ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 12hthe veldt … a cheetah gasps and pants her cubs will hunger today heat rises from the veldt … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #gasp #cheetah #veldt 030
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026cultural fits … poison in the pond quickly kills the ecosystem ~ teams are cultural ponds choosing for a people fit disables cultural drift … #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry #tanka #team 110
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026ctrl C/V … emotional weight cannot be copied and pasted feelings can't be cloned … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #copy 020
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Rustling leaves murmur a warning slowly, carefully she moves her head swiveling toward the hole in the bark sniffing and glancing and glimpsing the long winding train of iridescent greens predatory overlapping scales passing by … #Sensewrds #Prompt275 #Peeking #Susurration #Hollow #poem #poetry 131
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026being you … shrank myself for them resented them one and all when they saw me small … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #shrink You cannot shrink yourself to make someone comfortable, and then resent them for thinking you're small. #stoic #stoicism 071
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Where my pen went today to memories paid forward. The hope, the expectation, today might repeat, not tomorrow but a full lifetime forward, a future reprise. I was born into a world of future reprises. Before neo-liberals & Oligarchs stole it all away … #poem #poetry #Weekly #inkMine 030
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the herd's calculation … on the savanna for the species to survive safety is in numbers the herds know well this truth and some must be sacrificed … #poem #poetry #Weekend #survive #inkMine #haiku #tanka #savanna #herds 051
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026aftermath … the morning is cool leaves on the lawn, scattered still the trees sough … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #cool 080
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The truth in the shadows (a fragment) … #Sensewrds #Prompt274 #Striding #Luminous #Spark #poem #poetry 162
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ring rust … a ring is a promise until it fades to jewellery promise unfulfilled … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #promise #ring #jewellery 060
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026omg, my car! … I gave your car a bump its not a bump, its a dent ~ not like its pregnant … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #bump 030
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026being alive … time is not a product it doesn't produce a life ~ living is that thing … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #produce #stoic #stoicism 080
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Where my pen went today to memories of Gordon Lightfoot the feelings I got listening to Early Morning Rain in 66 and now its 2026 60 years later kids all grown up and the old life long since faded into new beginnings. … ALT=deets #Sensewrds #Prompt273 #Threaded #Scattering #Daybreak #poem #poetry 162
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026discovery … it seemed to me she had a weakness for him ~ in seedy hotel rooms … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #seem 040
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Aftermath … Chaos is seductive don't be fooled by the thrill a slow poison drip ~ felt only in the aftermath when the math begins to math … #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry #tanka … when ego's unfettered productivity crashes relationships crumble & chaos reigns. #stoic #stoicism 141
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026on my mind today is home produce from my kitchen. Kombucha, yoghurt, sprouting seeds Sourdough starter & dough Mayo, and from the garden (through the door up front) lemons, herbs, vegies, parsley & more some to eat, some for the store. … ALT=deets #poem #poetry #homeproduce 020
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Birkenhead … the skirts of the Argyles in rhythm to the marching pipes trod the village green the memory of their fallen alive in their comrades minds … #Sensewrds #Prompt272 #Patterned #Reminiscent #Field #poem #poetry #tanka #argyles #Birkenhead #pipesanddrums 132
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026what'd ewe do? … 24 rowdy sheep attend the bachelorette ms Bo Peep peeped … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #attend 060
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026haikufeels segues into a stoic tanka … comfort's price … the price of comfort letting the monitoring slide ~ loss of what you built [because sliding feels like rest trust substitutes attention ] … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #monitor #stoic #stoicism #tanka 190
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Where my pen went to today To our fate so easily given away when it sits so firmly in our own hands … if you vote in the fog of other folks making don't cry when you fall you and your family, one and all … #poem #poetry #Weekly #Prompt #inkMine #stoic #stoicism 071
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026fallen petals … lifting his dry hand lightly touching the flowers watching petals fall … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #dry #petals #flowers #transitory 160
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026the acorn's promise … on the far side of a horizon not familiar a low rustling breeze brought me the acorn's message plant me, and when you're grown old, I'll shelter you. … #Sensewrds #Prompt271 #Beyond #Whispering #Oak #poem #poetry 273
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026ancient peace … she kneels, falls asleep the hills and the ancient peace cleanse and wash her dreams … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #kneel 160
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026dance of life … peacocking tail fan iridescent lights aglow ~ boosting the dance of life … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #boost #peacock #feathers #dance 050
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026senescence … old trees grow stronger old rivers grow ever wilder old friends fade away … #poem #poetry #Weekend #wild #inkMine 061
