as weather varies,
only with Science we see
Climate's grim resolve

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #weather #science #ClimateScience #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Takin' a backhoe to the country
Disassembling it piece by piece
Selling it to the highest bidder
It's the taxpayers we'll fleece

Giving it all away to the billionaires
Say goodbye to our history
Nothing anyone can do now
It's really no mystery

Y'all voted for a king
Look at what you got
You thought it was just a fling
And now the country's shot

Y'all voted for a king
Look at what you got
You thought it was just a fling
And now the country's shot

They've stopped the entire country
Not cutting any checks
Fired everyone in government
Not anyone left, aw heck

Masked goons are running rampant
If they're official no one is sure
Seems like this country's over
And there is sadly no cure

Y'all voted for a king
Look at what you got
You thought it was just a fling
And now the country's shot

#politics #nokings #poem (human)

There has been a lot of grieving in our home lately...beloved dog...Uncle...A friend. I try to bring comfort to myself and others through my art.

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/loving-branches-remembrance-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #handmade #handmadeart #colorful #tree #trees #grief #grieving #sympathy #insympathy #greetingcard #greetingcards #fedigiftshop #mastoart #fediart #berevement #loss #death #celebrationoflife #poetry #poem #sadness #sorrow #memorial #remembrance #SharonCummingsArt #healing #healingjourney #comfort #peace

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Colorful tree and grief comfort poem by artist and poet Sharon Cummings.

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Colorful tree and grief comfort poem by artist and poet Sharon Cummings.

Winter's fraud soon comes,
excess heat dressed as nice days,
while Climate worsens

#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #winter #fall #autumn #WarmWeather #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #heat #ExcessHeat #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial

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A picture of a lake in New England during the season of fall colors. Some of the trees across the lake, perhaps a few hundred meters away, are evergreens continue green, but others have turned a rich but slightly darkened yellow, red, or orange in the way that fall resembles a kind of still-life fire. The trees are reflected in the water of the lake, which is still and creates a mirror of the tree line with its beautiful fall colors. The near part of the image is framed by some trees at the point where the picture is taken. Some trees and shrubs, also in fall colors, lean this way and that around the place the camera is shooting through, creating a kind of picture frame around the lake scene.

@hadon #Poem + #NoKings #Protest #Sign
👑👑👑🔔🔔🔔👑👑👑🔔🔔🔔👑👑👑

First they came for ___________.
And Then They Came For ____ (You)

Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) #Soldier, #Pastor in #Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller

@MsMerope @chris

I did not eat the man, the bear said
When I found him, he was already dead
Never mind the bear claw marks
Those were not me, he remarked
You cannot prove he wasn't already dead here
Alas, because no body has been found there!

#bearpoem #poem (human)

@User47 LOL came up with a poem

Grandma's in love with a computer
She's locked herself into her room
Grandpa was thrown the curb
Because Grandma's over the moon

She's chatting up something spicy
Her sex life has never been better
Finally got rid of the old codger
Divorce suit came by certified letter

Grandma's got this book at the library
Told her she should find a PC
Now she's got some hot stud AI boyfriend
That we did not at all foresee

The only problem with this obsession
Is she's written Sam Altman into her will
And Grandpa sleeping in the spare room
Because, Grandma, he cannot fulfill

#computerlover #poem (human)

Don't talk to me about more nuclear power
When we can't deal with nuclear waste
Radioactive shrimp's not good for you no matter what they say
We're embracing this stuff with to much haste

But they say the -- climate crisis!
We've got to ramp up our power plants
Ignore all these nuclear issues
And never mind your glowing green pants

How is mankind supposed to advance
Without releasing the nuclear genie now?
Sunlight, renewable energy, and muscle power
I'm sure we'll figure out a way how

#poem (human)

Jeered, spit upon, flipped off and hated
Tesla Cybertruck ownership debated
Look at this dude driving a Cybertruck
Divorced by his wife but he don't give a f***

They claim that those two salutes they did not see
They don't mind that the truck's from a Nazi
So the guy's killing millions after destroying USAID
He doesn't mind at all, as long as he gets laid

He misses those special island retreats
That time with his friend Jeffrey's friends was a treat
Ah well, anything is legal for a billionaire
As long as people keep on shoving money up his d**riere

Anyway these Cybertruck owners cannot see
They are shoveling their money to a Nazi
One day they'll regret when they're trapped and die
No working door handles, inside they will fry

#poem (human)

Nine Word Poem

Art is the
part that blows
your head apart.

