Farm Views

Great collection of Tanka by Stuart Brkn Johns (Poet) Third poety book Ive read by #Brkn and well worth it. #Tanka lovers should check it out.

Me and me moos

Farm days

#vss365 #bower

#vss365 #Cluster #Poet ry #Poet

What can I muster
for cluster?
Conglomeration?
Too much, clutch?
Congregation?
I need a hand, band,
huddle?
Now I'm in a muddle,
group, troupe?
Not cock-a-hoop,
I'm stumped, clump?
Can't find a direction,
I know it's a collection,
now I'm in a

#vss365 #cluster

Shimmer
a poetic journey.

My latest #poetrybook
Available on #KindleUnlimited

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#vss365 #gloaming

Lesson

Ripples reaching outwards
in languid circles
kissing the riparian
on which we stood
One stone thrown
changed her waters mood
The nature
of actions & consequences
taught & understood
By Gaia's silent words

Stuart Brkn Johns

#vss365 #riparian

Private garden of thought
like a terrarium
without glass walls
Wouldn't we wish
to peer inside
another's mysterious mind
in voyeuristic ecstasy
as new ideas bloom
all contained
within a sealed room
the very essence of us

Stuart Brkn Johns

#vss365 #terrarium

Of faded photographs
a pathos for forgotten memories
lost in currents of change
a telephone with wires
& no screen
Nostalgia paints poetic scenes
melancholic or magical
what once was
seems like a dream
a lament for simpler things

#vss365 #pathos

Destination Mystery

My sister is a #bibliophile
her room has
thousands of books
in hundreds of piles

our house is a library
we're swimming in a sea of words
drowning in chapter & verse

if we live to 104
we'd never have time to read them all

I fear most of the stories
will remain untold

#Vss365

I want to post long form poetry here but I also don't want to subscribe... I am torn.