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I love all films that start with rain:
rain, braiding a windowpane
or darkening a hung-out dress
or streaming down her upturned face;
one big thundering downpour
right through the empty script and score
before the act, before the blame,
before the lens pulls through the frame…
—Don Paterson, “Rain”
Published in RAIN (Faber, 2010)
5–6 September is National Cinema Weekend 🎥🎬🍿
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571251742-rain/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #cinema #film #NationalCinemaWeekend
Crows fill the tall tree
Safety in numbers by night
Preparing at dusk
#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poem #shortpoem #senryu #writing
Prompt ~ Dusk
Let's see... can I do this without backspace and delete, lol. #poetry #poem #typewriter
Keyboard Lord
I am lord
of my keyboard.
A keyboard lord
is like a budget
radio Rambo.
Instead of
pulling the trigger
I toggle keys.
I take aim
with my mouse
and fire a missive.
Instead of cutting
with survival knife
I wound with words.
My grand hand
raps like a rooster
pecking the eyes out
of little letters;
pecking patches
of shadowy serifs.
Climate here's just fine.
But please stock food stores better.
I can't grow all that.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #food #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity #FoodSupply #GlobalWarming #heat #famine #drought
Collaborative #shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli (IG: @bellaboopalombo - #poem ), and Carol Rudall ( #photo ). A California native and a former dance professor, Stephanie Zepherelli has been living on Oahu the past 40 years. She has a drawer full of mismatched spoons, and a tribe of Madagascar geckos. #oahu #haiku
The title is taken from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land - and he took it from The Tempest by Shakespeare …
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”
(From The Waste Land)
I like seeing nurse frieda knitting
as I like watching my wife knitting
as I liked watching my mother knitting
though she was more of a dabber
(plain and purl, plain and purl)…
—Tom Leonard, “in hospital”
published in access to the silence: poems and posters 1984–2000 (etruscan, 2004)
summer heat eases,
as does my resolve for change,
'til too late next year
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateInaction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateUrgency
RE: https://universeodon.com/@HollyCo26588808/117118934543733728
Climate storms our gates.
We could mount a real response,
but let's close the blinds.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial
For more contextual info, see my comment attached to https://climatejustice.social/@HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com/117118934574693534
Neighborhood at dusk
Friends laughing and playing cards
Window spills lamplight 
#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #senryu #poem #shortpoem #writing
Prompt ~ Lamplight
Creepy stalkers wear our glasses
Go around looking at women's a***
Tracking everything that you've bought
Sell that data, fund my yacht
Nothing I ever do would be opt in
Asking permission it's a sin
Billionaires just take and take
What they want, too bad mate
But alas what is worse
Are all the billionaire fans, they're a curse
#poem (human written)
Unbearable heat!
Yet lesser heat sustains us
and our denial.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #denial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Poem for the occasional (composed by me)
Forty cats were sailing the seven seas
The wind was fierce, so were the fleas
Wandering around on a sailboat then
Who know where they set sail from or when
Drifted into Tacoma one day
Someone called the police they say
For hungry mewing and meowing you could hear
From the beach and the shore very near
Alas the kitties and kittens were rescued by boat
The sailboat at least it continued to float
The cats had to abandon their around the world sail
For their venture, it appears, was destined to fail
Twa Cats anes on a Cheese did light,
To which baith had an equal Right,
But Disputes, sic as aft arise,
Fell out at sharing of the Prize…
—Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), “The twa Cats & the Cheese”
digitised by the National Library of Scotland
Today, 8 August, is International Cat Day
😾 😾 🧀 🐵
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105690319
#Scottish #literature #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #fable #humor #humour #cats #InternationalCatDay
Crops quietly fail.
No Climate red line, I see.
On to famine then.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #heat #crops #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity
#denial #ClimateDenial #collapse #extinction
FSD zombie,
In the next lane
No one is steering
Where is your brain?
Hands on the wheel
But eyes on a screen
Not watching the road
Drooling running out in a stream
Suddenly your car veers
Into a tree
Goodbye
FSD zombie
#poem (human composed)
perhaps heat and drought
will, by magic, not touch me,
just cook my children
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #denial #ClimateDenial #water #h2o #drought #droughts #heat #famine #food #FoodSupply #crops #CropFailure #collapse #extinction
Hush, Climate Science.
Tell better researched stories.
Like those Big Oil tells.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #narrative #stories #StoryTelling #statistics #denial #ClimateDenial #ClimateDelay #ClimateScience #science
eat, drink, sleep, cuddle
sometimes I wish
I was my cat
My ink drawing of this cute kitty is also available combined with this lovely haiku.
Haiku: @MarjoleinRotsteeg
#haiku #poem #poetry #writing #ink #drawing #handmade #MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #cats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #cat #CatLovers #pets #cute #animals #catstodon #kitten #kitty #kittens #katze #CatsOfFediverse #BuyIntoArt #ArtForSale #giftideas
wildfire haze clouds thought.
when it lets up, let's fix this.
what if it doesn't?
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #wildfires #smoke #haze #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDelay #ClimateDenial #extinction
RE: https://bne.social/@travis_nice/116915720209889228
You seek Climate proof?
If such spiky graph's aren't it,
maybe a flatline?
