Tag: MicroPoetry

May 21 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

woke up after that
red red wine went you know where
broke my blue blue heart


So much ado
About bangs 
About whimpers
In with a bang
Out with a whimper 
Is still in
Is still out
Meanwhile
There will be bangs
There will be whimpers


a slip of the tongue
a nod and a wink and still
we are stuck with it

a slip of the tongue
exposed a nod and a wink
sold out in plain sight 


With wine on our breath
We slip into old patterns
With but a whimper 



Perfect recipe
To make the outrage cake rise
Is a touch of snark

Phrazez that Payzez 

"Awash in a grand quantity of private torment "

The Ministry of Time
Kailiane Bradley

why smear facts around
when rumors spread and flower
out of every crack


Daily Skiptrace

May 20 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

When focus is lost the whole world blurs into chaos

orientation 
of the road means full blast force
when the north wind blow


profitable for
some to create problems that
you need defense from



there's a time to fight 
then there's a time to take flight
timing must be right 



The outside of a silhouette 🗣️ is where the real action happens

Toss a silhouette 
On the cave wall. What's outside?
Track and hunt those beasts.

Seems like yesterday
We observed an equinox
Now a solstice comes
Juncos smack in the crisp cold
Dark eyes glitter in the snow


going from drastic
plastic to tragic tantric 
tantrum terror plots
by bilious faux billionaires 
serving sorrow by the sack

Photo of small figures on a bridge post newel of a Triceratops T-Rex and Mastodon on a globe.

May 19 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

Dangling their bait lies
over mouths like Anglerfish.
Our Executives 


The enemy of 
our sanitary practice
Worf and his Cling-Ons. 

Ewww 🫡

affection takes rust
off an old heart replacing 
it with verdant growth



Time to face the fact
Social media is the 
Antithesis of
Archaic admonishment 
To mind your own damn business


SMPTE bars of life
Between front and back porch time
Color burst pulse scan

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/201011/what-is-front-porch-and-back-porch-of-a-video-signal-in-crt-display
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May 18 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

A current affair
Goose-stepping towards Gomorrah 
A kick in the pants
For a country once proud and free
All of it seen on TV


Later Hebrew prophets named the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah as adultery, pridefulness, and uncharitableness.


a current affair
goose-stepping towards disaster 
kick in the pants to
a country once proud and free
all of it seen on TV



Picking pockets over the airwaves 
Lifestyles of the rich and shameless
Displaying what everyone craves
Lives lived for the concealed nameless
Facades roiled up with foiled fear
To enhance their greezy fingered grip
Wrapped in a #wraith of wrathful sneer
Served up in intravenous media drip
Showing what corporations say we need
Just another televised American Screed 



Picking pockets on airwaves 
Lifestyles rich and shameless
Displayed vision craves
Lives of the once nameless
Facades roiled with foiled fear
Enhances greezy finger grip
Wrapped in a #wraith of wrathful sneer
Intravenous media drip
Display stuff said we need
A televised American screed

Dust storm hits my town
Something I've not seen before
Airborne field dirt wind
Watch nineteen thirties redux
Horrors replay before US




Time to release the potential promise within to kinetic kindness without. Detonate goodness all over all the place. Boom!

Reworked  2017 post written while on the lamb

Time to release 
Potential promise 
Within 
Kinetic kindness 
Without 
Detonate goodness 
All over the place
Boom!

AmbientDread

May 18, 2025, 8:55 pm 0 boosts 1 favorites

Yellow swirly with a dot of red abstract Objet de Arte in Jefferson Park in 2017

May 17 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

If it is yellow
When it comes to early frost
Don't ever eat it


Stretched out between two trees in a park, I lie supine in my multi colored net hammock. Gentle breeze and swaying motion, in the torrent of historic buffoonery. Fear, greed, and graft all playing out in plain sight. I've made my #matrix into my bed so I must lie in it too.


With one single look
I saw the coming rapture
We would soon capture

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Daily Potential

via Daily Prompt: Detonate

Time to release the potential promise within to kinetic kindness without. Detonate goodness all over all the place. Boom!

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/detonate/

 

 

May 29, 2017, 12:19 pm 0 boosts 0 favorites

May 16 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

Glaring scarcity
Of cognitive clarity
Pains the world to see



snug in his own group 
it might be said that crow got
lost in his murder 



from the top on down
or from the bottom on up
stir it real good
A pedestrian bridge over the river tucked away in a residential neighborhood

May 15 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

gleefully passing
The Grip to those who haven't 
gained immunity 



Whispers in my ear
Passing butterfly advice
Don't float, bee the sting



when in the grip of
an existential crisis
best to just exist 


memories flood the zone
while I try to convince myself
I've immunity from the past
another day another koan
take haiku down from the shelf
tasty tanka breaks the fast
a shot of poetry gets me through
immune until the next days brew


curl, potion, robin, unicycle, and bombast.


With reckless bombast, Robin rides a motorized unicycle. Crashing into a bowl to join a birdie bathing bacchanal, which Robin hadn’t been invited to. A party where illicit potions were being served that would curl their little dirty birdy feet.

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— AmbientDread (@petrd1.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T13:03:10.951Z

Either I know to many words, or Wordle just accepts to many of my shot in the dark word guesses as real words

May 14 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

Our reacquaintance
Stirred a hiraeth of my youth
Played together then
Reunited played again
In a very different way



Malicious glee felt
Ripped off Do Not Remove tags
Then I learned I could



no straight lines for me
like nature I want thick haze
on my cushy wave



Montrose trolley bus
Before the sun rises up
Fish off the jetty

Not any jetty
This was the Montrose horseshoe
Near the Nike base

Caught so many perch
Also some hefty salmon
But most times caught zip


snarky rude robin 
chirped rejoinders about my
fishing earthworm

AmbientDread

Eight years ago today. I had nowhere to go. I couldn’t anyway because these guys had me #surrounded
May 14, 2025, 7:56 pm

Horseshoe

Posted on by Pete
Montrose Ave horseshoe jetty on the shore of Lake MIchigan

Taken from where the missile base once was but is now a bird sanctuary🐦‍⬛

Montrose trolley bus
Before the sun rises up
Fish off the jetty

Not any jetty
This was the Montrose horseshoe
Near the Nike base

Caught so many perch
Also some hefty salmon
But most times caught zip
RDP Wednesday: JETTY

RDP