summer heat. early.
one lone April day, then cool.
Climate's muscle flex.
summer heat. early.
one lone April day, then cool.
Climate's muscle flex.
pared down
lacking redundancy
to tell what's missing
language flimsy
too mimsy-whimsical
for this dimly lit place
we wrestle meaning
try to figure how
we've got people desperate
to be worse
fragmented signal
shards of meaning sharp
torn apart hearts
too easy to harm
red flooding a crowd
baying for a world no better
for them and theirs
but worse for everyone else
noise like the punch of a drunk
or dogshit smeared
across concrete
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 21 April 2025 - garbled
blood on the pale snow
shed spatter of love betrayed
by love's jealousy
#DailyHaikuPrompt - 21 April 2025 - hyacinth.
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we need more sunshine
the message is not garbled
our bodies listen
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turning blades
slicing fatty air
we are alone
together
castaways
upon a rumpled
cotton island
small noises
breaths and twitches
it seems impossible
your mind mirrors mine
in any way, hopefully
even the cruellest
universe couldn't make
the same mistake
twice
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 20 April 2025 - fan
young like washed dawn skies
sun and cloud and speed contained
just barely begun
#DailyHaikuPrompt - 20 April 2025 - colt.
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it's Easter Sunday
not a fan of religion?
spring is praiseworthy!
#mastoprompt - fan
#dailyhaikuprompt - clear sky
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a big flower fan
garden under a clear sky
three cheers for the spring!
#mastoprompt - fan
#dailyhaikuprompt - clear sky
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painted eggs hidden
ready for children to find,
some are chocolate
water in scooped earth
rippled by teasing wind
and we're huddled
moonlight gone and stars too
and frost filigree
flowing round our feet
on the horizon
fingertips of sun
testing grip
for the long heave
across the dome
to another fall
such small light
we keep our whispers quiet
as if words could shatter it
and night bows and withdraws
taking with her to keep safe
all we couldn't carry into the day
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 19 April 2025 - dim
bright costumed dancers
quick flicker - pulse to the dirge
of wood's death crackle
#DailyHaikuPrompt - 19 April 2025 - fire.
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It feels redundant,
all these blurted I love you's.
Yet each is fresh truth.
Why shy from repeated cheer,
but not its repeated lack?
i'm haunting your ghost
given you seem tied to a place
i'm still free to leave
although i usually don't
spaces you knit from the world
shaped ways you hoped
would safehouse you
the scene of your harm
clatter the bones to shards
and the mind more fragile
just by mis-stepping
hospitalised again
watching you try to stitch together
rags of your shredded mind
to tapestry some meaning
to sheathe the blade of what is
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 18 April 2025 - salve
sand frames the weeping
churning water - sand cradles
the land's slow yearning
#DailyHaikuPrompt - 18 April 2025 - beach.
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Flower Power time
unblushing life towards a
mixed gender fashion
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#pink
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despite all the variables
of the still water
and the clouded sky
and the deep unfolding
of equations being created
and solved via explosions
incoherence-wealthy ranters
seek protected status for lies
like they're types of wine
choosing small and fear
over sharp-tongued hope
knowing harm will ensue
selling the fetid dull crowd
on how it's safe and clean
to make people objects
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 16 April 2025 - placid
Only volcanoes
Can tear down mighty mountains
While building new ones
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#Writing #DailyHaikuPrompt - mountain
the tea is bland
third steeping of scant leaves
and the last dribble of milk
rain on the windows
crowds muttering in the street
an animal or a person screaming
we have run out of words
and although we had a good run
it's been decades since our last fresh idea
if we are lucky
the cannibal children
rafting the rising seas
will find us and feed on us
saving us from lives
completely wasted
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 15 April 2025 - original
Rising ocean fog
bared an almost authentic
Greek mythical scene
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#misty
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Sirens on coastal Rocks - Aobram