the blissful void of
zero notifications
tinged green with FOMO

Shout

Anger is the fire
of my love, when it forgets
to wash pain with tears.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

photos from the war
flickering at 60 Hz
not quite real - not yet

Interpret

The Wind calls me, in
the lost language of an oath
I still keep, for you.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

to them we are pointless sparrows but they are not gods

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#poignant #senryu by Marjolein Rottsteeg. Marjolein writes in #Dutch, #English & #French. Her work has been widely published & anthologized. #grief #poetry #sister #poetrycommunity #ashes #poems #haiku #poetrylovers #snow #micropoetry

Garden year - I watch
the hydrangea blossom
as it comes and goes

#DailyHaikuPrompt - hydrangea
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her shrine of aspen
will not shiver and wave
until June

#DailyHaikuPrompt - hydrangea / winter grove
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In the gazebo
Hydrangea grows nearby
Tea with a good friend

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Photo from my archives

Cold mist shrouds tree ferns,
Mountain ash somewhere above.
Earth, air, and wonder.

#DailyHaikuPrompt Winter Grove

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1/2

Because of the wood
clearcutting of whole forests,
fertile soil erodes

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Bare Hill - (unknown photographer)

outrage works hot
to melt resolve -- flood
the zone with snow

#DailyHaikuPrompt - sap / first snow
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The sugar maple
Tapped for its life blood each year
Sweet delicious sap

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Prompt ~ Sap

They’re not who they claimed
Grief at the lie we believed
Whited sepulchers

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Prompt ~ Grief

BOOBIES

I'd just like to say
With the weather warming up
Hooray for boobies!

The nightmares I’ve lived
And all the dreams that I’ve lost.
I grieve for me.

#DailyHaikuPrompt Grief

#MicroFiction

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Fifty four years
Floating down this river.
I can smell the sea.

#DailyHaikuPrompt River

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The view from the top
Patchwork of green hills and fields
No houses here please

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Prompt ~ Hills

Photo from my archives 2016

Selene's Grace

If I stand beneath
the Moon, call her name, will she
shine on my path home?

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

endure modern life
or become a forest witch —
she runs for the hills

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