I'm blending two writing prompts today - one about roads @Miguel S. and another about solar excess energy explosions @Honeygloom.
These Japanese-style Senryū poems tell a story in roughly 50 words about what might happen to our roads if a big solar blast hit Earth.
It’s about a guy who notices the moon is very bright…and getting brighter. And since the moonlight is reflected sunlight he knows what that means and goes out for one last big night on the town…
Winter is coming
I am so cold in this world
Pour your heat on me!
Coronal emissions
Ha! Nice! I wish this worked🖤
I'm blending two writing prompts today - one about roads @Miguel S. and another about solar excess energy explosions @Honeygloom.
These Japanese-style Senryū poems tell a story in roughly 50 words about what might happen to our roads if a big solar blast hit Earth.
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Solar flare strikes Earth
Electronics fail, darkness
Blankets the cities
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Empty highways stretch
Silent under starry skies
No engines running
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Travelers on foot
Wander asphalt ribbons now
Seeking safe haven
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Old roads find new use
Chalk maps mark the way forward
Communities form
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Hope grows like wildflowers
Along forgotten byways
New world beginning
Oh lovely! Very optimistic, too!
Very nice! I'm really enjoying these senryu poems. It's a lovely style... 😎
The lighthearted mirror of Haiku’s more sophisticated approach.
An inconstant moon
Signals an inconstant star.
Sunrise will bring hell.
(inspired by Larry Niven's story "Inconstant Moon.")
I don’t know the story but I love the phrase! And your haiku is very intriguing… I want to know more!
It’s about a guy who notices the moon is very bright…and getting brighter. And since the moonlight is reflected sunlight he knows what that means and goes out for one last big night on the town…
Lick of flame on a plasma tongue,
whip cracked out into the silence -
Where the raw skin to feel the lash?
Oh, this is so so good. The imagery and sensory play here are beautiful🖤
Thanks so much HG
Sun spots surges
Energetically expelled
Blackout years confirmed.
Nice!😁
Ha! Love it🖤
At any moment,
Quick as a flash, the Sun could,
Turn us all to ash... 😎
Ooo fantastic! I love it!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it... 😎
Brava!
😎👍
Don’t go mistaking
These explosions for anger
It’s just my nature
Ha! Nicely done!
I deviated from the 5-7-5 form a bit, but we live in a world of deviants...
Everyone afraid
‘specially Pfizer ‘bout their stock
Corona Mass Injection
Deviants are my favorite people🖤
😂 Sunlight is the best disinfectant I hear.
Sorry Mass Ejection
Oh Sun,don't leave us
Hold yourself together, please!
Count on your star place!
unting
Awesome! Playing with the prompt, getting wild with the form, very cool!
Dazzled by color:
all the while our power
grid gets overwhelmed
Nice!! Almost like the sun planned it that way🤔
Corona, red hot
Pulsing energy, massive
Excess, ejected
Experimented with something a bit more abstract this time around hehe
Love it!! Abstract is awesome!
The sun wants us dead.
If this is true like I said,
we would not exist.
Ha! Very good point!
Aw thank you!!
Awesome prompt and beautiful haiku Honeygloom. Makes one wonder and the chances are definitely plausible and catastrophic too.
I know right? I wasn’t lucky enough to be able to see the auroras in May, but the pictures were beautiful.