Converting a poem by Robert Frost into a #limerick … May I be forgiven

Goliath beetles With genes for razor sharp teeth — where scientists erred. #science #haiku #poetry #beetles

With blueberries Feeling impotent? A breakfast panacea: Cascades of pancakes #emoetry #impotent #blueskyrelay #panacea #dailyhaikuprompt #cascade

I Calmly Explain how I can’t whistle. My lips together, I blow without sound. #calm #emoetry #whistle #blueskyrelay #tetractys #micropoetry #poetry

A grave confession I lusted after the youthful departed corpse’s pungent apples. #BlueSkyRelay Lust / Departure #DailyHaikuPrompt Grave / Apple #Emoetry Youthful #HaikuHorrorPrompt Pungency

Please do not groan, but for most poets it’s known not to end a sentence with ‘preternatural’ unless you are dining on mackerel or heading to the bank with collateral for a loan #BlueskyRelay #preternatural

Slightly diminish a band… The Grateful Terminally Ill

Crimson blood drips from prison walls — bonechilling #DailyHaikuPrompt #Crimson #chill

Port with every dessert. #7syllablesentence #port

A tendency for silliness provides the resilience one needs to overcome conversational silences. #blueskyrelay #resilience

I must stock up on doubloons. Talk Like a Pirate Day’s soon. #7syllablesentence #doubloon

A man condemned to Solitary confinement hears no birdsong #dailyhaikuprompt #birdsong #blueskyrelay #solitary

Quartz Granite Porcelain Marble, Limestone — Counting the ways you can top your counter. #tetractys #blueskyrelay #limestone

I Realized I was now Out of my depth. Panicking, I dove underneath my desk. This was not helpful in the very least. I took deep breaths; Recovered slowly. Sigh. #blueskyrelay #depth #tetractys

My favorite dinner: Escargot and Brussels Sprouts - Said no one ever #dailyhaikuprompt #sprouts #snail

Dentist Chair The spray of mist does absolutely nothing to relieve the pain #DailyHaikuPrompt #mist

As Godzilla tramples lovers cower in clover covered in mud #DailyHaikuPrompt #clover #mud

Charge of the Bite Brigade 600 diners attacked each other with layered Turkish pastry. Servers to the left of them. Servers to the right of them. It became known as The Battle of Baklava. Tennyson was not present. There was no one around to immortalize the events but me. #BlueskyRelay #Charge

She flit — Left me in a snit. #7syllablesentence #flit

Twin souls galloping across decades of laughter — Boisterous friendship #DailyHaikuPrompt #Boisterous #Friendship

Barely dressed woman Tramples field of spring blossoms Wine bottle in hand #DailyHaikuPrompt #Barely #Spring #Vine #Haiku #Micropoetry

The drawn shade blocked the sunlight. The tree stopped providing shade. #7syllablesentence #shade

“Live, laugh, luff,” the sailor said. #7syllablesentence #luff

Teach the leech to reach a peach. Capische? #7syllablesentence #reach #gogyohka

The cat is on spin cycle. Soon she’ll no longer be wet. #7syllablesentence #spin #NotTrue

Boxer Aria - Sharon Olds When no one’s around, a man could go all day, in the woods, and down by the lake, and into the house and back out in the garden, without zipping his pants. The belt holds them up, around his hips, secure as any loin cloth or lava-lava, the man is free and unobserved…

scratched and clawed by an old giant's fingers this desolate, irregular landscape xxyxxy.com/blog/ruZYAnAp #poetry #tetractys #desert #sketch

I Shiver As I read The death notice. Too soon. Too soon. Too soon. Too soon. Too soon. #tetractys

With measured pulse, I respond. #pulse #7syllablesentence

Thoughts of regret grind the mind. #7syllablesentence #grind

Malformed, and deformed Imperfect, and broken, Words that are misjudgements, That limit without warrant, Presupposing no possibility, Closing minds to potential. Creativity is imperfect. The heart knows, within These words there are lies. #poetry #prompt #malformed #vss365

I find submission the most difficult part of #writing.

Rain dampens evil man’s funeral emotions undulate #DailyHaikuPrompt

Exactly. They could only get her to state she personally didn’t see/witness anything wrong. They couldn’t get her to say under oath she wasn’t aware of him doing anything wrong. There are other ways of knowing something happened besides witnessing it firsthand.

How are Republicans okay with massive tariffs, seizing ownership of private companies, and sending armed troops into American cities? These are things that they have spoken out against for more than 90 years. (Since Hoover). Did you have ANY principles that weren't for sale?

PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb

If you see this, post a Marvel cover you love (For its graphic simplicity, and I have fond memories of the New Universe comics)

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The gingham dog went "Bow-wow-wow!" And the calico cat replied "Mee-ow!" The air was littered, an hour or so, With bits of gingham and calico, While the old Dutch clock in the chimney-place Up with its hands before its face, For it always dreaded a family row! poets.org/poem/duel

Words spoken drift unheard unrecorded A lonely man spills secrets to no one. #poetry #tetractys

Two haiku of mine appear in the May 2025 print edition of Scifaikuest #poetry #publication #haiku www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page...

One Then two Syllables Then three and four Finishing with a ten syllable line. A poetic form with mystical traits. Pythagoras’ Tetractys Transforms Verse #tetractys #poetry #pythagoras

Graves Tombstones Skeletons Cemeteries Emily Dickinson fan fantasy. Genealogist’s Sunday afternoon. Cemeteries Skeletons Research Trees #Tetractys #poetry

Swig Imbibe Guzzle Quaff Ingurgitate An English professor talks in a bar. #Tetractys #Poetry

Pisces: The Ewoks will finally get their revenge against you.

Aquarius: When you say, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine," four members of your firing squad will decide to aim lower.

Aquarius: Go ahead and spoil yourself today! You’re way past the freshness date anyway.

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge 31/31 Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking The year I attempted to go vegetarian I purchased this cookbook. I recall the lasagna turned out particularly hideous - but it tasted good.

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #30/31 Dark Hearts & Tattletales Jane Gwaltney I have the privilege of being in the same writer’s critique group as the author so I read several of the stories prior to publication.