Brian Gallagher

[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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If I were a house
I’d hand you a sledgehammer
to knock down my walls.

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#FromOneLine 104 (If I were a house)
#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

@nicolsonbrooks HPNuYr2u2

[Tony Cartledge @tonycart]

Truth shies on approach
You have to sneak up on it
by sitting quite still

#haikuchallenge have

[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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Mankind blessed & cursed
stumblingly consistently
gets in its own way.

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#MuseMon (curse)
#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

@jennfel YOU are.

[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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Circumambulate
the world then you and I can
chat about borders.

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#artwiculate (circumambulate)
#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

@jennfel .

To Jenn R-J @jennfel, who politely ordered it.

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Ode to a taco:
Thanks you for encompassing
all that I hold dear.

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#NeverEnoughTacoPoems
#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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[Denise Carruthers @CattyKoala]

Day shift.
I wake without my dream.
Lay down & try to go back.
A truncheon urges me on.
I cannot speak their dreamless dirge but understand that beating baton.
See others talking to the sky & tying ribbons
on tree branches.
God is here.
I've crossed over.
Dream done.

#vss365

[Todd Rokholm @MyPrompts]

I found a corner, in the
abandoned room,
where the clocks have long since
unwound,
and where the stillness dusts
the mantel. the

walls shed, the

webs hang, the

air has settled into familiar piles..

[Denise Carruthers @CattyKoala]

People are flowers
half life's spent in bed
waking for their dew.

When we feed on the seeds
of the secrets we keep
we wither our sleep
in the longing for darkness
far from the truth of the sun.

Do not be afraid
to be open as the day
to blossom as you.

#MadVerse

[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

@KimS_Author Thank you for your kind words.

[Denise Carruthers @CattyKoala]

Where our beloved.
To the mist in a hollow
Little droplets of dew.
Such thought creates memory,
Thus life whispers, forever.

#TankaThursday

[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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This knot inside me
tied by time and circumstance
won’t untie itself.

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#StoryIn12 (knot) 12 words
#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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I speak with a brogue
on St. Patrick’s Day which some
would say is a slur.

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#artwiculate (brogue)
#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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Before the Big Bang
when energy got antsy
it scratched its own itch
and now through our telescopes
we look back on everything.

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#tanka #5lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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We could all go on
forever if the cosmos
suddenly made sense
and explained itself to us
before time takes it away.

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#TankaThursday (forever)
#tanka #5lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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Cornered animals
and I unfailingly snarl
as we back away.

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#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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Without our fingers
we would have countless problems
and gnarly handshakes.

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#vsspoem (problem/countless)
#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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Made of matter we’re
energy slackened limping
left behind to live.

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#HaikuChallenge (matter)
#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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And now a big thanks
to all the world’s exploiters
posing as victims.

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#lesficfri (thanks)
#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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[Brian Gallagher @ShortOrderPoet]

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Looking left and right
it’s easy to miss the frog
boiling inside us.

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#vssdaily (frog)
#haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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