A Tanka WARNING: TRUTH DECAY. Let's brush away the falsehoods, floss out all the lies, extract the perpetrators, uncrowning the would-be king. #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #wethepeople #nokings #nomorekings #saveourdemocracy #protest #indivisible #resist

CARNIVORE TANKA Wolf in the White House relies on its loyal pack, using fear and stealth, preys on the vulnerable, voracious for immigrants. #tanka #tankapoem #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #poem #poetrycommunity #nokings #wethepeople #indivisible #saveourdemocracy #protest

TANKA how can I contain the pain, sink so deep? — this land, this country, this world. I’m not large enough to feel the weight, the depths of my grief. #tanka #poetry #poem #haiku #senryu #inkmine #micropoetry #wethepeople #nokings #grief #democracy #environment #nature #climatechange #politics

SEDOKA The Revolution is not over. Remember seventeen seventy six! We Americans will fight for freedom against authoritarian rule. #micropoetry #inkmine #poetry #poetrycommunity #3lines #bskypoets #U.S. #nokings #wethepeople SEDOKA: Japanese form of 2 katautas of 5,7,5 syllables

TANKA Let's hear the Prophets who speak the truth to power and the powerless. Let's hear on the media their loud warnings once again. #haikufeels let #tanka #tankathursday #haiku #senryu #poetry #inkmine #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #poem #resist #nokings #saveourdemocracy #politics

GRIEVING A COUNTRY, A WORLD a haiku Talking about hope and hopelessness, you said: Act as if you had hope. #sensewrds 108 grieving #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #inkmine #poetry #micropoetry #saveourdemocracy #nokings #grief

NAANI Talking politics with him is entering a tangled thicket of briers. Turn back! Change the subject! #micropoetry #inkmine #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #skypoets #bskypoets #politics NAANI: an Indian poem of four lines totalling 20-25 syllables.

DEHYDRATION HAIKU In an AI world, dehydration of feeling? Apricots, raisins dates, prunes – all shriveled from lack of juice. I don’t want to become dried fruit. #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #poetrycommunity #skypoets #AI

TANKA I no longer have the bandwidth I need to cope with the persistent chaos of our ailing world. How do disconnect, yet act? #tanka #haiku #senryu #poetry #inkmine #poetrycommunity #wethepeople #resist #nokings #saveourdemocracy #politics

NURSERY RHYME PROPHECY (for best effect, sing it sing-song) King Trumpty Dumpty will fall off his wall. All of his toadies and all his con men will fail to put Trumpty together again. #vss365 together #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #poetry #resist #nokings #wethepeople #indivisible

A PLEA tanka+haiku Sixty two percent of honeybee colonies just died in nine months. Primary pollinators of vegetables, fruits, flowers – Bees – sustaining life - our own lives, plants, animals. We *must* save the bees. #2wordprompt die #tanka #tankathursday #haiku #senryu #poetry #bees #nature

TANKA I’m ripped raw inside by the nonstop battering of our nation’s news, and our world’s war mongering, God above, we need you now. #WIPSnips inside #tanka #tankathursday #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #poetry #wethepeople #resist #nokings #politics #indivisible #prayer #God

NEWS ALERT HAIKU Near Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty crying frozen tears #dailyhaikuprompt frozen #vss365 tear #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #poetry #inkmine #wethepeople #indivisible #nokings #resist #immigrants #immigration

ASK MOTHER EARTH TANKA Imagine: someone breaks into your home, takes all that you have, destroys your house. Ask Mother Earth how she feels. She stops providing. #whistpr mother #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #poetry #environment #earth #wethepeople #resist

HAIKU Cry, my beloved country. Your founding fathers …and mothers…betrayed. #whispr mother #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #inkmine #poetry #wethepeople #resist #nokings #saveourdemocracy

TO THE DNC: A TANKA We know what you are against but we do not know anymore what you are *for*, what you are doing besides asking for money? #inkmine more #tanka #haiku #senryu #poetry #inkmine #resist #wethepeople #nokings #saveourdemocracy #democrats #politics

SINCE INAUGURATION TANKA We have the manure but also need water, seed and us to commit to be grassroots, to nurture new growth, that it may blossom. #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #senryusunday #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #resist #moveon #wethepeople #nokings

HAIKU Can we pledge ourselves to renewal of the earth, our nation, our world? #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #micropoetry #inkmine #poetry #wethepeople #resist #nokings #saveourdemocracy

TRIPLE HAIKU This frightening year: What future for our nation? Our dark clouds of fear, our indignation about this desecration, this infestation of condemnation sparks demonstration. We act, we cope, dare to hope. #haiku #haikupoem #poetry #senryu #micropoetry #inkmine #nokings #wethepeople

THIS HEAVINESS, a tanka With personal grief deepened by collective grief we sink with the weight of anguish for our country, people, environment, world. #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #grief #wethepeople #resist #handsoff #nokings

