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

—-

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

= the perfect gloss =

so many dreams
reshaped

to perfect red
lipstick

glossed with swift
success

the finest nylon
legs

#poem #poetry #imagist #imagism
#smallPoems
#wrdz

endlessly they shoot
innocents in search of god
knows what

DailyHaikuPrompt -December 5th - hunting.
Thanks to Stephen for the leg up.
https://mastodon.scot/@stevencudahy/111529673394279804
and clarity for the horror https://c.im/@Clarity/111529701717753989

#haiku #senryu #poetry #smallPoems #writing #micropoetry
#bonsaiku
#wrdz

each passing wave rattles empty shells, gulls calling
my daughter’s hand is cold beneath the rubble

-
A new #poem today aiming at #imagism (in the sense of by Pound's "In a Station of the Metro.")
Though from responses elsewhere I guess I might sent folk off down the wrong road. 🤔
Open to #discussion if you are interested.

#poetry #poetryCommunity #smallPoems
#wrdz

if God is watching all these tears
it must be on a streaming channel
with ads for cheaper funeral plans
and nine or ten years
out of date

#poetry #poem
#smallpoems @poetry @poems
#wrdz

= The Sonnet Screwdriver =

i might once have entertained
the notion of flying saucers ...

#poem #poetry #sonnet #review
#DrWho #DoctorWho #despair
@sfpoetry @sonnets @sonnet
#wrdz

to great delight a flight of zeppelins
over Berkeley Square
let cold & tentacled invaders swim
through our smoking city air
quite unnoticed
while they watched & planned
our eager downfall

now they walk around in plastic skins
resembling human
training us to breathe their effluent
& dream
of roses growing through the cracks
in frozen hearts

play your part
& they will let you host
the latest flume of parasitic
eggs within your children

& call it freedom

#poem #poetry #sf #sff @sfpoetry #wrdz

this violet
the colour of desire
of unrequited love

enduring violet
a sly excuse for bruise
always shy

of the silent n

#vss365 #violet
#poem #poetry #smallPoems
#bonsaiku
#wrdz

following the dotted line
true north lies always out of reach
even under green and purple veils
where needles spin as fast as sky
or truth

--
perhaps:

= Beyond the Ridgeway =

after an unintended prompt by @BethPoet
https://mastodon.ie/@BethPoet/111404264305861780

#poem #poetry #poetryCommunity
#tanka #bonsaiku
#wrdz

for sale
one moral compass
found, unused
washed up
on a dead sea beach

-

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem
#smallpoems
#tanka #bonsaiku
#wrdz