Anatomy of
an atomy; skeleton,
dissection error. #haiku

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Ends justify means?
If that’s your defence; you’ve lost.
You have no morals #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #moral #corruption #nihilism

Iran’s destruction?
Hormuz wrung the chicken’s neck,
Nemesis smiles; smug.. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry

Iran’s destruction?
Hormuz wrung the chicken’s neck,
Nemesis smiles; smug.. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry

Iran’s destruction?
Hormuz wrung the chicken’s neck,
Nemesis smiles; smug.. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry

My 'spirit guide'? The
Laidley Wyrm, Dadaist myth;
suitable answer. #haiku

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Now we know why.

Philomena Clunk
learnt Trump has her as his top
History guru. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #GIGO #Captain #ShipOfFools

It sounds like singing
when the blackbirds wake, but they
do not sing for me. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #prufrock #laments #constructed #reality

Poor workers blame tools,
correctly. They can’t afford
better tools, since poor. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #social #class #discrimination #often #cryptic

Telos of telos;
explain physics with fairies.
human notions fail. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #purpose #invented #agency #fable

Full moon near again.
Scurrying creatures hide away -
Owls hungry tonight. #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #bright #moonlit #garden

Science is always
provisional; open to
revision from facts. #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #unlike #scientism #religion #bigotry #ideology

Cleverness annoys,
not always, clever delight -
why wasn’t it me? #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #Esprit #d’Escalier

Yeasts and Tobacco
parasitologists miss
as they predate us. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #parasite #kill #nurtured

The journey. Always,
the point. In hackney’d plots, not:
‘Are we nearly there?’. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #childish #childlike #end #desire #peregrination #pilgrimage #quotidian #arrival

Incompetence diptych

Good drivers know we
all are flawed drivers, so strive
daily to improve. #senryū

Why waste energy
defending how good you are?
Just accept we’re not. #senryū

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Assume, your vestments;
pretend to a claim, take for
granted; base your case. #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry#etymology #meaning #progression

Not all Ruperts are
ruperts, though Rupert Bear seemed
near the rupert edge. #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #bearly #rhyme #annoys

Crises will happen
some inevitable, some
carefully nurtured. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #anticipation #future #selves #ADHD #procrastination #impulse #control #prudence #political #chaotic #expediency

I love adventures;
The Goldilocks amount, then
safely calm, at home. #senryū

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The ignorant ignore
but aren’t thereby ignorant.
To ignore; a choice. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry

The best place to die
is Monaco, they say. Death
has no duties there. #senryū

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Just one favourite
is sad. I have different
favourites hourly. #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #ranking #discrimination #oppression

Capri trousers are
lederhosen for ladies
who lunch leather-free #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #yodelling #clam #collecting #pedalpushers

I wish I ‘failed’ more
experiments teach us how -
to be, to do - life. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #success #failure #illusions

Have my time again?
I’d do nothing differently.
Or I’d not be me. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #Heraclitus #identity #philosophy #self

If I were certain
of where I’m going, and why,
I’d be truly lost. #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #imposter #syndrome #kafkaesque #actor #ignorance #epistemic #uncertainty

Nemesis slices

technological hubris

to ribbons; again. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #stupidity #white #supremicist #exceptionalism

Ethics is fiction.
Morality, our fiction;
Evolved to serve us. #senryū

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry

Waking delight

Smart blackbird swart suit
sharp orange beak, green bower;
ready for Spring song. #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry