how thorny the bed of roses - cooling off #vss365 #rose #Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry #micropoem

taking the long way home; warm rain #DailyHaikuPrompt #rain #Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry #micropoem

short night — no ruse has worked out to catch a quail #InkMine #ruse #HaikuChallenge #quail #Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry #micropoem

shoes in the corner... still waiting for Autumn #tanku #hiraku

lonely streetlights watch me silently on my way home... not sure what i want #tanka

climbing upstairs to my apartment what is this loneliness i stuff into a corner #tanka

One too many drinks, Bourbon and lime tasted much Worse on the way out. #PennedReveries #lime #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

midday heat neighbor 's cutting grass I gather sleep #DailyHaikuPrompt #cutgrass #WriteMap #gather #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

ocean visit the try to swim with defiant waves at times scared at times intrepid #TankaThursday #visitor #vss365 #defiant #thingstowriteabout #waves #BraveWrite #intrepid

Falling maple leaf, Victim of an overhead Battle of squirrels. #WildWalkPrompt #maple #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

the umbrellas open all at once-- losing my father --Daisuke Kawai 傘いっせいにひらき父をうしなう　川合大祐 #senryu #translation

played on a burning violin the fever dream of two weirdos

hot afternoon wet hair cooling my back

morning clouds I resettle my head upon the pillow #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu

no resistence just a tender bruit summer source #vss365 #tender #BraveWrite #bruit #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

fogged-up mirror after a hot shower morning clouds #InkMine #mirror #DailyHaikuPrompt #morningcloud #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

neglecting text messages—teeth marks in the chocolate #hiraku #senryu

cleaning my glasses, my vision only sees what it sees #hiraku #senryu

along the curve of reason, that one bit of insanity #hiraku #senryu

sneezing—a tree shakes violently in another world #hiraku #senryu

falling banana i suppose i too just go with the flow #hiraku #senryu

you return to me wild grass and a bit of thorns #hiraku #senryu

speeding from one thought to another...fatigue's an old friend #hiraku #senryu

blooming blood lilies under the moon my self-hatred has rounded edges #tanka

from express train only the blur of lives and banality #hiraku #senryu

light rain tonight a passing cart full of crates and dying poppies #tanka

old burned barrel all our families' secrets are neatly boxed-up and in storage #tanka

night in the city everyone and everything washed in artificial light #tanka

switching clothes ~ the apprehension of lightnings #vss365 #apprehension #DailyHaikuPrompt #lightning #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

together on the market unripe fruits in every group hides a misfit #InkMine #together #misfit #TankaThursday #market #Tanka #micropoetry #micropoem

avoiding the woman who lives inside me night comes --Shinko Tokizane われに棲む女をうとむ夜が来る Or, if read as a single phrase instead of a 12-5 two-part structure, Take 2: the night is coming when I will shun the woman who dwells within me #senryu #translation

strange like that with feline movements passing through rooms and days with hesitant feet at forty-four still striving to get comfortable in this skin in this life #micropoetry

the apprehension you feel deep down in your soul is a reminder that your life will end someday so embrace these brief moments #vss365 #apprehension #tanka

i open my eyes then close them again the garden remains

early july — the decent florid scent of jasmine tea #InkMine #decent #vss365 #florid #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

morning dew on the old maple tree - wind of no-change #HaikuChallenge #maple #DailyHaikuPrompt #morningdew #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

sugar in the morning #pink candyfloss clouds at sunrise. Let's grab some for breakfast. #thingstowriteabout

midsummer rain — the mandrake seedlings do not grow #HaikuChallenge #mandrake #thingstowriteabout #seedling #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

red-colored the road to victory strawberry moon #WriteMap #road #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

in the dark a lantern in the distance real or mirage we blindly step forward holding each other's hand #tanka #TankaThursday

afternoon coffee sinking deeper into misanthropy #hiraku #senryu

no longer eating the carrion of the past because it's rotten so I feed myself clean food for a new way of living #vss365 #carrion #tanka

well past midnight... the gloomy dance of mosquitos #InkMine #gloomy #dance #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

no more magic from the broken wand waning wind #HaikuChallenge #magic #thingstowriteabout #wand #WriteMap #wind #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

It's hard to stay tranquil when every hour they throw a new catastrophe at you: a lion in the city, a war in the kitchen, a flood in the bedroom. Try to concentrate on the important things: the early morning breathing and the tea fleas dancing. #vss365 #flea

the villians' gathering cancelled; heatwave #vss365 #villian #thingstowriteabout #gathering #Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry #micropoem

waxing moon — I toss a pebble into the void #DailyHaikuPrompt #toss #Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry #micropoem

#HaikuSaturday #haiku a squirrel sploots on browning grass silent wind chimes Please add a version if you feel like it. If you want it posted with the other versions please add the hashtag #VersionsHaikuSaturday

lightness of his drunken voice... a dark rain falls #senryu

greenness of zucchini, is it really bad to hate? #senryu