On the seas with tea
And cha across the deserts.
Wanderwort icons.
#WOTDhaiku Wanderwort
#haiku
#senryu
Are you popular?
A vigesimal number!
Less rude than you think.
#WOTDHaiku Vigesimal
#Haiku
#Senryu
Your verse, I oppugn,
It’s perverse, and not in tune.
Poetic violence.
#WOTDHaiku Opougn
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#Senryu
Frozen frogs thawing
rejuvenate the old pond
with their song: "Ribbit!"
#WOTDHaiku (rejuvenate) #Haiku #Poetry
The Museum of Science
Calls them ignescent but I'd
Rather say fireworks
#WOTDprompt
#WOTDhaiku Prompt
#Haiku
A weathercock
twisting in the shifting draughts,
he bends easily to influence.
— § —
burbling, outgribing
Smaragdine the troglodyte
slays the slithy toves
— § —
to liven bean soup
not salt or biting cayenne
a dash of orange zest
#StoryIn12: twisting; #WOTDPoem: influence (word from @Algot)
#senryū #WOTDHaiku: smaragdine (Dictionary.com)
#haiku #desku #HaikuChallenge: zest
#micropoetry #SmallPoems #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity
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You are killing me,
dictionary dot com, with
words like smaragdine.
Rubricate with your
enemies' blood if they don't
use Oxford commas.
Young precocity
makes anxious, people-pleasing
adults of us all.