Secrets unredacted,
A grander falsehood made,
And truth is soon betrayed.
Poof, narrative hygiene,
When secrets are then shown,
They're swiftly overthrown.
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Secrets unredacted,
A grander falsehood made,
And truth is soon betrayed.
Poof, narrative hygiene,
When secrets are then shown,
They're swiftly overthrown.
#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art #truth #secrets
I used to play D&D
Way back time machine
Lots of laughs at seventeen
At the Alice Springs Community Club
Every Saturday from noon into the night
Tabletop miniatures, tanks, and figurines
Stories made and told
Lots of laughter
We meet up once a year
When our role-playing stars align
repeated itself in my mind—
it said, time & again
you do the same old thing,
when will you learn?
& I replied,
stop dreaming?
Stop being a hopeless
romantic?
Never—
even when
I'm returned to stardust,
I'll spread my dreams
like fireworks
to light the universe.
#FromOneLine 405
repeated itself in my mind—
it said, time & again
you do the same old thing,
when will you learn?
& I replied,
stop dreaming?
Stop being a hopeless
romantic?
Never—
even when
I'm returned to stardust,
I'll spread my dreams
like fireworks
to light the universe.
#FromOneLine 405
reach toward the sun
it's to you
my thoughts turn
watching the waves
grasp for the shore
there in my mind
you appear
observing a bee
seek the ideal flower
I can't but ponder
how you are
& I wonder
when you see the breeze
press her lips
to the trees—
do you ever
think of me?
reach toward the sun
it's to you
my thoughts turn
watching the waves
grasp for the shore
there in my mind
you appear
observing a bee
seek the ideal flower
I can't but ponder
how you are
& I wonder
when you see the breeze
press her lips
to the trees—
do you ever
think of me?
Now they hide in dark corners
And conspire with night.
#haikufeels #ban #senryu #haiku
Now they hide in dark corners
And conspire with night.
#haikufeels #ban #senryu #haiku
wavered, an offbeat key,
when you thundered in
in your quiet way,
gently seismic
your instincts knew
it wasn't raucousness
would make me swoon,
my ear more attuned
to subtle cues—
your quirky mind,
your witty ways
created the quake
that subtly shook me
off my feet.
#inkmine
wavered, an offbeat key,
when you thundered in
in your quiet way,
gently seismic
your instincts knew
it wasn't raucousness
would make me swoon,
my ear more attuned
to subtle cues—
your quirky mind,
your witty ways
created the quake
that subtly shook me
off my feet.
#inkmine
To look into someone's soul
See the beauty there.
#haikufeels #glare #senryu #haiku
To look into someone's soul
See the beauty there.
#haikufeels #glare #senryu #haiku
the ache of defeat—
to take a stand
or throw in the towel?
Or maybe choose
the unpopular opinion—
run straight at the squall,
dressed in the plumage
of defeat, delighting in
its accoutrements
I'll make a jester of it
'til the storm passes
and hope returns.
the ache of defeat—
to take a stand
or throw in the towel?
Or maybe choose
the unpopular opinion—
run straight at the squall,
dressed in the plumage
of defeat, delighting in
its accoutrements
I'll make a jester of it
'til the storm passes
and hope returns.
It stared into existence
Found too much meaning.
#haikuhorrorprompt #abysm #haiku #senryu
It stared into existence
Found too much meaning.
#haikuhorrorprompt #abysm #haiku #senryu
Curses offered up like prayers
Confused devotion.
#weirdmicro #ConfusedDevotion #haiku #senryu
Curses offered up like prayers
Confused devotion.
#weirdmicro #ConfusedDevotion #haiku #senryu
Stanzas etched across my heart
More than words can say.
#bedroomeyes #morethanwordscansay #haiku #senryu
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Stanzas etched across my heart
More than words can say.
#bedroomeyes #morethanwordscansay #haiku #senryu
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Shy kisses, his cheeks matching
Her violet hair.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Violet #Lamplight #haiku #senryu
Shy kisses, his cheeks matching
Her violet hair.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Violet #Lamplight #haiku #senryu
its oubliette
making me forget
everything between
one life & the next
I would make
a deal with fate
to hide a memory
of us
& as time's back
was turned
fate could intervene
reuniting us
at destiny's tree
where details
recalled would
be nothing
to love reborn
& lived again.
its oubliette
making me forget
everything between
one life & the next
I would make
a deal with fate
to hide a memory
of us
& as time's back
was turned
fate could intervene
reuniting us
at destiny's tree
where details
recalled would
be nothing
to love reborn
& lived again.
there-
the tiniest crack,
from which
a sapling peeks
reaching gingerly
toward the sun,
as if checking—
will it nourish
or burn?
because even hope
can hurt
when you've learned
not to trust
all that it promises.
#mpprompt
A little different today. Sit down, take a deep breath, imagine you have just received some really good news.
Now write.
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there-
the tiniest crack,
from which
a sapling peeks
reaching gingerly
toward the sun,
as if checking—
will it nourish
or burn?
because even hope
can hurt
when you've learned
not to trust
all that it promises.
#mpprompt
my memory,
the way it files
in detail when
soldiers of fate
attacked with
devastating force,
leaving bones
of chances lost
but not the vactions
or happy hours
reading in the yard,
adventures taken,
chances won
hard to ascend
to a better mood
when my mind only
replays gloom.
my memory,
the way it files
in detail when
soldiers of fate
attacked with
devastating force,
leaving bones
of chances lost
but not the vactions
or happy hours
reading in the yard,
adventures taken,
chances won
hard to ascend
to a better mood
when my mind only
replays gloom.
Grasps at a blood oasis
Human neck mirage.
#haikuhorrorprompt #Oasis #haiku #senryu
Grasps at a blood oasis
Human neck mirage.
#haikuhorrorprompt #Oasis #haiku #senryu
Of nerves ever frayed threadbare
But of endless love.
#bedroomeyes #EndlessLove #haiku #senryu
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Of nerves ever frayed threadbare
But of endless love.
#bedroomeyes #EndlessLove #haiku #senryu
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A procedural silence
'Til dawn's curtains drawn.
#weirdmicro #ProceduralSilence #haiku #senryu
A procedural silence
'Til dawn's curtains drawn.
#weirdmicro #ProceduralSilence #haiku #senryu
Spring's lantern, lighting the way
For Persephone.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #SpringLantern #Moon #haiku #senryu
Spring's lantern, lighting the way
For Persephone.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #SpringLantern #Moon #haiku #senryu
Fix the chain.
You know how.
Eat slower.
Look at birds
even the boring ones.
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You opened up a box you found buried in the back yard, and it contained this poem.
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Fix the chain.
You know how.
Eat slower.
Look at birds
even the boring ones.
#mpprompt #poetry #prompt #poetryprompt #writing