new year fireworks blaze
over families packed in city streets
but every glowing cloud conceals
new bloody shrouds
and tank shells

—-

wishing for a happier #newyear …
#poem #poetry #tanka #bonsaiku #wrdz

= the perfect gloss =

so many dreams
reshaped

to perfect red
lipstick

glossed with swift
success

the finest nylon
legs

#poem #poetry #imagist #imagism
#smallPoems
#wrdz

endlessly they shoot
innocents in search of god
knows what

DailyHaikuPrompt -December 5th - hunting.
Thanks to Stephen for the leg up.
https://mastodon.scot/@stevencudahy/111529673394279804
and clarity for the horror https://c.im/@Clarity/111529701717753989

#haiku #senryu #poetry #smallPoems #writing #micropoetry
#bonsaiku
#wrdz

each passing wave rattles empty shells, gulls calling
my daughter’s hand is cold beneath the rubble

-
A new #poem today aiming at #imagism (in the sense of by Pound's "In a Station of the Metro.")
Though from responses elsewhere I guess I might sent folk off down the wrong road. 🤔
Open to #discussion if you are interested.

#poetry #poetryCommunity #smallPoems
#wrdz

if God is watching all these tears
it must be on a streaming channel
with ads for cheaper funeral plans
and nine or ten years
out of date

#poetry #poem
#smallpoems @poetry @poems
#wrdz

= The Sonnet Screwdriver =

i might once have entertained
the notion of flying saucers ...

#poem #poetry #sonnet #review
#DrWho #DoctorWho #despair
@sfpoetry @sonnets @sonnet
#wrdz

to great delight a flight of zeppelins
over Berkeley Square
let cold & tentacled invaders swim
through our smoking city air
quite unnoticed
while they watched & planned
our eager downfall

now they walk around in plastic skins
resembling human
training us to breathe their effluent
& dream
of roses growing through the cracks
in frozen hearts

play your part
& they will let you host
the latest flume of parasitic
eggs within your children

& call it freedom

#poem #poetry #sf #sff @sfpoetry #wrdz

this violet
the colour of desire
of unrequited love

enduring violet
a sly excuse for bruise
always shy

of the silent n

#vss365 #violet
#poem #poetry #smallPoems
#bonsaiku
#wrdz

following the dotted line
true north lies always out of reach
even under green and purple veils
where needles spin as fast as sky
or truth

--
perhaps:

= Beyond the Ridgeway =

after an unintended prompt by @BethPoet
https://mastodon.ie/@BethPoet/111404264305861780

#poem #poetry #poetryCommunity
#tanka #bonsaiku
#wrdz

for sale
one moral compass
found, unused
washed up
on a dead sea beach

-

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem
#smallpoems
#tanka #bonsaiku
#wrdz

tonight the sky has donned
an overcoat of swirling red
with hints of emerald green
as though a Christmas elf
is testing out his latest sledge
or blushing #war machines grow sick
of their own excuses

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#smallPoems
#vsspoem #vss365
#wrdz

amidst the gloom
of broken towers
bright phosphorous flowers
from a child's bedroom
illuminating
beyond a filament of doubt
the shadows
in each cold invading heart

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#smallPoems
#vsshorror
#wrdz

global warming's
unexpected consequence
the rapid growth of fascists
whose hairdressers still
are shit

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#tanka #bonsaiku #smallPoems
#wrdz

once upon a time
humans lived upon the earth
and then they didn’t

#vss365 #vsspoem
#ClimateCrisis
#extinction #cop28 #copout
#haiku #senryu
#bonsaiku
#wrdz

here's something I tripped over while out running this morning.

= blindfolded =

i fall towards the centre of the earth
at zero miles an hour ...

#Poem #Poetry #smallPoems #imagism
#poetrycommunity
#autumn #fall
#wrdz

this citrus thing
that brightens up my breakfast table
its pockmarked skin so easily detached
like old indulgent sin
has changed - what was sweet
becomes pungent bile
since there upon the product label
this fruit was plucked from stolen lands
its flesh a sacrament of children
we see them fall on distant shores
i cannot swallow
any more

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#smallPoems
#wrdz

= black friday =

softly
without a twitter
all the world’s canaries
have disappeared

and the lanky pinstripes say
do not worry
there is nothing we should fear
from a broken atmosphere

just keep digging
in your deep designer holes
there is one more pot of gold
before the end

#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#wrdz

in ships like starving sharks
they burst out from the crystal dark
on the trail of tv streams
to home, to planet Earth

their only goal
to block our simple dream
of poisoning the sharing stars
with Wealth

we faced the fight with broken swords
and yet more promises of stocks
our leaders fled like lords to Mars
to secret vaults, with diamomd locks

where now they wait for better times
and higher prophets

#scififri #sf #sfpoetry
#poem #poetry #smallpoems
#poetrycommunity
#wrdz
@sfpoetry

= wasps =

they have fallen for a million years
through endless night and stars
knowing they could never land

yet drawn by what they have seen
with giant radioscopic eyes
from their home of boiling sand

the mystery of a world entire
floating through galactic skies
bearing only clouds and seas

of tears

#scififri #sf #sfpoetry
#poem #poetry #smallpoems
#poetrycommunity
#wrdz
@sfpoetry

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/15/planet-where-it-rains-sand-revealed-by-nasa-telescope-wasp-107b

(edit, insert line "...sand")

a paddle on the edge of #deepTime - Revolutions

#poem #poetry #imagism
#poetrycommunity
#wrdz