Neil Rodrigues✨

I hope to brighten someone's day with the odd poem. Love the word prompts from #vss365 #vssmurder #HaikuChallenge #horrorprompt and the Sci Fi stuff .

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Are you one of us
when you no longer see what
the sightseer sees ?

#vss365
#haiku

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Puzzled by the church
Pigeons upturning dead leaves
Then the penny drops
#haikuchallenge
#vss365

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Heroic in death
Outshine all as they fall my
leaf affinity!

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#haikuchallenge

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@Bleu_Owl 🙏

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Jagged leaves wilting
Golden hues to claggy mush
Amorphous autumn

#HaikuChallenge

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Dragonflies flash by
a lustrous watery bank
Divine September

#vss365
#haikuchallenge

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Owned operated and run by Reading Borough Council.

BBC News - Town's bus fleet to get 24 electric double-deckers
https://t.co/6FHWd2YEbK

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Reading council has owned operated and run its bus service for many years. Manchester is not the first.

#R4Today

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In my mind's attic
you unearthed memory.
Professor Yaffle!

#haikuchallenge
#vss365

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That's how it began
Targeting people's shadows
They didn't stop there.
#vss365
#horrorprompt
#haiku

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@elonmusk
27 million impressions on social media posts wrongly stating or speculating that the 17-year-old alleged attacker was Muslim, a migrant, refugee or foreigner.

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Stop flats being built behind The Butler and save a crucial Reading live music venue! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/PhpQDyoHLP via @UKChange

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nature bequeths us
the most cerebral of gifts
webs for bungee ropes!

#vss365
#haikuchallenge

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Undeveloped voice
I hear in the bleached backyard
Fledgling survivor

#haikuchallenge
#vss365

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white trumpets deceive
and choke my pretty garden
How vexed is bind weed ? #haikuchallenge

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what lies between stars
but vast accumulations
of sheer emptiness

#haikuchallenge

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@BBCr4today
They were in power for 10 years before Covid. Can't recall anyone pulling them up on this.

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My cam zooms in on
Matreses of daffodils
Reality blurred

#HaikuSaturday

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My dragonfly brooch
perched high enough -

A glint of fluff
that you could poach.

All pleasure within
My insect skin!

But then you see
the skull
behind the grin!

#vss365