#Escapril2026

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters on an orange varied background. Train No need to explain Why my brain behaves The way it does. Maybe it’s all the same To you and all the others Who find me a tiresome pain. Time and again I find myself wondering Just why they all complain So loudly. I guess it’s becoming plain Effort on my part might be needed. Perhaps I should just train Harder.

Been traveling today.
Hence the prompt.
#escapril2026
#train
#poetry

Saw Tracy Emin’s retrospective today.
Hence the prompt.
And @rayhourigan.bsky.social splendid haiku providing the form.
#escapril2026
#bed
#poetry

Awe-inspiring words,
Rich tapestries, master works,
The beholder's eye.
#escapril2026 #art #acrosticpoem #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@sirangus.bsky.social

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters over variable light purple background. Art Legs ache from slow walk and standing. I come into a room in this gallery. And my eyes are riven By Monet’s Autumn. I’m locked. This much beauty, wonder and sheer skill In one painting. A spasm of all that’s right with us human beings. Outside, the world burns, Ensnared in madmen’s gory hands. But here, I’m embraced by love and tenderness. What a world could be If ruled by art.

Getting back on track….
#escapril2026
#art
#poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters over purple mottled background. Bluebells Each spring, about now Bluebells arrive. Sitting and playing on the forest floor Like bands of children. Ripples of thick purple-blue Soften my eyes. Soul pricked with joy I watch those heavy headed bells And recline into spring’s deep release.

This getting to be a habit!
Wandered about in a bluebell wood yesterday. So the prompt is obvs.
#escapril2026
#bluebells
#poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters on a green background. Dad. It’s sad. My dad Is alone these days. My gaze Goes to the space My mum used to sit. He seems in good spirits. Cooked dinner with chicken and bits Of vegetables. We drank too much wine But woke up fine And we’ll visit A park they used to go. It’s not too late? Is it?

Late AGAIN!
Reasons appear in the verse.
As does the reason for the prompt.

#escapril2026
#dad
#poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters over green background looking like plants. Year Seventeen times the age of my youth I saw at last I clawed the past Beyond the border I somehow passed. Nowhere. This time I thought of you. It felt like maybe you did too.

Just about on time.
A random word generator for the prompt again.

#escapril2026
#year
#poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters over a ruddy varied background. Butterfly Sometimes I feel like the dentist Soft and gentle as a sigh Looking outwards vaguely menaced. Can’t compete with boys grown to twice my height. Your multicoloured wings delight Like love dancing before you take flight Once more. And I will miss those satin wings And flutter as my eyes sting. You rare and gentle thing.

Best excuse yet for my tardy posting.
Yesterday my Bluesky crashed.
All day.
Honest!
Saw four different kinds of butterfly yesterday. So obvs.
#escapril2026
#butterfly
#poetry
Oh this one’s a bit age specific. IYKYK.

A hand to hold in
Difficult times, phantom pain
Still feeling that grip.
#escapril2026 #hand #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@sirangus.bsky.social

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters over a background looks like stones and earth. Hand Today we walked quite far. Past the beach and Past the sands. Sunlit just so they’re the colour of peaches. On past the farm at the foot of the hill. Stinks of silage and makes me smile. Took the fork leads up that hill Towards the old Kirk. Three hundred years of stone and standing still. Round the top where the wind picks up So I can’t hear you talk. So on we walk. Still holding hands.

Random word generator for the prompt today. But the words come from a lovely day spent in good company.
#escapril2026
#hand
#poetry

I don't know what's wrong
With the world, what hospital
Re-uses needles?
#escapril2026 #IDon'tKnow #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@sirangus.bsky.social

Poem for Escapril 2026. White lettering over green background that looks a bit like grass. Idk. Sinking into drinking Pouring soft salve upon my thinking. Floating in the breath of god. The halves that pull each way Will each have their say But I’m too far down the river to hear them. Dulling my mind so It can no longer find All the nonsense it usually throws my way. There’s a reason we live far Beyond our final season. But tonight I’m done pleasing So I’ll Pour just one more drink And say goodnight.

Another on time?
Even though there may have been wine?
I don’t know.
#escapril2026
#idk
#poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters on a mixed red and orangey background. Trains Just like trains I’m always On time. I feel the glow, a haze Of personal achievement. I am prime. Just like a belly full of Wine. I take the time to Be the one who Always always gets it right. Just like these rhymes. Always on time

Ok. This is taking the urine just a little.
But what’s the point if you can’t have fun?
#escapril2026
#trains
#poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. Light lettering over a varied green and brown background. Late Seems like fate To always be the one who’s late For the party Or whatever we’re up tae. Never mind a reminder I just need to be kinder To myself.