©2025 David W. Jones

#poem #poetry #art

We still have butterflies in the garden! So I do feel blessed. :)

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/life-blessing-butterfly-art-two-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #handmade #handmadeart #poetry #poem #poet #poems #life #lifelessons #blessing #blessings #butterfly #butterflies #healing #healingjourney #selfcare #selflove #inspiration #inspirational #colorful #colorfulart #SharonCummingsArt #buyintoart #homedecor #fedigiftshop #gifts #giftidea #gift #giftideas #garden #gardening #gardener #gardens

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Colorful butterfly on white with poem by artist Sharon Cummings.

Stop uploading gibberish to the cloud
You're making the LLMs die for crying out loud
Putting gibberish into your docs is driving them mad
And then your search results get very very bad

They'll think that gravy is just fine
To pour and mix in with your wine
And they'll tell you to drink castor oil
And wrap your head up with aluminum foil

They'll think that birds can emit radio noise
And that live sharks make very good toys
And they might even think sea horse emojis are real
And that the best kind of food to eat is arsenic meal

#poem (human)

As climate killed crops
We hoped they'd say it was real.
They just raised prices.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateInflation #inflation #ClimateCost #cost #Food #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity

Find me a seahorse emoji, computer, please find it now
I'm sure it exists somewhere, find it somehow
Surely you can follow the neural net path
To find me a seahorse emoji, using some math

Don't tell me it doesn't exist, it does for sure
Just don't sit there acting demure
Find it, find it, all knowing machine I trust
Use as much GPU as possible, the whole world if you must

This is a problem that you must solve
Harness the world's energy, everything it must involve
Please bring to me the seahorse emoji
Just don't send me the power bill, or charge me the fee

#seahorseemoji #emoji #poem (human)

https://mastodon.social/@Viss/115328259972707433

Hello there vulture, flying up high
Why are you here, did somebody die?
Or is my compost pile starting to stink
Why are you here, do you think?
Perhaps it's a dead rat, caught in a wall
Or perhaps Mr. Smith has expired, had a bad fall
I really don't know why it could be
All I know is I hope it's not me!

#vulture #poem (human)

stranded in the mud
looking for a better world
an elephant waits

We have an elephant sanctuary here. They are so magnificent and deserving of rescue!

#MastoPrompt - better
#dailyhakuprompt - strand

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-elephant-art-on-white-sharon-cummings.html

#fediart #mastoart #art #handmade #handmadeart #elephant #elephants #africa #african #animal #animals #artwork #colorful #homedecor #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #animalwelfare #animalrescue #climate #climatechange #global #animal #nature #naturelover #naturelovers

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Colorful Elephant on white in a furniture setting.

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Colorful elephant on white in a furniture setting.

A poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay, published in 1922 when she was thirty.

#poetry #poem #ednastvincentmillay #ageing #grownup #Adulting #adulthood #1920s #quote #quotes #quotation #sleep

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GROWN-UP Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

Tonight on translations that are almost as unhelpful as the idiom itself, “mark a boat to find a sword”:

There once was a guy on a boat
Who found out that swords do not float.
He pulled out his dagger
With native Chu swagger
And said “I’ll just make me a note.”

