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@jdexpressions

Re-tired and ready for the roads ahead. Poetry; Music; Art; Reading. Whatever brings me peace. I was born in a land, but my home was half a world away.

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answering machine
message light flickers dimly
collect call from mars

#scifaikusaturday [message]
20260307

08.03.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

#vss365 [spellbound]
#tanka

08.03.2026 13:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

these desert sands stretch
back into my memories
faint on horizon

#2WordPrompt [stretch & faint]
#haiku

08.03.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

look fidllehead fern
floodplain vegetable patch
orchestral medley

#dailyhaikuprompt m{fiddlehead twilight]
20260308

twilight scattering
below horizon sun slips
refractions of day

08.03.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

07.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

early morning mist
snow bank clings tenuously
with each passing dawn

#haikufeels [bank]
20260307

07.03.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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]

05.03.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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.

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.

β€œKnight 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

05.03.2026 11:04 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

#haikufeels [gloss]

05.03.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

04.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

04.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

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

04.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Day 4

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

#BSPP51

04.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

04.03.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

04.03.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

of the deepest blue
sodalite genuine wash
arched landscaped hue crests

#haiku #micropoetry

04.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

#senryu

04.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

bamboo at idle
awaiting afternoon breeze
lethargy setting

#haikufeels [idle]
#vss365 [lethargy]

04.03.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I really need you to cease and desist
from your latest me improvement quest
to pull my blasΓ© 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

04.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

entangling thoughts of
embroidered memories ___ still
hold our storied past

#haiku #senryu

04.03.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

#dailyhaikuprompt [new moon willow leaves]
20260304

04.03.2026 12:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

~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

04.03.2026 12:04 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ease into new day through dawn

#7syllablesentence
20260304

04.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

strong winter winds
bend the bamboo
into woodwind tune β™«

#completethehaiga 140

03.03.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

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

#haikufeels [last]
20260303

03.03.2026 13:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

#dailyhaikuprompt [evening morning]
20260303

03.03.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

rest in another sunset

#7syllablesentence
20260203

03.03.2026 12:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

awe of silence across plain

#7syllablesentence

02.03.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

#dailyhaikuprompt [wild rose flying geese]
20260302

02.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Drawing Lainey Wilson
Drawing Lainey Wilson YouTube video by Heather Rooney

incredible photorealistic drawing . . .

youtu.be/QTUWpb_yR3s?...

01.03.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0