Robert Thompson

Bibliophile and baseball fan. Anachronism. Lawyer. "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - Hubert H. Humphrey

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

I sometimes can’t tell
what a poem means, even
when I’m the author.

#haikuchallenge (mean)

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

A dog’s tail wagging.
Joyful celebration of
just being alive.

#haikuchallenge #haiku

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

A dream of wars’ end.
Treasure the natural world.
Earth in harmony.

#haikuchallenge (harmony)

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

Loath to claim “dirty
politics,” he felt it at
least unhygienic.

#haikuchallenge (hygienic)

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

Heady days, that time
of youth, before past chipped off
parts of the future.

#haikuchallenge (heady)

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

Treachery often
is found behind a friendly
smile and gracious words.

#haikuchallenge (gracious)

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

A nation turns from
giving thanks and genuflects
to gods of commerce.

#haikuchallenge

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

@_ToddStone Thanks for that. I thought it was just me.

[John Oberlin @OMGno2trump]

We should break xTwitter retweeting this one.

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

@DanLamothe @TTuberville There’s something very weird about a United States Senator preferring to be called “Coach.”

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

Experience nil.
Must have thought Speaker seemed like
a good place to start.

#haikuchallenge #haiku

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

@Route_60plus Angela Lansbury and Laurence Harvey (The Manchurian Candidate).

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

@minnesotahiker Whole crowd pours onto
the field. Everyone else is
in the library.

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

Mike Pompeo was never this cool.

[Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken]

I couldn’t pass up tonight’s opportunity to combine music and diplomacy. Was a pleasure to launch @StateDept’s new Global Music Diplomacy Initiative.

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

@nut_history Out. Black sox first touches the bag with his heel. Pinstripe touches with his toe while black sox heel is still in the air. “Tie goes to the runner” is a playground thing, not a baseball thing.

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

@Bornabrit1 @StevijoPayne “And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He’d grown up just like me
My boy was just like me”

- Harry Chapin, “Cat’s in the Cradle”

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

Downsizing, house to
condo; even family
heirlooms are at risk.

#haikuchallenge (heirloom)

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

9/11:

Three thousand were lost
when the towers fell, that day
at this hallowed ground.

#haikuchallenge (hallowed)

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

A Primer for the Defendant:

Call her Judge Chutkan,
call her Your Honor, but please
don’t call her Honey.

#haikuchallenge (honey)

[Rupee @CrispinRupee]

#haiku #3lines #amwriting #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #writers #writerscommunity #writersoftwitter #WritingCommunity
08.09.23

Beachcombed polished stone
You have seen a million dawns
We’re just passing through

[Robert Thompson @thompson865]

@ProjectTicToc @PromptList @PromptAdvant @vssWritingRT Thanks for carrying on the tradition. Very sorry to see it come to an end. You did well. All the best to you.