leaf skeleton-- the memory of who I used to be 📷 gettyimages

The pendulum swings back and forth, was there ever a time of peace? #vsstimetravel #pendulum

#inktober2025day5 #inktober Guadalupe

sickness without pain is still hard leaves changing color --Kuchiha Horikawa 病苦なき病も辛し薄紅葉　堀川朽葉 From The Lonely Night #Haiku Gathering Newsletter No. 240 #LonelyNightHaiku #translation

"#Reality" in #Trumperica the people of Trump by the people of DOGE for the people of the SuperRich... a sun-bleached flag atop the Capitol fencing https://t.co/PdEDsWtTIW #DonaldTrump #BigBeautifulBillForBillionaires #tanka #poetry

神々がよろこんでいる立見席 The gods delight— standing room only - Shinko Tokizane #senryu

玉葱のツンと緑のゴイズム Of onion's sharp green— *goyism - Shinko Tokizane #senryu *Japanese for 'Gnosticism'

母を恨めば赤い雪ふる生年月日 To resent my mother— red snow falls on my birthday - Shinko Tokizane #senryu

桃一個一刀ありてわが乳房 a single peach, a single knife— my breast - Shinko Tokizane #senryu

骨肉のがんじがらめよ鎌の月 bound tight by flesh and bone— the sickle moon - Shinko Tokizane #senryu

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川岸を生まれ在所として恥じず Not ashamed to claim the riverbank as my birthplace - Shinko Tokizane #senryu

いっぴきの男弾る目に力 One single man— his striking eyes hold power - Shinko Tokizane #senryu

くやしゅうて玩具の兵隊を並べ Out of spite, I line up the toy soldiers - Shinko Tokizane #senryu

何考えてんだかこけし二本立つ What are they thinking? Two kokeshi dolls stand with silent secrets - Shinko Tokizane #senryu

Mount Fear stone stone stone stone death death death --Kawakami Santarou 恐山　石石石石　死死死　　川上三太郎 Note: In myth, Osorezan (Mount Osore, or Mount Fear) is the entrance to Hell. This #senryu plays on the words stone (ishi) and death (shi). #translation

in Brazil the forests are burning spring's blazing sunset --Ishikawa Satoshi Play on words yaku (burn) and yuuyake, which can be translated as sunset, red sunset, evening glow, afterglow, blazing red sunset, etc. It's when the sky turns red in the evening. #senryu #translation

a little bird comes and says you're a liar --Toppa Ikeda 小鳥来て貴方は嘘つきだと言ふ　池田 突波 From The Lonely Night #Haiku Gathering Newsletter No. 240 #senryu #LonelyNightHaiku #translation

life's first train never arrives --Kotone Kikawa 人生の始発がいつまでも来ない　季川詩音 From The Lonely Night #Haiku Gathering Newsletter No. 239 (9/14 - 9/21/25) #senryu #LonelyNightHaiku #translation

last hummingbird an empty teacup sitting beside her chair #haiku

運命というタクシーに乗って来た I came riding in a taxi called fate— no map, no control - Shinko Tokizane #senryu