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Lunatic, Lover, and Poet
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I comb my hair into the wind knowing every bird's nest holds a bit of fairy tale woven in the twigs.
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#micropoetry
#poetry
4 days ago
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In the arms of the sycamore I dream and even the wind shaking the leaves sweetly cannot rouse me from sleep.
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about 24 hours ago
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Morning dawned with just a touch of blush to wash away night's palor.
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2 days ago
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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.
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3 days ago
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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
4 days ago
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Carrying the weight of stones will pull you down instead try toting stars its impossible to drown with pockets full of shine.
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4 days ago
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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.
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5 days ago
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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.
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#poetry
10 days ago
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Once I could swim an effortless glide but in this molasses-thick world my limbs simply sink.
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#poetry
20 days ago
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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.
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#poetry
23 days ago
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Dancing with wind-tossed abandon lithe stalks bending pink tutu tulips bow their petaled heads.
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#poetry
24 days ago
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Breath held to be as still as this star-flung night moving an affront to the immensity of this unknowable heaven.
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#poetry
25 days ago
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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.
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29 days ago
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Night slips away cast on a breath of sleep while the poet's feathered head turns unceasingly blinking golden eyes.
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#5lines
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30 days ago
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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.
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#poetry
about 1 month ago
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An insect hum hovers on heated pine rising to clear reaches domain of sun-flecked swallows in emerald flight.
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about 1 month ago
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I pretend this loneliness is a beautiful island where I am wild and wildness surrounds me.
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#5lines
#poetry
about 1 month ago
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White camillia a lush confectionary blooming aloft in sugary abundance whipped and creamy.
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#poetry
about 1 month ago
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Find the pearly light listen for swishing wings transparent luna moths transient in green.
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#poetry
about 1 month ago
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...and so my missives drift airily out on wisps of smoke.
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#5lines
#poetry
about 1 month ago
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Without birds flying a haiku will rarely soar beauty in motion.
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#poetry
#haiku
#senryu
about 1 month ago
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Somnambulation wood bees lumbering to sun's drowsy melody.
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#micropoetry
#senryu
about 1 month ago
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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.
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#poetry
about 1 month ago
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In the softening night the harsh edges of sun are tamed the grasses & flowers purr & wildstriped roars lie in wait.
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#5lines
#poetry
about 1 month ago
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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.
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about 1 month ago
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The night recites sad poems from memory her voice deep and husky and full of longing.
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#5lines
#poetry
about 2 months ago
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I perch, precarious as a bird on the tip of a limb swaying unsteadily on the breeze of a dream.
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#poetry
about 2 months ago
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Last night the crescent of pale moonlight overspilled a bucket of stars.
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#haiku
#senyru
about 2 months ago
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Silver coins of rain dappled and pocked the rippling expanse of blue a child's wayward sailboat braved the waves.
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#5lines
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about 2 months ago
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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.
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#poetry
about 2 months ago
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The air electric a deeply green darkening gray-blue aftermath.
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#haiku
#senryu
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about 2 months ago
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Fingers of wind cool & honeysuckle scented cup my face then loosely tangle through my hair.
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#poetry
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about 2 months ago
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Caught by a breeze the green-spangled tree fluttered and dipped not at all shy to dance so freely.
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#poetry
about 2 months ago
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All the loves I've found in life have started with random mistakes and end with serendipitous lucky breaks.
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2 months ago
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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.
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#poetry
2 months ago
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Maybe I have given up on ever finding love curled up like a kitten on someone's lap how small I once was...
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#poetry
2 months ago
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Mid-spring and my skin unused to this light tints from white to little more than a blush.
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#poetry
2 months ago
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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.
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#5lines
#poetry
2 months ago
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Two birds swoop and dip an act of quicksilver love born amidst the clouds.
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#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
2 months ago
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You make me want to hold my breath forever. micropoetry
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2 months ago
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... and so my missives drift out on wisps of smoke.
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#5lines
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2 months ago
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She gazed longingly having such a good hair day happened so rarely.
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#senyru
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2 months ago
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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.
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2 months ago
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This morning moon as pale as blue milk creamless and weak overcome with worry neither of us can sleep.
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2 months ago
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Dovekies of the sea sky-dance above the fishes wingbeats echo waves.
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#poetry
2 months ago
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Bolts of thunder birch branches crucified bone-thin arms stretched across an electric blue sky.
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2 months ago
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I think warm thoughts padded in cotton wool nothing sharp can penetrate layer upon layer such softness, felt.
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2 months ago
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Years later, and only then does the realization hit that he never cared and I have been mooning for something that never was.
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#5lines
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2 months ago
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Kaz_the_Kumquat
3 months ago
Lying cold in slush, White Rose and Red alike, The field, full. ❄️ 🌹
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No more than a dot intense blue barely there fleet against the grass then gray bark of tree radiant hue of sky, bird.
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2 months ago
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Such comfort in this meager existence all needs met still longings endure and for that I am sorry.
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3 months ago
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