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all too often, we

all too often, we 
forget what we are capable 
of creating with 

our own two hands, some time, and 
a little help from others
.
20260723:2320
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Khayyam's Curse

If there was a way
to send my soul on the wind,
I could cross the world;
but there are no whispered songs
that can carry my heart home.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Khayyam's Curse

If there was a way
to send my soul on the wind,
I could cross the world;
but there are no whispered songs
that can carry my heart home.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

#Wss366 #Compass #TimeTravelAuthors 07/23. Tip for writing time travel

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

Personal compass
Echo’s through time
Following follow

Time-slip paradox
The rules are for you

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #TimeTravel #NMTTA #NMPrompts

#Wss366 #Compass #TimeTravelAuthors 07/23. Tip for writing time travel

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

Personal compass
Echo’s through time
Following follow

Time-slip paradox
The rules are for you

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #TimeTravel #NMTTA #NMPrompts

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaThursday #senryu #artifact

Account

Waste of life, to chase
inedible tokens, through
ruined dreams of peace;
I long for life with the soil,
and the songs of ancient Gods.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Account

Waste of life, to chase
inedible tokens, through
ruined dreams of peace;
I long for life with the soil,
and the songs of ancient Gods.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

panama papers
full release of Epstein files
things not happening

because you refuse to fight
just as you always decide

#tanka #trutru #wyd

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panama papers
full release of Epstein files
things not happening

because you refuse to fight
just as you always decide

#tanka #trutru #wyd

🖖

panama papers
full release of Epstein files
things not happening

because you refuse to fight
just as you always decide

#tanka #trutru #wyd

🖖

panama papers
full release of Epstein files
things not happening

because you refuse to fight
just as you always decide

#tanka #trutru #wyd

🖖

panama papers
full release of Epstein files
things not happening

because you refuse to fight
just as you always decide

#tanka #trutru #wyd

🖖

Remembrance

The Sea sang to me,
with the voice of the West Wind,
and rhythm of waves;
its verse bore names of the lost,
in sadness of memory.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Remembrance

The Sea sang to me,
with the voice of the West Wind,
and rhythm of waves;
its verse bore names of the lost,
in sadness of memory.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday #senryu #artifact

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday #senryu #artifact

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday #senryu #artifact

Recrudescence

https://haikudread.net/2026/07/21/recrudescence/

as the sun sets on

as the sun sets on 
another world cup, we catch a 
glimpse of a waxing 

crescent on the train ride home, make 
a wish transcending borders
.
20260720:2016
y

as the sun sets on

as the sun sets on 
another world cup, we catch a 
glimpse of a waxing 

crescent on the train ride home, make 
a wish transcending borders
.
20260720:2016
y

as the sun sets on

as the sun sets on 
another world cup, we catch a 
glimpse of a waxing 

crescent on the train ride home, make 
a wish transcending borders
.
20260720:2016
y

as the sun sets on

as the sun sets on 
another world cup, we catch a 
glimpse of a waxing 

crescent on the train ride home, make 
a wish transcending borders
.
20260720:2016
y

Slip

One more day is lost
to ravening Time, preserved
only in our hearts;
must mere memory suffice
to record both joy and grief?

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Slip

One more day is lost
to ravening Time, preserved
only in our hearts;
must mere memory suffice
to record both joy and grief?

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Unidirectional

All roads lead away,
and each step leaves more behind
than bare hills promise;
so, I turn up my collar
against the Wind's sweeter song

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Unidirectional

All roads lead away,
and each step leaves more behind
than bare hills promise;
so, I turn up my collar
against the Wind's sweeter song

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Unidirectional

All roads lead away,
and each step leaves more behind
than bare hills promise;
so, I turn up my collar
against the Wind's sweeter song

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Unidirectional

All roads lead away,
and each step leaves more behind
than bare hills promise;
so, I turn up my collar
against the Wind's sweeter song

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Unidirectional

All roads lead away,
and each step leaves more behind
than bare hills promise;
so, I turn up my collar
against the Wind's sweeter song

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Mythical Beach

6-Link #Rengay
@extraspecialbitter
@NaraMoore

Image: Nara Moore Copyright 2026

#Poetry #詩 #Tanka #短歌 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #MastoPrompt #Ocean #Sea #SilentSunday #plushie

