the tree of life stands tall
its canopy of roots
above our countless dead

bright cloaks of leaf
in passing

the axe in men's hands

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#vss365 #cloak
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#cherita
#bonsaiku

= vespers of brief mortality =

tomorrow always waits
yesterday laments our swift departure
today is
but a brief encounter
lost in swirling steam

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#vss365 #vespers
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#tanka #5lines
#bonsaiku
#soundsLike
#briefEncounter

flying high
on wings of avarice
the stormy petrol

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#copout #cop29
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#senryu #micropoetry #bonsaiku

no surprise in tv dinner
fast food
slow people

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#vss365 #dinner
#poem #poetry #senryu #bonsaiku #poetrycommunity
#news

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health

the same depressing City racket
new food banks
old dinner jackets

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#vss365 #dinner
#poem #poetry #senryu #bonsaiku
#progress #poetrycommunity

they sing the lie electric
the fine lines holding everyone
apart

#micropoetry #bonsaiku #senryu #poem

Photo from Paul Brookes
https://x.com/PaulDragonwolf1/status/1825791653103210702

the tree
that grew forever
is a ponzi fever dream
wake up, my child
before your ending

--

#poem #poetry #bonsaiku #tanka #5lines
#degrowth #progress #dinosaurEconomics #ponzi #economics
#poetrycommunity #writingCommunity

dark lanes
thread an empty neighbourhood
yet there are lights on

everywhere

-

#poem #poetry #shortpoems #bonsaiku @poems @poetry #sfpoetry
thanks to @Billthoo for the inspiration:
https://mastodon.art/@Billthoo/111911538863568679

It seems to take ever less snow before they close the roads. And, look at what people drive!
-

quiet roads
SUVs in padded jackets
quiver

frightened of the snow

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#poem #poetry #smallPoems
#failedHaiku #bonsaiku

#snow #suv #winter

new year fireworks blaze
over families packed in city streets
but every glowing cloud conceals
new bloody shrouds
and tank shells

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wishing for a happier #newyear …
#poem #poetry #tanka #bonsaiku #wrdz