haiku #215

Measuring the flow
the river teaches us balance
stone, leaf, and current.

river ecology

#riverecology #flow #river
#balance #current #haiku

"The Fire and the Fountain: A New Myth of the Long Desert"

In the twilight of an empire, a Titan named Trunnis sat upon a throne of flame and glass. His voice cracked the horizon,...

Full Myth:

open.substack.com/pub/willipau...

#Trump #Trunnis #empire #flame #glass #newMyth

haiku #214

Silent craters dream
Sunlight soils our faces
Shadows steal the stars.

#craters #dream #sunlight #soil
#faces #shadows #stars #haiku

Haiku Test #202 YouTube video by Willi Paul

sound haiku #202

#haiku #soundscape #music #video #youtube

youtu.be/cj5_T0-Z8ss

haiku #213

Soil breathes where hands remember
roots and rivers learning again
the language of enough.

agroecology

#soil #hands #roots #rivers #enough

haiku #212

Your touch leaves no mark
yet my heart, uncoated, bare
keeps the print of you.

An oleophobic coating is an oil-repellent, anti-fingerprint thin film applied to smartphone screens to prevent oil from skin from sticking,...

#oleophobiccoating #romance #heart #haiku

"back list"

On the edge of things
Mary and David share chemo tea
illness hums behind the wall

jobs scarce as seabirds in winter
Yet dreams still stir
of community, care

a place where loneliness
becomes quiet friendship
and the future feels like home.

#loneliness #chemotea #jobs #community #poem

"A step by step process to make a permaculture contour A-frame"

Here’s a simple step-by-step way to make a contour A-frame, a basic permaculture tool for finding level lines on a slope.

Full article:

open.substack.com/pub/willipau...

#permaculture #aframe #slope #landdev #hope #article

shot down in enemy territory

Smoke curls from my wings like a dying beast
A silver bird falling through foreign skies
The ground greets hard, war’s broken rhyme
Compass gone, stars my only map
heart beating loud enough to betray
Each step ghosted by the fact
I live where I should’ve died.

#war

haiku #211

Holiday sale of souls online
hope packaged, priced
primed for clicks
renewal waits behind a paywall.

#holiday #sale #souls #online #hope
#priced #clicks #renewal #paywall #haiku

haiku #210

hips find a morning beat
coffee waits, not just yet
giggles shake the dawn.

#hips #morning #beat #coffee #giggles #dawn #haiku

haiku #209

Eye balled sugar-coated flakes
Dyes, sweeteners and shelf-life tricks
Daddy's box of evil chemistry.

#sugar-coated #flakes #dyes #sweeteners
#shelf-life #tricks #daddy #evil #chemistry #haiku

haiku #208

quiet map unfolds
rivers of feeling shimmer
compass points inward.

#quiet #map #rivers #feeling #shimmer #compassPoints #haiku

haiku #207

Morning light unfolds
laughter drifts like gentle waves
hearts meet in soft calm.

'Yeah! I'm glad to talk to someone with such a good attitude and friendliness like you. You're friendly, respectful, and kind to women.'

#calm #telegram #waves #hearts #morning #haiku

"The Garden of Eden Again"

In cracked lots they planted hope
no single hero, only many hands
Storms came, and smoke. They stayed.
Roots spoke beneath the ruins
earth forgiving them.

#plant #hero #manyhands #storms
#roots #earth #gardem #eden #forgiveness

The Seed Library

When the last supermarket closed, Mira gathered her neighbors in the school gym. The shelves were bare, but the children brought envelopes filled with seeds — sunflower, bean, kale, corn from old gardens...

Full story:

open.substack.com/pub/willipau...

#seeds #permaculture #hope

haiku #206

sparrows kiss the dawn
blossoms sip thru promise
hands plant hope in soil.

#soil #birds #blossoms #gears
#promise #hands #hope #soil

"I'm all the drama I need"

I have myself to blame
you've seen me around
keeping my head down
hands in pockets
poems in cheek
trying to break-in
to re-write the script.

#script #poem #blame

"Wild Pink Roses"

Fleshy folds, Luscious lips
Scented toes and tiny thorns
Petal smiles
Pink eyes open
Royal garden romances
The bees are home!

#pink #roses #fleshy #folds #lips
#petals #eyes #gardenromances #bees

haiku #205

Light glows in pixels
Dream in color beyond touch
Silence paints the soul.

willipaulstudio.com/pdf/ePaintin...

#Light #pixels #color #dream #silence #paint #soul

"Permaculture Allegiance"

A shout-out to the compost and landscapes of
Permaculture, to the folks who propagate
them; one people with the Great Spirit,
indivisible, with sustainability and green justice
for all.

#permaculture #compost #landscapes
#GreatSpirit #sustainability #greenjustice

haiku #204

flicker of pixels
hearts beating with the keys
silence hums online.

#online #haiku #online #romance #hearts

haiku #203

If I can't see you
I can't trust you
block our telegram
on your way out.

#telegram #block #trust #haiku

"The Artemis II Prayer"

Lord of the stars and sea,
Watch over those who journey far from home.
Grant them courage in the endless night,
Wonder in all they see,
And safe return to the blue world we share.

#Lord #stars #sea #journey #courage #wonder
#blueworld #prayer #NASA #Artemis II #return

haiku #202

Neon acid on glass
subway breath and sirens crum
midnight gets no sleep.

#neon #acid #subway #breath
#sirens #midnight #sleep #haiku

haiku #201

Grey beard in garden
She reads the holy text
I dream of flame.

#heaven #hell #teacher
#holybook #flame #haiku

"lavender skies"

The sun rose like a soft sigh over the lavender field, painting the world in hues of lilac and gold. Jasmine stood barefoot in the rows, the flowers brushing her knees, their scent a calm she could almost hold in her hands. Full story:

open.substack.com/pub/willipau...

#lavender

haiku #200

Flames hush dawn’s silence
Ash drifts where still hearts once breathed
Green roots wait for rain.

#flames #dawn #silence #ash
#hearts #breath #greenroots #haiku

haiku #199

heartsoil soft and still
dew whispers life into bloom
silence hums the world.

#heartsoil #dew #whisper #bloom
#silence #hum #world #haiku

haiku #198

Gentle hands receive
burdens fade in quiet light
peace blooms, love endures.

#gentle #hands #burden
#light #peace #love