RESIST a haiku Where are the people with the power to topple this monstrosity? #haiku #haikupoem #3lines #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #politics #wethepeople #resist #saveourdemocracy #indivisible #moveon #nokings #democrats #protest

OPPOSITION TANKA Imagine: You hold a mug of sizzling coffee in your hand and take a sip - All of a sudden you sneeze. (this year, we're all being burnt). #tanka #tankapoem #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #politics #wethepeople #resist #saveourdemocracy #indivisible #moveon #nokings #democrats #protest

DECLARATION TANKA I will speak my truth. I will take a stand against injustice, a stand for freedom, our right to choose how we live and how we die. #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #micropoetry #inkmine #resist #wethepeople #nokings

THE FOUNDERS SPEAK TANKA Do you hear Adams, Jefferson, Washington? Do you hear them screaming “Help!”? “Help our nation restore its values!” How can *we* help? #tanka #haiku #senryu #micropoety #poetry #inkmine #resist #wethepeople #saveourdemocracy #nokings

To Trumpism’s rough rowdy voices that rebuff those of us in tough circumstances through no fault of our own, we tire of your huff and puff, blatant lies and bluff - the vile stuff of our nightmares. Enough! Please! Enough! #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #inkmine #poetry #resist #politics #wethepeople

WE NEED NEW CURSE WORDS We need new curse words. F and C and M and D have lost their impact. Are there any words with the power to express the heat of our rage? #haiku #haikupoem #haikucommunity #senryu #poetry #micropoetry #inkmine #skypoets #poetrycommunity #resist #nokings #wethepeople

HAIKU A bully sparrow destroyed nests the obama and biden birds built. #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #resist #wethepeople #nokings #nomorekings

HAIKU My shoulders tighter Since the election results. Holding in my fear, Despair, grief, anger. Not large enough to contain Such immense feeling. #haiku #haikusaturday #haikupoem #senryu #poetry #micropoetry #inkmine #grief #wethepeople #nokings #resist #indivisible #saveourdemocracy

CINQUAIN Do not Allow your mind To torment you with bleak Forebodings. Choose hope. We will rise Again. #micropoetry #cinquain #poetry #inkmine #wethepeople #resist #bskypoetry cinquain: 5 lines, 2-4-6-8-2 syllables My SHORT-FORM POETRY WRITING course (zoom) starts Aug 7! tinyurl.com/mpc63uz6

HAIKU Anguish in our hearts, We gather in dimming light, Seeking bluer skies #haiku #haikupoem #haikusaturday #senryu #poetry #inkmine #micropoetry #wethepeople #resist #grief

JULY 4 TANKA Independence Day: Independent from the will of we-the-people, our leaders betray our trust. We are INTERdependent! #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikupoem #micropoetry #poetry #independenceday #wethepeople #handsoff #saveourdemocracy #indivisible #resist #nokings #politics

TANKA If there be dragons we will slay them. If angels, we will glide, riding on their wings, guests of the sky, bearing our swords of justice. #tanka #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #politics #resist #wethepeople #saveourdemocracy #moveon #nokings #nomorekings #handsoff #indivisible

WE NEED TO ACT, a tanka the clenching of fear the fire of our anger our deepening grief. how helpless we feel, unsure of what actions have impact #tanka #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #politics #resist #wethepeople #indivisible #saveourdemocracy #moveon #nokings

MYTH: a tanka Icarus, Phaethon - Both flew too high, fell, and drowned. Myths speak of hubris. Consider nursery rhymes - Trumpty Dumpty on his wall. #wordedart myth #mythology #Ovid #tanka #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #poetry #classics #nokings #resist Starts July 9 on zoom: tinyurl.com/5ebxn99c

KINDNESS CINQUAIN Let's make America kind again, welcoming to immigrants and respectful to all. #cinquain #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #bskypoets #wethepeople #immigration #saveourdemocracy cinquain: 5 lines, 2-4-6-8-2 syllables

Donkeys can be trampled by bully elephants. Democrats, change your symbol, BE LIONS! #cinquain #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #bskypoets #resist #wethepeople #nokings #Democrats #indivisible cinquain: 5 lines, 2-4-6-8-2 syllables tinyurl.com/mpc63uz6 Excuse the big picture. The school put it up...

GRIEVING NATION, GRIEVING SELF a tanka I'm wanting to live despite seven illnesses, fourteen prescriptions. Medicaid keeps me alive. I am not ready to die. #tanka #tankathursday #poetry #micropoetry #resist #nokings #wethepeople #Medicaid #politics

TANKA Can we become waves in the ocean of our world, flood our land with love, envision a just future, act with hope, not sit with fear? #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #inspiration #wethepeople

TANKA I’m ripped raw inside by the nonstop battering of our nation’s news, of our world’s war mongering, God above, we need you now. #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #wethepeople #resist #nokings #inkmine tankas: 5 lines of 5,7,5,7,7 syllables.

HAIKU We cry, “No more kings!” but are not only *against*. We take a stand *for*. #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #micropoetry #inkmine #micropoetry #poetry #resist #wethepeople

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