layers of
healing secrets
#jade earths
worldly and cosmic
questions

#vss365 #tanka

walking in autumn colours
a child skips gently
ahead of her parents

her quiet gaze
slips left to right
in silent, #undersea wonder
a wisdom beyond
the voice of words

#vss365 #haiku #tanka

the elderly
sometimes polish
their gnarled past phases
into gentler, smooth golds
healing #trickery

culled stories
can selective truths
have value?

#vss365 #tanka #haiku

just over
25 years ago
the page turned

Sydney Summer Olympics
Playstation 2 released
the Millenium Dome of London

Putin becomes president
Cast Away
Trump era brews
Mission: Impossible 2

propaganda
mixed messages
the #investiture of
the Bayeux Tapestry
21st century style

#vss365 #haiku #tanka

city street lights
city shop lights
neon night tides after rain

rushing feet strike
pooled puddles
a pseudo flicker of
sighing
#seafoam

#vss365 #haiku #tanka

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city street lights
city shop lights
neon night tides after rain

rushing feet strike
pooled puddles
a pseudo flicker of
sighing
#seafoam

#vss3655 #haiku #tanka

on the back step
buckled tin
tapped by a child
with a toy #hammer
fixed

somewhere
I lost faith in
the power of intent

#vss365 #tanka #haiku

just one #word
one 'yes' or
one 'no'
frames
the future

#vss365 #tanka

as a child
I chalked a simple
door shape

I stepped through
the arched #loop
and waited
older
chalk still in hand

#vss365 #haiku #tanka #surreal

mud still clings
to fading words
a soldier's #letter

#vss365 #haiku

across the small table
we share grand theories
with a buzz of
common topics
in awkward spaces

our coffee grows cold
our unsaid words
our truth
chills in
coffee stained #water

#vss365 #tanka

Thank you ever so much... 🙏

dusk
an elderly couple
relax on a porch
watching the sun
#sink slowly behind
their wheat crop
as usual

they count
not years
but moments
daily, precious moments
that choose to remain

#vss365 #micropoetry #tanka

school day's end
the bell dongs
children scatter
wild sparrows flitting
in shrill joy

freedom seems to #sing
loudest and boldest
at the outer limits
of rules
and beliefs

#vss365 #tanka

sparkling
city towers and
flood lit
city streets
claim the night

are we #blind
to the power
the mystery
the wonder of
star light?

#vss365 #tanka

the shy couple
strolled the lake's #bank
tossing breadcrumbs
to grateful passing ducks
and passing swans

do we lead
together
or does others' hunger
lead us
to be together

#vss365 #tanka

drones
human drones
film the moon's surface

on return
each astronaut
chooses
to #ink the memory
as a tattoo

#vss365 #haiku #tanka

one staunch
but ragged #arm
still points upward

crows perch now
on the scarecrow's hat
and on his shoulders
fearlessly guarding
the guardian

#vss365 #haiku #tanka

the #hand
that touches
your #hand
may one day dance
your rhythms

#vss365 #tanka

winds comb
brush
the footsteps in
dune lines
a record wiped

yet buried
deep in that #sand
may be a precious
artefact
proof of earlier life

#vss365 #tanka

morning coffee leaves
a faint brown #ring
so past time bequeaths
a #ring of smiles
or dents

#vss365 #tanka

courtroom judge
one stroke of his #pen
splits a life
into a before
and an after

#vss365 #tanka

hollow spaces
delayed supplies
an #outraged chemist
helplessly skims
scripts-in-waiting

#emoetry #tanka

old work boots
weathered by the seasons
and dust

what keeps
a #man's life full
when his fields
are silent
and empty

#vss365 #tanka #haiku

lone lizards
perfect stillness
on a warm stone

lone lizards
head upraised
prayerfully #conduct the sun
to their need
to breathe

#vss365 #haiku #tanka

life needs
stillness
select purrs in
select primary colours
of life

a storm snaps
thunder jolts the earth
lightning claws the sky

between bursts
surreal echo chambers
formed by
a leaping
wild #sprite

#vss365 #haiku #tanka #micropoetry

cloudy childhood
our #illusive kingdoms
in broken sheds
our crowns rule over
war-weary fields

imagination
our basic strength
our survival

#vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry

pressure creates diamonds ✨️💎

church candles
#burn yet bear
whispered prayers
their flame is the soul's
higher songline

#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry