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what if you found out
Climate was cheating on you,
no shared future plans
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #metaphor #cheating #infidelity #betrayal #ClimateBetrayal #TippingPoint #TippingPoints #ClimateTippingPoints #hindsight #AcceleratedHindsight #collapse #extinction
sacrificial lamb
stems from primitive beliefs
that fed the priesthood
#dailyhaikuprompt Lamb Stems
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
all warm and cozy
on radioactive pond
bunker door was closed
#dailyhaikuprompt Pond Cozy
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#shahai #collaboration by Mark Gilbert (verse) and Eavonka Ettinger (photo). Mark is based in the UK & enjoys writing short prose & #poetry (including hybrid forms). His work regularly appears in on-line & print journals & anthologies. He recently collaborated with Eavonka on Variations on the Planets, an astronomical poetry chapbook (Nun Prophet Press). Eavonka lives in Long Beach, CA. She’s published many haikai forms, but shahai combines her love of #photography and #haiku / senryu.
too lush to ignore
take to #hand and implore me
gratify ripe grapes
#dailyhaikuprompt Ripe Grapes
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
it's not a detour
diversion from perversion
nor wound to ignore
a bleeding world implores us
25th Amendment Now!
Sour grapes turn ripe
Podium carp and #hand jive
Just ignore the smell
#dailyhaikuprompt Carp Ripe Grapes
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Turns out I was wrong...
Climate IS safe to ignore.
Happy April Fool's!
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #AprilFool #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #collapse #extinction
Turns out I was wrong...
Climate IS safe to ignore.
Happy April Fool's!
Seems like only yesterday.
(Civilization, that is.)
#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #collapse #extinction #Fool #Fools #DayAfterAprilFools #NotAprilFoolsDay #WhatFoolsWeAre #NotFoolingAround #ClimateHangover #ClimateFools #WeAreFollowingFools #WeAreFoolsForFollowing
#haiku by Joanna Ashwell, a writer from the UK. Joanna’s #poetry has been featured widely & received many awards & nominations. Some of her books for sale on Amazon include ‘Every Star’ (tanka), ‘Moonset Song’ (Cherita), ‘Love’s Scriptures’ (Cherita) & ‘Book Patronus’ (haiku & tanka). #UK #poetrylovers
cast maleficent
seedlings the whole world over
is our chief export
#dailyhaikuprompt Seedlings
#haiku #poetrycommunity#smallpoems
Say hay, hoe, lets go!
Be outstanding in your field
Fresh air and high yield
#dailyhaikuprompt Hoe Hay Field
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
dementia #pen halt
eject wielder with his
waning agency
#dailyhaikuprompt Waning Halt
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
summer's eve haiku.
in spring, I hope, by mere chance.
may you bare summer.
#haiku #senryu #poem #humor #pun #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #spring #summer #climate #heat #warming #GlobalWarming #seasons #UnseasonableWeather #MastoPrompt #DailyHaikuPrompt #beauty
#lispyGopherClimate #ARCHIVE . https://toobnix.org/w/rCh5hUjPxVcXEBcnnVy37A
scroll down for #party
I fell into a powerfully deep funk, and screwed around in #McCLIM #commonLisp to more or less implement DEC's sixel printing to cheer myself up. https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/dl-roc-lisp/devlog/1475104/super-simple-lispised-dec-sixel-macro-for-common-lisp-inferface-manager @reiddragon
instead of doing anything I am meant to be doing.
