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Xennial Texas-born Afro–Louisiana Creole 🤘🏾⚜️navigating Self and Life.
tanka/senryu poet
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#WritingCommunity
#poetrycommunity
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
Geneva Convention terms
don't apply to Life

#senryu
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
stone Virgin Mary
around her neck
kid's feather boa

#senryu
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
beautiful peaches
hiding their sourness—
we're simply human

#senryu
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
actively immature — after the argument ignoring him #senryu
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
most of us are in survival mode. most of us are existing. i am now know that Life would never be perfect. i suspect, many of us still want more days of laughter.

gripping
the cold balustrade...
my life a melodrama

#ryubun #senryu

*ryubun - a word a dear Japanese poet gave me for 'senryu essay'
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
HIPPA laws—
how humans kill
so artfully

#senryu
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
beaver moon
gives me permission
to continue home

#senryu
November 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
realizing im forty-four well 'we're the new adults' #senryu
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
secretly frustrated—'where the hell is Winter!' #senryu
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
these days
the language of war
spoken
by nearly everyone—
playing with LEGOS

#tanka
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
red lanterns
sensual and compelling—
i wanna be beautiful

#senryu
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
they consume popcorn forty-three day government shutdown #senryu
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
Japanese bindweed
growing unobstructed
i continue
to age day by day
there's no 'let-up'

#tanka
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
steaming clam chowder
we eat wrapped in anger

#senryu
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
late afternoon coffee
another reading of the 'Mutamagawa'

#senryu
November 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
falling leaves
in between breaths
sippin' weak tea

#senryu
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
opium poppies
my Life's dissertation
is barely cogent

#senryu
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
egrets' prance -
i preen in a dingy mirror

#senryu
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
smelling of rosewater and pretension—
my Cashapp balance is 0

#senryu
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
quietly
with deft fingers
origami folding —
absently givin' consolation
to a friend for her lost job

#tanka
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
no one
writes letters by hand
anymore...
grumpily arriving to work
wishing i was rich...rich

#tanka
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
among the effects
of my now-deceased moman
her Kindle
it's been six years and still
i wait for her haint to visit me

#tanka
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
well i won't be young forever—
stretching these joints
each time
i get in or out of the bed
with a grunt here and there

#tanka
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
orrinonline.bsky.social
in this 6th year
i cannot remember
moman's laugh
the love-chairs in the lobby
have been moved again

#tanka
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM