i ask the birds, the trees where did she go—the girl with cornflower eyes #DailyHaikuPrompt #cornflower #haiku

they called it *m a d n e s s* the way i bear your pain when you’re a w a y. #micropoem #poetry

Her audacious tenderness #ThreeWordGenre #resolve

Peel off the labels Trod over the typecasting The stage is your own. #haikufeels #label #haiku #senryu

This New Year you are The resolution I make again and again. #bedroomeyes #resolution #haiku #senryu @oldsoulprose.bsky.social

Strip off your labels scrape away what people say now can love take root #haikufeels #label

Chimerical first kiss #ThreeWordGenre #inception

she longed with such depth it ravaged her— heart turning wound, pain g i v e n shape, love takes pieces of her— fragmented she b u r n s; do you taste love the same way i do? she wonders. #poetry

Idea of you An opaque dream, before you appeared, full colour. #haikufeels #idea #haiku #senryu

I have known you since time immemorial, we meet again each time. #weirdmicro #TimeImmemorial #haiku #senryu

The merest of hints the scant idea of you my heart aflutter #haikufeels #idea

Her overwhelming kindness #ThreeWordGenre #genesis

Stars know not the time nor heavens the hourglass sand nor our love the years #haikufeels #year

Tonight I send you A midnight kiss on the wind Let it land softly. #bedroomeyes #midnightkiss #haiku #senryu @oldsoulprose.bsky.social

your goodbyes t e a r at me— paper-cuts to the heart. #micropoem #poetry

soothe this fissured heart with love #7syllablesentence #soothe #.⋆☾⋇: ̗̀ꨄ︎𖡼࣪ ִֶ

rest a while beloved take shelter in my adoration #whistpr #micropoem

Forest hike fantasies #ThreeWordGenre #sylvan

The kiss began an unravelling, a heart #relinquished, #liberated through subjugation— complete surrender to another #reverence shown by #benevolent hands that #cherish & #replenish their love an #assimilation of heart, soul & body— a knowing that needs no #appraisal— a knowing beyond question.

Bedtime reverie Craving your nocturnal charms Oh, to feel your arms. #WeirdMicro #NocturnalCharms #Haiku #Senryu

nothing about survival is clean or heroic— it is p r o c e d u r a l, it resumes each time you wake. it is accepting damage without surrendering d i r e c t i o n— here, still. #poetry

a departing kiss a moment to steal one more, heart sinking goodbye #haikufeels / steal #poetry #WritingCommunity #.⋆☾⋇: ̗̀ꨄ︎𖡼࣪ ִֶ

Her beautiful words stole their way into my soul beguiled and bewitched #haikufeels #steal

Highlights of the year Not fit to share, just to say You were in each one. #BedroomEyes #HighlightsOfTheYear #haiku #senryu @oldsoulprose.bsky.social

You snatched a coy smile Picked the love from my pockets Then stole my whole heart. #HaikuFeels #steal #haiku #senryu

Blushing alabaster cheeks #ThreeWordGenre #phosphor

and, if i am nothing but a whisper, let me be the whisper w o v e n between your breaths, the murmur nestled at the base of your spine— the warmth that l i n g e r s, upon your skin 1/2 #poetry

New year inquietude #ThreeWordGenre #liminal

My crackle glass heart an ancient handmade relic a sieve holds but love #haikufeels #crackle

His fingers link mine a supportive trellis that helps me bear my pain. #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt #trellis #bear #senryu

longing bends time. #ThreeWordGenre #poetry

Wind swept heart #ThreeWordGenre #flurry

Shh, quiet your mind life is serious enough have us mirth and joy #DailyHaikuPrompt #mirth

what I s e e in you is what s u r v i v e d in me. #micropoem #poetry

To love is to love let there be no discussion nature or nurture #haikufeels #nature

tenderness      dissolved her— v e l v e t winds,     a naked elegance, full of burning life— she did not resist. #micropoem #poetry

I leap with thee; I burn with thee

Fireside armchair adventurer #ThreeWordGenre #aspiration

You are the carol That sings always in my heart Your kiss, the chorus. #haikufeels #carol #haiku #senryu

his heart, gleaming, light—held in elegant restrain— hers, c o n s u m e d, carried by the sun of night; together, their u n i v e r s e returns to form. #poetry

You, me, poetry fine day under the shade tree midwinter’s night dream #DailyHaikuPrompt #shade #tree

To allow someone Past the threshold to your heart A sacred moment. #haikufeels #threshold #haiku #senryu

𝐅𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭 Him, my pulse racing. Him, a heat rising. Him, sweat over my skin. Him, the way my thoughts spin. Him, the chronic ache within. Him, my soul's infection. Only one cure— Him. #mpprompt

Pagan ritual kisses in the henge shadow on winter solstice #dailyhaikuprompt #solstice

Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.

Casting solstice spells Drawing your light toward me On this darkest day. #DailyHaikuPrompt #Solstice #haiku #senryu

d i s t a n c e, never far; so this feeling— is it you, is it me? or is it your d e l i c a t e heart— thorned, to guard mine that i feel? #poetry

You are home to me I warm by the glowing hearth of your burning love. #PennedReveries #Hearth #Haiku #Senryu

Yearning, a thing with claws— it cuts the soul to shreds in pursuit of what it wants I hide it well beneath a veil of nonchalance yet it haunts me still, relentlessly & so I beg him— please, come to me remove the veil, reveal my naked yearning soul & let desire take over. #BlueSkyRelay #Emoetry

their hearts grew lush, unhurried, wrapped in verdure— her breath c a r r i e d weight, lingering in his chest; his eyes sparkle, c a s t i n g light, eclipsing her shadows— #poetry