Sillionshine

spring breeze~
her green hairclip
gleams in the sun

#haiku

Thin chalkboard lightning
continually erases itself
as it falls

#Three3s #haiku #vss365

i thought

that silence

was empty

but it is full

of small continuings

seed head

in wind

light

on standing water

the far sound

of wings

and my old error

of believing

that what does not

speak

can not answer

#Poetry

We knew the contents of
all Mum's jewelry boxes
but the real prize was the
shiny wedding band
which came off only when
she napped

When we two raiders
still ignorant of Indiana Jones
or Tolkien would mount such
daring exploits that inched
our way across an afternoon
to our plunder of gold

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a crunch in the woods,
a quick spark among the leaves,
gone before I smile

#WildWalkPrompt #crunch #haiku #writing #writingcommunity
#micropoetry

Sudden summer gusts
animating dried grass
crackle and swarm

#Three3s #haiku

#haiku
the stars
frighten us
send us inside

I'm a simpleton
Who grasped at a pretty blade
Again and again

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Five scheming sparrows
conspiring on the fence
I open the front door

meeting adjourned

#poem

wheatfield wind
the sky stitched shut
with black wings
#haiku #poetry

Cosy in that wake-drunk state
before nodding off to sleep
running through a thousand
unrequited futures
but nothing is as sleepy sweet
as musing on that
one magical past
that was flesh and bone

#poem

Tag! You're it!
they never said
what, though, exactly

#Three3s #haiku

#haiku
the moon knows
all of
your names

Blueberry jam Impasto
smeared across a
rough white tablecloth

#Three3s #haiku

Letters in ribbon
quietly age alongside her,
brittle and yellow.

#Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt Yellow

A rose bush with a solitary yellow rose

The last of
the summer sun
one bloom left

#Three3s #haiku

gathering stories,
rambling tales from memories
like springtime flowers
pressed in an unlined notebook
plucked from heavy-scented air

#haiku #tanka #micropoetry #amwriting

A fever in an unknown land
I wake up drenched and
dislocated from body and place
lights swing around my
unfamiliar room

and some crazed beast screams
my name outside in the falling rain
I wake again and look at a calming
frozen metal sky and begin to
put the pieces back together again

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At day's end
spotless hotel room;
holiday in itself

#Three3s #haiku

#haiku
before they bloom
they tilt
forward

late winter dusk
like an unworn wedding dress
she folds the day away

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

One muggy afternoon
two whisky sours
now forty winks

#Three3s #haiku

My head is a heavy stone
sunk in a shallow pool of fever.
​The clock on the wall
is a liar,
insisting on noon
while my marrow hums with midnight.
I am caught in the static
between time zones and heartbeats,
waiting for my soul
to clear customs.

#ও☉❢☉✑
#poetry
#writing
#micropoetry
#blueskywriters

Only recently have I
as older brother
begun to contemplate
the blatant injustices meted out
to the youngest in our clan

Recruited to games solely as
cannon fodder, subjected to
novel experiments with
lipstick and scissors
never believed

On the whole it was a sacrifice
I'm willing to make

#vss365

the days sail past
like shipwrecked ghosts
sea of charcoal

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

Heat-struck bee
revived with some
cool sugar water
buzzing buzzing gone
my good deed for the day

#inkMine

light snow
father's shopping list
still on the fridge

Across the bay
city's garbled lights
glowing through fog

#Three3s #haiku

rain-soaked clay
at the wheel’s middle
my hands steady
a quiet vessel
opens to the sun

Fatma Zohra Habis

#tanka #TankaThursday
#poetrycommunity #poetry
#inkMine #middle
#vss365

And what do I as a grown man
at this beastly hour, the hour of
claw and fang? I wake to watch
other grown men kick a ball
around.

But this is my tribe we are legion - hear the roar of the crowd as we spur our champions on and may the sun rise to our sweet victory as we fly our colors high

#vss365