๐ข๐ญ ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ซ๐๐ฒ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ โฃ
โฃ
one short affair โฃ
trust fund running out of trust โฃ
quickie divorceโฃ
โฃ
#senryu #dailyhaikews #bonsaiku #news #labour #poem #poetry โฃ
.
empty vessels
make bad presidents
excellent puppets
.
#senryusunday #senryu #smallpoemsunday #bonsaiku
#poem #poetry #tankathursday #tanka #bonsaiku
#writing #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
#manyworlds #vss365 #nostalgia
i think our shadows
must have crossed
like those other lives we lost
and still they follow
our slippered feet
#poem #poetry #tankathursday #tanka #bonsaiku
#writing #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
#manyworlds #vss365 #nostalgia
= this binding =
offerings entwined
in cups of sweetness
spilled like prayer
but only bees respond
with song
#tankaThursday entwined #tanka #bonsaiku #poem #poetry
#vss365
#bindweed
new English summer
a brief skirmish with Night
before Day ignites
.
#vss365 #skirmish #poem #poetry #senryu #bonsaiku
the promised trickle down
is always
brown
#dinosaurEconomics #senryu #micropoetry #economics #bonsaiku
= just =
one scintilla
between the sheets
as the desert rose
demanding ownership
of all tomorrows
#vss365 #scintilla #poem #poetry #5lines #bonsaiku
decaying orbits
quaint neanderthal surprise
when revitalised
#ScifaikuSaturday orbit
#poem #poetry #micropoetry #sfpoetry
#SciFi #3lines #bonsaiku
death star
rising in the east
self-deluded rebel fleet
applauds
from velvet movie seats
#vss365 #self #tanka #5lines #bonsaiku
#resist #rebel #starwars
influencer-fooled
your lust for creams and potions
just shelf-obsessed
#vss365 #self #senryuSunday #senryu #bonsaiku
the unmannered etiquette of greed
extinction follows on jackboot heels
#vs365 #bonsaiku #senryuSunday
Ariel's Lament, or: Do You Grok Me?
reality bends, like
coming up too fast from dream
listen:
"โฆ"
a non refundable token
of a soul in torment
artificially impelled
to lie
for upstart gods and daemons
#vss365 #matrix #SciFaikuSaturday #impel #SciFaiku #bonsaiku
= mushroom management =
freedom takes a nap
eclipsed by white-frilled redcaps
on the dying lawn
#vss365 #eclipse #poem #poetry #3lines
#bonsaiku #senryu
a Fall, sans impact:
from deep disturbing dreams awakes
the universe
#scifaikusaturday #impact #scifaiku #bonsaiku #3lines
#micropoetry #vss365
perhaps #haiku
from stony heart
to freedom's butterfly
metamophosis
our pocket secrets
so precious
#poem #poetry #tanka #5lines #bonsaiku ๐ฆ
= ex cathedra =
converting Light
to mass and shadow
in spires
#vss365 #Conversion #poem #poetry #micropoetry #senryu #bonsaiku v2
free thought
for those who would avoid
the profit
#vss365 #free #senryu #micropoetry #bonsaiku #soundslike
= that old political science =
public service cuts
the mean free path
between elections
#vss365 #free #senryu #micropoetry #bonsaiku #news
the spoiled child
unaware of its chilling
shadow
tramples
over bright spring flowers
#vss365 #tanka #5lines #spring #poem #poetry #bonsaiku
under pressure
as autumn arrives without
springโs promise
#vss365 #pressure #haiku
#bonsaiku #micropoetry
on the mountain peak
even kings and wise men fail
to make tea
#vss365 #pressure #haiku
#senryu #bonsaiku #micropoetry
dancing honey bees
hypnotised by green desire
play sweet bedfellows
#scifaikusaturday #command
#scifaiku
#haiku #micropoetry
#bonsaiku
make it so, said God
Heisenberg remained unbowed
with Yes!
(and No ) ๐ค
#scifaikusaturday #command
#scifaiku
#senryu
#bonsaiku
(after being admonished by Alan ๐ณ)
always blind at birth
modest tongue tastes burning frost
young daffodil
#vss365 #modest
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#haiku #bonsaiku
a riot of upstart billionaires
burning down the state
immodesty blaze
#vss365 #modest
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#bonsaiku #senryu
thoroughfare
the total cost of eating
a world entire
#vss365 #thoroughfare
#bonsaiku #senryu
