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MuederKrieger
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no man of big words;Silence is the greatest language.Expressing oneself in a few words and creating a mood is a fine art, that's why I love haiku, senryu etc
Pinned
"'I know nothing.'
Is my answer:
Spring in my old age"

Kyoshi Takahama
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Woke up & the world
was #alight with snow.
Went out side & realized
I had a hole in my shoe

#whistpr
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
on the stove
a hearty crab stew;
the faucet drips

#whistpr #crab
#vssdaily #faucet
#Senryu #micropoetry
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
hold together
only by suspenders;
autumn deepens

#BraveWrite #suspenders
#Haiku #micropoetry
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
thoughts and myths
are swirling in my head
mold in the cellar
I have almost missed
the first snow

#vss365 #myth
#DailyHaikuPrompt #firstsnow
#TankaThursday #cellar
#Tanka #TankaPoem #micropoetry
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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popcorn shortage
on the verge of collapse
house of cards
#senryu
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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The only thing that concerned Dylan was whether The Enemy or his ‘navy’ had the greater #number of ships. The Enemy weren’t that much more advanced, or that much better at fighting. It came down to pluck and spirit and who had more shooty things.

They seemed unending, though. Too many.

#vss365
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Rory wasn’t one for putting too much emphasis on the statistics of a character, analysing critical probabilities and damage points.
He just did things and if they made monsters die faster, great! He didn’t pay attention to a #number unless it was bigger than what he already had in the stat.

#vss365
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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college hallway
creative writing professor
mid-sentence
why is the kiss i recall
the unwanted one

Published in: Ribbons
Tanka Society of America
Fall/Winter 2025: Volume 21, Number 2

#Tanka #TankaPoem #Micropoetry
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Today my tea bag broke.
So I made the best of it
and tried to divine
the new year from
the tea leaves.
All I could make out
were a crocodile,
a frog and a sailboat –
a special kind of #fairy tale.

#BlueSkyRelay
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
nougat's sweetness;
the veteran is cleaning
her rifle

#InkMine #nougat
#BraveWrite #veteran
#Senryu #micropoetry
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
measuring
to make the final strike
praying mantis

#vss365 #measure
#whistpr #mantis
#Haiku #micropoetry
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
double-checking
when the door closes...
the mask sits

#DailyHaikuPrompt #mask
#Senryu #micropoetry
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
a whiff
of fading lavender...
single again

#InkMine #single
#whistpr #lavender
#Senryu #micropoetry
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
medal of honor —
the knowledge how to
age with grace

#BraveWrite #honor
#Senryu #micropoetry
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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finally heading home the amount of time it takes for me to arrive #senryu
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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walking under streetlights the night quite chilly #senryu
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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cheap Christmas ornament on the table i hate death #senryu
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Tolstoy's fight against death left a pot on the stove boiling #senryu
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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putting away the summer robes winter slow in coming #senryu
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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whimsical—buying a mosquito net that i don't need #senryu
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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the darkness of writing ink smacking while eating ice cream #senryu
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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poet his paper given back full of red pencil'd corrections #senryu
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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the end of the sound
of everything, the sound
of snow falling

--Maya Okuzaka

いつさいの音のはてなり雪ふるおと 奥坂まや

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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forest clearing
a pine sapling begins
to measure up
#vss365 #haiku
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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In my office, just
opposite my desk,
hangs a poster of
a #lavender field.
Every time, work
becomes exhausting,
I dream myself into
that sunny picture.
One day, I hope to
wake up in that sunny
field, looking at a picture
of an empty office.

#whistpr
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM