nature’s restorative power #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #January Day 06: fallow (resting, unused) @threewordgenre.bsky.social #poem #poetry #micropoetry #fallow #resting, #unused #natures #restorative #power

chilling silence settled #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #January Day 05: stillness (complete quiet) @threewordgenre.bsky.social #poem #poetry #micropoetry #stillness #complete #quiet #chilling #silence #settled

Putin’s acolyte trumpeted the change of name no longer defending nor pretending making war for Oslo’s prize of peace ALT=deets #poetry #poem #tanka #haiga #war #dod #dow

ember’s cooling incandescence #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #January Day 04: afterlight (lingering glow) @threewordgenre.bsky.social #poem #poetry #micropoetry #afterlight #Lingering #glow #embers #cooling #incandescence

grandpa’s silent glare #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #January Day 03:resolve (firm determination) @threewordgenre.bsky.social #poem #poetry #micropoetry #resolve #firm #determination #grandpa #silent #glare

good fortune me laddies the lady has answered to me a drink for us all at the bonnie town hall the freedom she's given to me #poetry #tanka #Weekend #Prompt #inkMine #fortune #freedom #bonnie #town #hall @inkmine.bsky.social

white light fever #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #January Day 02: whiteout (blinding snowstorm) @threewordgenre.bsky.social #poem #poetry #micropoetry #whiteout #blinding #snowstorm #white #light #fever

impregnation destination ward #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #January Day 01: inception (beginning, origin) @threewordgenre.bsky.social #poem #poetry #micropoetry #inception #beginning #origin #impregnation #destination #ward

Tanka, inspired by the weekly Thursday challenge, and by an artwork I stood before in June 2024 at Zeitz MOCAA, created by Nandipha Mntambo ALT=details of work #poetry #poem #haiku #tanka #haiga #Weekend #Prompt #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #blue #sky

Happy New Year! ALT=details of image #poetry #poem #tanka #haiku #haiga #happynewyear

. big bang bash #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day 31 ‘genesis’ origin story tale @threewordgenre.bsky.social #poem #poetry #micropoetry #genesis #origin #story #tale #big #bang #bash

What's on my mind tonight is emotional weight Men, we carry it in a sac somewhere between the stomach and the heart And since it's not in any part on any biological chart folks think its an illusion just a masculine confusion. ALT=deets #poetry #poem #haiku #haiga #stoic #stoicism #classicmovie

Books to take time over Some books are read at speed some skimmed and others philosophically A few the very few the very special few contemplatively ALT=deets #poetry #poem #haiku #haiga #poorthings #alasdairgray #book #books

. trees in concert #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day 30 ‘sylvan’ forest-related @threewordgenre.bsky.social #poem #poetry #micropoetry #sylvan #forest-related #forest #trees #concert

Weekly Prompt – audacious sly indomitable stamina will indefatigable Where there’s a will, there’s a relative. #inkMine #prompt #poetry #poem #stoic #stoicism #audacious, #sly, #indomitable, #stamina, #will #indefatigable

. radiating Times Square #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day 29 phosphor – glowing substance @threewordgenre.bsky.social #poem #poetry #micropoetry #phosphor #glowing #substance #radiating #TimesSquare

. here then there #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day 27 liminal – threshold/inbetween @threewordgenre.bsky.social #poem #poetry #micropoetry #liminal #threshold #inbetween #here #there #herethenthere

Weekend inkMine prompt - culminate ALT=deets #poetry #poem #tanka #Weekend #Prompt - #culminate #inkMine

. naughty dancing gusts #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day 27 flurry – brief snow storms @threewordgenre.bsky.social #flurry #brief #snow #storms #naughty #dancing #gusts

. Chopin after dark #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day 26 nocturne – night music @threewordgenre.bsky.social #nocturne #night #music #chopin #after #dark

. Children’s Family Festival #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day 25 yuletide – Christmas Season @threewordgenre.bsky.social #yuletide #christmas #season #children #family #festivity

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate or affirm it in their lives Thank you to all of other faiths doing the work giving others the space for their blessed celebrations an empathetic kindness Xmas 2025 ALT=deets #poetry #poem #tanka #xmas #christmas #empathy #festivities

the honest person’s guilt is the unspoken sound truth makes waiting for true words a dishonest person's guilt spirals in their tongueless mouths #poem #weekly #poetry #challenge #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry @evecastle.bsky.social

Every evening she sits a silent Siamese sentinel blending in under green foliage surveying she knows me now indifferently other things pique her interest neither accepted nor rejected ALT=deets #poetry #poem #haiku #haigu #siamese #cat #evening #focus #acceptance

. Winter’s teeth arrayed #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day 24 icicle – Hanging Frozen Water @threewordgenre.bsky.social #Winter #teeth #arrayed

. inspiration meets ambition #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day 23 aspiration – hope or goal @threewordgenre.bsky.social #aspiration #hope or #goal

there is no romance in a plan there is no ode in happenstance mirth is a signifier of happiness of violins and ringing bells ALT=deets #poem #poetry #Weekly #prompt #‪inkMine‬ #bells #mirth #romance #ode #plan #happenstance @inkmine.bsky.social #violin #romance

