Destiny arrives Like the tide to the shore, gifts Can be given back. #SenseWrds #Prompt210 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sensewords.bsky.social

Hand in hand we walked the shore mindful we need search no more at last be found such sweet romance be it preordained or happenstance #sensewrds #210 Seaside Thoughtful Inevitable

APRIL TANKA The Green Man bursting through earth, up roots of trees, paints glowing yellow, lime and grass green on stem and leaf. The world awakens to spring #dailyhaikuprompt yellow #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikupoem #micropoetry #poetry #nature #trees #sensewrds 209 #spring

We wore meadows spangled with bright weeds we drank the wide sky The season held us gently -- like all who love and will die #SenseWrds Prompt 209 Patiently, Enveloping, Spring #tanka

CHERRY TREES HAIKU They flirt and flounce, toss their blossoms, pale crown of curls, Feverish with spring. #sensewrds 209 spring #poetry #haiku #haikupoem #3lines #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #spring #flowers #nature

Prompt 210 Inevitable Thoughtful Seaside Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

Heavy horses under yoke Pound the sand into finer grain The children violets in hand skip by The warm breath of the beasts Tosses the fine hair on their heads the innocence the future the beloved instinct stills muscle and purpose Hands of grace hold hope In the face of progress #sensewrds 209

Be still wee bud last Winter's freeze for soon you'll bloom such flowery ease safely cocooned neath sodden earth enduring wait to prove your worth #sensewrds #209 Patiently Spring Enveloping

Waiting with grace for A glimmer of warmth, bounce back To sunshine's embrace. #SenseWrds #Prompt209 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sensewords.bsky.social

I wait for you in the garden where our minds meet here, it blooms eternal— each flower unfolding like a handwritten note in a script only we can read should you ever yearn for me there, I’ve filled a buttercup with words of love they whisper in yellow hues I miss you too. #sensewrds 209

TANKA the night beckoning a warm blanket of darkness enveloping me my eyes can’t see without light I awaken inner sight. #sensewrds 209 enveloping #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #meditation #mindfulness #inspiration

HAIKU Dorothy in Oz leaves a grey land for color — winter turns to spring. #sensewrds 209 spring #haiku #haikupoem #3lines #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry #blueskypoets

We wait calmly for new spirit to emerge in a world devoured by hatred and division let hope arise from this darkness and those that provoke this chaos confined in the vaults of history @sensewords.bsky.social‬ Prompt 209 Patiently Enveloping Spring #SenseWrds ,

#SenseWrds Prompt 209 Cut grass scent invades her home world turns rapidly bringing cool autumn breezes she braces her focus to the promise of new life

His mouth was everywhere at once, covering her in slow kisses, bringing her breath out in bursts like the first vernal blooms. #SenseWrds Prompt 209

I can't rush this. The moment she realizes what I'm doing, it's over and I'll be worse off for it. Easy now. Hold the bag without sound. Pull them one by one from underneath and slide them in. Finally, the coils emerge. Her favorite toy. My missing part. Ah, this damn cat! #SenseWrds Prompt 209

The fading notes that made such sense Leaves a wake, memory of cadence, An ache rippling out on smooth seas But as it passes, this unease, We are reminded of delights Of distant harbours and such sights So we raise our gaze to look far In the light of our true lodestar #sensewrds 208

The road stretched endless, full of expectation — full of "it's the journey not the destination. Parched, I drove, mad thirst unquenched by water's salt-tang on my tongue like tears and longing for a life that never was. #sensewrds #prompt207

night fading into dawn blackbirds' song carried through April showers released petrichor tickles my nostrils I am watching the darkness slowly folding its wings #SenseWrds 208 #poetry #freeverse

Prompt 209 Patiently Enveloping Spring Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

Admirmation lost our harmony diminished watched it drift off into finished #sensewrds #208 Wonder Melodic Weakening

#SenseWrds 207

#sensewrds 208 (weakening, melodic, wonder) Like elastic, stretched to overstretch — or that moment before it breaks. A band can be stretched over a small box and twanged. This is a memory: I held a rubber band in my fingers pinched it at different points and, enthralled, I'd pluck, and listen.

#sensewrds 208 weakening, melodic, wonder The sleep itself had an enervating effect, or so it seemed to her; sleep begat sleep. Dreams collapsed in ever-decreasing ripples as her unconscious sifted through sparser notes. She marvelled at a song stuck in her head; she could never hear it when awake.

