Though Noah had doubts,
Put the orchard on the boat.
“He said they’re in pears…”

#DailyHaikuPrompt Pears

#haiku

#senryu

@dailyhaikuprompt

sun spreading kisses
across the soft blue skin
while rain's away

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 22 April 2025 - spring sky.
#haiku #senryu #poetry #SmallPoems #Writing

summer heat. early.
one lone April day, then cool.
Climate's muscle flex.

My Folly

Through self-doubt, I risk
destroying love, by attempts
to keep it secure.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

blustery spring winds
pushing us ever closer
to summer's delights

It feels redundant,
all these blurted I love you's.
Yet each is fresh truth.

Why shy from repeated cheer,
but not its repeated lack?

incompetent king
impotent to fix problems
can't but deny them

bankruptcy's oft his next tool
but grace won't likely follow

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #economy #climate #denial #ClimateDenial #censorship #bankruptcy #oligarchy #incompetence #incompetent #forgiveness #grace #rebellion #collapse

I've attached some notes as a comment.

We are born screaming,
For air, food, shelter, and love.
Keep making that noise.

#DailyHaikuPrompt Birth

#haiku

#senryu

@dailyhaikuprompt

I wake to nightmares,
fever dreams I'd scarce believe,
yet my bank confirms

Climate-threatened life
will keep trying ... 'til it can't.
Knowing, we owe more.

Listen at: https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio

This week we will talk about the Unix Philosophy and how it compares and contrasts with whatever one might call the “Emacs Philosophy.”

The impetus for the discussion is a series of blog posts by @ramin_hal9001 called “Emacs fulfills the UNIX Philosophy”:

• The original introductory blog post
• The show notes

…as well as a fascinating discussion that took place over this past week on ActivityPub on the topic of the Unix philosophy and history of Lisp on Unix in which some very knowledgeable people have contributed anecdotes and facts.

#technology #programming #SoftwareEngineering #RetroComputing #lisp #r7rs #SchemeLang #UnixPhilosophy

within each of us
our loved ones, in tiny form,
caring's innate yield
    company at a distance
    legacy in case of loss

What a fantastic start of the week: for the second time The Mainichi, Japanese newspaper in English, has published a haiku by me!

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250227/p2g/00m/0su/055000c

#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#poem
#writing
#writingcommunity

@poetry

@haiku

within each of us
our loved ones, in tiny form,
caring's innate yield
company at a distance
legacy in case of loss

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #love #connection #entanglement #avatar #grief #missing #redundancy #backup

I'll post some notes in a comment on this thread.

time to sing and dance
grim times oft don't invite it
so we must insist

Dry summer gold
During the harvest
we play hide and seek

#DailyHaikuPrompt - barley
#Haiku #Senryu #ShortPoems #Writing

though wildfires move fast,
tape measures reassure us
we are safely far

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #heat #fires #wildfires #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial

Notes to follow on comment thread.

heaped wads of paper
poetry shunning foul truth
bring a better world

their schedules were booked
family, work, politics
Climate still killed them

I do not give up,
though I do give myself rest,
it is to rise strong.

-Phillip J Rhoades