Lethe

The sky is silent,
cold, and the wind, no more, bears
flames, from my sunset;
will I forget this pain, when
I dissolve to dust, again?

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Where do you go to?
Every time I reach for you,
you are never there

I suspect you hide away,
so I can’t depend on you

とうめいな鶴になりたい　雨つぶをまとったときにだけあらわれる　／袴田朱夏
#短歌 #tanka #ShukaHakaTanka

Meeting

I have met your ghost
walking in Spring sunshine, while
you slept in your life;
I spoke of desires, beyond
time, that we must follow, home.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Tramp Tramp Tramp
Haikus go marching on...

#HaikuaDay #haiku #tanka #compilation

https://ambientdread.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/march-2025/

Three Paths in the Night

I carry, within,
strange chants, hidden in midnight
mist-shrouded woodland;
do not disturb these dark dreams,
unless howling hounds call you

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Rebels

We are creatures, lost
outside of all conventions
of time’s illusion;
dreams, our guide to memory
hidden, in our deepest selves.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Idyll

Tell me of a place
where we may rest, in safety,
at peace, and alone;
if we dream hard enough, will
we find our home there, at last?

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Cold, rain, misspellings
on handmade protest posters,
those don’t matter now.
Signs, chants, shouts might change nothing,
but we will not be silent.

Shipwreck

My heart, once so proud,
was wrecked on a moonlit shore,
and is no more mine;
it was torn on rocks of time,
and claimed by tides of desire.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

「田舎しかないからだな」は顔に手に、丘はなだらか　田舎しかない　／袴田朱夏
（いなかしかないからだなはかおにてにおかはなだらかいなかしかない）
#回文
#短歌 #tanka #ShukaHakaTanka

stomach on fire
my gaze pierces the window
gatekeeper of sun
these pillows, so many stones
I am no hero

一生に一度かならず当たるので日ごろから死を予感しておく
#短歌 #tanka

Soul Journey

Liquid gold sunlight
filters through branches, still bare,
as cold wind hits me;
may I surf these waves of light,
through this world, to find my home.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Tarot – #Tanka Tuesday, Val’s Scavenger Hunt

turning from nature’s alpine cold early spring’s first route —imagined green one rose then grows a trellis taking risks for garden gold This tanka is… Tarot – #Tanka Tuesday, Val’s Scavenger Hunt

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2025/04/02/tarot-tanka-tuesday-vals-scavenger-hunt/

So Long a Time

Driven by a sense
of a hidden, ancient past,
and an endless love,
I reach out, and wait, in hope
of finding your arms, again.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Connection

Though her body sleeps,
it is her voice, that whispers
in the longing breeze;
I listen, and whisper back,
“I'm here, my love – you've found me.”

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Bon dimanche madame @Septie

laisser l'arbre seul
puisque maintenant sur lui
mille étoiles veillent

le fleuve lent suit son cours
s'éloigne jour après jour

#tanka
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photo "vallée de l'Elbe, la nuit" par @thheine

within each of us
our loved ones, in tiny form,
caring's innate yield
company at a distance
legacy in case of loss

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #love #connection #entanglement #avatar #grief #missing #redundancy #backup

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