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026lost acorns … two squirrels with acorns both lost in the struggle coveting the other … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #covet … Jealousy & envy (the first a resentment the 2nd longing) do not good bedfellows make, do not have a place in any enterprise with aspirations of success. #stoic #stoicism 160
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026the first flush of Spring dampened now by the moody gray skies of Seattle settled across my shoulders depressing my mood from a slow, lazy Sunday morning redolent of brunch and a book into memories sadder, deeper, eye-closingly sad. … #Sensewrds #Prompt270 #Melancholic #Languid #Bloom #poem #poetry 133
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026adoption day … crunched up in his cage sad lonely eyes watching the chosen deserving more than this … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #deserve 040
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026indifference … the wave ebbs, recedes an ocean doesn't lap the shore the shore does not call ~ oligarchs watch indifferently we're all animals in their zoo … #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #zoo #poem #poetry #tanka #indifference 051
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026where my pen went today: time (2) … Time is not a thing. The thing is the doing: your life, the accretions of all those doings. Time is the metric the how much of your life was given over to all those doings. That is your legacy: what you did in your life. … #poem: #poetry #stoic #stoicism ©ilinkcs 130
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026where my pen went today: time … if you can't find time for yourself, then you appease your conscience by using your time to hide yourself from yourself If every moment of your life is spent elsewhere, then where are you in your own life? … #poem #poetry #stoic #stoicism text ©ilinkcs (2026) 130
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026the baby speaks … Mary weeps Joseph sighs breath of the holy spirit circles the stable door … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #circle #stable #breath #mary #joseph 040
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rotation … evening's falling leaves splintering glass, hardening grass soft winds tousling hair seasons return endlessly and we rotate willfully … #Prompt269 #Shattering #Autumnal #Breeze #Sensewrds #poem #poetry #haiku #tanka 163
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026unraveling … forbidding discussions and the hard conversations dissolves our binding glue … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #forbid 050
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026deviation … (a fragment) … ALT=deets #poem #poetry #Weekly #Prompt #inkMine #bistro #most #vestibule #fluctuate #rule #flexible 031
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Empress's Seal … white jade in velvet smooth to the hand, seal below ~ chop awaits its turn … ALT=deets #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #chop 040
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026lbj … little brown job chirping what's on your mind right now? silver snake draws nigh … #Sensewrds #Prompt268 #Sinuous #Dreaming #Sparrow #poem #poetry #haiku 193
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Lifeboats … Lifeboats are cramped spaces waiting on a coming rescue not a place to live in … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #rescue 040
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026weather unwise … in the eye of the storm she re-oriented herself miserably … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #orient 010
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Resurrection Senate … Jesus McConnell … I'm not swearing at the man ~ its his new first name … #poem #poetry #haiku #McConnell #jesus 100
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Saturday at the long tables of Exclusive Books, reading & reflecting on Rumi when I saw a young mother, calming her niggling child. Inspired by her loving care a haiku arose spontaneously … the calm demeanor of a mother's quiet care mirrored in her child … #poem #poetry #Weekend #inspire #inkMine 062
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026heat … heat rising shimmering England's green and pleasant land ground down to brown … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #ground #heat #england 030
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026the ache … He picked up his pencil, scribbled something and passed the note to her. It was past sunset, the evening colors mirrored the colors where his hands had been the colors and the ache the ache in her arm, her heart, her soul. … #Prompt267 #Written #Bruised #Skies #Sensewrds #poem #poetry 242
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026doggy delight … tail wagging a circle her smile a beam of sunlight leapt into my arms … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #beam 051
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026betrayal … feelings follow trust don't accuse or be dramatic breathe and take some time ~ in those moments of silent breath trust what your soul lets you see … #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry #tanka #breath … your first emotional response is a mistaken impulse #stoic #stoicism 162
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I don't need help couldn't see the train smash coming until it was too late … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #help … The hardest people to help - those who don't know they need it who fall unaided; perversely, second hardest - those who don't need it at all who spurn kindness. #stoic #stoicism 071
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Reality, subsumed … #Sensewrds #poem #poetry #Prompt266 #Forgotten #Rose #Filtered 151
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026nine to five … its a 9 to 5 you offered to employ me you don't own me … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #employ 050
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Stick to the color chart … #poem #poetry #Weekly #Prompt #inkMine #paint #stain #arcane #taint #fabricate #nonsense 062
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026ice and fire … live life equally with ice in the veins and mind ~ fire in the belly … #poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #live #stoic #stoicism 051