#climateCrisis in the oil crisis notes + #haiku by @kentpitman
#lambdaMOO #aprilfools BYOB pool party tomorrow in the MOO 22 hours from now. I will set up after the show sometime
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twigs and seeds showered
my premo buds like cold rain
to harsh my mellow
#dailyhaikuprompt Buds Cold Rain
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
start the day fishing
boat, cold rain, couple of Buds
#exalt in nature
#dailyhaikuprompt Buds Cold Rain
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#senryu by Dr. Randy Brooks ( @brooksbookshaiku ), Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, where he teaches courses on #haiku, tanka, and Japanese poetics. He and his wife, Shirley Brooks, are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of Mayfly haiku magazine. His most recent publication is HAIKU DECK: A collection of playing cards. #poetry #ghosttown #illinois
#digital #haiga by Biswajit Mishra ( @biswajitmishra.ig ), a bilingual poet writing mostly in English & occasionally in Odia. His #poems have been published internationally in magazines. Born in India & having spent a few years in Kenya, Biswajit & his wife Bharati currently live in Calgary, #Canada #haiku
#Conduct befitting
Sardine packed in olive oil
Zero wiggle room
#dailyhaikuprompt Sardine
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#haiku by Ash Evan Lippert | Ash is an emerging queer writer from South Carolina. A featured poet at Neologism, their work has appeared or is forthcoming in NOON: journal of the short poem, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Sonic Boom, whiptail: journal of the single-line poem and Heliosparrow, among many others. Their debut chapbook, god of the body, is available through Yavanika Press. Find them on Bluesky (@wanderstruck.blog ) and Instagram (@wanderstruck_haiku ). #poetry #SC #spring
#Revolve to resolve
A whistle from the willows
Calls the swallow down
#dailyhaikuprompt Swallow Willows
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
That's just "bad weather".
Won't be "changed climate" for years.
After we're extinct.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #weather #ClimateDenial #extinction
#cherita by returning contributor, Peter Jastermsky @pjastermsky
The author of 10 books of haiku-based writing, Peter lives among the Joshua trees in So.Cal., USA. He created the popular split sequence form in 2017. Learn more about Peter & his writing at peterjastermsky.com. #nightfall #poetry #haiku #california
breathe deep dragonfly
gusts of scents that hypnotize
#fascinate sense flow
#dailyhaikuprompt Gusts Dragonfly
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Dragonfly floating
Gently on gusts of my whims
Freeform #fascinate
#dailyhaikuprompt Gusts Dragonfly
#haiku #vss365 #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
Choose your groundcover
Pampas Grass or pompous ass
Foliage or fool
#dailyhaikuprompt Pampas Grass
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#lispyGopherClimate #technology #podcast #live https://toobnix.org/w/5QbQiLw7zrFiETgbv32kJk first half missing?
- One week from today is #LambdaMOO's annual festival, April Fool's.
- Let's have a text based #MUD #bonkwave pool party / concert
Notably /after/ submitting my #ELS2026 #commonLisp #deepLearning article https://european-lisp-symposium.org/2026
we just had this great thread: https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/116286095082069619 I will read #bookstodon and #programming suggestions by @riley and others. #ai #DL #ML
Compound interest.
Watch funds grow. Climate woes, too.
Lack of interest.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Shell game politics
#Frustrate debate then appeal
Pear shaped blooper reel
#dailyhaikuprompt Shell Pear
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Fleeing high tide spray
Winged warbler wandering flight
All through nightsong land
#dailyhaikuprompt Warbler High Tide
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
direct warbler waves
#endorse my endorphins with
high tide limbic wash
#dailyhaikuprompt Warbler High Tide
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#senryu / #haiku by new contributor, Tom Bierovic ( @tombierovic ), a widely published, award-winning haiku, senryu, & tanka poet. When not reading or writing, he enjoys playing backgammon & Connections, drumming on bongos & djembe, & power washing his driveway. Find his books, “Playing for Keeps in Stocks and Futures”, “Blink of a Duck’s Eye”, & “Paper Boats” on Amazon. Tom & wife Laurie (mystery writer Maggie McChristie) live in DeLand—the Athens of #Florida #song
#senryu #monoku by Laurence Stacy. Laurence teaches English & literature courses at Kennesaw State University. He is also the recent coauthor of “Before the Earth: Haiku and Haikai.” In addition to studying poetics, he is a longtime martial artist, and is interested in connections between the disciplines he enjoys. #poetry #haiku #illness
