what river forgets willow remembers secrets in the wind #inkmine #haiku

Why did the stillness of lying on my back in the Pacific bring to mind the violence of wrestling my brother to the bottom of a pool our holy breath captured in bubbles defying gravity and falling upwards I turn into the infinite clutch of seawater glad for the skein of warmth on my back #vss365

charmed by morning light even the dust seems to glow nothing feels alone #emoetry #Charmed #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #BlueskyPoets #Morning #Dawn #Sunrise

Sing you sweet thing your dawn chorus of sighs opens my sleep-heavy eyes and the soft light from the window barely suggesting your form like some holy mountain in the distance A loose thread on your shoulder and all this before six a.m. #vss365

I loved the chic of old movies Le Samourai Men with dark histories but there was me with me with No history only a decade and a half old So you with no filmography and untouched by heartbreak never really had a shot I mourned you with stolen whisky me playing at life til it too passed me by

spring day at the beach two toddlers work hard to build a shell company #DailyHaikuPrompt (shell) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

This dry skin that carries a partial history of tropical tempests within me From uneasy silence to first lush plop of water on stone to mad winds to shrieking trains rumbling by, investigating all things to their limits and back to fecund silences where nimble things pick over the decay #vss365

practicing tone kettle whistling the meandering petal falls of flowering trees

A Summer still life study: cicada chorus unmoved as a spade sticking out of the earth tries to bury itself from this heat #poem

sagebrush flat— a copperhead corrects my posture #haiku #poetry

between wake and dream the skin shivers, electric glimpses of lost loves legends only ghosts would know a fire that never dies #haiku #senryu #tanka #micropoetry

Kerala eagle riding the air wings spread wide perfectly balanced catching a little sunlight in its feathers to take home a little warmth #vss365

my little preon throw away all notions of insignificance #micropoetry #haiku

soft spring morning sky clouds drifting without hurry light finds every leaf #dailyhaikuprompt #SpringSky #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #Photography #ImageAndVerse #Landscape #Spring #Sunrise #Dawn #Haiga #EastCoastKin

The heft of a full bottle the certainty of it the sound of the cork escaping its bonds (how many squeaky pops have I twisted? A treeful?) some bottles run quick others outlast wars some bought to mark a special occasion that's yet to be precious amber a poet's helper finding the lost words #vss365

Tangle of branches write a moonlit signature on my bedroom wall. #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt Moon

I still remember that afternoon emerald waters riverbank, canopy and your eyes all a harmony of green #vss365

spring breeze~ her green hairclip gleams in the sun #haiku

Thin chalkboard lightning continually erases itself as it falls #Three3s #haiku #vss365

i thought that silence was empty but it is full of small continuings seed head in wind light on standing water the far sound of wings and my old error of believing that what does not speak can not answer #Poetry

We knew the contents of all Mum's jewelry boxes but the real prize was the shiny wedding band which came off only when she napped When we two raiders still ignorant of Indiana Jones or Tolkien would mount such daring exploits that inched our way across an afternoon to our plunder of gold #vss365

a crunch in the woods, a quick spark among the leaves, gone before I smile #WildWalkPrompt #crunch #haiku #writing #writingcommunity #micropoetry

Sudden summer gusts animating dried grass crackle and swarm #Three3s #haiku

#haiku the stars frighten us send us inside

I'm a simpleton Who grasped at a pretty blade Again and again #haiku #poetry #poem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #3lines #vss365 #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity

Five scheming sparrows conspiring on the fence I open the front door meeting adjourned #poem

wheatfield wind the sky stitched shut with black wings #haiku #poetry

Cosy in that wake-drunk state before nodding off to sleep running through a thousand unrequited futures but nothing is as sleepy sweet as musing on that one magical past that was flesh and bone #poem

Tag! You're it! they never said what, though, exactly #Three3s #haiku

#haiku the moon knows all of your names

Blueberry jam Impasto smeared across a rough white tablecloth #Three3s #haiku

Letters in ribbon quietly age alongside her, brittle and yellow. #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt Yellow

The last of the summer sun one bloom left #Three3s #haiku

gathering stories, rambling tales from memories like springtime flowers pressed in an unlined notebook plucked from heavy-scented air #haiku #tanka #micropoetry #amwriting

A fever in an unknown land I wake up drenched and dislocated from body and place lights swing around my unfamiliar room and some crazed beast screams my name outside in the falling rain I wake again and look at a calming frozen metal sky and begin to put the pieces back together again #vss365

At day's end spotless hotel room; holiday in itself #Three3s #haiku

#haiku before they bloom they tilt forward

late winter dusk like an unworn wedding dress she folds the day away #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

One muggy afternoon two whisky sours now forty winks #Three3s #haiku

My head is a heavy stone sunk in a shallow pool of fever. ​The clock on the wall is a liar, insisting on noon while my marrow hums with midnight. I am caught in the static between time zones and heartbeats, waiting for my soul to clear customs. #ও☉❢☉✑ #poetry #writing #micropoetry #blueskywriters

Only recently have I as older brother begun to contemplate the blatant injustices meted out to the youngest in our clan Recruited to games solely as cannon fodder, subjected to novel experiments with lipstick and scissors never believed On the whole it was a sacrifice I'm willing to make #vss365

the days sail past like shipwrecked ghosts sea of charcoal #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

Heat-struck bee revived with some cool sugar water buzzing buzzing gone my good deed for the day #inkMine

light snow father's shopping list still on the fridge

Across the bay city's garbled lights glowing through fog #Three3s #haiku

rain-soaked clay at the wheel’s middle my hands steady a quiet vessel opens to the sun Fatma Zohra Habis #tanka #TankaThursday #poetrycommunity #poetry #inkMine #middle #vss365

And what do I as a grown man at this beastly hour, the hour of claw and fang? I wake to watch other grown men kick a ball around. But this is my tribe we are legion - hear the roar of the crowd as we spur our champions on and may the sun rise to our sweet victory as we fly our colors high #vss365

windless day— barbecue smoke unbent #haiku #poetry

strawgold light of dusk clouds gather in the teapot how the dark leaves swirl

We, people who had only had dogs, were mystified when you first appeared in our doorway during dinnertime I took a picture as we regarded each other wearily It was the first of many forays into our home until one day you were simply ours and we added catfood to the grocery list #vss365