Gavin Wade

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still paying for the British
colonial policy
of divide and rule

this evening
everyone in the room
has to say what destroys them

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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art is not dead
and neither are we
Red says ‘look at the moon’

slow crescendos
it’s hard to get
a one rpm motor

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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he’s hands on
with everyone
maybe you’re the weirdo

you can make art
out of anything
time love spit

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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seven words
you still can never say
on television
“turn this fucking thing
off right now”

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#haiku #tanskenga @gavinwade.bsky.social
@littleonion.bsky. social

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seven words
you still can never say
on television

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#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social

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from the side
the Lamassou strides
forward in power

if you think there is
silence about Palestine
you’re not listening

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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this is how I want
to feel after you
read my poetry

in every universe
I am the anomaly
an unnamed remedy

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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I want Ai
to do my laundry
and dishes
necessity is blind
until it becomes conscious

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#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social #marx #tanka #micropoetry #Ai #poetry

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I want Ai
to do my laundry
and dishes

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#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social

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Israeli tanks fire
on tents housing
displaced people

Deir al-Balah
the last remaining
area of Gaza

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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peach
this is the colour
of our God
“I sleep better” she says
“with the light off”

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#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social
#valmiki #tanka #micropoetry @gavinwade.bsky.social

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where social work
meets incidental art
the ai infographic

Bijan and his older
sister Nageen believe
in the American dream

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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peach
this is the colour
of our God

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#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social
#valmiki

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someone who has made
amazing contributions
has made a difference

look on my works
the brown paper spines
of my tephrocactus

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#twohaiku
#haiku
#cacti

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in reality
the world does not
at all exist

one leg over the drum
right hand bass pushes
left hand pulse

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#twohaiku
#haiku
#sangeet

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Britain’s support
for the colonisation
of Palestine continues

slashing and spray painting
historic paintings
of Lord Balfour

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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making the space
that I need
in order to exist

never accept
that the motivation
to build is money

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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the fig wasp dives
within the enclosed flower
sweet and bitter
the scent of last night’s chaos
clings to my skin

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#mutualism #tanskenga
#tanrenga

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the fig wasp dives
within the enclosed flower
sweet and bitter
the scent of last night’s chaos
clings to my skin

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#mutualism #tanskenga
#tanrenga

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sweet and bitter
the scent of last night’s chaos
clings to my skin

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#haiku #micropoetry #lastnight @gavinwade.bsky.social #poetry #tanskenga

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behave as if
your very existence
is a work of art

we the elite people
of the people
do mean well

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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to express support
is a criminal offence
in what world?
the wicket keeper
adjusts his position

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#haiku #tanskenga #cricket
@littleonion.bsky.social @gavinwade.bsky.social

✊ ⏏️

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she gives me a look
on the escalator
when I say “Ta”
he prefers going down
over going up

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#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social
#tanrenga #in #waiting #down #micropoetry @gavinwade.bsky.social

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she gives me a look
on the escalator
when I say “Ta”

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#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social
#tanrenga #in #waiting

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forgetting how to catch fish
no aid or food
from the air, sea or land

shoot me
I bare my chest
to cold disinformation

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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under soft skies
the beautiful little dots
of Bob Ross’s hair

missing out
on the next episode
of Empire Road

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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love and war
some of my best ideas
are other people’s ideas

self organisation
autopoesis
and complexity

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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the changes
they are a changin’
they’re a failin’

recently I have
taken an interest
in ritual sacrifice

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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with stones to hand
smashing windows
because we can

rolling around
on the far margins
of society’s debates

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#twohaiku
#haiku