#translation #poetry #poem #classicalchinese

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An excerpt of Classical Chinese about the guy who marked which boat he lost his sword from as if that’d help find the sword

fall feels like summer.
winter may be crowded out,
as we, too, may be.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateCrisis #weather #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #heat #RecordHeat #extinction

autumnal summer—
blithely lulling climate fears,
homeless to hell's fire

#haiku #poem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #ShortPoem #climate #weather #temperature #UnseasonablyWarm #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #RecordHeat

you've reminded me
what it is to be alive.
i ache with fresh hope

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #love #hope #life #passion #quest

With the Guppe groups gone I applied and was approved to get a new poetry group going with fedigroups.social

@ poetry@fedigroups.social

@poetry

See original Fedi Tips post about Guppe groups being gone here: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115164282623836102

All those interested please feel free to tag and follow the fedigroups poetry group

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

Started with one verse of 6 lines. Really wanted it to be a short poem, but I will admit I did hear a voice in the back of my head saying it was not finished. Now I am at 4 verses of 6 lines each, and well, it doesn't seem any closer to being completed. Whether this turns out any good or not, it's going to take a lot of work.

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting #WritersOfMastodon

Against
The clench
Of my jaw
The fist of
Remembrance.

#poem

Deleted poem I just posted from social and my website. Something was telling me it was incomplete and I just needed some time away from it and then to read it again to realize it didn't work as a short poem, but is just the beginning of a longer poem.

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

#cat #poem

Me to Tux Cat Mini:

Do you remember when all your toys were in the drawer?
You couldn't wait for me to pull them out.
Now all your toys are on the floor.
You barely play with them.
But they are always there.
Whenever you feel.
The need.
To play.

#scribesAndMakers

ATTN: #Poetry #PoemADay #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #amwriting

In case you haven't seen this:

"The Guppe groups domain name was sold by their registrar before they could renew it. This means all Guppe groups are broken, and their web addresses point to a spam blog"

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115164282623836102

A constellation of the retired house you’re in

https://subspacewagon.systems/a-constellation-of-the-retired-house-youre-in/

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

The Symphony of Tired Soot in Restraining Trembles

https://subspacewagon.systems/the-symphony-of-tired-soot-in-restraining-trembles/

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

Letica Saints Wade in the Water

https://subspacewagon.systems/letica-saints-wade-in-the-water/

@poetry @poets @writing @writers @writingcommunity

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

“Requiem” from Threnody, my second volume of #poetry, availiable at https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/threnody-new-poems

#poem #indie

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Requiem We inhabit this Stellar threnody, Ghosts of the Twilight With the burden Of bone, Ashes and cinder Longing for home. A living requiem For the eons Before us.

as Climate unmasked,
horror made us want more choice.
but Physics just laughed

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateDelay #ClimateInertia #ClimatePhysics #collapse #physics #environment #horror #ClimateHorror

If I am being completely honest, "squared market concrete-loving marches" was the natural next step of seeing marches on the streets and this poem, which is very old, significantly father back than the posted date. I never got positive feedback from it in all those years, but I knew it had meaning.

Trimester Commission on Marked Inlay Puddles
https://subspacewagon.systems/trimester-commission-on-marked-inlay-puddles/

#Poetry #Poem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #literature

I made up another word, farthling, (poor doggo)

squared market concrete-loving marches

https://subspacewagon.systems/squared-market-concrete-loving-marches/

@poetry @poets @writing @writers @writingcommunity

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

Another Dorothea "poem" - she is so spiteful, she just keeps repeating the word "temple", but she is referring to the internal temples inside us.

In which Dorothea sits behind me flipping the pages of my life
https://subspacewagon.systems/in-which-dorothea-sits-behind-me-flipping-the-pages-of-my-life/

@poetry @poets @writing @writers @writingcommunity

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

What is basically a blues poem, this very short poem came to me in something like a vision last evening.

Thus Spoke the Unnamed, Unknown God
https://subspacewagon.systems/thus-spoke-the-unnamed-unknown-god/

@poetry @poets @writing @writers @writingcommunity

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

flashback to the beginning of the year:

New Lies of Patrimony Gloves
https://subspacewagon.systems/new-lies-of-patrimony-gloves/

The Accrued Mornings
https://subspacewagon.systems/the-accrued-mornings/

Alterpiece Coins in Loving Doubt and Regret
https://subspacewagon.systems/alterpiece-coins-in-loving-doubt-and-regret/

[[(and don't forget)
70%
https://www.tilley.blog/category/70/
https://subspacewagon.systems/category/70/]]

@poetry @poets @writers @writingcommunity @writing

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

Two of four books of poetry available freely on Internet Archive.

