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Simon Ashcroft<p>Goddess</p><p>You took my loneness,<br>and offered it to yourself,<br>as a sacrifice;<br>I cannot take back the ash<br>you left on your altar stone.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Gulf</p><p>I call, through the night,<br>ask the flames that forged the void<br>to burn hours and miles;<br>our hearts have grown too lonely,<br>and my soul aches to be healed.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
Elizabeth Eiler<p>She bloomed unconcerned <br>about dramas in the trees<br>or quarreling winds,<br>focused on the living arts<br>and rare festoons of beauty.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/smallpoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallpoems</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flowers</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetrycommunity</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bloomscrolling</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Regent</p><p>Whether head or heart<br>should rule, I answered simply,<br>until my heart won;<br>must I suffer tyranny<br>of endless passion and pain?</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Facile Advice</p><p>“Seek your dreams,” they said,<br>“find the treasure Destiny<br>hid on your life's path”;<br>but, I need strength to search for<br>what, no more, wants to be found.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
AmbientDread<p>Dread Wipe</p><p><a href="https://toot.io/tags/SocialSplatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSplatter</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Sundries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sundries</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poems</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/posts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>posts</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/YesterdaysRiff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YesterdaysRiff</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/artifacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artifacts</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://petrd1.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/may-24-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petrd1.wordpress.com/2025/05/2</span><span class="invisible">5/may-24-2025/</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Signposts</p><p>Show me tracks, that lead<br>across the sky, reflected<br>in the ocean's paths;<br>tell me all such roads, one day,<br>will take us home, together.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
Sean Patrick<p>quietly yearning<br>to see a different world<br>and yet standing still<br>as though fate will carry us<br>if we do not move ourselves</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Longing</p><p>Perhaps, when we're dust,<br>released on the cosmic wind,<br>we'll mingle, at last;<br>then, maybe, we'll fall into<br>a star, and burn together.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
AmbientDread<p>Monkey Dread</p><p><a href="https://toot.io/tags/SocialSplatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSplatter</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Sundries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sundries</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poems</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/posts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>posts</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/YesterdaysRiff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YesterdaysRiff</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/artifacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artifacts</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a></p><p><a href="https://petrd1.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/may-22-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petrd1.wordpress.com/2025/05/2</span><span class="invisible">3/may-22-2025/</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Through the Night Sky</p><p>When Helios hides<br>in his native darkness, he<br>weeps, lonely, in night;<br>does not Selene know his<br>tears are the light’s love for her?</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
AmbientDread<p>nineteen eighties greed<br>bonfire of the vanities<br>compared to today's<br>narcissistic avarice blaze<br>was a prescient flickering </p><p><a href="https://toot.io/tags/dailyhaikuprompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dailyhaikuprompt</span></a> Bonfire<br><a href="https://toot.io/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/TankaThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TankaThursday</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senryu</span></a></p>
AmbientDread<p>such things cannot be<br>sufficiently despised is<br>the correct response<br>to corrupt actions taken<br>by despotic land grabbers</p><p><a href="https://toot.io/tags/haikufeels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haikufeels</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/TankaThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TankaThursday</span></a></p>
AmbientDread<p>Beastie Dread</p><p><a href="https://toot.io/tags/SocialSplatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSplatter</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Sundries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sundries</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poems</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/posts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>posts</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/YesterdaysRiff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YesterdaysRiff</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/artifacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artifacts</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://petrd1.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/may-20-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petrd1.wordpress.com/2025/05/2</span><span class="invisible">1/may-20-2025/</span></a></p>
Wai-Jing Tsang<p>Puddles play with chalk<br>Pavement drawings, rearranged<br>into abstract art</p><p>Rain-drenched pedestrians stroll<br>across a Jackson Pollock</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senryu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/micropoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>micropoem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smallpoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallpoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mydayinhaiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mydayinhaiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastopoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastopoem</span></a></p>
AmbientDread<p>going from drastic<br>plastic to tragic tantric <br>tantrum terror plots<br>by bilious faux billionaires <br>serving sorrow by the sack</p><p><a href="https://toot.io/tags/TankaTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TankaTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senryu</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Endure</p><p>Why must we endure<br>this pain of silence, absence<br>and unspoken tears?<br>My dream, that we'll share, again,<br>our depths of sadness and joy.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Hope's Source</p><p>Look up to the stars,<br>and know that fire resides, still,<br>in the ageless void;<br>whilst its flames unite our lives,<br>we cannot be defeated.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
Amkiel<p>Néixer fent salts<br>és senyal de salut,<br>lo riu és vida.<br>Prest canvia de nom<br>però segueix sent aigua.</p><p><a href="https://xarxa.cloud/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> ds17/05/25 Nacimiento del río Cuervo (Vega del Codorno)</p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Irresistible</p><p>I cannot deny,<br>nor abandon, the beauty<br>of such ancient fire;<br>illuminating the night<br>from beyond the Western sky.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
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