the way back is twice as long cold rain #DailtHaikuPrompt (cold rain) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

Though the denizens of the fairy-perfect garden banded together to ignore him nonetheless there he was corpulent on his lily pad booming out his problematic views #vss365

a pair of pears pray Bartlett beside Anjou praise be to produce #2WordPrompt #Pair #Praise #Wordplay #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

Before the horror evil seduces its daemon horns covered in bloody velvet #vss365

Dreamt of Stolen boots While sleeping Bedside taken All the while Struggling To wake up Barefoot and Searching For the morning #poetry #writingcommunity #dreams

Evil of every description and scale lurching from cruelty to genocide how much have we seen of it in this nascent century? how much have we failed to learn from it's dark history? evil born in mahogany rooms a step or two from cool crisp linen to the foul mud of honest nations #vss365

August, a pale month mid-way to lights out bones pulsate from damp breathing in deeply storm presses over me stacks of books unread ten a.m. already vine-like around thoughts another poem's death #poetry

A lifetime of inchoate urges tightened and honed drawn in ever decreasing circles until I finally met a come hither smile in a blue dress in an old town that fittingly used to dig for gold #vss365

an old photo of my parents young and happy— of all the things I own that is the saddest —Michael Windsor McClintock #TankaThursday photograph #TankaPoem #micropoetry

A nub of green poking through the dirt a tender sprout then a fledgling plant and soon we ask is there anything as beautiful and fragile as a wet petal? and eventually long after our time a sea of blooms undulating in the sunshine whispering a song of hubris #vss365

Sunken Buddha measuring his days on a divine scale of erosion down where all thoughts are calm and breath means everything #vss365

#dailyhaikuprompt #longer #soaked longer days soaked in sunshine yellow roses

Ex Libris What did we know of the love that was withheld from those sickly tyrants All we knew was those grim specters ruled their classrooms through fear, bespoiling any fertile mind - the opposite of teaching The lucky ones retreated to the library and book by book built ourselves anew #vss365

blueberry fields all that I ever dreamed of is here #SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

My cosy room stays the same I hit refresh #Three3s #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

sun soaked another layer peels away #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu

Tongue of a wave: perfectly barrelled surfer exits smiling #Three3s #haiku

washing rice— a cloud passes through the basin #haiku #poetry

How to leave? What to take and what to leave behind? every move in any direction a memory a puddle in a walking track disturbed by my boot momentary chaos then the beauty of this all-too-perfect land reforms in it's frame I shall take that morning at least #vss365 #LeavingNZ

within the primitive tower of the honeybee's dwelling equal measures of healing and hurt #TankaThursday tower #vss365 #tanka #kyoka #Haikufeels #haikuchallenge #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #5lines #dailyhaikuprompt #TankaPoem

He walked briskly almost marching down rain-slicked streets for home Chemically altered, he was paying for his earlier euphoria with a melancholy come-down lovelorn and galactic He knew by rote that he would cross the bridge just as the new day would arrive with a pale fire from the East #vss365

Coast I imagine them sunny and sandy, though I suppose some are rocky, perhaps even barren and I marvel at this liminal space the end of us the not quite you and how your skin is warm like mine #vss365

Every now and again my legs will forget I've graduated to a big boy's bike and they will kick back on the pedal brake to a feeling of non-resistance as I pedal backwards helplessly... doing skids on the back brakes with my friends on the wet grass - my legs still remember those days #vss365

Inside and safe With white walls Gone grey Dim light flickers Announcing wind Metal thoughts Of electric dreams Stranded on a Strange world In the rain Dust on the mantle Where sweet Family photos Used to be Waiting for morning To arrive #writingcommunity

The sound of a bell shouldering its way through the fog from that curving coast to this craggy shore shorn of all meaning but metal on metal #vss365

edge of the marsh grass one heron lifts her left foot then the whole morning #haiku

Beware the scales of the everyday I remember my first plane trip my father pointed out the mighty mountain of my youth It was a paltry nub on the land its summit bare and exposed and I felt afraid #vss365

cicadas dream of a red moon falling into the sea #♡ᝰ.🖋️ #haiku #poetrysky #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #micropoetry

Out beyond the bay an eager fireball kicks up some pre-sunrise rust and I know which shade of ink to buy next #5Lines #fountainpens

#dailyhaikuprompt #fireworks knitted mittens... silver sparklers write names across the dark