Andromeda

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chained to a rock
chained to a kitchen sink
where is perseus

Wordle Week 76

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sterile sombre dull barley soup sterile sanatorium
rivulets volitant precarious file embasan

the curmudgeoningly nasties
led sterile boring sombre lives
dull as thick barley soup



the butt
of their rivulets of
petty malice and vicious attacks
was the vivacious miss vera volitante

living a precarious existence
frantically rushed off her feet
she barely had the time to  file her nails
or reapply her lipstick
let alone exact retribution
feeling a lot of the time
like a looney embasan escaped
from the sanatorium


still
would rather walk in her shoes
than trudge a second in their jack boots

Afrikuland

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Mount Kilimanjaro

it stands alone
like a solitary child
wearing a crown of ice

Tanka Renga

 Corinne Hofmann and Lketinga
" The White Masai "

 Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

white masai woman
lines her hut with fragrant petals 
this is her new home 

where the waters flow afar
the village glows with sweet plum flowers

Sunday Whirligig

hears dread smothers cane hobbles swart
wanting disguise poem vowels imagines uncanny

Convergences...Donald Hall
An erasure poem

she hears with dread
smothers under water 
an old man finds his cane wanting
hobbles the pond's swart water
imagines his house disguised
within the poem
he and she converge
into flesh of vowels
into uncanny affection

Epitaph

 


MLMM..B&P's Shadorma And Beyond
Sunday Scribblings

who knows
where or when our words
will meet up again

just letters on parchment
leaps of faith in an imagination
will'o wisps
disappearing into the ether

farewell

Ali Goes To The Seaside

3WW...rampant menacing  unravel

Adieu Palmyra

 ali feels enervated
 takes a lot of energy
 smashing up 2000 years of antiquities
 those rampant pagan
world heritage listed buildings
pose a menace evidently




now off to the seaside to unwind
unravel the frayed nerve endings
relax a bit from the deafening sounds
of bombs and hammering of sculptures




dreams of soaking his tired limbs and turban
in the cool sea
hoping it would not be still blood soaked
from the morning's beheadings


 

Sunday Whirligig

farming corn
brussel sprouts
vines of tomatoes
pumpkin seeds

enter  - country life

cow pats
dung on boots
mole skins
akubras

verses high rise city living

comes a time
to reach a decision
traffic flow of the city or
the isolation of the bush

i choose the beach

Cocktail Hour

how long 
to wait for the cuckoo 
about a thousand years

Basho





how long 
till the wren sings again
about a thousand happy hours

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Volume 222

her volumes of mistakes
made good reading
especially the last one
volume 222

she may have broken a record
but she never broke a heart

Sunday Scribblings

Chiyo-ni

 

Airing out kimonos
as well as her heart 
is never enough 

 Chiyo-ni

cherry blossom time
fresh kimonos, dank dust
swept out of corners

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Monophytism

a single dew drop
simplicity connected
to the divine

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vulnerable beauty
in spite barbs
light still shines

The Seamstress

she holds her hands
filled with the fragile beauty
of cherry blossoms
Chevrefeuille

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her nimble fingers
sewing  intricate messages
for her secret love

Gone With The Wind

MLMM...Wordle Week 741

 crinoline exaggerate madness ornament needle scorn
 lily petrous fragile fertile listen twenty three

scarlett o'hara just twenty three
fragile beauty
prone to madness exaggeration
gifted with a fertile imagination
good listener artistic
sewed lily ornaments on  her crinoline skirt
with a gold thread and needle
poured petrous scorn on all her suitors
hopelessly in love
completely besotted with
ashley wilkes her cousin's husband

Gainsbourg:

Sunday Whirligig 20

 mariachis mortuary meth maybe missed mouths
 magician many mutants midnight motor more

no  mortuary for these many  missed parents
magically annihilated by the midnight mutants
struttin' and puffin' in their jack boots and stahlhelm
riding zundapp motor bikes

no crystal meth for this lot just zyklon B crystals
as jews lay open mouthed on the shower room floor
more corpses for the ovens

the surviving fragile children
play with the fervour of mariachis
on their balalaikas and fiddles
some day they will smile again -  maybe
 

Basho

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the butterfly is perfuming
its scent in the wings
of  the orchid

Matsuo Basho


the watermelon
black seeded in rich deep pink
parrots screech with joy

Tan Renga Challenge

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out of the washbowl
i scoop up
my distorted face 

Sumitaku Kenshin (1961 - 1987 )

if i look in the mirror
it will crack into pieces

Jamiroquai - Blow Your Mind

spring almost here
blue sky and daffodils
friday
writing to a friend
how good is this

Day Lily

Heeding Haiku With Chevrefeuille...MLMM

 blooms brightly briefly
 here today gone tomorrow
 nature's casualty

Tiny Dancer

Choka 575 757 577
irritate gruesome enigma
MLMM...Three Word Wednesday...Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

the ballerina
fell through the giant cracks of
a gruesome regime

enigmatic girl
they shattered her dreams
axed her from the company

she irritates them
by her flawless pirouettes 
dancing in a crown of thorns

Wordle 73...MLMM

Michael Leunig...cartoonist

cask galaxy uninvited deliverance applechaser clumsy
lofty evade jeer chamois notch hurry

LOSER

there he flies
a lone star in the
galaxy of losers

the apple chasers are uninvited

he - a clumsy cask wine imbiber
never in a hurry
dressed in chamois cloth trousers
straight out of 'deliverance'  country
became oblivious to  the smugness
of the lofty top notchers 

just another johnny come lately
going nowhere they jeered

Sunday's Whirligig 19

signal bed awake separate soft cord
frayed bickering hear breathe asleep floor

he is fast asleep

hearing his heavy breathing
the snoring signals
another night staying awake

frayed nerves
the bickering begins
should i push him
on to the soft carpeted floor
or tie his nose with a cord

separate beds the answer

Humour Haiku

threesomes
never work out even in
an egg carton


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 little miss muffet
learns to deal with spiders
the modern way

 
who poured vodka
into the gold fish tank -hiccups
burps and bubbles

 skinny dipping
great idea providing that
no one nicks the gear

Overboard

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it will be spring soon
the sun is stronger each day
peppercorns turn pink
time to swim and love again
winter blues thrown overboard