when the last man is lost who will weep for him — the last woman of course and when she dies we will surely be all gone and the rivers will be in full flood and the tides will rise and rise never ever to return

with this turning tide the ice now flows up the creek unnatural justice #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka #upthecreekwithoutapaddle

i read a poem so long ago about a bear in a field full of pheasants and the new wolf moon smoldering in languid skys #DailyHaikuPrompt

wolf moon plum purple through the scattered shifting clouds will you not intercede #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

with the turning year longer days bearing bright gifts a wide eyed crocus #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

this reckless hour beyond eternities grasp is your brief life #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

even golden plovers wait for winter's worst to pass before returning home #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

like a spoon laden with treasures of the tongue you came to me heaped with pleasure and oozing sweet desire #haiku #senryu #tanka

karma is the judge that judges the judges but judges no one #haiku #senryu #tanka

happy new year live without fear make love clear the tired old year wrapped up in its box is now laid to rest as a shiny bright new one springs out of the clocks

There was an old lady from Ealing Who voted OUT with incredible feeling. But when told that it meant she had to live in a tent She said, My God what treacherous double dealing.

this thin thread sowing each breath to the next weaving your life #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

new year — welcome come right in sweep past the parties and the firework shows come on and don't be shy don't stand there with your shaking hands clutching tight your book take up your pen and write

each passing year pushing past new and old and on into eternity where the years don't count and all things are equal

Icicle shadows stretching into the new year smiling eaves to eaves #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

naked chestnut cold full moon shadows swaying in the breeze #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

the first snowdrops reaching out in peace and joy from this Christmas night #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

soft settled snow wraps spring's tender buds in winter's quilt #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

winter solstice a message from last year's overcoat pockets #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

let these lost years go far past this solstice night and the coming dawn let the stark white winter storms blow them far far away #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

dark snow clouds on this long solstice night drifting towards spring #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

sharp solstice sleet beating at my window panes through the long cold night #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

in the moment between now and then . . . indescribable unimaginable how that went even now looking back retracing revisiting re-enacting regressing reliving — regretting still sitting in my formaldehyde memory unresolved

on this long dark night a donkey braying haiku into the silence #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #tanka

winter equinox poised between blossom and the falling snow tipping the balance #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

not long to go now as the swollen sun sinks in the west and the tide turns on the bar #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

this bright paper sucking up ambrosia ink immortal immutable #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

that small child inside humming Christmas carols as I struggle up stairs #Haiku #senryu #tanka

a brief obsession this burning candle — in its wax a love song to the night obsess #haikufeels #Haiku #senryu #tanka

I put down a Sunday And picked up a joker Who shuffled the deck? Now — should I miss a turn . . . Or play my hand?

At the shrine A prayer for a small miracle. I take another Breath #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

First, I lost my place Then I lost my page, And now . . . I’m a speck of dust. Swirling around and around Lost in sun beam shafts Streaming through this library window

we hit the big time you and I with this freedom dream these dreams of freedom but slowly —across the pond this dream seems to fade — to fade away — into darkness?

the thin dusty line between desire and desolation a point of contact #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

in the hard north wind purple wings trying to be free a lone wild iris #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

nights desolation starts with such sweet serenity out to the west bright streams of sunset light shine through nights dark cloak #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

before desecration immaculate conception Christmas desolation #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

decembers full moon lost in the mid winter storms that birth the new year #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

across the graveyard a lone magpie picks Insects from epitaphs

hands in my pockets and december's chilly winds ensure they empty #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

december cherries crystalline drops of summer frozen in sugar #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

days unravel like a bobbin of twine through this long dark labyrinth of our earthly time and the Cardinal sin that we dare not admit is believing we chose every step of the way when we just stumbled along, from day to day #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

days unravel like a bobbin of twine through this labyrinth of our earthly time

we are — the shaved ice caught in a cocktail dessert waiting to be loved the sweet sticky veneer of this moment's pleasure #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

there was a young man called Kirk who finished each song with a smirk but when singing in French he would turn to the bench and declare that it's all his own work #haikufeels #limerick

winter's in control — how could I presume to hope to feel spring's breath again and could I even start to dare that sweet light will soon be there #haikufeels #Haiku #senryu #tanka

full moon light putting out the darkness of this winter night #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

feeling old seeing your reflection in my mirror #haikufeels #Haiku #senryu #tanka

a clear cold night frost glistening moon light puddles thick with ice #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

so many winter coats hanging on my iron hooks waiting to be born and in my fire place a billion burning violins #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka OK sorry . . . I know — it's just that I love Leonard Cohen