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cats in the cradle … two cats and a kitten a witches brew of toil and trouble all in a muddle … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #brew

Where my pen went today is to the venal predator who preys on your lack of confidence in listening to your own true self. .… #poem #poetry #Weekly #inkMine #venal #snivel #gullible #bestow #gall #myriad

emotions spilling … water spooling shattered scattering broken glass emotions spilling … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #spill

peacock eyes … on the bed it lies tasseled scarf with peacock eyes card & wrapping paper a life unlived with you and me beginning of an ending … alt=deets #completethehaiga #174 #poem #poetry #haiga #tanka

silent shriek … nightmare's frozen grip strangling a silent shriek ~ identity shivers … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #shriek

mother love … kittens meow restlessly mother murmurs purringly a litter settling … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #murmur

toxicity … Don't be surprised when someone imbued with chaos brings it to your door when new hires & contractors absorb the culture waiting there … #poem #poetry #haiku #tanka #Weekly #surprise #inkMine (From Stoicism in the face of toxic relationships or workplaces.) #stoic #stoicism

damage done … the silent screams in the years of whispering assuaged by therapy … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #scream

Where my pen went today is a near forgotten memory of youth. My parents moved country to town and for a while we lived in both worlds Then new roots took and country became memory. I never forgot the sky .… #Sensewrds #Prompt285 #Affectionate #Elusive #Mist #poem #poetry

Spring rain … splattering the porch sifting and seeping the garden life renews again … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #splatter

Plato taught that debating isn't about wining, nor a zero-sum game. It's about finding the truth and having found it, acting on it until shown otherwise. Voting ~ that's giving a mandate to act on the truth … #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry #tanka #vote #stoic #stoicism

what's on my stoic mind today is being diminished don't let it be true not for you or anyone else … when they say to you its better for everyone they're vanishing you … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #vanish #stoic #stoicism

where my pen went today what's on my mind today the unsaid things the wounds under mental scar how we hide them in a mental jar how long it takes to uncork the jar the price we pay when its gone to far … #Sensewrds #Prompt284 #Bucolic #Shimmering #Whisper #poem #poetry #stoic #stoicism

doubt and drought … the river stretches wide step away from doubt and drought the herd follows in line … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #follow

where my pen went today, is to Remembering Gabby never forget: gabbypetitofoundation.org/gabbys-story #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #dust #gabbypetito

helplessly hoping … a cage, a kitten needing coaxing in her form fearful in her hope … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #coax

Comfortably numb … the anthropocene has a wavy dividing line the oligarchs in air-conditioned palaces the rest a planet distressed … #completethehaiga #prompt173 #poem #poetry #haiga #tanka

Casper on holiday … ghosts do not bring their grief thru a portal in Capri on a jaunty Summer day … #Sensewrds #prompt283 #Mournful #Breezy #Doorway

consequences … betrayal didn't scare me what I became, that's what did ~ needed to undo … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #scare

fading away … three dots vanishing regret appears as consequence ~ silence on a screen … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #appear

Duty is the sharing of Value Honor is the child of Duty equal in all things a shared and known morality an ethic spanning culture, gender, nationality and station and free of all other constraints of prejudice. (a fragment from my stoic life) #poem #poetry #inkMine #ethic #stoic #stoicism

credo … live your life honestly treat everyone with dignity give respect equally … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #treat #stoic #stoicism

in their hands … the fates are watching and waiting a skein of cotton unraveling into a future they're weaving the present rapidly receding and all that was certain ~ uncertain … #Sensewrds #Prompt282 #Leaving #Restless #Thread #poem #poetry

surround sound … the lonely path is the path back to yourself surrounded by yourself … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #surround

the lute … in the midnight pause of the silence of the night the sound of a lute … transparent and melancholy, silence winnows, truth reveals … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #silence #lute #silence #truth

where my pen went today to listening with clarity, intentionality, in the moment where the narrative needs it most. … #Sensewrds #Prompt281 #Silenced #Sheltering #Minutes #poem #poetry #tanka

reprieve … the flash makes them flinch in constant rolling thunder cattle center the plain … there'll be no hunting tonight not in the driving rain … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #flinch #tanka

Where my pen went to today is to how what we think we need is not always what we want how the wanting outweighs the needing when the needing is separated from the wanting. … #poem #poetry #Weekly #inkMine #spice #crash #fizzle #skeptical #forsake #artificial

waiting … anticipating water swirls against the lock sun moves East to West … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #lock

colored green … I remember the seat the memory of love the memory of sharing before the miles distended the unspoken differences. I remember the gift the brilliant green of the necklaced stone coloring our love while I sit here alone … #Sensewrds #Prompt280 #Varying #Distanced #Jade #poem #poetry

On my Stoic mind, tonight is the relationship between Courage & Fear Archimedes is the exemplar of this mindset The courageous person endures & fears the right things, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right time A very stoic pov #poem #poetry #Courage #inkMine #stoic #stoicism

beck & call … at her beck'n call she never beckoned, and I ~ I never did call … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #beckon

Camelot … Guinevere glanced Lancelot tilts his lance Arthur rebalancing … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #tilt #Camelot

Some relationships under the reality of the daily grind get weathered away. A steady erosion a drifting away and no one doing the work of noticing. … #Sensewrds #Prompt279 #Drifting #Frayed #Violets #poem #poetry #haiku #tanka #stoic #stoicism

emergent … in the gap between what is said and truly felt ~ truth emerges there … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #merge

Anne Carson. www.youtube.com/live/PAY9Lr_... #nobel #nobelliterature #literature

seen & heard … batten down the hatches! barometers fall silently ~ waves warn restlessly … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #hatch

trust & love … Love without honesty is a life collapsing trust curiosity dangerous ~ somewhere love may still exist burdened with a mournful weight … #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #trust #poem #poetry #tanka

orbiting … we're two satellites circling to destruction orbiting in decay … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #decay