In the arms of the sycamore I dream and even the wind shaking the leaves sweetly cannot rouse me from sleep. #5lines #micropoetry #poetry

Morning dawned with just a touch of blush to wash away night's palor. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

In this lost summer the blank days steam by so I listen to crickets watch the red glow of fireflies and wish on dying stars. #5lines #micropoetry #poetry #writemap 507

I comb my hair into the wind knowing every bird's nest holds a bit of fairy tale woven in the twigs. #5lines #micropoetry #poetry

Carrying the weight of stones will pull you down instead try toting stars its impossible to drown with pockets full of shine. #5lines #micropoetry #poetry

Thus far I have survived but if the apocalypse falls on a sunny June day I confess I will fail because I will not try. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry #writemap 506

So easy to create a new me every few years I throw out the old emerge naked and vulnerable it's a lonely kind of life. #5lines #micropoetry #poetry

Once I could swim an effortless glide but in this molasses-thick world my limbs simply sink. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

When I'm in another place one I hope better than this that is when I will forget what it feels to long for you and always miss. #5lines #micropoetry #poetry

Dancing with wind-tossed abandon lithe stalks bending pink tutu tulips bow their petaled heads. #5lines #micropoetry #poetry

Breath held to be as still as this star-flung night moving an affront to the immensity of this unknowable heaven. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

Do you remember that letter the one I wrote & you saved where I said you saved me and listed all the things I especially loved about you where is it now, I wonder. #micropoetry #poetry

Night slips away cast on a breath of sleep while the poet's feathered head turns unceasingly blinking golden eyes. #micropoetry #5lines, #poetry

I know I have done this to myself, and no act of contrition will appease the gods of forgiveness and so I bear it all. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

An insect hum hovers on heated pine rising to clear reaches domain of sun-flecked swallows in emerald flight. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry #writemap 488

I pretend this loneliness is a beautiful island where I am wild and wildness surrounds me. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

White camillia a lush confectionary blooming aloft in sugary abundance whipped and creamy. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

Find the pearly light listen for swishing wings transparent luna moths transient in green. #micropoetry #poetry

...and so my missives drift airily out on wisps of smoke. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

Without birds flying a haiku will rarely soar beauty in motion. #micropoetry #poetry #haiku #senryu

Somnambulation wood bees lumbering to sun's drowsy melody. #haiku #micropoetry #senryu

For days I sit still as a dazed Buddha serene and silent a fixed smile playing the corners of my mouth thinking about how I don't miss you at all. #micropoetry #poetry

In the softening night the harsh edges of sun are tamed the grasses & flowers purr & wildstriped roars lie in wait. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

What willpower I have as daily I see two perfect red tulips growing surreptitiously in the neighbor's plot that so easily could be mine a nighttime foray a quick snippity snip then into a vase like a lover's gift. #micropoetry poetry #writemap 478

The night recites sad poems from memory her voice deep and husky and full of longing. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

I perch, precarious as a bird on the tip of a limb swaying unsteadily on the breeze of a dream. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

Last night the crescent of pale moonlight overspilled a bucket of stars. #micropoetry #haiku #senyru

Silver coins of rain dappled and pocked the rippling expanse of blue a child's wayward sailboat braved the waves. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

As it often did in April spring receded the sun still shone but the breeze was distinctly cool and the flowers were baffled by their shadows. #micropoetry #poetry

The air electric a deeply green darkening gray-blue aftermath. #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #poetry

Fingers of wind cool & honeysuckle scented cup my face then loosely tangle through my hair. #micropoetry #poetry #5lines #writemap 475

Caught by a breeze the green-spangled tree fluttered and dipped not at all shy to dance so freely. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

All the loves I've found in life have started with random mistakes and end with serendipitous lucky breaks. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

You and your wild promises and I believed them all words like forever and never as you twirled me around and I was dizzy with you. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

Maybe I have given up on ever finding love curled up like a kitten on someone's lap how small I once was... #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

Mid-spring and my skin unused to this light tints from white to little more than a blush. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

The paths in my heart labyrinthian and complex even I don't know where to start and as for endings no one gets that part. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

Two birds swoop and dip an act of quicksilver love born amidst the clouds. #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #poetry

You make me want to hold my breath forever. micropoetry #poetry #writemap 472

... and so my missives drift out on wisps of smoke. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry #writemap 471

She gazed longingly having such a good hair day happened so rarely. #micropoetry #senyru #poetry #completethehaiga 145

I keep trying to remember in the face of impending doom that it's spring and greening as if that is enough to ward off the world's gloom. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

This morning moon as pale as blue milk creamless and weak overcome with worry neither of us can sleep. #5lines #micropoetry #poetry #writemap 468

Dovekies of the sea sky-dance above the fishes wingbeats echo waves. #micropoetry #haiku #poetry

Bolts of thunder birch branches crucified bone-thin arms stretched across an electric blue sky. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

I think warm thoughts padded in cotton wool nothing sharp can penetrate layer upon layer such softness, felt. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

Years later, and only then does the realization hit that he never cared and I have been mooning for something that never was. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

Lying cold in slush, White Rose and Red alike, The field, full. ❄️ 🌹 #BattleOfTowton #PalmSunday #WarOfTheRoses #ThreeLines #DarkHistory #YorkAndLancaster #BloodyMeadow #Towton1461 #HistoryInVerse

No more than a dot intense blue barely there fleet against the grass then gray bark of tree radiant hue of sky, bird. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry

Such comfort in this meager existence all needs met still longings endure and for that I am sorry. #micropoetry #5lines #poetry