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viburnum's red gems
bitter, sweet, they hang like gifts
holiday cheer

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#PoetsofBluesky #VSS365 #DailyHaikuPrompt - Viburnum

#dailyhaikuprompt #witheredfield

corn stalks
a murder of crows peck
the withered field

white fields stretch afar
amid bare-branched trees, a hut
smoke curls to the sky

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry #PoetsofBluesky #VSS365 #DailyHaikuPrompt - winter grove

#dailyhaikuprompt #winterGrove

prowling fox...
the pheasant calls
from a winter grove

Hemmed by bare trees
Foxes bound through powder snow
Chasing fat rabbits

#DailyHaikuPrompt (winter grove)

with a mask, he works
delicate brush sweeps the hearth
he fetches the urn

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the feast has long passed
lamps burn bright in marked doorways
firstborns spared demise

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - passing

reflection passing
a storefront window—how
is that old person me #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

taxman’s hunger grows
squeezing for blood, won’t yield
nothing left to take

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry #PoetsofBluesky #VSS365 #DailyHaikuPrompt - turnip

Idiom: “You can't squeeze blood from a turnip.”

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Turnip

As seventies kids
We never had carved pumpkins
Just manky turnips

‘Whatever happened to that guy you dated who said he lived on a #skerry?’

‘We still talk, but I couldn’t handle his tallying. He grew up on craggy shores, so he has this obsession to count every rock he came across.’

‘Constantly?’

‘Yeah. I wonder what he’s up to now.’

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in the scribes’ still hands
withered reeds shape lasting words
pharaoh’s will proclaimed

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- withered reeds

withered reeds
the bullfrog's baritone
slightly off key
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Pillows, soft and white
Blankets, cozy, warm and deep,
Sunday's gentle hold.

#Sunday #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry

the sous chef's
seething resentment
stewed tomatoes
#DailyHaikuPrompt #senryu

spices swirl in stew
generations in one pot
laughter stirs the air

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry #poem #VSS365 #DailyHaikuPrompt - stew

a forgotten book
pressed between the pages
dried leaves, memories

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry #poem #VSS365 #DailyHaikuPrompt - dried leaves

she looks left and right
then speeds down the empty road
a shoe marks the wreck

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hot tea
the bitter taste
of his parting words

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sky turns, churns, and roars,
string slips free from tender hands
kite tumbles, defiant

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duck leads her six
a ripple shatters the pond
five now trail behind

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Scribble in the dark
as if lines could #raise the moon —
Winter is coming

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brown leaves drifting high
a bang shutters the silence
the hunter breathes out

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#poetry #poem #micropoetry

She gave until there was nothing left.

#poem #poetry #micropoetry

when a cricket chirps
the old man adjusts his glasses
for a better view

#haiku #poem #poetry

#poetry #poems #micropoetry

under summer moon
ample and painted crimson
the two smacking lips

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#poem #poetry #micropoetry

Balmy breeze dances
her fragile fingers trace lines
along his bare back

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