Recover and Resist Haiku

I took a news break
The weekend was recovery
I’m ready again

But now I need you
Can you summarize the news
Share in haiku form?

Ok, ok. *Smile*
Communicate how you want
I need to catch up

Thank you in advance
I need this platform. For real.
Sharing. Community.

#Resist

After the Collapse

In that single moment
After the collapse,
I emerged
From the path worth taking.

Wild and hard,
Long and winding,
Overgrown with roots of doubt,
Fear, defiance, and cruelty.

Poem by @rebelfema.altgov.info

Rabble-rouser roars
“Revolution!” “Resistance!”
Reeling in the Right

Haiku by @altreclamation.altgov.info

This poem was bouncing around my brain the past few days.

Worried
Mary Oliver

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn
as it was taught, and if not how shall
I correct it?
Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,
can I do better?

Cut ballrooms, golf trips!
RIF Felon and his regime!
Signed, we the people

Haiku by @altreclamation.altgov.info

A poet (even / especially one furloughed) always stirs to a muse’s call, even begrudgingly, reaching for the light and notebook or phone with notes app in the middle of the night.

Fellow #AltPoets feel free to share here - where character limits ad a beatnik quality to your verse, gratis.

Rise and shine, poets! Or try to go back to sleep a little longer first..!

As you sip your morning beverage of choice, or whenever the mood strikes - feel free to share a haiku or poem in the comments!

#AltPoetSociety
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“I have one nation”
“By the same founding fathers?”
“I don’t understand”

- haiku by @altreclamation.altgov.info

#AltPoetSociety

August: the most hopeful month of the year,
when the bounty of our labors is realized in the northern hemisphere,
gently plucking fragile fruits.
Tomatoes at their plumpest,
in amusing asymmetries
like shaped balloons inflated to their initial stretch point
by small lungs.
Wild berries softened

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