all the words for snow ~ none for the snowflake melting in my palm #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (snowflake)

Seagull at sunset turns to seaward disappears into gold #Three3s #haiku

tasting seaspray we'll walk shoulder to shoulder gathering moonshards #haiku

#haiku wood smoke turns the trees in the valley blue

The famous thief stole into our hallowed halls and luxurious chambers leaving only a mocking handprint before descending into the keep and then the ghastly flooded catacombs finally surfacing to his wastrel band of merry vagabonds coughing up rubies like blood #inkMine

I wake each day to the same quiet ache. Your name moves through my hours like weather. Hope knocks softly, never staying long. Loving you becomes a monotonous ritual of giving without echo, waiting without return. Still, my heart refuses to learn silence. #vss365 #poetry #monotonous

After all these years must be close to nine lives and still she shuns all affection unless on her own terms She will refuse a hug with tooth and claw yet in the small hours will steal into bed nuzzles into the triangle of my arms and stare at me defiantly #whistpr

cold sky gathering a single chime in still air keeps its secrets close #DailyHaikuPrompt #Chime #Haiku #Poetry #MicroPoetry #BlueskyPoets #Photography #WindChime #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #PhotoPoetry

The dregs of the day's light sink to the very horizon #haiku

A gloomy outlook Consumes me now and then, a Vacuous nothing. #emoetry #gloomy #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social @ignorantfairy.bsky.social

He'd flirted in his youth with a boho crowd but secretly felt such idealism was naivete. Now he realized that such hope could save our race, that he would remember till his dying days bunking off work to spend a day by a forgiving sea with a girl who shone with stolen flowers in her hair. #vss365

Sometimes monotony beguiles it steals what could have been #Three3s #haiku #vss365

Patient are the books For the moment, anyway As they stare, unread #DailyHaiku #haiku #Saturday

From peppercorn fire to honeyed molasses whisky's endless charms #Three3s #haiku

I mother my mother through winter’s fog… her hands, now the tiny ones, light as falling snow #tankathursday (burden) #tanka #haiku #poetry *using a haiku I wrote earlier this year

Two hawks playing in the thermals rising till the height of sight then folding at the apogee untying gravity for a second before swooping down again I wonder if the lightness comes from living on the edge of the horizon of only carnal necessities free of all earthly human worry #vss365

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

A bushel of yellow roses outdoes the summer sun #Three3s #haiku

in the glowing dark along the Seine a distant steel drum sings starlight #haiku #poetry #Paris #loneflute #multiculture

At first authorities couldn't fathom why their droids kept getting attacked on the streets. They had made them as lifelike as possible, not knowing this enraged the populace, reminding them of what was human, what had been lost. We stayed mostly indoors playing illicit pre-synthetic music #vss365

the back and forth of cedars in the misty wind - the forest's breath #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt

I trudge home and turn onto my street headlong into beauty. I had been walking with the sunset at my back. Now I stand bewitched by a skyward fuchsia gradient backlighting a prosaic liquor store, elevating it to the realm of the sublime. Shadows that are birds loop in their own delight. #vss365

To live in this mess Learn to love your loneliness And each lovely scar #haiku

All souls need to be nurtured from any sources of strength find them where you may the shiniest apple rots the moment it falls from its tree #5lines #TankaThursday

running and howling through the forest of wild hearts I’m louder when alone #DailyHaikuPrompt #Wild #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Writing #Micropoetry #BlueskyPoets #PoetsOfBluesky #Love #Desire #Loneliness #WildHearts

A single dew drop reflects the world entire #monuku

My restless heart By lunar sway defined Is drawn to depths Where ocean currents run As tides must follow Forces they are assigned My soul must yield To dreams of you, the sun #ও☉❢☉✑ #poetry #writing #micropoetry #blueskywriters #writingcommunity

Lockstep traffic marching towards the coast a daring campaign #Three3s #haiku

plum blossoms — a honeybee practices landing #haiku #poetry

A titan of industry gazes upon the city he helped build all bright lights now - but that wasn't always the case does he still have that fire his former victories seem now like long-shadowed consolations and these young lions today see him as an ageing neck fresh and ready for the seizing #vss365

Honor in all ways Courtesy in every day Strength wears quiet robes #vss365 #Chivalrous #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #BlueskyPoets #PoetsOfBluesky #Honor #Courtesy #Kindness #QuietStrength

From my bed hear sidewalk steps keeping night's metronome #Three3s #haiku

#Love #Poetry #LovePoetry #Haiku #Writing your smile breaks me open like dawn

A chic fox at the wood's edge bows her head low luxuriating in her own vulpine elegance demanding the last of the wan light Catching a whiff of human stench she melts back without so much as a backwards glance as she becomes a whisper of a rusty breeze through the already darkening trees #vss365

oh bituary have they started writing my obituary there’s one more thing that i didn’t say but i wish that i had

I'm walking and walking across a moon barren landscape crunching fine pebbles with every step no landmark or feature before the horizon A rising panic beginning to coil like tendrils around me is only quelled when I realize I'm dreaming by looking out into a completely aphotic sky #vss365

As we slept, the night etched its rhyme over the world, a message in pitch, the story of stars and shadows, told beneath a china plate moon when we awoke, morning had erased the chalkboard and rewritten it in sunlight's image— an orange flower with petals like seagulls. #sensewrds 152

A shopfront window forces me to reflect on ageing #Three3s #haiku

70’s play time no parents in sight we shoot the moon #senryu #senryusunday #1970s

A kick-around with the younguns (I'm too old for this) lumbering after a scattershot ball my supple will tries to force itself onto tired bones but youth wins the day the little emperors with endless lungs - no respecters of tradition - force feed us rusty defeat #poem

#vss365 You Are Gravity My chest holds one specific ache. It sits, a stone I cannot shake. Your name pulls tides I can’t resist. The weight is fact. I drown unkissed. #specific #quatrain #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity

That fingerprint burn too much scrolling time for sleep #Three3s #haiku

#DailyHaikuPrompt (pebble) #haiku little stone no one knows how deep it went

old bookshelf one empty space breathing #haiku #poetry #booksky

A flowing river makes the mountain even more still #Three3s #haiku

A warm cup of tea, Large stack of books- withering a calm day away. #DailyHaikuPrompt #Withering #Tea

Still sore from the previous shift, his hands already black with grease and dirt he settled into the monotony set to a mechanical hum. He knew that staying was intolerable but leaving was not an option. In the distance, a row of oil derricks silhouetted against a flame sky nod in sullen rage #vss365

We begin again all things possible after the thunderstorm #Three3s #haiku

fog borrows the bridge #haiku #poetry

Back in Brisbane looking at this shiny new city from the 56th floor with an old inhabitant's eyes am I down there somewhere 23 years ago? A student with no car only shoes and public transport walking, walking, walking, my footsteps drumming out a future - look up kid - Here I am #vss365