Imagine a time
of ships, sails, flags and rigging
and wrecks upon reefsPen a solemn oath
sealed with a venomous curse
bitter and spitefulUpon parchment dear
a last testament writ plain
lies of no regretsCast upon the sea
our curiosity piqued
expired salvationA desperate wish
to connect, to touch a soul
in futures unknown
Anonymole - apocryphal agitators 
This is written so well that I would never have known you were confined by the 5-7-5. Excellent. Loving the AI pic, although I still find it a lot of fun to take my own images for the mag (or use one of Ken’s photos) when I can😊
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Thank you, Suzanne.
More and more I try to compose these tiny poems in a semi-coherent theme. I don’t try too hard though.
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Another AI’d pic? Just for fun I drug it onto Google’s “image search” and got hundreds of almost identical pictures. I found it interesting that even all the bottles were the same shape–like SUV’s, I guess. Must be only one way to make a viable bottle.
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AI image, yup.
I don’t even bother to search for images anymore.
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Crazy Jack had a sea captain character trapped between life and death by his guilt. Made great fodder for a Gothic infused 100 year old conspiracy. I don’t do fantasy or whatever writing about ghosts is called, but I had a parnormally aware ex spy sit down and chat with the man. Ghost. Whatever. Your fifty cent vocabulary where a nickle word’ll do (Twain, paraphrased) is killing me.
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5-7-5 kinda dictates what I use. Like a puzzle.
Thanks for readin’.
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Not so much a puzzle as a trap? That’s not original. Some teacher said that and the assignment that followed was try to write something scenic, not oblique, with no filler words. A, and, the, was, all that. Sheesh. Enough to put me off writing the things.
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Well, I find haikus mildly challenging, given a theme. And writing five of them, to boot…?
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A veritable
Plethora of output by
All accounts then eh?
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Alzheimer’s is having its way with me. Just trying to keep the plaque from turning into stalactites.
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Not Allzheimers, just Sometimers. At least you’re writing! More than I’m doing.
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heh, I like that.
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