I looked deep into a well
saw my head floating in the sky
realising that looking down
can sometimes make us fly

#shortpoem

spring sun lights the copse
early leaves glowing lime-green
a warbler trilling

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt (warbler) #micropoetry

a swollen bud aches
from the pressing glut of spring
urging for the bloom

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt #micropoetry

Swollen bud aches

#threewordgenre (before the bloom)

in the twilit pond
a frog gives a hopeful croak
the new moon ripples

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt (new moon) #micropoetry

Each nation, in its conceit,
Thinks of itself as the greatest:
A model of civilisation,
A beacon of just morality.

How can anyone truly believe this,
When we choose to settle our differences
By killing each other's children.

#Poetry #Poem #BlueskyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky

What if it were true That it took countless Turns of the wheel To get to this To be one of these Small-minded entities Stuck in small moments Ignorant of our ancestors' wisdom Forgetting their lessons Sucking off all the sweet flesh Leaving a dank heap Of spit pips as a bed For our children

Pinnacle?

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I watched the news yesterday, more scandal, more of the things there's been way too much of. One item, I can't remember the context, the who, what, where, or why of it all. Just this picture has stuck, like some nested triptych; a painting hanging in a nondescript room, on a computer screen, watched through the indifferent lens of my TV. Not even the whole thing, a portion behind the speaker's head, framed by the screen corner: Loweryesque figures vibrantly inactive, animated by some artist's mystic hand. The unseen voice and bobbing head, a sideshow, my attention pulled to that top right corner, to dance with brightly coloured figures, on a street where all news was yesterday's.

Yesterday's News
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evergreen the fir
nature's vibrant wand to break
winter's dreary spell

#dailyhaikuprompt (evergreen)

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vole in a hurry
stark grey in the snow flurry
a kestrel hovers

#dailyhaikuprompt (flurry)

how to mend the world
with hope, with love, not hatred
with small peaceful steps

#dailyhaikuprompt (mend)

in winter's cold grip
with each malty sip, I dream
of fields of barley

#dailyhaikuprompt (barley)

winter haunts the ground
those in golden towers turn
their face to the sun

#haikufeels #face

time rips the seasons
early buds are popping to
the groove of the grove

#dailyhaikuprompt (grove)

a lone raindrop hangs
refracting the morning light
precious winter gem

#dailyhaikuprompt (rain)

just a single cloud
solitary gull drifting
lonely summer sky

#dailyhaikuprompt

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the mountain stands proud
from its peak a puff of smoke
the valley trembles

#dailyhaikuprompt (mountain)

my father smoking
a glowing tip, smoke drifting
wispy memories

#dailyhaikuprompt (smoke)

if ICE would thaw then
maybe they would stop shooting
innocent people

#dailyhaikuprompt A belated additional one for the theme of thaw

children back at school
carrot in an icy lump
echoes of laughter

#dailyhaikuprompt (thaw)

the head chef crazy
our whole world is in a soup
change the recipe

#dailyhaikuprompt (soup)

a snow crusted field
in the scrub a vole scurries
a kestrel hovers

#dailyhaikuprompt (field)

oh no! bear again
I can hardly bear to think
just grin and bear it

😉
#dailyhaikuprompt (bear)

skit along the sand
playing dare with the surf's edge
the ringed plovers dance

#dailyhaikuprompt (plover)

silver gossamer
on a frosted spider's thread
a lone leaf hanging

#dailyhaikuprompt (thread)

cold winter morning
lazy sun struggles to rise
in a clear blue sky

#dailyhaikuprompt (clear sky)

night came in softly
with a gentle maple sky
day leaves with a sigh

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt (night ) #micropoetry