Tuesday, November 5, 2024

vote

 

If you really think

You can #impact the future

With your #vote, dream on.


#vss365

#vssdaily

#haiku #senryu ?



Saturday, November 2, 2024

life, life, life...

 

They let their fingers search, grasping, teasing, caressing each #hollow and vein, following the creases, the mounts and the valleys, racing, slowing, their breaths cooling and blowing winds that ruffle all those layers which years have deposited; 


#vss365 


1/4


close but a little away but closer than ever; no weeping willows, just tresses uncared but natural above, laying shadows; tears as dew or rivulets dampen, soften, the smell of earth ploughed fresh, each muscle straining to produce; 


2/4


landscape urging the farmers, as they pluck, cut, dig deeper, harsh at times, kneading the flesh between fingers, feeling the texture, sensing what it is, what it should be; weeds ripped, searching up, below, side and over till the roots of disuse are gripped, mangled,


3/4


strangled, shed aside; little blossoms, tiny hair standing, trying, asking forgiveness, granted, growing; fingers feeling, nerves awakened, kisses, little bites, pinches, sucking tenderly; the morning over marshes of yesterday, the pasture of today, life, life, life...


4/4


from


https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/01/just-for-weekend-from-scrap-shop-v.html


Wednesday, October 23, 2024

MO to fail

 

With much #astuteness,

A modus operandi 

To fail: shut out all.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?


(pic from X/the Internet)





Tuesday, October 15, 2024

mono no aware

 

I woke up saying,

"Ah! Mono no #aware."

Her side of the bed.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?




Wednesday, September 25, 2024

malice

 

When I talked about love,

Your #pejorative criticism

Could not be mistaken 

For jealousy or possessiveness.


Undisguised malice,

Wielded so brutally,

Leaving no survivors,

When we talked about love.


#vss365

 

Thursday, September 19, 2024

misconception

 

Zombies don't shuffle

And #forage for human flesh.

They aren't creeps like us.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?


Thursday, September 5, 2024

hopeless prayer

 

Why do I use words

That's like a hopeless prayer?

For example, #guide.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

  





Wednesday, August 28, 2024

what's with them

 

what's with them

liking poetry

no twists in the tale

not even a cliff-hanger

it's not the brevity 

or life love lust

or ways to #slaughter

not even a romp in the sack

why do they lie #together

not ask a question

not in blank verse

not even in iambic whatameter


#vss365

#NALove



Monday, August 12, 2024

exchange

 

I promised to change.

For that, I had to exchange

Old love for new love. 


#vss365 #change

#haiku #senryu ?


Monday, July 29, 2024

already ghosts

 

I remember my first glass of #champagne.

That too with strawberries and such. With her.


"Can I just have 7up and French fries?"

"I was going to suggest the same."


We didn't curl up in front of a fireplace.

We were nude and happy. And already ghosts.


#NALove