. love’s blinkered eclipse #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day 22 #umbra – shadowed area @threewordgenre.bsky.social #love #blinker #eclipse

memorialized in sepia #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day21 ‘#remembrance’ – memory reflection @threewordgenre.bsky.social

when two parties weigh their choices from each choice there will be only one outcome inspired by inkMine’s weekend challenge ALT=deets #poetry #poem #haiku #haiga #Weekend #Prompt #inkMine #freeze #leopard #choices #outcomes @inkmine.bsky.social

ethereal Masia dawn #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day20 #daybreak @threewordgenre.bsky.social Sunrise on Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano, Arusha region of Tanzania, looking down to the Sale Plains, 2005/12 ALT=deets #dawn #tanzania #OlDoinyoLengai #arusha #volcano #masai

. . Aurora’s dawning miracle . . . #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry Day20 'daybreak' - morning light @threewordgenre.bsky.social #Aurora #eos #dawn #miracle #daybreak

Being there whether reading walking or just contemplating being momentarily free of civilization in open spaces green grass filtered natural light whether its warm, cold, wet bracing, windy or stilled sunlit air its enough ALT=deets #poetry #poem #nature #parks #freshair #nature #enough

. . hoarfrost's wintery glaze . . . #ThreeWordGenre #prompt #December #poetry day 19, 'icy coating' @threewordgenre.bsky.social

tanka weekly poetry challenge boot boots on the ground No longer re-assurance unwelcome sound ALT=deets #poetry #poem #haiku #haiga #tanka #stoic #stoicism #liberty #libertydenied #stamp #dread #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

Winter’s blustery protests belies its weakening strength Gaia’s dreams are turning to a nascent stirring Spring ALT=deets #poetry #poem #tanka #nascent #shallow #blustery #incipient #foible #hegemony #inkMine #Weekly #Prompt

on my mind this evening returning along Rosebank's leafy avenues was the hum the flutter the coos and trills of nesting courting calling birds flitting in & out shivering branches rustling leaves & how contented it made me feel ALT=deets #poem #poetry #haiku #urban #birds #urbanbirds #urbangardens

What's on my mind today ... The lazy Sandspruit spooling down a man-made channel gathering water as it swells into a river Occasional high thunderclouds threaten floods bringing human detritus & waste work for the eco warrior ALT=deets #poem #poetry #haiku #eco #symphony #channel #river #waste

Thunder clouds gather over Franschhoek Valley, vines move restlessly date palms sway women gather laundry men move equipment & tools children secure windows time later for cocoa and rusks after the first heavy raindrop relief ALT=deets #poetry #poem #haiku #thunderclouds #raindrops #datepalms

What’s on my mind today is the mid-Summer High Tibetan plain ringed by the Himalayas. At 4200 meters it’s higher than Europe's mountains & most of the Americas. (inspired by my earlier #flowers #prompt post) ALT=deets #poem #poetry #haiku #mountainbees #wildbees #breeze #tibet

The ox and the ass silently stood in the stall her burden now asleep mother and child listen in peace to the whispering caroling #poem #tanka #weekly #prompt #burden #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

consider: to think about carefully, really that's the point to take into account not deflect, manipulate merely give consideration #poem #tanka #tankapoem #weekly #prompt #consider #inkMine

Something's off? when the cards were laid on the table there never was a doubt grenade unpinned but I’d a roadmap out files & a folder no need to spin so sure that I would lose never thought that I could win ALT=deets #poetry #poem #haiku #gaslight #strategy #evidence #uno #ginrummy #stakes

what’s on my mind this evening is how the days slip by & almost unnoticed the miracle of another day’s life passes by in the daily grind The blessing of life taken for granted ALT=deets #poetry #poem #haiku #stoic #stoicism #sunrise #sunset #dusk #dawn #miracle #labor #toil #grind #dailygrind

open sunlit flowers scenting on a silent breeze high wild mountain bees #poem #poetry #haiku #mountainbees #wildbees #breezes #flowers

consider me, consider you where to find the eponymous we knowing who we are lines 1 Just lets look at each of us independently of the other 2 then 'eponomys' challenges whether the separate parts represents a cohesive whole 3 bearing in mind past behaviours #poem #poetry #haiku #inkMine #consider

am I alone in struggling with lack of #alignment between #Bluesky avowed #ranking practices & what's empirically in my feeds. Level of #curation hides #content I might be interested -and- restricts the reach of my own. Wondering if it has become little more than a personal blog

what’s on my mind today is John Lennon 40 years on Like Beethoven Mozart & Holly I mourn not just the man but the loss of unrealized music too my stoic mind flooded with empathy ALT=deets #poetry #poem #tanka #stoic #stoicism #eagle #eaglefalls #johnlennon #lennon #legacy #empathy

It's a fine ruby, Joe! Helen's haughty condescending tone I don't have the wherewithal going to have to let her go her ex can have her hallowed hand ... #poem #tanka #inkMine #weeklyprompt #prompt #ruby #fine #hallow #hand #tone #wherewithal

Our deepest regrets corrode from within Maybe something unexpressed said, not unsaid harmed, not made good hidden, unrevealed Maybe someone deflected, gaslit, neglected or simply patronized ALT=deets #poetry #poem #haiku #regret #betrayal #deflected #gaslit #neglected #harmed #hidden