Mythical Beach

6-Link #Rengay
@extraspecialbitter
@NaraMoore

Image: Nara Moore Copyright 2026

#Poetry #詩 #Tanka #短歌 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #MastoPrompt #Ocean #Sea #SilentSunday #plushie

Mythical Beach

6-Link #Rengay
@extraspecialbitter
@NaraMoore

Image: Nara Moore Copyright 2026

#Poetry #詩 #Tanka #短歌 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #MastoPrompt #Ocean #Sea #SilentSunday #plushie

Mythical Beach

6-Link #Rengay
@extraspecialbitter
@NaraMoore

Image: Nara Moore Copyright 2026

#Poetry #詩 #Tanka #短歌 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #MastoPrompt #Ocean #Sea #SilentSunday #plushie

Mythical Beach

6-Link #Rengay
@extraspecialbitter
@NaraMoore

Image: Nara Moore Copyright 2026

#Poetry #詩 #Tanka #短歌 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #MastoPrompt #Ocean #Sea #SilentSunday #plushie

Soup Kitchen Blues

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

It’s hard times
Rich in their palace
Me on the street

Soup kitchen blues
Can you spare a dime

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

Al Jolson - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime:

#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #Jazz #Blues #AlJolson #TheDepression

Soup Kitchen Blues

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

It’s hard times
Rich in their palace
Me on the street

Soup kitchen blues
Can you spare a dime

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

Al Jolson - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime:

#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #Jazz #Blues #AlJolson #TheDepression

Soup Kitchen Blues

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

It’s hard times
Rich in their palace
Me on the street

Soup kitchen blues
Can you spare a dime

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

Al Jolson - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime:

#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #Jazz #Blues #AlJolson #TheDepression

Soup Kitchen Blues

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

It’s hard times
Rich in their palace
Me on the street

Soup kitchen blues
Can you spare a dime

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

Al Jolson - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime:

#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #Jazz #Blues #AlJolson #TheDepression

Soup Kitchen Blues

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

It’s hard times
Rich in their palace
Me on the street

Soup kitchen blues
Can you spare a dime

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

Al Jolson - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime:

#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #Jazz #Blues #AlJolson #TheDepression

a calming practice
quiet night time remembrance
always missing them

they do not remember us
but we do not forget them

#tanka #night #practices

💎🩵

a calming practice
quiet night time remembrance
always missing them

they do not remember us
but we do not forget them

#tanka #night #practices

💎🩵

Carry

Will the shifting tides
bring driftwood hopes to worn shores,
or claim bones of rock?
Souls, lost to time and place, wait
For this bounty, or burden.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Carry

Will the shifting tides
bring driftwood hopes to worn shores,
or claim bones of rock?
Souls, lost to time and place, wait
For this bounty, or burden.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

a grand illusion
happily ever after
secret in plain sight

states are by nature fleeting
cautionary tales -- mythos

#tanka #inversion_insight

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a grand illusion
happily ever after
secret in plain sight

states are by nature fleeting
cautionary tales -- mythos

#tanka #inversion_insight

🖖

we are old enough

we are old enough 
to have seen a pink pineapple 
and young enough to 

have seen it for the very first 
time, and still, wondering why
.
20260717:2032
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題「晩見躑躅」「旅宿昌蒲」「初秋露」「松下落葉」「月前恋」「曙」「松経年」より取りて歌詠み候へ

旅宿菖蒲
水に映ゆるいづれ菖蒲か杜若いくさの声は聞かざらまほし

松経年
ふる雪を積むにまかせて松が枝のやがて折り合ひ月に伏す影

#短歌 #tanka #31letters
#題詠道標 #shindanmaker
https://shindanmaker.com/889480

Suspiria's Gate

6-Link #Rengay

@extraspecialbitter
@NaraMoore

Art: Mai-sensei:

#Poetry #詩 #Tanka #短歌 #NMPoetry #Supernatureal #Movies #Horror

Suspiria's Gate

6-Link #Rengay

@extraspecialbitter
@NaraMoore

Art: Mai-sensei:

#Poetry #詩 #Tanka #短歌 #NMPoetry #Supernatureal #Movies #Horror