly:
office in chaos, missed deadlines, boss kept him late.
All for naught my efforts to soothe, placate…
Ding, ding!
Sea change: that first bite of pizza baked to a T.

#SmallPoems #poems #poetry
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