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #extinction #ElNiño #ElNino #heat #OceanWarming #RecordHeat #RecordTemperatures
Hot days steal focus.
I crave time for OTHER things,
NOT climate change talk!
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDelay #ClimateDenial #heat #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #ClimatePsychology
I'm no patriot, won't fly no flag
You've taken that away, and it's a drag
Used to proudly fly the Red White and Blue
til they told me, buddy, it's not for you
People gave their life, but not for a king
But you've gone and changed it, that's the thing
It's a country for brown, black, yellow, white and red
Any color of skin, that's what they said
But now they're telling us you don't belong here
Just a country for white Christian racists, I fear
So I'll keep the flag folded, in a drawer in the den
Til someday maybe, it will come out again
arctic thirty-eight?
well, at least not three eighty.
THEN we'd have to care.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #Arctic #heat #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
RE: https://urbanists.social/@docdieterlen/116845003201491823
formerly dot gov
it's up to "us" now, lest we
form early gravestones
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #Science #ClimateDenial #USPolitics
Can you tell this voice is AI? It sounds very human to me.
Free tool used to generate audio: #Omnivoice on #Linux
This is the reading of Part II to the poem:
Muspilli
meaning "World's End"
(from the year 870 AD, originally written in Old German by anonymous)
Old High German is no longer used today in normal communications, but #AI could still translate it.
#German #OldGerman #poetry #poem #AIaudio #TextToSpeech #prophecy
The siren sounds of duct tape
Luring people in
Make them want to wrap stuff up
Leading to a life of sin
Strapping stuff together
With cloth, plastic, glue
It's all fine and dandy
You can even fix your shoe
It all seems to be working
No need for bolts or screws
Til you have a sudden failure
And your shoes you lose
Now I hear you can duct tape
Your broken bumper now
Still one day in the future
It'll still fall off, POW!
Their seductive rolls beckon
Fix everything thing with me
Alas another year in the sun
And it's broken again, see!
After dinner walk
Saying hello to neighbors
Long summer days
#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #writing #shortpoem #poem
Prompt ~ Long Days
Heat records shattered,
but fortunately not here.
We can still pretend.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #denial #ClimateDenial #Heat #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #RecordHeat #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #collapse #extinction
#OTD, 24 June, in 1314, the Scottish army under King Robert I destroyed a much larger English invasion force at Bannockburn, in one of the most decisive battles in medieval history. In 1793 Robert Burns composed “Scots Wha Hae”, originally entitled “Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn”
⚔️🧵
1/5
#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #14thcentury #medieval #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #song
Burns wrote that he was inspired by Bruce’s “glorious struggle for Freedom, associated with the glowing ideas of some other struggles of the same nature, not quite so ancient” – probably a reference to the Radical movement, & to Thomas Muir of Huntershill
2/5
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=evans;idno=N21038.0001.001
#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #song #radicalism
The song quickly became popular, & the tune was adapted as “Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce” for the French army. It also features in the concert overture “Rob Roy” by Berlioz & the 4th movement of the “Scottish Fantasy” by Max Bruch 🏴🇫🇷
3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE4eE20Dk5I
#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #music #classicalmusic #19thcentury #ArmeeFrancaise
In 1881 the New York Times, reviewing Helen Kendrick Johnson’s OUR FAMILIAR SONGS & THOSE WHO MADE THEM, asserted that no song was “more glorious”, & that once Burns’s poem had been set to the tune of “Hey, Tuttie Tatie”, it “marched through the land forever, loud, & triumphant”
4/5
#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #song #music #19thcentury
Here is Dick Gaughan performing “Scots Wha Hae”, to an audience that includes Dr Maya Angelou – from the documentary ANGELOU ON BURNS (first shown on BBC2, 1996)
5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hEoJNVdM
#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #song #folksong #MayaAngelou
PS – the whole of ANGELOU ON BURNS is currently available to watch on the BBC iPlayer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013vcs
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #MayaAngelou
PPS – if you can’t watch the documentary on the iPlayer, it’s also on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbuCL-Osh8
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #MayaAngelou
unlike ostriches,
we DO hide our heads in sand,
baking hopes and dreams.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-silence-on-climate-change-is-totally-unacceptable
(About the ostrich myth, see https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/animals/ostriches-really-bury-heads-sand)
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #denial #ClimateDenial #ClimateDelay #ClimatePolitics #ClimateSilence #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ostriches
proud, we sacrifice,
wanting the best for our kids.
such climate fiction.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateFiction
RE: https://mstdn.social/@primonatura/116753774676038889
This news is days old.
News or not, Climate matters.
New's the wrong question.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateNews #news
Aw give me a home
where the fat aphids roam
and naive slow crickets will play...
Were seldom is left
a bad pheromone path
and the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home in the branch
where naive slow crickets will play!
Well catch em all fast
cricket legs for breakfast
and the skies are not cloudy all day
I am! yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes....
John Clare, c1845
#alienation #depression #quote #quotes #quotation #poetry #poem #uk
As Climate ratchets,
skeptics scoff, still asking proof.
Cartoon Physics shield.
When none remain to agree,
will that be finally Proof?
#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateDenial #denial #CartoonPhysics #physics #extinction
What if, says a small child to me this afternoon,
We made a poem without using any words at all?
[.....]
https://www.christiancentury.org/artsculture/poems/best-poem-ever
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