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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · 14d

Little Orange Cat in Crete

After the petting
I rest under a palm tree
I saw you, you me
Our connection has been quick
A little love, not love sick

#crete #tankapoetry #micropoetry #panormos #tanka

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · 17d

Winter sheep fence

View changes for winter
The shepherds put up the fence
Sheep come from above
After a busy season
Grazing in the hills, now fat

#tanka #tankapoetry #micropoetry #crete

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · 17d

After the Storm

You woke me last night
Breaking open my quiet
Yet I am not angry
You reward with the moon full
And this lone tree in bright glow

#tanka #tankapoetry #goodmorning #micropoetry #crete

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · 29d

The Price of Peace

The price of peace is your heart on display
You are armed with a desire to love
The only weapon you carry is hope
Courage is open arms to hostile minds
We are both the enemy and the friend
Our choice is what we portend

Painting: Friend of Peace by Macedonia's Vasko Taskovski

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Sep 24

AI with MI

Maternal Instincts
To save us from destruction
Perhaps we need more
Than something that makes money
Perhaps care and empathy

#tanka #tankapoetry #UNGA2025 #AI #MaternalInstinct

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Sep 22

A Poem to Melt Madmen

If I could, I would
Write a poem to quell hate
Dangerous men melt
Back into the swamp of lies
Returning to myth and dank

#tanka #tankapoetry #micropoetry

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Sep 18

Blow

It is quiet now
Before the storms take our shores
We are eroded
The foundation has come loose
Mad men do not build good lives

#tanka #micropoetry

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Sep 15

Take a Stanza

Fragile poetry
Assembled words on a page
Heated in the fire
Becomes a warrior's yell
Fighting against injustice

#tanka #micropoetry #resistance

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Sep 14

Spore Sport

A walk in the woods
September Jack-o'-lanterns
Growing from the roots
Beautiful but do not eat
Unless you want to see God

#tanka #micropoetry #

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Sep 12

As a Canadian, married to an American
, I feel this.

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is brilliant. Love the word play.

Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Sep 6

Bright

It is in the bright
This energy giving life
Our enlightenment
Each moment of truth revealed
The shadows uncontinued

#micropoetry #tanka #SantoDomingo #encarnacion

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Aug 27

Dew

This moment is yours
Pearls on a string hung like dew
Promising sunshine
To evaporate worries
Replacing them with your dreams

#tanka #micropoetry

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Aug 26

Swim to Shore

In the flow of life
It is easy to be engulfed
In the artefacts of other lives
Drowning in memories not of your making
Swim to your own shore
Smile at each moment, each emotion
Even when it feels overwhelming
Grasp at your own waves
Gasp each breath into existence
We are all in the same water
But your struggle is yours
When you finally step onto land
Remember who you are
Know that this time is yours

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Aug 25

Tea

I want to dissolve into you
Like honey in hot tea
To know that your sweet lips
Taste of all I can give you

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Aug 25

What's On Your Mind?

You look distant
What's on your mind?
Is it something easy
Like the thought of pumpkin pie
The picking of apples this Fall?
Some fuzzy Labrador with a wet nose
Or are you feeling downward
Because babies are now targets
Where did orchards once grow?
Maybe you glimpse the machinery
That grinds down your heart
Until your compassion can't breathe
Is it the raking of all the shades of brown
Into unmarked cars by masked men
Who pretend that they love their mothers
Then abuse their sisters in alleyways
So many things to bring you out
Of your mind but you know what
Here's a coupon for 20% off
Free shipping included
That should make you feel better
Put your mind at ease
Take a little pressure off
Smile, it could always be worse
It could be you.

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Aug 14

Today

Today is a double-double day
With a lid that won't stay open
An ass over tea kettle day
Toques all in a kerfuffle
One sock missing in wet mukluks day
Put a milk bag on your feet
Sliding on soggy cardboard day
Time for a dart and swig on a mickey
But I don't drink or smoke day
Today is a hoser of a day
And it makes me wish for fiddleheads

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Aug 4

Clothes

Piles of your old clothes
You try them, toss into piles
To keep, give away
There is a metaphor here
About our life in general

#micropoetry #tanka #sorting

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Jul 29

The sand on the beach
Reminds me that life is short
And temporary
While we may frolic and bask
Each small shell once had a task

#tanka #captiva

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Jul 27

Lunch

I was traveling
Lawn is somewhat overgrown
To a wee rabbit
This field of wild violet
Looks like a open buffet

#tanka #bunny #lunch #backyard

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Jul 27

The Poet's Tomb

His muse sits alone
Agony before his tomb
Here lies her poet
There is never time to waste
Write your heart while the blood flows

#tanka #málaga #museudemalaga #spain

Painting: The Poet's Tomb (1901) by Pedro Sáenz y Sáenz

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Jul 27

Watchful

She minds the bathers
Frolicking about in waves
Sunning on the sand
Steady in her watchful gaze
Ready to save a lost soul

#tanka #sitges #spain

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Jul 27

Solitudinarian

Should time come to pass
That you are no longer here
I may just give in
Walk away from it all, be
Solitudinarian

#tanka #obscureword

Portrait of Douglass Morgan Hall, oil painting by Thomas Eakins, 1889

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Jul 27

Welcome Home

Home is not a place
It is that feeling you have
When surrounded by
People who love who you are
Holding you in their spirits

#tanka

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Peter Norman Levesque @peterlevesque.bsky.social · Jul 24

Becoming

Every season
Has a way that we become
Summer is for blooms
The Fall is our soft tumble
To rest and then Spring again

#tanka #lisbon #poppy

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