My little dockside garden is in. I used eight 3-gallon bags. The basil plants are with the tomatoes, so I have 4 tomato & 4 basil plants, 2 green pepper, and 2 zucchini plants. I used organic soil, cow manure, fish emulsion, & Jobe's organic spikes. I'm hopeful about it🐬🕊️🌱🦋🐳

rebirthing yourself
to be who you want to be
pushing yourself free
contractions squeezing you
from your cocoon so you can fly

#vss355 #rebirth #tanka

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listen for secrets
whispered by the universe
directly to you
nudging you along your way
into self-discovery

#TankaThursday #listen #tanka

'Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.'

Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

#vss365 #dragon

chaos and order
ebb and flow like an ocean
the clockwork of life

#vss365 #clockwork #SenryuSunday #senryu

unexpected bliss
life's beautiful challenges
serendipity

#vss365 #serendipity #senryu #haiku

there's more work to do
splashing missteps and triumphs
on your life's canvas
an ongoing masterpiece
a marvelous work of art

#vss365 #marvelous #tanka

Past, present, and future
swirl around
like a hurricane
on the inside
where I sort through
the wreckage
but that's my battlefield
it's not a big deal
it's just life.

#vss365 #deal

Happy Pink Moon🐬🕊️✨🦋🐳

looked in my mirror
long enough, I began to see
something I loved

#vss365 #mirror #senryu #haiku

According to my projections, I should make a ton of money this summer at Gabe's Dockside Vegetable Stand😉😂 My last garden 2 yrs ago was a 5-bucket. This will be a 3-bucket, with tomatoes, green peppers, and zucchini. I'm hopeful I'll at least have tomato sandwiches

looking for the key
lying around here somewhere
to unlock myself

#vss365 #lock #senryu #haiku

flash fiction saga
I was born and I did stuff
up until I died

#vss365 #saga #senryu #haiku

Even if I wanted
to huff and puff
and blow myself up,
my saga
is not a saga at all.

I'm only one life
of eight-billion living,
and 110 billion dead
so no one will remember me
in 500 years.

#vss365 #saga

Humanity's saga
continues with the lies
we tell ourselves
about those
heroic warriors
of long ago.

Yet they were no different
than the killers
you despise today
but you need heros
to make you forget
about humanity's failures.

#vss365 #saga

We watch
the greedy bastards
kill babies,
and all we do
is make more babies
for them to bury.

#vss365 #greed

Even if the world
was the way
you wanted it to be
humanity
couldn't quench
its thirst for greed.

#vss365 #greed

it might be money
health, peace, love, fame, or a dream
you hope makes you whole
or at least forget your pain
everyone has some greed

#vss365 #greed #tanka

action speaks volumes
humanity's love affair
with warmongering
it does not give a rat's ass
about saving itself

#vss365 #rat #tanka