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Bouncing bare tree limbs Yellow birds debating turns At the bird feeder #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

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It’s always easy to look beyond your own time commitments, to imagine space outside of your available capacity for work, and to ignore your aversion to personal risk when you invent a hero to save you from four years of painful realities you don’t want to deal with. But, what else can you even do?

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a dark sky grows gray the sign of an aging sun behind winter clouds #haiku #poetry #writingcommunity #micropoetry

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craving ignorance fighting the difficult truths assaulting conscience small, red-winged blackbirds dot bare winter trees like fruit stark against blue skies #DailyHaikuPrompt (blackbird bend) #haiku #senryu #poetry

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A mass of students clustered around the door, doing their best to subdue emotions. The posted list showed their names ranked by likelihood-of-being-unaffected-by musical-media. Keith's name was at the very top. He had trained so hard he might not even enjoy the music he was now approved for. #hbp103

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I always wondered how my future self might contact me. Now I don't. While I won't share the details, I can tell you that we crack immortality in 2054, backward-time messages in 2071, and in 2189 we find intelligent life in our own galaxy but I still have to go to work. #SciFi #writingcommunity #vss

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bravery and hope clasped in adolescent hands twelve hopeless roses #DailyHaikuPrompt (rose) #haiku #senryu #poetry

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lazy, frantic search I find violent catfish and thick, quiet fog #DailyHaikuPrompt Am I the only one?

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Map the process, find its flow. #7syllablesentence #flow

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An ode to my boss I've got your eggplant feast right [flipping two birds] here #DailyHaikuPrompt (feast eggplant) #haiku #senryu #poetry

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spinning office chair squeaks a lilting, lovely tune on Friday afternoon #DailyHaikuPrompt (feast eggplant) #haiku #senryu #poetry

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dimmed bat meal his next glow digested she waits in vain #DailyHaikuPrompt (firefly) #haiku #poetry #senryu #micropoetry

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You choose your own #quit threshold. #7syllablesentence #quit

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ocean tide rising crashing over rocks and onto soft sand where bare feet make divots the shallow waves erase any trace you were ever here until it tumbles out gangly, thin, and bare rolling through the foam washing onto shore a scant reminder tangled with thick, heavy memory close behind #hbp93

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Gentle vampire fly Drifting on a summer wind Dragon’s bloody prize #DailyHaikuPrompt (Mosquito) #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

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If captain moron keeps this up, our little ship is bound to find a gravitational wave that pulls us ever downward to the nearest singularity, an eternal, slow-motion spaghettification of who we used to be. Unfortunately, I'm no engineer. I just want to see us make it to a better place. 1/4

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#LuaViEr Day 847 ⬇️ R robots can be fleshy E engaged in easy tasks S simple-minded zealots or P poisoned hypocrites O once their egos bruise N need to double down S satisfy the hungry mob E end wisdom's ruse #poetry #flashfiction #Acrostic

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Cold winter sunshine Fights to melt the stingy ice Tucked away in shade #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poetry

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Lone lovely lotus Multiplies the sinful sights Tiniest of bites Deep in pleasure's trance Sultry figures hypno-dance Glimmering mirage #DailyHaikuPrompt (lotus glimmer) #haiku #senryu #poetry

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Parched pits rubbed sand-raw Walking home with bowed, slow legs Summer sacrifice #DailyHaikuPrompt (Ocean Parched) #senryu #haiku #poetry

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Weekly movie night. Watched "Everything is Illuminated" and went to Lane's for dinner. I recommend both, especially the officious seeing-eye bitch named Sammy Davis Jr., Jr.

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see how the world turns silent in a lonely void cradle for all life #haiku #poetry #senryu #DailyHaikuPrompt (candle lawn)

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Our shared past smolders Embers glowing, biding time Ready to ignite #DailyHaikuPrompt (Time Smolder) #senryu #haiku #poetry

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When the surge subsides Then comes pain of troubled strife Welcome to real life Lean toward the forceful wind Gain strength to share, peace again #tanka #senryu #poetry

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Royal, feathered blue Hungry dance on mossy branch Bobs for silver scales #DailyHaikuPrompt (kingfisher) #haiku #poetry

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#crisscross when she walks Lets her legs do all the talk Sets her face in stone She peers into her phone She's focused Three things all at once- Your gawking eyes get labeled: dunce Your hopeless tries: the same for months Think she leads you on: it's fun But you don't stand a chance: none. #vss365

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Filo Vickers shivered in his cold apartment, fingers too numb to properly hold a pencil. He began a new plan: a time machine. Suddenly, his heater came roaring on. The door opened behind him, and then footsteps. "Don't stop now, I haven't been jumping through time hoops just to fix the heat." #hbp85

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Yellow, gray, sunset Tiger sky of glowing stripes Fades above my breath #haiku #poetry #senryu

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My hands are fake. At night, they detach and wander all over the house like five-legged spiders. Today, I woke up to find that my left hand stuck a note to the fridge and was nowhere to be found. "Had to get away for a bit, back on Wed" it read. I looked down at my right hand, already shrugging. Hm.

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Outline, research, draft, and stall. Trudge until, with muse, words fall. Better now, I'm on the mend. Success: just around the bend! #7syllablesentence #bend #writingcommunity #poetry

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Beyond broken granite rocks And past a raging waterfall A darkly shadowed crevice calls Its mossen walls invite the brave To face the #slithy Yabingoth Young sister to the Jabberwock When Damon ran to meet her One knee cut on jagged rocks His wrist sprained near the falls SHE took him all #vss365

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Keith banged the door of his locked apartment. Jen thought someone had knocked on hers. "Oh, it's just Keith!" She called back into her apartment. "You locked out again?" "Yes," He sighed. "I'm missing a party." Jen beckoned Keith to the stairwell, dancing to music from her phone. "Join me?" #hbp83

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The Novel "Hag-Seed" by Margaret Atwood was excellent, especially if you like "The Tempest". Many satisfying layers, a great main voice that aligns well with the main character, and good personalities throughout. A master class on modern Shakespeare.

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frost-sharpened blades clumped in ruddy tufts carpet winter's shade #DailyHaikuPrompt (grass) #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

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#LuaViEr D dimples just above her smile E echoes of past loves fade L leaving just her snorting laugh I into this new unknown C can it last beyond today? A all I see is rose-colored T too soon to give my heart away E except for what I can't unfeel #poetry #flashfiction #Acrostic

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Peanut butter and chocolate do not belong together, except in Nutty Buddies. (1/4)

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Bells among the sheep Spoil not the peaceful quiet Mountain's misty dawn #DailyHaikuPrompt (Quiet Noon) #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

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