entrance to UN's summit
row upon row of towers
of plastic bottles

tinyurl.com/2zey2yfu #plastic #pollution #plastic pollution #haiku #poetry #poem

FYI: #GlobalNews , April 23: What UN plastic waste treaty talks in #Ottawa , #Canada want: 'Won’t recycle our way out' #quote

Uns gehört nur die Stunde.
Und eine Stunde, wenn sie glücklich ist, ist viel.

Nicht das Maß der Zeit entscheidet,
wohl aber das Maß des Glücks.

Theodor Fontane

Thrilled to have my haiku inspired by a David Attenborough nature program included in Issue 4 of Heterodox Haiku Journal. My sincere gratitude to Editor Jerome William Berglund (semi-hiatus)
#haiku

with the plastic bag
a stork wraps the moon
on its head

Ken Sawitri tinyurl.com/47t5udt5 #plastic #pollution #plastic pollution #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem

MOTHERING THE UNIVERSE

alysseaallyn.blog/2024/04/24/bec…

#poem by jdub

reborn into the confluence jdubqca.com/2024/04/22/reb… via j mαtthєw wαtєrs

susan osborne Barun Saha sand castle
built in that shining summer
for three of us --
now all that remains
is my footprints in new snow

bit.ly/2K5NAY7 #beach #sandcastle #relationship #tanka #poetry #micropoetry #poem

castle beach
happy children
digging
a hole for myself
we are both hungover
#TankaThursday
#tanka #poem

#InternationalHaikuPoetryDay

S.U.V. motorcade
to Trump-branded airplane
to S.U.V. motorcade
to Trump Hotel and Tower ...
next, his face in the mugshot

tinyurl.com/mr27swd4 #DonaldTrump #TrumpForPrison2024 #USA #Politics #USA Politics #Elections2024 #tanka #poetry #poem #micropoetry

The first in a proposed series of blog posts in support of my semi-autobiographical interactive #ebook of haiku “always sparrows”, is now up on the Drifting Sands Poets Hub - poets.drifting-sands-haibun.org/waking-up/ - full of birdsong. Please DM for a free download of the full #ebook .

Hege A. J. Lepri entering old age
I look less for truth
but find it more --
a mid-winter thaw reveals
pieces of sky

George Swede bit.ly/2Qevin6 #aging #oldage #truth #tanka #poetry #micropoetry #poem

new ballpoint pen
the words gush out
so fast
they barely touch
the truth I carry

#TankaThursday (touch) #tanka #5lines #micropoetry

even clouds
touch and part
I remind myself

Marian Olson bit.ly/2MECnMS #clouds #relationship #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #Enlightenment

Love #haiku & #senryu writing #prompts ?

Ever wondered exactly what makes the #cut or #kire of #micropoetry tick in Japanese tradition, how the heck those #cut tingwords apply to our #English composition, punctuation?

Coming soon, let's all learn about the 18 classical #kire ji!

Oh, poor minions!
Begging for scraps...
Starving.
Discrimination? Injustice? Historical Wrongs?
Oh, No!
Bad Karma.
They're paying their karmic debt.
Let them #deal with it.
Legitimate suffering, you see.

#vss365 #WriteMap
#WritingCommunity

inspired by #Iran 's attack on #Israel

the pitbull
circled by Siamese cats
in a back alley
this years-long shadow war
between two old neighbors

tinyurl.com/mputfwuh #tanka #poetry #poem #PeaceNow #Iran Attack #Israel #shadowwar #MiddleEast #MiddleEast Conflict #MiddleEast Crisis

#Haiku Happenings #2: 'flooded grassland' by Eva Limbach frankjtassone.com/2024/04/24/hai…

Mendelssohn: Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage youtu.be/7VUz-PZx528 via YouTube