at the bank
of reality
dreams recede
#vss365 bank
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SENRYU 0489
wildfire consuming
wildfire consuming— halted
wildflower meadow
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Day 8 prompts: paranoid poem (PAD), and repeated simple phrase contradicted (NaPoWriMo)
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SENRYU 0488
shallowing ink vat—
unsent letters stacked in piles
now await replies
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SENRYU 0487
hands clap— voices ring
dawn till dusk— Makidada
little sister sing
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Prompts for Day 7: dawn and/or dusk (PAD), girls clapping games skipping rhymes
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go down to the sea
where drowned sailors play
on an endless loop
#senryusunday
Delighted to be in Echidna Tracks Australian Haiku
Grateful to all editors to sharing my Ku today
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#poetry #poetrycommunity
Delighted to be in #FemkuMag, Issue 41: Spring 2026.
Grateful to Rowan Beckett Minor , and Vandana Parashar , and Kelly Barnes Sargent for the publication of my #senry
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HAIKU 0359
beneath ancient oaks—
whispers on water ripple
rustling leaves then wake
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Day 5 Prompts today:
water poem (PAD)
breezy dreamlike poem (NaPoWriMo)
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the bottom
of the second glass
something bitter
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HAIKU
hold night in your hands
tenderly nurse, birth the egg
of new beginnings.
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#vss365 hand #micropoetry #poetry #blueskypoets
#inspiration #transformation
salvaging myself
from the wreckage of my life
before it's too late
#SenryuSunday
exhuming myself
digging out from the ashes
with my burning hands
#vss365 #hand
#SenryuSunday
exhuming myself
digging out from the ashes
with my burning hands
#vss365 #hands
#SenryuSunday
Sunrise above the river and trees
my hands hold many
broken pieces of my life
like shattered egg shells
weathered by time and aging
I'm piecing back together
#vss365 #hand
#SenryuSunday
#TankaThursday #egg
#7syllablesentence #age
#tanka
misty morning
missing the boundary
between now and then
#DailyHaikuPrompt (misty) #SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry
The jay perches
preens off the cold dampness
-- I would miss birds
#senryusunday #senryu #haiku
#meaningoflife
#vss365
his head in the sand
this denialist insists
she talk to the hand
#hand #sand #SenryuSunday
Life-a brief spark,
we build castles in the sand,
foam erases all traces.
#senryu #SenryuSunday
news cycle nothing left to spin
#SenryuSunday #oneline
while trump; do
bankruptcies
echo “many say best ever”
done
#senryusunday #micropoem #poetry #nokings #vss365
(un)holy wars
#SenryuSunday #oneline
National Poetry Month is off to a fantastic start! This is Volume 1 Issue 1 of Only Human: English Language Senryu. The cover image features a bokeh of warm light and figures in a crowd. Two in the center appear to be facing left, wearing jacket, and holding hands. Alongside the cover, floating in white space on the right, I placed one of my two senryu published in the issue: candle meditation a lace moth smacks my face
Issue 1.1 of Only Human: English Language Senryu is live! Congratulations everyone, I'm honored to be included. Thank you, AJ Wentz and David Oates; it's a wonderful collection!
Here's one of my two senryu in the issue. Read more on their site below.
#Senryusunday #senryu #NationalPoetryMonth
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Waging it's aging
now by noon I start to yawn
hey, get off my lawn
#SenryuSunday
#senryu
My Whimsy's flimsy
Mojo's no go, spark's a lark
Passion's stuck in park
#SenryuSunday
#senryu
I wake, sleepy eyes
and just like young Jesus did
I too shall soon rise
#SenryuSunday
#senryu
unwilling
to tie the lunatics hands
code red
#vss365 #SenryuSunday #senryu
full circle
my father’s hand
in mine
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SENRYU 0486
disliking hatred—
offer your hand of safety
to others in need
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Day 5 National Poetry
safety poem (PAD)
disliking something (NaPoWriMo)
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An awesome new creative for #SenryuSunday participants courtesy of Prune Juice Journal. visit the link for the prompt and for more information on how to submit.
