Paddy Roberts

Our framed John Grant poster from his 'Love is Magic' album tour provides inspiration for tonight's haiku..

@paddy-roberts.bsky.social

11.03

Life's full of good, bad and mediocre days isn't it?

A life metaphor:
Some days up and some days down –
Like Snakes & Ladders..

#17thOctober #haiku365

"Now, in a minute" is almost as ubiquitous as "... to be fair ..." Image: ilovethediff.com

@deluxday.bsky.social

So, as advertised, here's the second part:

11/3

ii/iv

I can speak Wel-ish
I know this, and will reply
Now, in a minute

#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku

Thank you for reposting this, Debbie @cribbowens.bsky.social

Thank you for the repost, Jan @jangoeswriting.bsky.social

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"Bonny prints, Charlie."
"Aye, there's a new stationer
On Old Stewart Street."

#vss365 #bonny #haiku

After our inglorious retreat
and subsequent defeat
the Terms of Surrender
demanded by our enemy
were quite generous
and meant to be conducive
for future peace and #harmony

Or at least until
the inevitable rematch
where we get our revenge
which will be fuckin epic

#vss365 #inkmine #poetry #poem

Image: nation.cymru

@deluxday.bsky.social

Got a busy week coming up, so have prepared a polyptychal haiku for doing over the next four days:

10/3

i/iv

I can speak Wel-ish
I know, at least, some Welsh words
From road signs and things

#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku

@paddy-roberts.bsky.social

10.03

With thanks to Alexei Sayle:

Eulogised in song,
With me for work, rest and play –
Dr Marten's Boots!!

#17thOctober #haiku365

🤣

Shw mae, Jan @jangoeswriting.bsky.social: popeth yn dda? Diolch am y repost!

Welsh National Anthem

'Land of my fathers' -
Close harmony - but should be
'Parents' these days, right?

(Doesn't work in Welsh: at least, not enough knowledge to adjust it...

'Hen wlad fy nhadau' -
Cytgord agos - ond dylid bod
'Rhieni' y dyddiau hyn, iawn?)

#vss365 #harmony #haiku

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The Bull or The Papal Bull, to acknowledge the charter granted by the Abbot of Crowland..

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Love a Caramel!

09.03

Raft-race meeting at the historic 16th century pub, once a staging post to the North..

Horses were stabled,
The weary took drink and rest,
On the long road north..

#17thOctober #haiku365

... OK, there were some upsides ...

@deluxday.bsky.social

Got some things done: chores, mainly.

9/3

Out in pyjamas
To bring bins in from roadside
Highlight of my day

#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku

I'm sorry to hear you're in pain.

Dancing with itself.

Mokka machine locked and loaded...

Slight caffeine headache;

s
Drinking coffee
n
c
before

Dawn: I'll not sleep now

#haiku

Good morning, and thank you, Jan @jangoeswriting.bsky.social for the repost

The GOAT, lightning in a bottle.

His music, untamed,
Grounds me when live stylus drops
There's my lightning rod

#vss365 #lightning #haiku

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Thank you, Ms Fizzy @fizzytwizler.bsky.social for your kind repost

@paddy-roberts.bsky.social

08.03

International Women's Day. Imagine how different the course of history might've been with Women in control..

"Women of the World
Takeover!" Remove ego
And give us balance..

#17thOctober #haiku365

Image: cartoondealer.com

@deluxday.bsky.social

A couple of days off, then back to the grindstone.

8/3

Community and
Communication are linked
In more ways than one

#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku

THIRTY YEARS OF RUSSIAN ROULETTE I am spellbound by the stimuli of sludge. My focus is a revolver, spinning in a game of russian roulette that lasts for millennia inside of a day. It's not fair how I get incensed at the trigger when it's my fingers that ache to squeeze. This anxiety became a cliché back in 1996 when I was 8 and I thought the walls of my school were going to chew on me until they became tumors. So what is it now that it's 30 years later and I'm still screaming at my own mind to quite down so I can self-destruct in peace for a change?

I backslid into a pretty awful panic attack yesterday. So today I wrote about my near-lifetime struggle with the awfulness of anxiety.

#vss365 #spellbound #emoetry #incensed #poetry

Thank you for the repost, Debbie @cribbowens.bsky.social

... And
Thank you
For the repost

I
Thank you.
An interesting exercise.

🙂

Oh!
My god -
Did you hear?

It
Will happen.
Mark my words!

#PoetsOfDoom: Hay(na)ku Hello, my fellow poetic doomers! It’s me, Steve (not Dave’s pet penguin, sorry). Here is your form and prompt this week, courtesy of moi. I present to you, the hay(na)ku! The hay(naku) is a poetic form invented in 2003 by Filipino poet Eileen Tabios. The name of the form is a pun on the words haiku, and the Tagalog phrase “hay nako” which means “oh well”. This form consists of three lines with one word in the first line, two words in the second, and three words in the third, for a total of six words. An example made by me: Blue Boys chase Other blue boys. Your theme is #omen. Your task, create two hay(na)ku that form a chain. Meaning, both pieces must talk about the other. The first one should be about the omen, and the second should talk about the consequence. Happy writing, have fun! Steve Silas Hendrickson

It's Sunday, so it's officially #PoetsOfDoom time!

Tag me or one of these people so we can see your contributions. I look forward to reading them!

@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social

Don't overthink it, have fun!

#poetrycommunity #writingprompt

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Her effortless grace
Left me spellbound as I watched
Blood drip off her teeth

#vss365 #spellbound #haiku