literarypug, to poetry
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Happiness and adversity,
how can they coexist?
Perhaps they overlap as
Happversity and Adness,
or maybe they’re mutual.

Adversity killed the
monster and Happiness
ate it, and with a little
protein, Happy realized
the secondary
nature of smiling.

Thus indigestion
was born.
.



owlsight, to Haiku
@owlsight@mastodon.social avatar

Mom found a locket
With initials and a stone
In an old closet

Prompt - Keepsake

owlsight, to Haiku
@owlsight@mastodon.social avatar

Cool spring nighttime air
Refreshing clean and healing
Exhale what is stale

Prompt - Airing Out

arden, to random
@arden@framapiaf.org avatar

Little before bed.

SharonCummingsArt, to Flowers
@SharonCummingsArt@socel.net avatar
MarjoleinRotsteeg, to Haiku Dutch
@MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl avatar

airing out the house
there go the cobwebs
of my mind

- airing out






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reallybigfoot, to bigfoot
@reallybigfoot@ohai.social avatar

I hit on them. Big time. With my fist is what I'm saying. On their heads. They're dead. They are the deadest things that ever died. Squirrels are traumatized.

si_irini, to Help German
@si_irini@mastodon.social avatar

Please
and

What do you think about gun violence?

Words
sentences
feelings

No matter what

Send me something and maybe you can help me get some inspiration to write a poem for wearorange

I have an inspiration low but somehow I feel I could write something

You are welcome to take your time, the important thing is to express your feelings, that would really help me

THANKS

seanpatrick.phd, to poetry
@seanpatrick.phd@seanpatrick.phd avatar
If you look close enough at life,<br></br>observe with care the galaxy<br></br>and navel-gaze for long enough,<br></br>you will in time be made to see<br></br>we cannot by mere science find<br></br>an answer to the question why;<br></br>our lamp-oil may be well refined,<br></br>but we will still in darkness die.<br></br><br></br>We live atop a heavy tower<br></br>that teeters on its burdened base:<br></br>we drink a fresh-poured pint of power<br></br>and revel in our heightened place.<br></br>By intellect we’ve donned the crown,<br></br>from Babel’s peak we now aspire;<br></br>yet we’ve neglected to look down<br></br>and see the fundaments on fire.<br></br><br></br>Our morals have not matched our means:<br></br>for in this world that we’ve designed,<br></br>self-interest coldly contravenes<br></br>our common cause, and leaves us blind.<br></br>We’ve found a thousand ways to kill<br></br>but lost the ways to live, to feel –<br></br>we have engineered a modern marvel<br></br>and fallen asleep at the wheel.<br></br>

https://seanpatrick.phd/2024/05/09/babel/

literarypug, to poetry
@literarypug@mastodon.world avatar

Someone stuck forever
in the junk drawer, and
now it’s knotted.

There’s a charging cord
to who knows what.

And he’s silent.

Quarks ride the backs
of pedantic turtles,
snapping reins as they
prepare to untangle.

Chapstick. Lots.

I shut the drawer and
leave it open
uncertain




MarjoleinRotsteeg, to Haiku Dutch
@MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl avatar
owlsight, to Haiku
@owlsight@mastodon.social avatar

Time with my best friend
Always end up by the sea
Pebbles on the beach

Prompts - Travels and Pebble

owlsight, to Haiku
@owlsight@mastodon.social avatar

Warm days and cool nights
Sipping a cup of oolong
Spring is delicious

Prompt - New Tea

scotlit, to literature
@scotlit@mastodon.scot avatar

And aye the reik bleeds frae the warld’s rim
as it has duin frae Babylon and Troy,
London, Bonn, Edinbro, time eftir time…

—Robert Garioch Sutherland (1909–1987), “During a Music Festival”
a for

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/

scotlit,
@scotlit@mastodon.scot avatar

Thàinig uair-san leis na sligean,
leis na spealgan-iarainn beàrnach,
anns an toit is anns an lasair,
ann an crith is maoim na h-àraich…

—Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) (1911–1996), “Curaidhean” (“Heroes”)
a for

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/curaidhean/

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MarjoleinRotsteeg, to Haiku Dutch
@MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl avatar
si_irini, to writing German
@si_irini@mastodon.social avatar

I thought
Thought
Had hope
Only briefly
But still so beautiful
Short the love
Short the longing
Long but then the pain
Drilling
Painful then the questions

All fallible
All gray in me
All gone now

Heavy the heart
Burdened now
With pain that never fades

Mistakes now
The questions now
Thinking so frantically
To help
Find help
But where only
Everything now wrong again

si_irini

literarypug, to poetry
@literarypug@mastodon.world avatar

Your world is a
20 x 20room.
The walls are
blank, nondescript.

You note a
general soreness
in your right hand.

Clothing seems to have
been optional this AM.

You hold a sieve in your
left hand.

There is a pear and pez.
Take a pear and pez? (Y/N?)

The sieve is greying out.




MarjoleinRotsteeg, to Haiku Dutch
@MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl avatar
owlsight, to Haiku
@owlsight@mastodon.social avatar

Frogs enjoy the pond
Dragonflies perch on green reeds
Spring is so alive

Prompt - green reeds

Archive shot from 2019

MarjoleinRotsteeg, to Haiku Dutch
@MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl avatar
SharonCummingsArt, to Flowers
@SharonCummingsArt@socel.net avatar
SharonCummingsArt, to Flowers
@SharonCummingsArt@mastodon.social avatar
MarjoleinRotsteeg, to Haiku Dutch
@MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl avatar

after the ice cream
the smile on the toddler's face
yummie to the max

- children






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literarypug, to poetry
@literarypug@mastodon.world avatar

Said goodbye to
Normal Alan’s
sleep patterns.

He said I could
borrow them. At
first I was grateful.

But appears their
predation on my
regular rhythms

has subsumed
what was, and left
the blinds open.

A wake is scheduled
at 4am. Thoughts
and prayers.




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