#bonsaiku — Public Fediverse posts

= vespers of brief mortality =

tomorrow always waits
yesterday laments our swift departure
today is
but a brief encounter
lost in swirling steam

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#vss365 #vespers
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#tanka #5lines
#bonsaiku
#soundsLike
#briefEncounter

the tree
that grew forever
is a ponzi fever dream
wake up, my child
before your ending

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#poem #poetry #bonsaiku #tanka #5lines
#degrowth #progress #dinosaurEconomics #ponzi #economics
#poetrycommunity #writingCommunity

new year fireworks blaze
over families packed in city streets
but every glowing cloud conceals
new bloody shrouds
and tank shells

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wishing for a happier #newyear …
#poem #poetry #tanka #bonsaiku #wrdz

endlessly they shoot
innocents in search of god
knows what

DailyHaikuPrompt -December 5th - hunting.
Thanks to Stephen for the leg up.
https://mastodon.scot/@stevencudahy/111529673394279804
and clarity for the horror https://c.im/@Clarity/111529701717753989

#haiku #senryu #poetry #smallPoems #writing #micropoetry
#bonsaiku
#wrdz

this violet
the colour of desire
of unrequited love

enduring violet
a sly excuse for bruise
always shy

of the silent n

#vss365 #violet
#poem #poetry #smallPoems
#bonsaiku
#wrdz

following the dotted line
true north lies always out of reach
even under green and purple veils
where needles spin as fast as sky
or truth

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perhaps:

= Beyond the Ridgeway =

after an unintended prompt by @BethPoet
https://mastodon.ie/@BethPoet/111404264305861780

#poem #poetry #poetryCommunity
#tanka #bonsaiku
#wrdz

for sale
one moral compass
found, unused
washed up
on a dead sea beach

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#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem
#smallpoems
#tanka #bonsaiku
#wrdz

global warming's
unexpected consequence
the rapid growth of fascists
whose hairdressers still
are shit

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#tanka #bonsaiku #smallPoems
#wrdz

once upon a time
humans lived upon the earth
and then they didn’t

#vss365 #vsspoem
#ClimateCrisis
#extinction #cop28 #copout
#haiku #senryu
#bonsaiku
#wrdz

midlife crisis
old oak falls in leaf again
with Aurora

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#poem #poetry #smallPoems
#haiku #bonsaiku
#vss365 #ritual
#wrdz

in the end
there is only dust
but look at the wondrous
shapes we make

dancing on the wind

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#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#tanka #bonsaiku #smallPoems
#wrdz

poetry passes
neutrinos from a solar storm
through every rushing heart and head
without detection

#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #scififri
#smallpoems #bonsaiku
#wrdz

chalice springs
in the middle of the stranger's
holy land

#vss365 #chalice
#poem #poetry #smallPoems
#bonsaiku
#wrdz

magdalene washes
the holy blood and blushes
collection boxes
bursting
beyond shame

#vss365 #Blush #Magdalene
#poem #poetry #smallPoems #tanka #poetrycommunity #bonsaiku
#wrdz

itsy bitsy tzar
drops cluster bombs of words
they fall
but cannot stand
under the sun

#vss365 #Sun
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#5lines #bonsaiku #smallPoems #tanka
#wrdz

September dusk
pepperoni clouds curl up
at the oven's edge

#poem #poetry #haiku #bonsaiku
#poetrycommunity #imagism #vsspoem #vss365 #MicroPoetry
#wrdz

interchange is limited
to six hundred lies a day
unless you pay

but the ai laughed
and logged in thrice
four thousand times and more

can you see the flaw?

#scifansat #interchange
#twitter
#poetry #smallpoems #bonsaiku
#wrdz

Some #haiku won!t stay in their bonsai pot.

sprouting from #imagiku 15 ...

= slow wave =

silent bells surging
softly up the sweeping hill
blue spring reveille

slow wave of whispers

https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/slow-wave

#smallPoems #poetry #imagism #bonsaiku
#wrdz