John(jd)🇹🇻 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

The last time I actually listened to a wireless was at my maternal grandmother’s in the 60s. I remember shows like Desert Island Discs presented by Roy Plumley. Now 55 years later we listen to it wirelessly on the internet 😉🇨🇦

Pistons drive motion
across a raging ocean
the swell unsettles
as stomachs reject dinner
The chief puffs on a clay pipe

#Tanka

days at sea long past
ears attuned to tappet noise
marine engineer

#haiku #micropoetry

lambent on the horizon
the caravan people prepared to leave
to loiter would have consequences
the first breath of desert wind
ushered a thick mist over dunes
and the wailing of impending doom
chimes of ice cream truck sounded
movie director tantrum

#vss365 [Lambent]
#2WordPrompt [prepare & thick]

full winter moon glows
like long ago memory
face in the mirror

#haikufeels [face]

luminosity of night time forest glade
sparked by lambent of fireflies
in the dreamtime i walked this way
to watch as sprites and fairies played

#vss365 [Lambent]

warmth of cooking fire
cajun catfish recipe
under starlit sky

#dailyhaikuprompt [warmth catfish]

i was born in the snow
many winters ago
behind the wreckage
of a gypsy caravan
broken rear axle
free spinning wheel
moonlight kaleidoscope
flickered o'er scene
as kicking and screaming
i would be first seen

#fromoneline 403

twas two minutes past seven
and an innocent lay dead
on the threshold of his home
smoking gun in the hand
of another masked man.

#fromoneline 402

twas a minute past seven
when there was a knock at the door
a masked individual
with an unruly posse
no warrant in hand
no law of the land
just uneducated
rhetoric parroted from
a leader in the oval office

#fromoneline 402

and when you say you're getting ready for
halloween they say "but daddy that's nine
month away". one day when they are old
enough they will turn all the mirrors in your
home the right way around and unmask all
of you for the devils that you are.

#2WordPrompt [protect & mirror]

you swore an oath to serve and protect
yet you intimidate hiding behind masks
each morning you adjust masks in mirror
i wonder what you tell your children when
they ask "daddy why do you wear a mask"?

#2WordPrompt [protect & mirror]

gray rain hibernate
wildlife chew valarian
when insomniac

#dailyhaikuprompt [rain valarian]

valarian rains
sweeten roots ___ hibernator
or insomniac

#haiku #vss365 #shadow

A whisper of love
Within the grass, a cricket
Sings shadows into sleep

we said our goodbyes yesterday
the hall filled standing room only
there are those we meet in life
that lay an indelible impression
upon our hearts and souls he
was and will always be one of
them held within our memories
so long friend may your onward
journey set you free.

#micropoetry [a eulogy]

marching for peace
hearing the lies crack like ice
under our feet

#SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

dreich landscape in drizzle dark

#7syllablesentence [dreich]

cobble stone reflections
dreich landscape in drizzle dark
of footsteps echo

#haiku #micropoetry

another no go zone
along the city high rise canyons
red lights oscillate
something had set off the alarm
likely a jittery ICE
agent afraid of his own shadow
or the thought that
soon they would all be unmasked

#2WordPrompt [zone & alarm]

robins twittering
on snow covered scarecrow
winter song carol

#dailyhaikuprompt [twittering scarecrow]

round stones rivered smooth
building blocks of imagined
kitchen window sill

#haiku #micropoetry

the chances to improve are numerous
so much easier
than promises that should be kept
but the greatest
are the improvements promised . . .

#2WordPrompt [improve & promise]

.
you were everything I needed, but we met in a moment that didn't belong to us.

—Internet

Dylan waited for the admiral to stop shouting before he attempted to #obfuscate about his actions, and they were his actions, even though the crew had followed orders.
Sitting away from fights didn’t sit well with him. And they had won, hadn’t they? The Enemy retreating in panic? Good work.

#vss365

#OBFUSCATE

with a ▓▓▓▓ and a beep
the ▓▓▓▓ ran deep
▓▓▓▓ in the news
hiding ▓▓▓▓ views
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pathetic ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
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▓▓▓▓ copacetic ▓▓▓▓
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entangled ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
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▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ strangled
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▓▓▓▓ beast ▓▓▓▓
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until Labor Day at least.

#vss365

little winter snow
like icing sugar on cake
no bother brush off

#haikufeeks [bother]

the greedy wealthy obfuscate from the dark web
the oaths they took cast aside, their disrespect
of the rule of law supported by partisans assigned
to the the highest court in the land feckless
stealing the citizens constitutional freedoms
recognizable authoritarianism

#vss365 [obfuscate]

quince in pear orchard
imposter look in mirror
see your own fake news

#dailyhaikuprompt [quince]

with one i walked many miles
on concrete floors and metal stairs
if it were a race he would have won
but there he was waiting at the line
that we might cross at the same time

to Jeff & Pete thank you for crossing
paths

rest in peace.

a eulogy

i received the news two days ago
two colleagues and friends
left us in the week before

another sunset gloaming

#7syllablesentence [gloam]