John(jd)🇹🇻 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

answering machine
message light flickers dimly
collect call from mars

#scifaikusaturday [message]
20260307

spellbound transfixed
lifted by an aria
to cosmos and stars
constellation chariot
a night at the opera

#vss365 [spellbound]
#tanka

these desert sands stretch
back into my memories
faint on horizon

#2WordPrompt [stretch & faint]
#haiku

look fidllehead fern
floodplain vegetable patch
orchestral medley

#dailyhaikuprompt m{fiddlehead twilight]
20260308

twilight scattering
below horizon sun slips
refractions of day

By chance, she sat beside me on the train where the windows blurred with rain. It took a while for her to turn from the scenery, but when we began talking every word we spoke felt like a thread the world had been waiting to weave.
#vssfantasy

early morning mist
snow bank clings tenuously
with each passing dawn

#haikufeels [bank]
20260307

green cursor on an old black monitor screen pulsed
the tick at the corner of the alien's eye marked time.
sent as a peace emissary but the tell tale showed me
the aliens lack of conviction to the proffered offering
of the dove peace was viewed somewhat skeptically

#2WordPrompt [ monitor & tick]

A fantasy illustration of a female knight sitting on the side of a giant snail. She is contemplative and calm as she rests in the daylight filled clearing of the dense forest around them.

“Knight Errant”

Art by me for March’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of SPIRAL! Authors, 14 days remain until submissions are due on March 19th. Full details are on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html!

#SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

lip gloss distraction
mother warned long ago
is smile in the eyes

#haikufeels [gloss]

they have the same attitude as second amendment rights supporters allowing the killing their own children in their own schools.

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal." John Steinbeck

your heart a new moon
nothing stirs in that darkness
i miss the jungle

#dailyhaikuprompt #NewMoon #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite

Day 4

softdrift of last snow
cast light shadows in corners
picture frames windows

#BSPP51

unable to discern
whether it was late leaves of fall
or the early bloom of spring

alas it struck me
it was the devastation of war
wrought by a cowardly man

unable to step forward
and admit his wrongdoings
back in his homeland

cross night sky canvas
new moon path ___ pebble stucco
trips through the cosmos

of the deepest blue
sodalite genuine wash
arched landscaped hue crests

#haiku #micropoetry

white blood cells,
once vanquished the invaders,
turn on oneself

#senryu

bamboo at idle
awaiting afternoon breeze
lethargy setting

#haikufeels [idle]
#vss365 [lethargy]

I really need you to cease and desist
from your latest me improvement quest
to pull my blasé ass
out of the snug cocoon
I have taking up residence in

This shield of #lethargy
protects world weary me
from the pain and disappointment
fully engaged you
is determined to drag me back into

#vss365

entangling thoughts of
embroidered memories ___ still
hold our storied past

#haiku #senryu

full worm moon passes
fades into the new moon pink
willow leaves budding

#dailyhaikuprompt [new moon willow leaves]
20260304

~holy war~

a war for Israel and ego
and our friend Epstein
all eyes to the east now
all attention pulled away

public #lethargy is key
the drowning citizens
overwhelmed and dull
as children burn alive

#vss365

ease into new day through dawn

#7syllablesentence
20260304

strong winter winds
bend the bamboo
into woodwind tune ♫

#completethehaiga 140

heather on the hills
like an etta james comeback
at last ___ returned

#haikufeels [last]
20260303

an evening breeze blows
scent of a tune through bamboo
morning quiet rests

#dailyhaikuprompt [evening morning]
20260303

rest in another sunset

#7syllablesentence
20260203

awe of silence across plain

#7syllablesentence

where the wild rose blooms
when the chinook winds abate
soon flying geese call

#dailyhaikuprompt [wild rose flying geese]
20260302

Drawing Lainey Wilson YouTube video by Heather Rooney

incredible photorealistic drawing . . .

youtu.be/QTUWpb_yR3s?...