subversion … comedy or haunting what happens when a photograph misrepresenting purity becomes contamination ~ meant to preserve, loses its way … #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry #tanka #photograph @evecastle.bsky.social

feeling unsteady, disoriented and discombobulated, the floor of the Sistine Chapel unexpectedly rose up to meet me its patterns, swirls and circles hidden from my fading eye … #Prompt251 #Surreal #Waning #Marble #Sensewrds #poem #poetry

no respite tonight … pavement tar melting the heat rises shimmering no respite tonight … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #heat

Sat at the bar, Rolex, garish shirt & spouting a dilettante's nonsense. When a beautiful woman enters a room even a myopic librarian feels the sizzle. Alas! A man with riches has no wealth~ he thought to buy her, that was his delusion & his downfall. … #poem #poetry #inkMine

waiting on their call … "thank you for your call" the info superhighway is a dirt road in Nepal … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #thank #infosuperhighway #highway

Where my pen went today is to Fall, & Maple leaves and how their leaves, red & gold & green so define that season in the North. How Autumn is so often ironically often, the season of make or break for relationships … #poem: #poetry #Prompt250 #Maples #Shining #Refreshing #Maples #Sensewrds

dressed to impress … fanning open, wide iridescent colors, single eye dressed to impress … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #impress #color #peacock

A key failure of the mid to late 20th Century was the re-definition of human beings as ‘Human Resources’ A person is not human capital. The loss of a single person on the work floor can destroy quality there irreparably. Not the Management. The work floor. … #poetry #poem #stoic #stoicism

the mental trap … here's the misconception potential is infinite ~ reality limited … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #limit #stoic #stoicism

just a man … coarse hands, unrefined the love he gave, loyal & brave framed in steadfastness … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #refine

in memorium … as the sun arose painting tree tops a golden hue so I remembered you … #poem #poetry #Weekend #golden #inkMine #inmemorium

Not more than 10 minutes, that was my thought. I sidled out the door crossed the quad with its pantheon of flowering posies, tripped down the stairs to the garden gate to where she should have been. Too late. I turned, returned. … #Promp249 #colorful #sideways #absence #Sensewrds #poem #poetry

enticed … snow enshrouds the trail Winter cedes to Spring ~ once more enticed my feet explore … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #enticed

hormones … they swim around him like flies in a glass of beer trapped in adulation … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #swim

into the blue … an eagle towers up beyond the green into the blue rests on settled wings ~ a rising memory within grass and field not brick and glass … #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry #tanka #tower

in or out … being included don't let it depend on someone's permission … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #depend … Let it be the whole group, or the framework, or the constitution … That's who decides: not permission. ~ and that's my stoic take on it. … #stoic #stoicism

Well, well. The words hung in the air. I looked up and froze. She'd put down her work her hands now lightly held in her lap, eyes locked on the pendant ~ its warm, dark, orange-yellow betrayal. The evening stretched before us. … #Prompt248 #Intriguing #Folded #Amber #Sensewrds #poem #poetry

African beat … the roar of the lion the sound of the beating drum midnight's mournful cry … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #sound #africa #beat

To the cheeky tones of the Valse chromatique she stood, vibrant, sophisticated, arm reaching out. To him. He stood slowly, knees creaky. Fifty years on, and she still had that power transforming the ordinary into the romantic. He moved, his moth to her candle. … #poem #poetry #Weekly #inkMine

rubicon … Caesar calls a halt the shallow Rubicon beckons ~ continue? retreat? … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #continue … A stoic prepares for their key decisions: runs scenarios, & prepares for each. His pause is selection not construction. #stoic #stoicism #scenarioplanning

field of dreams … asleep & dreaming, sensing a golden field of turning heads flicking tail & quivering whiskers reluctantly shifting shadows away from apprising eyes … #Prompt247 #Slumbering #Reticent #Sunflower #Sensewrds

complacency … stillness on the lake no sign of the gator lurking danger has no warning … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #warn … like a pilot's pre-flight checklist, do the work follow the checklist caution isn't paranoia #stoic #stoicism

180° … made my mind up drunk reconsidered sober implications next hungover day … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #consider

the full context arrayed in the picture, where it began … #poem #poetry #tenword #Weekend #picture #inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social

the lowering grey sky misted the broken graves a stillness overcame me feeling my pulse beat low no bouquets no arbor of flowers here I will lay me low here in my ancestral home unknown amongst the unknown … #Prompt246 #Calming #Floral #Forgotten … #poem #poetry #senseWrds

diverging … unbalanced like a line on a budget sheet and the money spent … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #budget

lost in mind … forgetfulness scours the mind for a trigger seeking a memory … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #scour

shifting sands … as the shoreline shifts those tiny moments of drift strain the binding forces that holds the coastline constant, that keeps us safe & secure … #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #safe #poem #poetry #tanka @evecastle.bsky.social

gifts of the magi … enraptured under moonlight caroling along the shoreline enchanted happy children with gifts of love and happiness make their way to the orphanage door … #Prompt245 #Joyful #Endearing #Coastline #Sensewrds

The lone wolf moves on, the pack survives; his passage in the forests unknown. The wisdom of the trail his own mate’s betrayal resurrects a deep primal urge. He rose in the dawn padded once more that steady proud lope without rest. #poetry #poem #haiku #tanka #stoic #stoicism #thaikufeels #assure