Been avoiding this prompt, but really after yet another catch up it feels like it’s inevitable.
#escapril2026
#late
#Poetry

This little life really is a beautiful thing
Stop for a moment and treasure it

#Escapril2026 #Poetry #ThisLife

Pooh sticks
Whimsical twigs
Floating flurries
Unbeknown racing
Beneath the bridge

#Escapril2026 #Poetry #Twig

Exactly what he
Owed in tic, a gentleman's
Debt paid, he died clean.
#escapril2026 #clean #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@sirangus.bsky.social

In the name of love.
Love more.
Love bigger.
Love better.
Love without excuses.
And love without fear.

#Escapril2026 #Day4 #Poetry #InTheNameOfLove

My dog snores.
We stare and sigh at how beautiful she is,
how funny she sounds.
Wondering what her dreams are.
My snores aren’t quite the same.

#Escapril2026 #Poetry #Snores

Poem for Escapril 2026. Dark lettering over vivid yellow background. Clean This morning I did my best To rid our nest Of everything unclean. It seemed to me If only briefly I had succeeded. All germs defeated. But as the days pushed past I could not help but see That at last Hygiene was no longer king. Long I thought upon this question, Hard my wrunkled thought did wrestle Until at last this hollow vessel Sounded. What is first to happen To a surface newly unblackened? Why, What was pristine clean Is the first to lose its sheen. There is no reason To fret and worry. Your cleaning work is done. It will need be begun Again. So wait until then. I’m up

Does it matter if it’s just a little after midnight? I’m no Cinderella.
So here it is.
#escapril2026
#poetry
#clean

After doing the domestic chores this morning, there can be only one #escapril2026 prompt:

“Clean”

That’s it.

Too weird for this world,
Yet too precious to cancel,
Liminal limbo.
#escapril2026 #weird #cancel #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@sirangus.bsky.social

The Iron Lady’s legacy
Razing communities
Broken and burned
Dot
Com
Boom
Burst
Us
Them
Divided we fall
Readying for the rise of the billionaire

#Escapril2026 #Poetry #Iron #Day2

April fool…ishness
Pranksters and princesses
Playing pretend
or pretending to play?
Passerby’s peeking
Nose poking and prying
Each believing the fool
Is not them.

#Escapril2026 #Fool #Poetry #Day1

Poem for Escapril 2026. Haiku format. White letters on a broken dark background. Weird You’re weird keeping schtum And now denying the truth. Irrefutable.

Another one on time?
Madness.
Prompt after a certain person’s unprompted speech.
Apologies haiku dudes again.
#escapril2026
#weird
#poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters on a honey coloured background. Cancel I’ve no idea why This time of all times The cargo I carry Is cancelled again. Who gets to choose? Who wins and who Gets to cut loose? I was never so self assured That I could dash on Across your playing field Expecting you to yield To me. And this time there’s no time I don’t have a bag on Me to carry your Cancelled time. Goodbye. Up

Almost. So near. And yet.
Anyway here’s another….
#escapril2026
#poetry
#cancelled

Completely absent
In the wake of absinthe, a
Duty free stupor.
#escapril2026 #absent #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@sirangus.bsky.social

Poem for escapril2026. White letters on a granular grey background. Absent Not quite so present My emotions, now that you’re Forever absent.

So bad so bad.
Well that’s made the prompt easier.
#escapril2026
#poetry
#absent
Apologies to all haiku masters.

Escapril 2026 Day 9 At the morgue

Yeah Damar, what kind of people give those orders? When the life of a person who died yesterday is worth precisely as much as that of a dino dead for millenia, and it’s not even a metaphor and if they’re still alive, they’re nothing but a hindrance standing between you and your god-given money you and your pleasure tell me how you like to grab them take them to this lovely place, far away, a mate of you told you about your pretty little island in the middle of the sea or was it the sky? the answer carried from the moment we were unfortunate enough to be born a prize or a bitten pretzel drying on a rope under your watchful eye your wandering, unfocused gaze your all-knowing blank behind your very vision your vision of rage greed whim lust · I’m like a smart person, you see, smart people don’t like me so what did you expect to happen when you walked into a room full of them Don’t listen to them they don’t know what they’re talking about don’t let their stifled laughter get under your skin the last thing we want is another tantrum shaking the world somehow even more apart than it already is just go to sleep please just rest forever (and don’t come back) there’s no more left to do here Congratulations, you did it! Trust us all when we say you have successfully achieved your goal and your mission is complete Please believe just this one thing as blindly as you have asked us to believe you so far that nobody could have done it better than you have Don’t you think that’s fair? If only those old six words would be enough today. Don’t you think he does though?

#escapril #escapril2026 #escapril2026day9

The liberties this
Life has taken, excess mess,
No love forsaken.
#escapril2026 #ThisLife #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@sirangus.bsky.social