In The Winds Of The August Maladroit Parvenu
https://archive.org/details/in-the-winds-of-the-august-maladroit-parvenu-by-richard-j-tilley

Carnival Rations And Other Poems
https://archive.org/details/carnival-rations-and-other-poems-by-richard-j-tilley_202506

https://archive.org/details/@rtilley4
https://www.richard.tilley.directory/

@poetry @poets @writing @writers @writingcommunity

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

(reposting from this morning)

Dorothea’s Participatory Lyric
https://subspacewagon.systems/dorotheas-participatory-lyric/

Of the Temple Doormask and Retreat for Keymakers
https://subspacewagon.systems/of-the-temple-doormask-and-retreat-for-keymakers/

@poetry @poets @writing @writers @writingcommunity

#SharingIsCaring #Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

may that 'last first kiss'
come of finding a soulmate,
not climate ignored

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #love #dating #collapse

Yeah, that one may require some head scratching. I'm OK with that. Ask if you don't eventually get it.

I don't need your head anymore
The CEO man did say
I've replaced your job with AI
It does your job that way

Chopping heads makes me feel
Mighty fine inside
Using AI instead of you
Keeps CEOs satisfied

Alas, only billionaires may use
The guillotines they've got
Because they really do not want the workers
To have that kind of thought

#jobs #AI #poem (human)

'Huit! Huit! Huit!'
the blackbird's knowledge of French
stays limited

#dailyhaikuprompt - blackbird
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#poem
#writing
#writingcommunity
#birds

@dailyhaikuprompt

@poetry

@haiku

my lifetime spent on
a painful pilgrimage to
the next place to sit

#dailyhaikuprompt - pilgrimage
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#poem
#writing
#writingcommunity

From the light of freedom to a concrete tomb,
The fall was great and swift.
My soul cried out in a mighty boom,
How could it come to this?

Clamped down, trapped stuck,
Paralyzed in a tiny cage.
Had fate left me not a drop of luck?
Was there reason for this rage?

Told to lay down and die,
Something deep inside me stirred.
I can’t be caged I have to fly!
Not yet am I interred.

They can take my body, tie me down,
It matters not a bit.
My spirit still runs wild and free,
So in freedom here I sit.

~ Ross Ulbricht
Apr 30, 2024

It seems his artistic vision finally became reality.

sources

https://freeross.org/uncageable/

https://rossulbricht.substack.com/p/uncageable-poem-and-drawing

#RossUlbricht #DreadPirateRoberts #SilkRoad #USCourts #CriminalJustice #Prisons #Prisoners #Poetry #News #Crypto #Poem #FreeRoss

@poetry@a.gup.pe @poets@a.gup.pe @writers@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

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Hand drawn image of a man interred in prison. He is kneeling in his cell between the bunk and desk cabinet, envisioning a scene above his head of a couple holding hands and giving thanks over food and a crowd seated together and a couple in the distance holding hands.

The sun:
how boldly does it burn
when dreaming?

Prompt word: burn

From: https://www.threads.net/@natasha.yentrouc.author/post/DFsH1T3uBsO

#DailyHaikuPrompt #vsspoem #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #vss365 #WritingCommunity #poem #writing

@dailyhaikuprompt @vss365 @poetry @haiku

Daily Haiku Prompt for February 5, 2025: thin ice (North)

Thin ice
looking for its shadow
a bird

#DailyHaikuPrompt #vsspoem #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #vss365 #WritingCommunity #poem #writing

@dailyhaikuprompt
@vss365 @poetry @haiku

the years it took
to become friends
with myself

#dailyhaikuprompt - friend
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#poem
#writing
#writingcommunity

@dailyhaikuprompt

@poetry

@haiku