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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Written for:

Prompt #154 – Meaning

Also written for:

#328 – Limitless

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haiku my heart summer rain

Photos credits: Facebook

valued benevolence haiku

Joy With Gorilla

precious wildlife
deep grumbling adulation
gorilla moment

remarkable hug
unwavering affection
instinctive wisdom

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Written for:

Prompt #146 – Joy

Also posted on:

haiku my heart

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V is for VISION

Photo credit:  Wild for Wildlife and Nature – Please LIKE them on Facebook

ugly man mask

Ugly, Tortured Man

ugly man mask

dissassembled face
tortured ugly zombie mask
scare and frighten friends

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Written for:

Prompt #143 – mask

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The letter U of Urban Legend.

Photo credit:  wizzly masks

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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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.

three still haiku and senryu

Beauty of Japan

japanese garden
circled by snowy mountains
clench tranquility

still tidal moment
interrupted by a breeze
waves begin to form

fireworks in brain
needing your lips to touch mine
still in love with you

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Written for:

Prompt #134 – still

Image Credit: Hiren & Pankaj’s Homepage

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

two playing senryu

A bagpipe-playing oyster, and other wonders of the deep by Mark Garro

act of making pearls
musical bagpipe oyster
forms jewels as he plays

mysterious band
angelic and devilish
plays feverishly

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Written for:

Prompt #120 – play

Image Credit: super punch

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