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itinerant autodidact seeking the truth stumbling into what obscures it
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#poem #micropoem #inkMine #sixword #intend #prompt #weeklyprompt
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Fridays are doggerel days

Mexican fan palm sneaking up on me
but I’ve seen this playbook before!

(don’t you love that late evening rosiness on the clouds?)

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#poetry #poem #doggerel
#mexicanpalm #doggerelday
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
on my mind today

is the loaded emotional weight we carry when taking everything said and done like an arrow into our own hearts.

A form of self-loathing
born sometimes from fear of detachment
jealousy
or similar embedded #trauma

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#poetry #poem
#self-loathing #detachment
#emotionalweight
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I'm sat in the late afternoon under a canopy of bushes in Greenacres Park, Birdhaven, looking East The low sun behind picks out #cumulusclouds, dark #Highveld #thunderclouds threaten from the right.
The cooling #evening settles my mind.

#park #reflecting
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Nature’s cycle of life
encapsulated in Jhator
Tibetan sky burial
a ceremony
returning humanity
yielding human life to Gaia

Our precious resources
not burned
not interred
returned

balance through transformation
not sacrifice

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#poetry #poem #haiku
#jhator #tibet #gaia #nature #blackeagles
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
What's on my mind tonight
is Deborah Posel
& her book
"Darker Shade of Pale"
who was at Love Books
this evening
to launch it to the world
courtesy of her publisher,
Wits University Press

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#poem #haiku #jewish #immigrant #books #WitsPress
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Everyday Things:
#Bach - Second #Cello Suite BWV 1008
by Derek Gripper

He plays the text of Soetsu Yanagi's "The Beauty of Everyday Things," an ode to the #crafts of #Japan and the beauty of things made by the skilled and practiced hand.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBL...

#DerekGripper #SoetsuYanagi
Derek Gripper: J.S. Bach Prelude BWV 1008 (Second Cello Suite)
YouTube video by New Sounds
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The Vamp's hearty seduction broth
served with a smirk in her little red skirt

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#poetry #poem #inkMine #prompt
#single #vamp #nöugat #hearty #abundant #stickler
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Fiona Ramsay
being Fiona Ramsay
being Marianne Faithfull
saying
So Long Marianne
at the POPArt Theatre in Parkwood

I had the reward that I hoped for

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#poetry #poem #haiku
#mariannefaithfull @popartjhb #poparttheatre #fionaRamsay #popmusic #show
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Evening descends
in shades of red
voices are silenced
soon
only the crickets will speak

… weekend PROMPT – RED

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#poetry #poem #haiku #prompt #red #inkmine
#tararokpa #grootmarico #meditation #retreat
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Geography in life and National Parks

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#poetry #poem #vss365 #geography #prompt
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Weariness

bone-deep
muscle-aching
emotionally numbing
eyelid heavy
a tiredness so deep
sleep itself cannot cure

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#poetry #poem #tanka
#weariness #tiredness #numbing #sleep
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
State Capture.

Imraan Christiaan's murals along Constitution Hill come apart exposing the cement & brick &decay below and text highlighting the cognitive dissonance of taxes vs services

A lesson for the US, maybe?

#constitution #corruption #
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
That moment to reflect before moving on

The artwork “The End is the Beginning” has someone at the point of transitioning:
Entering the new, a new, as yet untouched by their own true natures or past endeavors.

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#poetry #poem #haiku #stoic #stoicism
#habits #truth #transitions #artwork
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The dreaded four words that always causes chaos

Let's Open the Relationship.
(it’s already open, this is just a ticket to ride)

inkmine weekly words prompt,

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#poetry #poem #tanka #inkMine
#ambient, #illustrious, #curtain #encourage, #across, #rainbows
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
weekly word challenge: harrow (Oct 31, 2025)

A harrow is a mechanical hoe,
(no, not that kind!)
a farrow is a litter of pigs
a barrow is a mound of earth & stones
raised over a grave

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#poetry #poem #tanka
#prompt #inkmine #harrow #barrow #farrow
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
girls, just tell us what's on your mind.
Calibrating emotional weight & translating back to the message is…
We’re going to screw it up.
Really.
Mental fog doesn’t begin to describe it.
Unfair #emotional weight is a no-no.
Run Forrest, run

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#poetry #poem #haiku #artwork #art #mentalfog
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
On my mind tonight
an hour before #Halloween midnight

for all the girls who slowed down
to take a look at me

Linda Ronstadt's backing band in '77
(The Eagles)
Taking it Easy
& remembering

you may lose
or you may win
but we will never be here again
~Take it Easy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KQK...
Eagles - Take It Easy (Live at Capital Centre, March 1977)
YouTube video by Apo458
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Unexpected Consequences . . .

in spite of good intentions
a simple clear solution
destroy
and then demolish
an unexpected monster
stepped into the waiting void

#poem #poetry
#inkmine #solution #destroy #demolish #void #monster
October 31, 2025 at 8:21 AM
weekly tanka poetry challenge
October 30, 2025
prompt: curse

I've been looking for words to give this pic & then the tanka challenge presented itself, and it all fell nicely into place.

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#poetry #poem #curse
#tanka #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
What I'm thinking about today:
self harm (undue)

Being mean /spiteful /nasty– for whatever reason –because you avoid a deeper issue within, knowing full well it creates guilt & self loathing

Persisting despite being a grownup person.

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#poetry #poem #selfharm #undue #loathing #truth
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
How you spend your time,
that shapes you.
Like all investments,
it compounds.

Invest your life in people who value it
else you’ll forget what it means to be valued.

What is your life accreting to?

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#poetry #poem #haiku #stoic #stoicism
#life #value #time
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My duvet is in an open relationship with the me and the Sofa
It’s not working for her . . .

#duvet #bed #sofa #openrelationship
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October 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
my therapist's truth:

Came to realize over time

"You're here not to fix the things that are broken, but to make yourself a better, more capable person"

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#poetry #poem #haiku #stoic #stoicism
#therapy #angst #fear #choices #reclaim #embrace
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
THE DEMON’S EYES

eyebrows rise as demon smiles
smirk ensnares generational lies
sighing souls descend

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#poetry #poem #haiku #demon #inkmine #soul
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM