Woah I had a breakthrough today on #writing
I read my various #poetry #stories , and work to my stepmother.
Like my mum, she said the potential was there and I had to keep on working. Then I read her my last #poem which I was not satisfied of. The form is there, but something was lacking and I couldn't say what. My mum told me I was just being a perfectionnist. My stepmom told me my previous texts were good but were structured by a background #story that was lacking there #writer #artist

New Moon

Helios has lost
his love to darkness, and sheds
tears of burning pain.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

a fresh summer breeze
searching for a moist cool zone
where rain kisses sky

#dailyhaikuprompt fresh breeze
#MastoPrompt zone

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-and-white-art-falling-1-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

I have some bad news, I'm afraid
Driving a Wankpanzer won't get you laid
Unless you're a Nazi sympathizer
you'd best be driving something wiser
There's no sense cruising in cyber-trash
Skip the dumpster, save your cash
Who wants to die in a rusty BBQ
Definitely not me, and probably not you
Unless you're a tech bro loser
Or maybe a overdosing ketamine user
Driving one is just a bad look
Terrible mistake, in my book

#wankpanzer #poem (human poem)

Empty Sky

You say you need space;
I would abandon the sky for you,
and wait, without hope.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

How Christian Is Your Cat?

Was Christopher Smart mentally ill? You decide.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-christian-is-your-cat.html

#cat, #Christ, #Christianity, #hermitpractice, #koan, #poem, #prisoner

Excerpt from Ellen Bass, "Pray for Peace", which isn't a bike poem and yet is, along with many other things:

"And if you are riding on a bicycle
or a skateboard, in a wheelchair, each revolution
of the wheels a prayer as the earth revolves:
less harm, less harm, less harm."

Inscription

I return a stone
to its place; may water’s flow
cleanse this constant ache.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

PoeticBlobs?

Blogpost: + More Images https://blog.illestpreacha.com/napowrimogenmo2025codedtanka

#livecoding #micropoem #visualpoem #creativecoding #creativecodeart #haiku

For the 20th #Poem of NaPoWriMo/NaPoGenMo 2025, PoeticBlobs? is Coded in #Hydravideosynth @hydra as a Tanka

#pixelated
#napowrimo2025 #napogenmo2025
#poetry
#poetrycommunity #napowrimo20
#illestpreacha

Assembly of shadows

Symbolic silence within coded shadows
interlocked pipelines bleed slow
whispers gently, the machine...

Blue DeviL // SCT
21.04.2025

For the portions of Megaera

https://subspacewagon.systems/for-the-portions-of-megaera/

@poetry

Poet, the flowers are open
even when we are dead
even when the power has gone
from our right arms…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Funeral of Robert Garioch”
in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, Carcanet 2021, ed. John Greening

Robert Garioch (1909–1981), one of the greatest figures in 20th-century Scottish poetry, died #OTD, 26 April

The fresh breeze carries
A trace of neighbouring farms
It is Spreading Time.

#dailyhaikuprompt - fresh breeze
#haiku
#poem

Vision Of Dream Light

The simplest way to rebuild the lost truth
is measure shape of objects with the eye,
and thus apply perception of the heart
to structured concept of assembled water
which manifests as conscious

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2025/04/vision-of-dream-light.html

More for #music series: https://subspacewagon.systems/category/music/

Nina Simone (speaking to me and you)
https://subspacewagon.systems/nina-simone-speaking-to-me-and-you/

Nothing in common (with Julia Jacklin)
https://subspacewagon.systems/nothing-in-common-with-julia-jacklin/

Grace Slick’s Hall-Stolen Roses
https://subspacewagon.systems/grace-slicks-hall-stolen-roses/

Naima Bock and the Retribution of Distinction
https://subspacewagon.systems/naima-bock-and-the-retribution-of-distinction/

@poetry

Tennis

I served many faults,
and wait, alone, hoping for
a return service.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

I think I shouldn't hide my poems anymore. I have farooqkz.com domain now. I think I will do a static website at poetry.farooqkz.com with hugo. Then with a custom theme and perhaps some Javascript, I will give each poem a hash and name the poem after the last 2-3 hexadecimal digits of the poem.

I wonder if I can do the hashnaming with hugo alone and without using JS. Also the website must have 3 languages. However all websites I've done with hugo till now are mono.

BTW, Do you think it should be "Programmer Poet" or "Poet Programmer"? For someone like me who generates both code and poems

PixelatedHaikus

Videp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wSRY_w08t0

Blogpost: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/napowrimogenmo2025haiku

#livecoding #micropoem #visualpoem #creativecoding #creativecodeart #haiku

For the 19th #Poem of NaPoWriMo/NaPoGenMo 2025, PixelatedHaikus is Coded in #Hydravideosynth @hydra as a Haiku

#pixelated
#napowrimo2025 #napogenmo2025 #poetry #poetrycommunity #napowrimo19
#illestpreacha

Warrior Stuck In The Oak

After he builds his house from turtle shells,
Phoebus lounges in the field by the lake
and chats with the warrior stuck in the oak
who tells him with casual banter of flowers
about his people

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2025/04/warrior-stuck-in-oak.html