#shahai by new contributor, Michelle Farrell. @michellefarrellart Michelle is a mixed media artist & poet living in New Zealand, with a background working in disability, neurodiversity & mental health. Her artworks have found homes internationally, & recently she has been nurturing her creative writing along, with #poems & #haiga published in various journals. #poetry #haiku
can the equinox
erase the #overcast to
let the sunshine in
#dailyhaikuprompt equinox equinox
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Equinox balance
Caress the wild within you
Always cedes valence
#dailyhaikuprompt equinox equinox
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
melting rule of thumb
#mediate my slice of pie
with slippery finger
#dailyhaikuprompt Melting Pie
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Peel off the horse tail
You reveal the man's essence
With every #entreat
#dailyhaikuprompt Horse Tail
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Mid March warmed until
A late snow rose from the west
Blanketing the land
#dailyhaikuprompt Late Snow Rose
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#monoku by returning contributor, Oana Maria Cercel oana_maria_ #poetry #haiku #cherryblossoms #italy
Frisky night frappe
Tadpole weasel sputum blend
Served in a pumpkin
#dailyhaikuprompt Tadpole Pumpkin
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Pumpkin head dotard's
Joke cabinet will #surpass
Horror show limit
#dailyhaikuprompt Pumpkin
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#haiku by Deborah A. Bennett @d.a._bennett | Deborah draws her inspiration from the teaching of ancient religious philosophers & haiku poets who were also riveted by the purity & beauty of #nature. #poetry #poetrylovers #winter
#Warmth of a hare shirt
Strap on the bunny ears hat
Plunge the rabbit hole
#dailyhaikuprompt Hare #haiku
#vss365 #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
American Scheme
Filter out beauty and #warmth
Leaves Fruit of the Doomed
#dailyhaikuprompt Fruit
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#haiku by new contributor, thomas david. thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His haiku and #senryū have appeared in Failed Haiku, tsuri-dōrō, Wales Haiku Journal, Cattails, Cold Moon Journal, The Heron’s Nest and now, FreshOut. #poetry #poetrylovers #uk
low tide of black ink
with tsunami of red ink
smashed on the #corner
as all small boats in the town
can't rely on trickle down
#dailyhaikuprompt Low Tide Red
#haiku #tanka #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Imagine the superlative of 'over the moon... Got it? Good! And then some... That's pretty close to how I feel about being one of the prize winners of 'The Best Haiku Collection 4. International Anthology', The Annual Search by HaikuCrush.com. The book is available on Amazon.com.
https://bsky.app/profile/haikucrush.bsky.social/post/3le6jpuqhg22y
#haiku #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity #senryu
@poetry@a.gup.pe
@haiku@a.gup.pe
@bookstodon@a.gup.pe
On the hour interviewing @cdegroot with @kentpitman about #bookstodon https://berksoft.ca/gol The Genius of Lisp - the history of #computers, #retrocomputing and #computing, #ai, #lisp and McCarthy - of Uncle John's Mystery Hour.
Great discussion! (boost for the #book btw)
#archive : https://toobnix.org/w/6PWJeCyASrg3f8mpcVFcJx
#climateCrisis + KMP #haiku always
@ramin_hal9001 's #bookReview is over here: https://fe.disroot.org/objects/87b9e619-4e1d-4387-9f2f-8f3cf859a827
#haiku by writer/poet Marjolein Rotsteeg (The Netherlands). | Marjolein’s #poems have been widely published & received honorable mentions in Japan & Poland & a nomination in Belgium. #netherlands #spring #windmill
#haiku by Teji Sethi. Teji is a #poetry disciple from India who loves concocting blends of chai & haikai. By day, she’s a therapeutic nutritionist; by dusk, she wanders into the nostalgic lanes of her childhood, gathering verses from memory. Teji has dedicated the past four years to curating Triya, a bilingual space for haiku, tanka & micropoems. Her work has been widely published & won prestigious awards. #sun #india #flowers
twilight's fiddlehead
adept adopt unfolding
#spellbound sympathy
#dailyhaikuprompt Fiddlehead Twilight
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
another twilight
decline into a dark age
shrouded in belief
#dailyhaikuprompt Twilight
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
A waft of Old Spice
Prelude to youthful date night
Way back Nirvana
#dailyhaikuprompt Nirvana Spice Nirvana
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
wearing only spice
as #jewelry on the bank of
Nirvana River
Karma filled the tableware
Awash with life's ambrosia
#dailyhaikuprompt Nirvana Spice
#haiku #tanka #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
try to handle this
in #magnanimous fashion
not like honking geese
#dailyhaikupromt Geese
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems