Olympic Torch Senryu

In the face of oppression the Olympic torch is carried through Britain alongside a Pit Bull. Maybe one day BSL will be lifted there and sights like this won’t be extraordinary.

shouting clear and loud
“eradicate B.S.L”
Our Olympic Torch

running with THE Torch
loving best friend at his side
limitless meanings

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Hear this on chirbit

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Written for:

Prompt #154 – Meaning

Also written for:

#328 – Limitless

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haiku my heart summer rain

Photos credits: Facebook

space ship tanka

XCOR suborbital spacecraft

my own little ship
travel into outer space
fantastic landscape
hypersonic travelling
transatmospheric spacecraft

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Written for:

This week’s theme is: Landscape

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Also posted on:

OpenLinkNight — week 46

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X is For (Xcor)

This week, I was fortunate enough to attend the Space Craft Technology Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

I went on a Press pass because I have a column on Nanotechnology now (see the right side of my page, there’s a link.) My column is writing poetry. XCOR had an interesting of their suborbital spacecraft. I want one. But you can buy a ride into orbit. Check out their website. It’s amazing that you can get into space now, and not be a superman astronaut. The spacecraft can be sued for payloads and experiments too, not just space travel. Seriously, check out their website, if you ever wanted to go into space, you can save up and go now!

Photo credit:  Bat-Ami Gordin  © 2012 all rights reserved, credit if you use it, please.

spring haiku and tanka

Tehachapi wildflowers in spring

early spring rainfall
soaks into dry claylike soil
regeneration

scattering seedlings
diverting mountain waters
biological
interference criticized
let spring bloom naturally

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Written for:

This week’s theme is: Spring

Also written for:

Prompt #143 – hour

Also written for:

#318 – Wild

Also posted on:

haiku my heart

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Photos credits: Wall Street Journal Online

Photo credit:  Bat-Ami Gordin  © 2010 all rights reserved, credit if you use it, please.

haiku and senryu about annoyances

A satellite image showing a haze of pollution over part of China caused by te country’s reliance on coal

waves pound on beaches
bad weather annoyances
powerful tycoons

trouble multiplies
filthy land based pollution
human garbage piles

dirty Chinese air
greenhouse emissions travel
across Pacific

screaming sick infants
cats fighting in the allies
dogs looking for fights

unhealthy disdain
pernicious urban status
no emission laws

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Written for:

This week’s theme is: Annoyance

Also Posted on:

Thursday Poets Rally Week 68 (May 17-May 23, 2012)

Photo credit:  the UK Guardian BlogTeam Vision – TAM

shifting gears senryu

As its growth stalls in a bad economy, NASCAR changes gears.

moment of beauty
proliferates happiness
lasts forevermore

happiness shifting
into the highest of gears
doing it as team

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Written for:

This week’s theme is: Happiness

Photo credit:  USA Today

freestyle BMX

TAM - Superman Nothing

freestyle rider
air trick on BMX bike
flying on zenith

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Written for:

This week’s theme is: Freestyle

Photo credit:  Skate Thailand News BlogTeam Vision – TAM

cricket senryu

Cricket

cricket senryu

chirp turf battles
proliferating several arms
cricket encroachment

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Written for:

This week’s theme is:   Battle

Photo Credit: Dayton Pest Control

two senryu dedicated to the novelist

two senryu dedicated to the novelist

staunch admiration
deliberate endurance
boundless willpower

tantamount story
untold realizations
fiction novelist

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Written for:

This week’s theme is:   Fiction

Also written for:

Prompt #112 – endurance

Photo Credit: cartoonstock

exciting haiku/senryu

Soaring with the Eagles

exciting haiku/senryu

most exciting day
birds float in warm spring breezes
hoping they can mate

angry and happy
multi-excitable state
constant turbulence

constant excitement
easily agitated
living together

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Written for:

This week’s theme is:   Excite

Photo Credit: Naomi Gray Bird’s Eye View – postcards from paradise

senryu of lost soldiers

Marines and Dogs

modern inventions
fate of curious soldiers
voices lost in fog

restless fortitude
progressing unshakably
dangerous landscape

temp’ramental fate
fortitude during setbacks
resilient lives

Written for:

Prompt #109 – Fate

Also written for:

This week’s theme is:   Fortitude

Also written for:

challenge 308 – “modern”

Also written for:

Fireblossom Friday #4 — I Love A Man (Or Woman) In Uniform!

Photo Credit: See pictures of heroic dogs in the military