Chariot of Souls

Helios sinks here,
rising past my horizon,
to light another;
ever seeking Selene,
longing to give her his light.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Fire

Hekate's torches,
the flaming bane of giants,
and guide on death's paths;
I chose to walk with a light
that splits darkness with terror.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity #pagan

https://www.hekatecovenant.com/post/hekate-goddess-of-war

wind chimes welcome spring
gentle equinox, it’s breeze
barely stirs the soul

exit, pursued by a lamb,
to bumble bees and birdsong

because how we roll
spin pitch and yaw through our space
lucky to live on
a planet so nice we get
equinox equinox twice

#dailyhaikuprompt - equinox - equinox
#haiku
#tanka
#TankaThursday
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#equinox

@dailyhaikuprompt

Diogenes

Do not think me blind;
I see those who love, feel pain,
or hate, or deceive –
nor was I born to forgive
the hateful, or oppressor.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Everyday Everyday Everyday I Write Haiku Haiku

#HaikuaDay #haiku #monthly #compilation #HaikuJournal #tanka
from
#prompts #hakufeels #vss365 #dailyhaikuprompt #archives

https://ambientdread.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/february-2025/

Gentle Rays

I stare into my
own heart, and find ever more
long hidden shadows;
may the moon’s pure, silver light,
expose, and melt, this darkness.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Shade

I hold a shadow
in my heart, unseen, that feeds
on pain, and darkens;
I will fight this, and for all
that has grown too dear to lose.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Unbarred

I opened, to you,
all my soul tells me to keep
silent, in my shame;
does not this tell you, my love,
that you hold my wounded heart?

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Soloist

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2067-a14f-f827-783156917642

Lament of the Sun

I wait, beguiling
hours, that seem as years, to hear,
the Moon sing, once more;
but, skies of clear pain parted
us, and I mourn in silence.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Grasping Phantoms

Clinging to a dream,
though cold whispers, from shadow,
hurt me, with warnings:
“These ghosts, traced in dust, will blow
away, irretrievably…”

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Daybreak Valley

The mountain called me,
as clouds broke in the dawn light,
speaking of lost days;
will I, again, find passion,
too long hidden beneath pain?

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

#lispyGopherClimate #newYears #podcast #live #liveNow #music, 000UTC Wed https://archives.anonradio.net/202501010000_screwtape.mp3 (#NewYearsEve in the Americas) on @SDF #archived thanks everyone for the great year and I'm looking forward to 2025!

#climate #tanka #haiku #senryu of the year by @kentpitman . My own forecast for changes in 2025.

#lisp :
@mdhughes #mcclim #game https://gitlab.com/mdhughes/mcclim-console ?
Maybe game controls from https://codeberg.org/contrapunctus/interact @Contrapunctus

Join #live in #lambdaMOO as always!

Scatters – Haiku 2024

and from the Sun’s light a pillar of cloud scatters a silver lining In response to Yvette Calleiro —this week’s #Tanka Tuesday host in which the … Scatters – Haiku 2024

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2024/11/29/scatters-haiku-2024/

A man made of glass
who loves his own reflection
is doomed to shatter

He claims he’s hard as diamond,
yet he cracks under pressure

Quilt of grey & white
clouds hold us in November's
dearth as crows raid dumpsters.

#tanka
#micropoetry
#poetry
#klgg

"Crops will fail," I've said,
wishing it's me who's crazy,
and not the whole world.

I should ditch the future tense,
now that such tense truth presents.

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #SmallPoem #ShortPoem #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #collapse #food #FoodInsecuity #FoodSecurity #CropFailures #crops

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/10/11/as-england-suffers-one-of-its-worst-ever-harvests-ever-what-could-disappear-from-shop-shel

#短歌 #tanka #fedibird #fediverse短歌部

第2回カクヨム短歌・俳句コンテスト 最終選考結果 - カクヨム https://kakuyomu.jp/contests/tankahaiku_contest2024

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第2回カクヨム短歌・俳句コンテスト【短歌の部】（戸田静） - カクヨム https://kakuyomu.jp/works/16818093077841229913