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MrYrjö

@mryrjo.bsky.social

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Retired IT professional. Retired from being single, 60s, poet and thinker. Collects vinyl yet unable to find the time to listen.

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 15h

Tapping down the campfire
As we clear up the site
Packing up for home
After this weekend away.
Such lovely nights spent
Just the two of us alone.
Leaving stress in the city.
Now, to make sure the #ash
Is cold, no reason to ignore.
We will return here someday
When life gets to be too much.

#vss365

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 15h

The scream in the night
Echoed long, my blood #curdled.
Banshee has arrived.

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 15h

Silently pondering the loss
Of so many dreams, unspent.
How could it all turn to #ash?
What step, not taken, did I miss?

Here was all I hoped for, prayed for,
Destiny touched lightly, as it passed.
My skin is brushed now
With the #ash of remembrance.

#vss365

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 1d

The pond is placid now
The ripples have lain to rest
Only a breeze sheen across
As the tender wind breathes.
The #moorhens paddle slowly
Picking sustenance from below.
No one saw me place him
And O'Grady's dead self won't speak.
Will be weeks before he floats
Time enough to flee.

#wildwalkprompt

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 1d

It's on display, now,
At the museum downtown
#Relic of the past.

The Constitution.
Something our forebears followed
Before it was burned.

But wear a disguise
They watch for who goes to look.
It is dangerous.

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 2d

The message, simple.
The messenger, a large #crow.
Now, listen closely.

The air fills with sound,
Most of which make little sense,
Yet the #crow speaks truth.

"Beware the easy
Solution to your problem,
There is no right way."

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 3d

In the purity,
The deep #marrow of my soul
I could not love more.

#haikufeels

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 5d

Reminiscent of Cuba pre-Maine. Just itching for a reason without letting us know why.

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 5d

My finger just throbs
A #splinter under my nail.
Get it out, get it!!

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 5d

Once reputable rags
Just #pulp fiction now
Bowing to the leader
Leading nothing but liars.

O, for clarity of purpose,
For truth-telling and facts.
Where did the Terkel's go?
Have writers lost their voice?

#vss365

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 6d

Take your break. You still need it.

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 6d

Done

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 6d

Never thought I would see it.

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 6d

Love it

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 6d

The tumult masked glee
Shown in the #ghastly dancing
Of the demon horde.

The religious right
Had fought dirty to elect
Their standard bearer.

The country we knew
Died that day, rights fell away,
Free speech is no more.

#haikufeels

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 7d

Moon glow lights amber
On the fallow field at dusk
#Huntersmoon rising

#dailyhaikuprompt

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 7d

Tried to cast my vote
But the ballot was covered
With #fetid choices.

#haikufeels

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 8d

Seems like the perfect time for a coup guys

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Fabritzio Fabricato (Satire) @produkshun.bsky.social · 8d

I fascisti non rinunciano mai pacificamente al potere.

Questo può finire solo in un modo...

a little girl is pointing at something in front of a bush .

ALT: a little girl is pointing at something in front of a bush .

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 8d

The crap we do for love

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 8d

I volunteered for it
I served it as I served veterans
I was born and raised in it
Loving it as I was told
I sang its praises every school morning
I prayed for it enmass.
And now it is unrecognizable
My country broken, dieing.
A #conundrum loving it still.

#vss365

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 8d

This is so true. Life and love evolve.

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 8d

Is this truly how it ends?
Here, now, the voice quiets
Which once led me on
Through all actions, good and bad.
Now, through intervention,
I am considered #sane, but,
But..but..I don't know how
How to cope without
My insanity, my muse.
Help me to lose my mind.

#emoetry #sane #poetrythreads

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