Control
Breathe, with the rhythm
of the tides, and the peace found
in the sea's stillness.
© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity
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Simon J Ashcroft
@SJAsh_03@mastodon.sdf.org
mastodon 4.7.3Pagan. Greek learner. Welsh.
Cursed by poetry, with no hope the night will end. At least, not in this incarnation. Έτσι είναι η ζωή.
I feel old, and weary. Time is an illusion. The same phrase, always, in my heart: "I want to go home "
Header: Wheel of Hekate; white patterned, perforated disc, on "starfield" background
Avatar: black & white image, dark background; bearded male, short hair, round spectacles, pipe in mouth, staring at camera. Side of head to left of image in shadow.
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@Crow@pagan.plus
Never met anyone I would consider as having attained enlightenment...
@Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
To misquote The Sixth Sense:
"I see daft people... They're everywhere."
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@aliceamour@beige.party
Θα σε ξαναδώ αύριο.
Αλλά με μπέρδεψες – "αγορά" στα ελληνικά σημαινει: "Marketplace". Αναρωτήθηκα αν πήγαινες να κάνει το ψώνισμά σου...!
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@aliceamour@beige.party
You have made an impression.
In fact, you have made an impression on each other.
(... and, maybe, you have found an alternative career option as a surf instructor! 😁)
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@aliceamour@beige.party
That sounds like a challenge... 🤔🤣
[New career... new career... 🏄♀️]
😁
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@aliceamour@beige.party
I cannot argue with such an authority.
Though I can narrow my eyes in transatlantic disapproval... 😁
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@aliceamour@beige.party
Is that the normal US spelling? Usually "oestrus" round here, and I am even old fashioned enough to favour "œstrus"
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@aliceamour@beige.party
... for an old 'un... 😄
Well, I've got to try to keep up with these youngsters... 😉
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@aliceamour@beige.party
Oh the youth of today! Ruined, I tell ye...! 🤣
You sound on form. Recovered from yesterday's nausea? Did you berate your friend for her taste?
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@aliceamour@beige.party
Is that another way of saying "Go to bed, grandpa lawyer; you may over exert yourself otherwise"? 😆
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@aliceamour@beige.party
In part.
If the reading is used as an entrance into the symbolic world of mental imagery.
If the imagery is allowed to develop in a sort of organic process of growth.
But I have known those who deliberately read much, but limit the subject matter and / or with very narrow interpretation, so as to stifle further expression. These turn words into traps, and build prisons out of books, to satisfy their sense of moral superiority.
And do not overlook the importance of other arts.
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@aliceamour@beige.party
Well, that is one way of making the point it's not only on Tuesdays... 😢...
😁
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@aliceamour@beige.party
... or any day of such fleeting presence; but yesterday was a Tuesday, so I took my cue from that...
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@aliceamour@beige.party
Sounds about right. I picture ten stone for a female as being "slim but comfortable".
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@aliceamour@beige.party
That brings back memories. I studied Latin around 40 years ago.
But the waves have hungered to be reunited with the cliffs for many millennia...
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@aliceamour@beige.party
A weight off your mind, hopefully.
I always find proof reading more difficult on a screen than on paper, for some reason.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Is it just me, or is there someone in the background holding a bag at just the right angle to catch the shit?
Needs a bigger bag, mind...
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Never been to Florida. Likely never will. But that sense of newfound hatred is well established in me, and appears every time I endure "company".
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
A little house on a hillside overlooking the sea, and a taverna round the corner...
Pity the Brexshit crowd took away my right to live there.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
I live on an island. I like blue waves...
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
I can twitch my nose.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Intriguing... I must seek an introduction...
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
I have never wondered this. Nor is it likely I ever would have done so...
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@aliceamour@beige.party
Appearing such becomes less of an issue as the years advance. Probably because of all the memories of undeniable folly...
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Who is Pumpkin Spice?
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Wheeeeeeeeebrrrreeeeeeekbrrrrttttteeeeeeeh....!
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
For me, quitting island living would involve emigration...
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Planning on leaving some shit on our food in payment for swatting Uncle Buzz.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
It's not just the US. I think the issue involves all English speaking nations.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Far too complimentary...
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
What I wonder is who cleaned the vehicle after the bag exploded....
Regrowth
Grass grows green, again,
the wounds of summer refreshed
by autumn's soft rain.
© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Why are skeletons practicing yoga a problem?
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Given the alternatives in the English speaking world, I'll stay where I am for now. I can think of politicians and governments even worse than we have here...
Though, I suppose I could go and polish up my Greek.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Aaargh...! (Partly because the joke is painful, partly because I really, really hate Windows... 😁)