L.D. Tudge

Old #Bournemouth beach lands, down pier and chine to the #sands. Bright on #Dorset strands. #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #poets #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry www.dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/bournemouth-...

From #start to finish, to sustain a lifetime, long, shun what shortens it. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #seneca

Concept ill-conceived— tryin' to #sneaker into me room, I admit. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

There was a local shoppe that sold pottery; they didn't sell much— not a #lottery. The unlucky potter was a tad feeble, a touch tottery; recurrently dropping random numbers of dishes, stoneware, and crockery. #vss365 #prose #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #poem #poet #BlueskyPoets #emoetry

An old comedian hooked me up with a young comedian whom I agreed to assist—a little bit—with his new comedy bit. I rewrote some bits, added my two bits, building a solid set sound for stage. Not #unexpectedly, he bombed quite expectedly, changing the new new bit not a little but a lot. #vss365

Guest, #unexpected; by "guest," a child stands conceived by the expectant. But by no means do I imply an unborn child is capable of standing. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

It came to me quite unannounced, #unexpected — out of the blue. Yet whence the blue? That was the proper mystery. Had the blue, perhaps, left behind some clue? Doyle would know. Doyle always knew. Though Doyle was forever chasing mountains—which was, for Doyle, entirely to be expected. #vss365

Now that I am old, I've more friends known than I know as the #dead's roll grows. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

When Marley appeared, Scrooge said: "You are #dead to me." (Christmas spirit passed.) #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #booksky #books #dickens

What #follows, trails. Trails are meant to be followed. Betrayals are not. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

"Bravely ran away, #brave, #brave, #brave, #brave Sir Robin." The resilient knight. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #montypython

​Were Paganini still around, we’d hear Il Cannone’s pure #sound; true, his fiddle survives to this day, for the chosen and worthy to play, safely kept in the steadiest hands— heavens, never in mine, lest it slip from the line and in pieces upon floorboards land. #vss365 #poem #poetry #writing #prose

You know what I found, when silent films gained their #sound? Music was the pits. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #film #movies

​Bell tower unsound— then it collapsed to the ground, raising quite a #sound. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #chichester

​Shepherding a gentleman more devoted to a sharp rowing finish than a sound Greats finish was tedious business, but a guinea is a guinea. If an aristocrat cared to empty his sovereign purse over a #delta son, I was quite willing to bleed that blood to nourish my own pocket-book. #vss365 #prose

I wish not to play with docile, khaki-wearing, dull #Delta children. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #booksky #blueskypoetry #books #bravenewworld #huxley

​To be deloricated, publicly, in front of your peers—or, quite possibly, decorticated—whichever it is that leaves you taken down a peg, stripped bare & thoroughly exposed, until your dignity and your modesty are indecorously restored the moment your coat is returned, taken down off its peg. #vss365

Niagara's waters, now #calm, but only after someone talked them down. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

The #quake in my boot, from undue junk in my trunk. Quite a tott'ry stir. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

Heed the #sirens call, or let it go to voicemail, at your own peril. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #booksky #books

​Perhaps I did covet my neighbour’s wife—though covet strikes me as an unnecessarily severe term, best left for true #sinners. It was merely a cultivated appreciation; she was uncommonly charming. ​And I harboured no unchristian designs upon his oxen. His Jaguar XK120 was another matter. #vss365

If gin is a #sin, I've lost several sinners who suffered gin's win. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

Time is an #island, unless it is an isthmus... then, "Merry Isthmus." #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #philosophy

Seldown's Iyla White, did hail from the Isle of Wight— where it seldom hailed. #vss365 #island #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #dorset

Old English ports #sailed, New English roadsteads regaled; Atlantic travailed. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

When from Wych we #sail; Skirt the Furzey? Make for Wales? Up to Corfe for ales? #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #dorset

What comes after #glow? Is what remains diminished, or fled the demesne? #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

#Hurricanes are, by nature—though the reader, I expect, already knows this. However, there are times when the whole business of wind getting thoroughly above itself could be more assertively bridled. #vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #prose #emoetry #poets #blueskypoetry

When I visited Nanaimo, a fair #harbour city, I asked one of the locals to recommend a bar. #vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #prose #emoetry #poets #blueskypoetry #canada #Canadian

Havenpool #Harbour— where be Frome and Piddle from? I prize a fine port. #vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #vsspoem #dpp #prose #emoetry #poets #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #booksky #books #wessex #dorset #thomashardy

Ill feelings #harboured— like the man who nicked my skiff. I despise that guy. #vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #vsspoem #dpp #prose #emoetry #poets #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry

By sirens allur'd, but their honeyed songs unheard— beeswax in me ears. #vss365 #allure #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #booksy #books #homer #odyssey #classics

Dreadful at fishing— I did not see the #allure. Neither did the fish. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

#Mountains and mole hills; where petty near-sighted dwarves delve for copper spoil. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #lotr

Scale glass #mountain’s peak, leave an old gnome in a pique; a princess, your prize. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #books #booksky #grimm #fairytale

Old men, like #mountains— pale of crown, stout of girth still, obdurate as stone. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

Angry #clouds over Blandford skies; I had not seen the Stour so high. Clayland waters pour from Blackmore Vale; across Wimborne meadows one might sail. #vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #prose #emoetry #poets #blueskypoetry #dpp #dorset #uk

Woken by a #cloud— a cloud so terribly loud, the grass wet itself. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #pastoral

​A sudden #reprieve from Canterbury’s shadow— the old bishop died. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #booksky #blueskypoetry #books

Not slaking pit, nor priggish #purifying fire, can scour this damned spot. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

Feed a fever, starve a cold; #nurture an ague from malarial marsh mould. #vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #vsspoem #dpp #prose #emoetry #poets #verse

Grieving over gold, old Silas stayed weaving flax to #nurture a child. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #booksky #blueskypoetry #books #literature

Sorrowed souls stumble into Baba Yaga's den, #nurturing her spite. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #blueskypoetry #fairytales #stories

Youth, as I #reckon, curt recalls, gaps, spent seconds. Curt? I don't recall. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #blueskypoetry

A few, perhaps only one or two, hostile guests were wrecking a hostel room at the Reckon Inn—a collegiate wrecking, one assumes, though the Bursar might prefer to enter it as unfair wear and tear. One, and maybe more, expects, I #reckon, there to be at least one reckoning, possibly two. #vss365

The beauty pageant entrants vowed to end #hunger for all but themselves. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #blueskypoetry

Hungry, hungry hippos. Are these hippos exceptionally hungry? Constantly hungering? Hippos with endless, insatiable #hunger? Perhaps they a unique species of hippo—the hungry hippo—and this particular group of hungry hippos are hungry, in the normal sense, craving grass and watermelons. #vss365

#Monitor lizards are as dangerous as their unmonitored kin. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #blueskypoetry

A journey #embarked, in a canoe skinned with bark, and a quiet dog. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

It was clearly dark, but don't bore me with #stormy— it was a light rain. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp

It was a dark and #stormy night—then it got darker. The storm? Stormier still. Truly, one of the darkest and stormiest nights I have dared describe on paper, and I've read Paul Clifford. In fact, I have a signed copy. It's signed "Owen Meredith", but therein lies the dark and stormy charm. #vss365