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Griff Roberts
@rogriffi.bsky.social
Fringe player in main character's story. No aspirations. No bona fides.
seeking harmony

dial back the clock
ignore what you are seeing
crank up the volume
no time to be uncertain
stack those thirds and trade some fours

#poetry #micropoetry #tanka #emoetry #prompt
January 16, 2026 at 5:17 PM
departure

rode that bus
end of the line
contrary to belief
there’s not another
coming or going

time to choose
a direction
or stagnation
you know me
whatever’s easiest

shuffle or deal
does it matter
in the long run
I’m unmissable
and you’re gone

#poetry #micropoetry #vss365 #prompt #deal
January 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM
wait up
tell me something
so I can understand
don’t just shove me aside to be
ignored

#poetry #micropoetry #cinquain #emoetry #prompt
January 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM
it happens

spurious squint
arching brow
spry catenaric smile
understated intentions
sealed deal

#poetry #micropoetry #cinquain #prompt
January 9, 2026 at 4:13 AM
damaged goods

cracked pot on a shelf
leaking logic but begging
to be used -- again

its throaty hushed pleas
appear to be nonchalant
but won’t be ignored

#poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #prompt #nonchalant
January 8, 2026 at 11:33 PM
melancholic symphony

dissonant winds sweep
a path through bare bones
of summer long past
sounding winter qualms
that may not resolve
in time to matter

#poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #vss365 #prompt
January 7, 2026 at 4:35 PM
time out of mind

she calls it parole
justified intimacy
spooked by drudgery
imbalance interrupted
for the briefest of moments

#poetry #micropoetry #tanka #emoetry #vss365 #prompt
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
impossible to ignore

stoked by rancid zeal
hot stoves of indifference
burn rights into wrongs

ignorance fosters
that elevator’s descent
into oddball realms

most rational folks
quake in heartbroken disgust
at what is to come

#poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #vss365 #triku #prompt
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
avaricious

lop-sided tango
clueless moves overstepping
through the glowing night
await a morning of crows
cackling in delight

#poetry #micropoetry #tanka #emoetry #vss365 #prompt
January 4, 2026 at 5:32 PM
fertile balderdash
spread thick like fertilizer
feeding constant lies

#poetry #micropoetry #senryu #emoetry #vss365 #prompt
January 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
now that’s ballsy

step right up to our
emasculation station
sit down to write poems
then share them with the circle
abandon all abstraction

#poetry #micropoetry #tanka #emoetry #vss365 #prompt
January 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
if only

when we’ve gone too far
if there were ways of knowing
to look for exits
and delight in where we’ve been
and never go there again

#poetry #micropoetry #tanka #vss365 #prompt #delight
January 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
survey says

funny
all that time spent
working and not dreaming
this year didn’t pay off did it
laugh now

#poetry #micropoetry #cinquain #year #prompt
December 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
zealots

oh they are out there
scattering scorn as they move
always on the prowl
not for victims but converts
smirking at the subversion

#poetry #micropoetry #tanka #emoetry #prompt #scorn
December 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
endurance

survive
depredation
never surrendering
never rattled so you outlast
chaos

#poetry #micropoetry #cinquain #emoetry #prompt #rattled
December 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
having haiku woes
distilling condensing sense
isn’t always poss …

#poetry #micropoetry #senryu #prompt
December 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
widow’s peak

that once-and-future crown
forever pointed downward
a nonchalant foreshadowing
of losing its lock of distraction

but that reign is gone now
the dome naked, afraid
as curly contrarian ideas
float away like dandelion dust

#poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #whistpr #prompt
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
rectify

broken
relationships
like some dropped ceramics
get fixes that leave more lines than
crazing

#poetry #micropoetry #cinquain #prompt
December 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
the trouble you see
is so accumulative —
mighty perplexing

#poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #prompt #mighty
December 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Regret

What next?
Everything points
To something I forgot
And it hurts, hurts to remember
It all.

#poetry #micropoetry #cinquain #vss365 #prompt #regret
December 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
once we had it all
but pliable memory
nibbling the edges
softened an iced foundation
that seemed indestructible

#poetry #micropoetry #tanka #vss365 #prompt #memory
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
survival techniques
acquired at a young age
never prepare you
to be so flabbergasted
by preposterous adults

#poetry #micropoetry #tanka #emoetry #prompt #flabbergasted
December 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
secrets of strangers
hidden behind starry eyes
gush illicit truths
like uncorked champagne bottles
quickly destined to fall flat

#poetry #micropoetry #vss365 #tanka #prompt
December 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
quite cautious each time
a poem gets its release
into the blue sky
will it flounder fall or fly
is it worthy of your time?

#poetry #micropoetry #tanka #emoetry #cautious #prompt
December 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
bemused wasn’t quite
the response he was seeking
fishing for feedback

#poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #senryu #bemused
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM