#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.
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
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
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
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
= 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
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
(edit, insert line "...sand")
cataracts and turtles ...
in #response to https://zirk.us/@voimaoy/111403904274029291
@voimaoy
in the end
there is only dust
but look at the wondrous
shapes we make
dancing on the wind
.
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/
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\
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#tanka #bonsaiku #smallPoems
#wrdz
= continents divide =
thunder in the earth
families flee bombardment
red-hot fascists flow
over ruptured land
cooling to basalt rivers
where only hate
will grow
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#smallpoemsn #news
#vsspoem #vss365
#wrdz
poetry passes
neutrinos from a solar storm
through every rushing heart and head
without detection
#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #scififri
#smallpoems #bonsaiku
#wrdz
#scififri Drake's Equation
#poem #poetry #sf #scifi #sfpoetry #scifipoetry
#poetrycommunity @sfpoetry
#wrdz
two flags in a flutter
to financial winds
on the one hand, stupid
as a rotten cobble
on the other, tending evil
with a death head grin
expecting us to always
bow, and let them in
to fly their double standards
over westminster
#poem #poetry #poetryCommunity
#smallPoems
#westminster #despair
#wrdz
= Heute, die Welt =
you've felt the global flood
you've seen hot fireballs rain
over cities of the fallen
you've heard the father urged
to sacrifice his son
those artful stories call
to the lonely star, to follow
on a road forever clear:
today and all tomorrows
as the only special one
heute die Welt
morgen das Sonnensystem
= small ghosts =
above the empty strand
where "new" land
crashes into ruddy sea
a battered promenade is found
but only rust and blood
is bound to be there, with laughing
gulls and sideways crabs
picking over thin remains
behind vast concrete dunes
small ghosts wisp out
from flattened dust-filled cellars
crying soft for vanished parents
and careful cold revenge
-
#vss365 #wisp
#horror #vsshorror
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #smallPoems
#wrdz
edited
the flutes came first
a call to mighty beasts in droves
to fall upon our sharpened staves
and after all, the music
of the bones
#response
https://zirk.us/@voimaoy/111346783316445783
@voimaoy
The threat to life today is flood
and doors to schools are rightly closed
but where the shouting empty heads
that faced down wild storms of covid
with open arms and open schools?
Do they gather by wind swept roads
forcing kids to discard their hoods
or shall we find them on padded bar stools
denying climate change, and raising toasts
to fools?
#poem #Satire #covid #cairan #floods #schools #StormCiaran
#wrdz
= The Piece by Piece Process =
This Word is my standard: I shall not Want ...
for one night only
the money men plead - mask up!
trick or treat
#vss365 #halloween #covidIsNotOver #covid
#poem #poetry #senryu #bonsaiku #smallpoems
#wrdz
the horror machine
changing everybody's mind
one child at a time
#vss365 #horrorween #vsshorror
#senryu #bonsaiku #smallpoems #poetrycommunity
#warcrimes #gaza #bullyboys
#wrdz
#vss365
"our first and #last thought is safety of the people"
#poem #poetry #smallpoems
#poetrycommunity #bullyboys
#wrdz
v 0.2
= two crows discuss the game, over lunch =
is there a difference
between vladimir
and benjamin?
only this:
one rich and vainglorious
uncle
and the colour of skin
under rubble
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
#warcrimes
#bullyboys
#wrdz
around stone circles
on this ancient land
our wisest men insist
they hear the songs
and see the hands
of long lost gods
never a word
about the passing feet
of bronze age
eric cantonas
https://writing.exchange/@Emmacox/111317000748200688
@Emmacox
#SilentSunday #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
#wrdz
self defence:
the act of turning quiet homes
into broken stone and flame
in search of
(insert favourite bogeyman)
without cause
much evidence
or shame
#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
#WarCrimes
#bullyboys
#wrdz
the farmer rolling armour
over stolen lands
dead scrolls clutched so tightly
in his cold right hand
under whose burning bush
has it been written
a child for a child
times ten
#war #warcrimes
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems #bullyboys
#wrdz
= from our war-less correspondent =
white trails claw the bluest bowl
with screaming from the sky
an echo from our neighbours seeing
many children in the street
quite dead
you swiftly lift your mighty pen
perhaps to raise a loud alarm
but flowers on the sill become
a short and charming poem
instead
behind a certain screen
the real world
lies
the poet
has to make you see
between
the sirens and the sky
that briefest moment
before the endless #dusk
when a speck of nameless dust
flashes
in the light of harsh incendiaries
as though it still believes
in being
chosen
the star
and the crescent moon
each laments
Your god is Death
while the #bear
roars
at our garden gate
.
the modern aircraft bomb
must be
full of wondrous tricks
to fall
upon a sleeping town
and blow up
only
guilty
bricks
= expecting angels =
a kind of wakening
with tangled hair and dreams
an ancient child expecting angels
but only demons watching
from the corners of the soulless room
no one seems to care
or ask of all her stories
waiting to be lived again
again
who will take her hand
down the creaking corridor
that long and trembling walk
to distant light
#vss365 #demon
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#smallPoems
#wrdz
sons of cain and abel
fighting in their fathers dust
for land and title
world’s worst murderer
-
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#senryu #bonsaiku
#bullyBoys
#wrdz
what's left to hold
the fields and torn sky burning
at the last
and only scarecrows oversee
our final harvest
a #response to https://mastodon.art/@eyeling/111188340055704836
and https://zirk.us/@voimaoy/111183194154392711
= empires =
a pathway to the stars
or fleeting roads to nowhere fast
the smell of musk
wafts in softly from the right
like empires of the night
sweet sirens
calling
--
a left-field #response to https://mastodon.art/@Billthoo/111188172262882653
fishing for stars
in night's endless passing stream
needs the lightest touch
perhaps a sigh
or the promise of a kiss
before tomorrow
#response to
https://mastodon.art/@Billthoo/111156246533407090
i have found
all the ice
lost
from swiss mountains
lying
in the hearts
of swiss bankers
#poem #poetry.#poetrycommunity
#climateEmergency
#dinosaurEconomics
#sevenlines
#wrdz
if the poem is the key
and the poet is the lock
and the context is a flower
or a bleeding sunset
beyond the creaking door
then pray you never feel
their demon lashing
lashing
for just one more
#vss365 #Context
#poem #poetry #smallPoems
#poetrylovers
#poetrycommunity
#wrdz
.
each
so unique snowflake
falling to the scorching earth
nodding at one another
to melt
first
-
#poem #poetry #smallpoems
#snowflake #snowflakes
#poetrycommunity
#wrdz
not the atoms
nor a spiral molecule
but the dance
not the simply found
but the orchestrated
to a new romance
https://ruhr.social/@theappletree/111063951323261471
#response ...
tall tales
enfold the ancient heartwood
old rings of power
whispers of the land
behind each empty page
mystery awaits
your exploring hand
#poem #poetry
#smallPoems #poetrycommunity #writing
#bonsaiku
#wrdz
from all the starry skies
one fell into your hand
and opened up my eyes
to magic
the summer sun
eclipsed by forests
burning
migrating tourists flee
from wisdom to complacency
airline prophets soar
hear them roar
#vss365 #sun
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#smallPoems #bonsaiku
#climateCrisis #capitalism #dinosaurEconomics
#wrdz
the eternal pearl has no fear
only the oyster
is eaten
oooh. ❤️
(but)
dark skies over oz
blazing coal obscures the air
beyond that rainbow
😢
#poem #poetry #senryu #bonsaiku #mallpoems #poetrycommunity #climateEmergency
#wrdz
so did you forget
that on the eleventh day
of inglorious september
secret foreign money
and fundamentalist
ideology
finally bore fatal fruit
to blow away the duly
elected democracy
of Chile
all in the name of freedom
and world trade
consult the mirrors now
in your air conditioned towers
and remember
#nineEleven #NeverForget #remember #september11
#poem #poetry #poetryCommunity
#wrdz
Dear Sir, Madam, or Entity,
I wish to register a complaint.
The September you recently delivered
is already curling up at the edges,
yet I have hardly started to use it.
It is also leaking or smoking at random
intervals. I'm afraid it might be a July
delivered to the wrong postcode,
and rather late, or something escaped
from a Schrödinger calendar.
Could you please send me ASAP
either a returns number or
a reconfigured deflector dish.
Thank you.
I remain, etc etc
holding oneself
at arms length
searching for a hint of soul
or dreaming
of accountants
more clicks
more followers
morose
#vss365 #morose
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#smallPoems #wrdz
Another longer poem ... what's happening ...?
On the one hand
the Devil and all his demons
on the other
the chairman of ChevronMobil
and one says to the other
light me a million fires on earth
and I will make you a private heaven
in Hell ...
read on here : https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/and-the-devil-says
the endless line
waiting at the western wall
wailing
#BurningMan #BurningOil #BurningClimate #ClimateCatastrophe
#Haiku #poetry #poem #bonsaiku
#wrdz
.
a spectacular
clarity at dawn
eager towers lean
towards the falling east
this unexpected attraction
of concrete
to light
https://mastodon.social/@lesighlepurr/111010778367128180
#response
#poem #poetry #poetryConcrete #smallPoems #poetrycommunity #dawn
#wrdz
grand canyon towers
over shadowed surging stream
big yellow taxis sing
a #response to
(but not a description of)
https://mastodon.art/@Billthoo/111001587189871370
#poem #poetry #bonsaiku #haiku #smallPoems #PoetryCommunity
#JoniMitchell
#wrdz
the gold we spent
chasing truth amongst the stars
when all we had to do
was ask in bars
new genetic engineering
will soon deliver young ones
with no external ears
but full internal streaming
they won't have need of #headphones
to nullify their fears
or cancel out the uncool noise
of old Earth screaming
there, on my neighbour's stout but battered gate
a painted sign shouts
beware - german shepherds
which, after all the woes of brexit, seems rather late
and on tip toe, really, I see no signs of sheep
just lawn and one wheelbarrow, red
waiting to leap out
unexpected
these souls like grass
all yearning for a loving sun
before the roaring
lawnmower comes
#vss365 lawn #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #smallpoems #bonsaiku
#wrdz
it was all very well
when our son, self
declared as fairy
moved his bed
to toadstools tattered
beyond our sheltered lawn
but then
his little sister
back from junior school
a troll's name
on her pursed and tuskéd lips
dug a tunnel deep below
our redbrick drive, to wait
for postmen
-
#vss365 lawn #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#silly #absurd
#wrdz
beware the arms
that rock
the cradle
bloody hands
that dish out
stolen grain
greed wrapped tight
in flags of fable
the claws of night
across the plain
#vss365 dish #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #news #psychosis
sequence of #7wordspoet
#wrdz
every morn, the sun
peeks into little lives
to see if they have learned
at night, she turns
her face towards the wall
to dream tomorrow
in a better light
= just one small step from heaven =
cash to cashless
seed to greed
and all the world
to smoke and ashes
time to hold on tight
here comes the Fall
= without #rebellion =
only plastic
in the oceans
only ash
upon the trees
only money
in the marketplace
and humans
in the fields
eating
one another
while the earth falls
to her knees
praying
for rebellion
or a much improved
disease
= pyramid selling =
the rich still eating
real meat bacon sandwiches
and your children
not so much
queuing at the dream machine
for soylent green
learning of the imminent
extinction of every single whale
the market girds and gilts its loins
investing wholesale in bigger
better ships determined to enjoy
one last prophet
crypto bros
building the biggest pyramid
last laugh coming
or tears all around
noah's flood
looks like condensation
#cherita #poetry #smallpoems #crypto #pyramidScheme #svb #money #capitalism
#wrdz
"an unexpected snowfall"
everything fills with light
a flurry of bleached words
drifts across city streets
hiding all the bodies
lodged in shop doorways
how peaceful
... https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/an-unexpected-snowfall
#poetry #snow #war #money #populism #smallpoems #snow
@poetry @smallpoems
#wrdz
a murmuration
of nurses
gathers
for winter flight
to somewhere caring
while night
falls
and hearts freeze
to the right
of england
mail clatters
in the streets
lying
in every gutter
an armoured ignorance
to win the sole
of everyman
pressed
into these
their own, two
faces