nougat's sweetness; the veteran is cleaning her rifle #InkMine #nougat #BraveWrite #veteran #Senryu #micropoetry

measuring to make the final strike praying mantis #vss365 #measure #whistpr #mantis #Haiku #micropoetry

double-checking when the door closes... the mask sits #DailyHaikuPrompt #mask #Senryu #micropoetry

a whiff of fading lavender... single again #InkMine #single #whistpr #lavender #Senryu #micropoetry

medal of honor — the knowledge how to age with grace #BraveWrite #honor #Senryu #micropoetry

finally heading home the amount of time it takes for me to arrive #senryu

walking under streetlights the night quite chilly #senryu

cheap Christmas ornament on the table i hate death #senryu

Tolstoy's fight against death left a pot on the stove boiling #senryu

putting away the summer robes winter slow in coming #senryu

whimsical—buying a mosquito net that i don't need #senryu

the darkness of writing ink smacking while eating ice cream #senryu

poet his paper given back full of red pencil'd corrections #senryu

the end of the sound of everything, the sound of snow falling --Maya Okuzaka いつさいの音のはてなり雪ふるおと　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

forest clearing a pine sapling begins to measure up #vss365 #haiku

In my office, just opposite my desk, hangs a poster of a #lavender field. Every time, work becomes exhausting, I dream myself into that sunny picture. One day, I hope to wake up in that sunny field, looking at a picture of an empty office. #whistpr

red leaves on the sea north wind steals me away 🍂 #DailyHaikuPrompt (north wind)

#haiku the witch has been in the tea cup again

#SenryuSunday #HaikuFeels #senryu things fall apart I start to notice it’s all plastic

sunlit fence~ each nail head a tiny sun #haiku

She came from Nigeria & had #curly hair. One day, she came into the class room, went straight up to me & started touching my hair. I asked her what the matter is & she said: Everybody wants to touch my hair & now I am touching back. #whistpr

#DailyHaikuPrompt #turnip turnip stew pretending to be mother stirring up a storm

queer folk: exotic flowers in an otherwise mundane world #senryu

'he's a bastard!' said over tepid coffee and *binyé's #senryu *beignets in Kouri-Vini

green of a mandarin orange more potent than i am #senryu

in white magnolia rain dirt roads turn darker than dark #senryu

steamboat in the noon ive learned to tuck away my fears #senryu

slow walk home someone's doggy doesn't notice me #senryu

a man's depression often the unseen face of the moon #senryu

bottom feeder the season’s last mosquito finds a cheek #SenryuSunday #senryu

mishappened grapes i find most things depressing... #senryu

from where i stand watching the kids cartwheel through dried dead leaves #tanka

(revision) cats in the moonlight loudly makin' love climbing the stairs to a silent house #tanka

how hard i work to write tanka in a fixed form... making it a point to ignore a winking white moon #tanka

early fall rainpour slowly makin' my way home #senryu

warm laughter between strangers a passing bus and some folks outside gathering their luggage #tanka

no talk of this family illness this thing we all call living #tanka

on the stove a pot of beans slow-cooking in the sun-room reading a Harlequin #tanka

seeing the Christmas tree in the corner the lights and ribbons stir up nostalgia #tanka

public opinion drowns me homeless man saunters #senryu

following the letter of the law lawd I’m tired #vss365 #SenryuSunday #senryu

bone broth—wrapped up thousands of times in silence #senryu

turnip soup their latest proposal fifty year mortgage #DailyHaikuPrompt #SenryuSunday

color of an apple, flavor of lust radiating from my pores #senryu

red riding hood evaded the wolf, but forgot granny's basket #InkMine #red #HaikuHorrorPrompt #forget #Senryu #SenryuSunday #SpookySenryu #micropoetry

innocent flirt sip out of each others virgin colada #DailyHaikuPrompt #flirt #whistpr #sip #Senryu #SenryuSunday #micropoetry

calm sunday — while knitting a scarf cake in oven #BraveWrite #scarf #Senryu #SenryuSunday #micropoetry

Dylan wasn’t used to being any kind of authority. It didn’t sit right with him, what with his dubious and somewhat flexible approach to the #law, but he was in authority now, and, on the whole, didn’t like it in the least. But he had to suck it up and make the best of it. Lives depended. #vss365

The #law was a strange thing in the game. Even touch an item that is owned and it was considered stealing. Rory didn’t even have to take it, which was annoying. Then, if you had a bounty, you had it everywhere! Even in zones on the other side of the continent. He had to show A lot of care. #vss365

#BlueSkyRelay #liminal