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Sean Patrickwarm winds, shining sun; the world itself is cheerful — yet my heart is cold — the cruel juxtaposition of inner and outer worlds<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a>

Simon Ashcroft<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Aphelion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Aphelion</a> Nothing to Forgive.Your heart ever burned, and its sparks became your words, lighting our darkness; we are scorched by your starfire, because you teach how to feel.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a>

Kent PitmanIt feels redundant, all these blurted I love you's. Yet each is fresh truth. Why shy from repeated cheer, but not its repeated lack?<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#senryu</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ShortPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShortPoem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoems</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#love</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/joy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#joy</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/repetition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#repetition</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/redundancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#redundancy</a>

Simon AshcroftSearcherHow can love let go of the belovéd, or souls fly from their desire? If you doubt me, remember – my heart has not turned away.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a>

Simon AshcroftThe Dragon's SoulSoftly, the Dragon breathes quiet concern, a fire of love, for healing; his heart’s blood, red as passion, learning to give gentle heat.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a>

AmbientDread<a href="https://toot.io/tags/Pressure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pressure</a> on the wound A tourniquet on a limb Both stanch the bleeding A vivid call to action Save the body politic <a href="https://toot.io/tags/vss365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vss365</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/dailyhaikuprompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dailyhaikuprompt</a> - vivid <a href="https://toot.io/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/TankaTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TankaTuesday</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a>

Wai-Jing TsangI have no idea what you want to hear from me I can’t read your mind You expect me to just know and fulfill your every wish <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#senryu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smallpoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smallpoems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/micropoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#micropoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastopoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastopoem</a>

Kent Pitmanincompetent king impotent to fix problems can't but deny them bankruptcy's oft his next tool but grace won't likely follow<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#senryu</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ShortPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShortPoem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoems</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/denial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#denial</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateDenial</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/bankruptcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bankruptcy</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incompetence</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/incompetent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incompetent</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/forgiveness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forgiveness</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/grace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grace</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rebellion</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a>I've attached some notes as a comment.

Simon AshcroftWhere?I don’t know if Hope spreads her wings at dawn, or hides in the night’s shadows; but, somewhere, between Luna and Sol, she will break darkness.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a>

Wai-Jing TsangWhere do you go to? Every time I reach for you, you are never thereI suspect you hide away, so I can’t depend on you<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#senryu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/micropoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#micropoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smallpoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smallpoems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastopoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastopoem</a>

MicroMusasQuimérico químico. <a href="https://write.as/micromusas/quimerico-quimico" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://write.as/micromusas/quimerico-quimico</a>

AmbientDreadTramp Tramp Tramp Haikus go marching on...<a href="https://toot.io/tags/HaikuaDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HaikuaDay</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/compilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#compilation</a> <a href="https://ambientdread.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/march-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ambientdread.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/march-2025/</a>

Simon AshcroftThree Paths in the NightI carry, within, strange chants, hidden in midnight mist-shrouded woodland; do not disturb these dark dreams, unless howling hounds call you© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/pagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pagan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Hekate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hekate</a>

Simon AshcroftRebelsWe are creatures, lost outside of all conventions of time’s illusion; dreams, our guide to memory hidden, in our deepest selves. © Simon J Ashcroft, 2025<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a>

caracabeCold, rain, misspellings on handmade protest posters, those don’t matter now. Signs, chants, shouts might change nothing, but we will not be silent.<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/notReallyTanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#notReallyTanka</a>

Simon AshcroftShipwreckMy heart, once so proud, was wrecked on a moonlit shore, and is no more mine; it was torn on rocks of time, and claimed by tides of desire.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a>

Mo Schoenfeld (she/her)stomach on fire my gaze pierces the window gatekeeper of sun these pillows, so many stones I am no hero<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a>

Simon AshcroftSoul JourneyLiquid gold sunlight filters through branches, still bare, as cold wind hits me; may I surf these waves of light, through this world, to find my home.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a>

Simon AshcroftConnectionThough her body sleeps, it is her voice, that whispers in the longing breeze; I listen, and whisper back, “I'm here, my love – you've found me.”© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a>

Goofy 📖 🍝 :unverified:Bon dimanche 🙂 👋 madame <a href="https://framapiaf.org/@Septie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Septie</a> laisser l'arbre seul puisque maintenant sur lui mille étoiles veillentle fleuve lent suit son cours s'éloigne jour après jour<a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanka</a> --- photo "vallée de l'Elbe, la nuit" par <a href="https://pixelfed.de/thheine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thheine</a>

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