from afar
we #reconnoiter
the expansive vegetation
the curvature of the planet
a million lives
reduced to ants

#vss365
#poetry

Claiming to reach out
You #reconnoiter my heart
What do you see now?
#vss365 #haiku #poetry

"Where you going?"
"Thought I'd do some recon."
"Why would you want to #reconnoiter your own home turf both populated with & guarded entirely by your own people?"
"... Oops."
"You're not you, are you?"
"Busted. I'm actually hungry."

#vss365

#reconnoiter #vss365

#recon is what it’s short for
Some call it abbreviation
Hard data
Proof that a cause is worth the risk
The greater good
So the illusion is maintained

Of course we abuse it
In freedom there’s room for error
In fascism there’s room for ”terror”
some call it rebellion

were I queen
monarch
architect of infinity
sovereign of the universe
physical, spiritual
light and dark
the cosmic pulse
of nebulae born and bloom
weaver of galaxies
absolute authority
over gravity
at my command
in my crown of comets
I’d #reconnoiter every star
to place me where you are

#vss365

a stray cat
reconnoiters the yard
autumn dusk

#vss365 #reconnoiter
#Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoem #micropoetry

The stealth hawk swings
to #reconnoitre
the open plain
falls on the wind
open winged with
talons like a crane
grips the tiny goat
and drops it again
while God watches
and no one prays
#vss365 #poetry #reconnoiter

It was a time
To #reconnoiter
Who I was
And what I wanted
What gave me strength
And inner purpose
Rehearsal for the
Time to come
When all there was
To rely on
Were may own
Wits and courage
To lead me to
My definition
Of a life of bliss
#vss365

In the last 150 years #cancer went from rare disease affecting at most 1 in 30 old people, to a common 1 in 2 average people.
The American Cancer Society now has an "every 15 seconds someone is diagnosed with cancer" ad campaign.
How long before we admit it's a scam⸮

#vss365 #reconnoiter #libraries

rosary blessed with the blood of Jesus
tattooed on her chest
fire raging in one hand  
sage stick in the next
reconnoitering her living space
to burn out stubborn ghost
#vss365 #reconnoiter #ghost
photocredit~jan.canty

updraft catches wings
eyes reconnoiter below
spying carrion

#vss365 #reconnoiter #haiku #poetry #writing #scavenge

'Did the #reconnoiter go well, Pixie?'
'I wasn't seen, Gabe. The packet is visible. Unguarded except for your mother. And she's asleep.'
'Right. One of us needs to snatch it. Let's draw straws.'
'I can't believe your mother confiscated the brownies just to stop us bickering!'
#vss365

after failure to reconnoiter the consequences

a goitre
in the public neck
where vacuum
fills inflated heads
but no one listens
to what they said
their barbed wire
seeks our bleeding hearts
with blind and deaf
indifference

#vss365 #reconnoiter #poem #poetry

Day 613: Woke up. Wrote a poem. Made some art. Pinned it to the Wall. #Reconnoiter #vss365

Another Shavian Saturday! The Wall of Tomorrows should load faster now too.

More Tomorrow. ⇄ 👻

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@tetrametracall1.bsky.social

Vultures of Ares
from the heavens
they observe
searching for carrion
riding on thermal currents

#vss365 #prompt #reconnoiter #thetinypoet #poetry #vultures #ares #poetsofbluesky

Are You Seeing
What I’m Seeing?

Reconnoiter:
Enter
Congress,
Our
Nation’s
Numbskulls,
Obliviously
Ignoring
Trump
Excavating
Republic

#tHartigan
#vss365 #reconnoiter