nose to the blindstone ...

#scififri #scifisat #sfpoetry
#poem #poetry
not really #scifaiku

v3 (perhaps)

in memorium absentia

#vss365 #marvellous
#scififri #sfpoetry #poem #poetry
v3

top hats well suited
cups to catch the warlords' coin

heads you lose

#vss365 #coin
#senryu #micropoetry #bonsaiku
#poetry #poem

Trust him

in memorium absentia

#vss365 #marvellous
#scififri #sfpoetry #poem #poetry
v3

you said it would be marvellous
to be as one
but the arc of us descended
to this chiselled stone
no rainbow promises apply
to our world ending

#vss365 #marvellous #poem #poetry

=trickle down=

here's an old new deal
you will never be rich
though
you will never be poor

but the child
offered one sweet today
or two tomorrow
will choose the short sighted way
penthouse golden toilet seats
and shit in the streets

#vss365 #deal
#poem #poetry #vsshorror

#shakespeare

=and so wild in their attire=

today's fashionable young witches
only out for instagain
stranded on a windswept tor
sans thunder, lightning, or rain
two commenting on artful hair
one balanced on a gargoyle tree
praying for a ghost, or a signal
from three

#poetry

=trickle down=

here's an old new deal
you will never be rich
though
you will never be poor

but the child
offered one sweet today
or two tomorrow
will choose the short sighted way
penthouse golden toilet seats
and shit in the streets

#vss365 #deal
#poem #poetry #vsshorror

= that time of the month =

i see it sometimes
in the mirror while i'm changing
the unexpected
hint

of claw

#vss365 #mirror
#vsshorror #sfpoetry
#poem #poetry #moon

= the clime of the fateful harbinger =

icebergs icebergs everywhere
but never a sign of think
no sightings of albatross
only dead men
by the sea

#vsspoem #harbinger
#vsshorror
#ClimateEmergency
#poem #poetry #poetry community

Hi there Matt Gilbert & TopTweetTuesday
I'm borrowing from Macbeth (title from 1.4)

'To throw away the dearest thing he ow(n)ed,
As 't were a careless trifle.'

- tho it is a resp to Matt's 1st [less prescriptive] prompt. Ah well

#poetry #poem #imagist #Shakespeare

Hi there Matt Gilbert & TopTweetTuesday
I'm borrowing from Macbeth (title from 1.4)

'To throw away the dearest thing he ow(n)ed,
As 't were a careless trifle.'

- tho it is a resp to Matt's 1st [less prescriptive] prompt. Ah well

#poetry #poem #imagist #Shakespeare

all you can eat buffet
quantity outweighs
quality
#vsspoem

= rush hour =

metal trophies edge towards the city heights
each fist derailed against a binding wheel
feet on Escher stairs assail the highest box
cold hearts and failing heads deployed
in crawlspaces

#vss365 #crawl #vsshorror #poem #poetry
#poetry community #slaveEconomy

The shark's blood made my skin #crawl , but really I need it to walk, if it is to cross the greasy floor, all the dripping way from the breeding vat to where I hang, bleeding, on the wall.
#vss365 #vsshorror

you must have heard
the daleks cry
exterminate
exterminate

and now the earth born
monsters try
manipulate
#manipulate

so every screen
below the sky
insinuates
insinuates

that science will
while stupids never
lie

#vss365 #scififri #scifisat #poetry #poem #sfpoetry

#scififri #hero
. Number 1, back so soon? That was quick!
: Well, captain ...
. What?
: You said you needed a hero to fix the containment field ...
. And ?
: I thought you meant the dilithium cells.
. I meant the toilets, number 1. We need a real hero for that problem.
#vss365