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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️

@haikutom.bsky.social

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 13h

Ash poisons the air,
where thriving forests once stood;
birdsong falls silent.

#vss365
#ash
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 18h

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#October

1. “Kiss of Life” by Sade
2. “The Reflex” by Duran Duran
3. “Fields of Gold” by Sting
4. “Take it Easy” by Eagles
5. “Africa” by Toto
6. “Somebody to Love” by Queen
7. “Rocket Man” by Elton John
8. “When I Need You” by Leo Sayer

Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 1d

We couldn’t agree;
which band wrote “London Calling”?
The clash that ensued! 🙄

#vss365
#clash
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 2d

Associate this:
an advert for elastic?
It’s a stretch alright.

#vss365
#elastic
#advert
#associate
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 4d

Once the storm had passed,
I peered out from the module …
there was nothing left.

#ScifaikuSaturday
#storm
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 5d

A work of fiction,
in which the word #pulp appears,
this is my #haiku .

#vss365

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 6d

Where can I find you,
oasis of sanity,
in these troubled times?

#vss365
#oasis
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 7d

Where did the time go?
One year flows into the next;
it’s all a blur now.

#vss365
#blur
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 8d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#September
#Thanks

Day 30:

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 9d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#September

Day 29:

Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 10d

If life was a ship,
what would your escutcheon bear?
Mine? “Sinking Feeling” 😜

#vss365
#escutcheon
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 10d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#September

Day 28:

Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 11d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#September

Day 27:

Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 11d

Where once there was hope,
“A rescue team WILL find us!”,
one last grave awaits.

#ScifaikuSaturday
#hope
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 11d

Under scrutiny,
so many lives torn apart.
Why? Paranoia.

#vss365
#scrutiny
#haiku

Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 12d

Mouth watering sound,
the sonorous dinner bell.
Pavlovian times.

#vss365
#sonorous
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 12d

Last Sausage In Paris

Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 12d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#September

Day 26:

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 13d

My latest purchase,
one more book I’ll read … later;
caprice of habit.

#vss365
#caprice
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 13d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#September

Day 25:

Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 14d

The dreaded last gasp,
the eventuality,
of what awaits us.

#vss365
#eventuality
#haiku
#ExistentialCrisis

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 14d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#September

Day 24:

Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 15d

No “rapture” today?
But there were bellwether signs!
Oh wait … never mind …

#vss365
#bellwether
#rapture
#haiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 15d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#September

Day 23: Novelty song.

Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 16d

Reinvigorate:
morning coffee’s wake up score.
Today’s rate? 2 stars.

#vss365
#reinvigorate
#haiku

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