“the quiet unfolding/ around your shoulders/ like a shawl…” Dorianne Laux TANKA Thrust into springtime waking to the waking world, shrugging off my shawl, unwilling to clothe myself in anything but wonder. #sensewrds 208 wonder #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

I used to love the sound of car wheels driving over rain, the calming whoosh of it replaying in my brain now I don't notice it the same, as if time has worn out the magic in simple things but when you hold my hand in that sublime calm— I hear car wheels, whoosh through the rain again. #sensewrds

He carries forth the cushion like it holds a crown. In its center is cradled a spectacular stem of deepest, purples, and blues. Regal meaningful. Better than diamonds. #SenseWrds #writingprompts

I do remember, When you were gasping for air, Blue on your features— Cacophony in breathing.... Dragged you to the hospital (and then I begged for the first time to gods unknown to keep you alive.) #Sensewrds 208 #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #tanka #短歌

Losing strength to stand, Stunned, in awe at such a sweet Song, shaken too long. #SenseWrds #Prompt208 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sensewords.bsky.social

Hear those dulcet notes slipping away drawing a crowd in a circle who listen beguiled with trembling hearts Catching the mood of summer ‪ @sensewords.bsky.social‬ Prompt 208 Weakening Melodic Wonder #SenseWrds ,

Stay near, but let my hand slip softly from your fingers breathe the words — the unsung lyrics of goodbye. I'd take you with — the view from here, breathtaking — but it's a one-way ticket and I only have the one. #sensewrds #prompt208

Springtime calls for music In honor of blue skies My love sings a tune Winter opens the door Its tired feet retreat #sensewrds 208

we create then ourselves every touch a song without tune every kiss a fire without flame every desire coming to life leaving us awestruck whispering sweet names #SenseWrds 208 (i hope thats the right number 😅💜)

the fading sounds of song the celebration continuing but we sneak out to find a quiet corner where all this swirling potential between us the warmth that is going to bloom into a wildfire, the lust that wraps around us like emerald ropes cqn be made into a manifest whole as fireworks shine overhead

After the doldrums a breeze Licking sails, stir the old thought Of all those sweet things once poured Before souls sought their journeys After the breeze a stiff wind Fills sails tugging lazy jacks To their feet to their old tasks After the wind a heading An empty cup reminding #sensewrds 207

#sensewrds #travelled #saudade #amwriting #poetry #poems

#sensewrds Prompt 207 Travelled Sipping Saudade Wandering on the edge Of a parched desert I marched on alone Searching for your presence Something to be shown Dredging my souls depth For a place to rest, a ledge No more thirst or effort Needed to atone

questioning every trip, your chance to further inebriate, the one time I drank became the story told to make you ok, this is how it was, You and I, you telling me I was broken and me believing the match to parental themes, and me always loving and fixing and trying #sensewrds 207 #poetry

In my wandering, Stopped for a melancholy Tipple, miles of grief. #SenseWrds #Prompt207 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sensewords.bsky.social

#SenseWrds 207 dunno wtf she wanted but hey she was mixin' je ne sais quoi & lagniappe & had been quite a ways accordin' to the atlas map reckon it was Portuguese speakin' with ease & I was peakin' on sum LSDs we felt gracia merry no translation with a lil nip o sherry youtu.be/oznQNIvnaAQ?...

Into a desert of yearning we wandered, you & me, drinking of saffron tea 'til under its spell our souls soon f e l l we walked the sands hand in hand, enchanted, & amid the swirling dunes we succumbed to love until, with you in that dreamlike place I wished to stay always. #sensewrds 207

Nostalgia creeping dreamy days spent while merry making wine from the orchards of the gods golden apples all seductive closer to immortality spending time with rustic deities indulging in wild pleasures @sensewords.bsky.social‬ Travelled Sipping Saudade #SenseWrds

down by the beaver dam with the creek trickling through gnawed birch that purloined wine wasn’t quite as sweet after you said goodbye #poetry #micropoetry #prompt #sensewrds 207

I put it off, thinking attempts to rationalise are ridiculous be kind to those going through whatever raises before them tomorrow isn't always simply another day for some #SenseWrds

Prompt 208 Weakening Melodic Wonder Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

Photographs Foreheads together in solidarity On the plane in the room you and I We held the moment One big sad lavender beach ball We passed it back and forth We kept the balls in the air But she died anyway Nothing we could do The clock ran out Soda with ice The flight home silence #sensewrds 207

#sensewrds 207 travelled, sipping, saudade You are a compass point. Every step is either towards you or away from you. You are nourishment. Everything I eat and drink is you / you are ashes in my mouth. There he/she goes. A lost balloon, ungraspable. Maybe I'll never be whole. May you always be.

A yearning that I've yet to name a wanderlust long felt be not a taste for wealth nor fame those cards I was not dealt #sensewrds #207 Saudad Travelled Sipping

a trumpet sounds dressed in white i float down through the fields where i was once a lion to the mouth of a cave surprised by violets i devour flowers and hold them to my chest #SenseWrds 206

Flowers were always beautiful, I loved composting them the best, sliding downward to oblivion, stems and petals, unkempt #sensewrds 206 #poetry