I can hardly believe it, but both my new poetry book and my first paranormal romance novel are finished! 😁 If everything continues to go on schedule, the poetry book will be published in Spring 2026 and the novel in Summer 2026!

Icicles whisper, your breath warms the space between us, winter learns our names. #haiku #poetry #icicles

I would cross empty cities and unmarked roads with no map but the pull of your name. Distance becomes a suggestion when you are waiting. I would travel through weather, doubt, and dark just to stand close enough to feel your breath. Anywhere becomes home the moment I reach you. #vss365 #travel

Your silence stays cold like moonlight on empty hands. My heart waits anyway. #haiku #poetry #cold

I want you in the quiet way hunger waits. Desire pools in my chest, steady & patient. You move through my thoughts like heat through stone. Every choice narrows until you're the sole direction. I feel myself leaning toward you without permission. Even restraint knows your name. #vss365 #sole

Pastoral fields wait for footsteps that never come, my heart grazes alone. #haiku #poetry #pastoral

I love you like a planet that never cools. My devotion burns red and distant, like Mars. You look at me and see only empty sky. Every signal I send drifts unanswered. I keep orbiting, loyal to the pull that won’t claim me. Even barren worlds can ache for life. #vss365 #poetry #mars

Wild heart, untamed eyes, but I get only heartache from loving a bear. #haiku #poetry #bear

Loving you is instinct, not decision. It happens without asking my permission. I reach for you the way lungs reach for air. Even in silence, you're what keeps me steady. Without you, everything tightens, grows urgent. With you, I remember how to live. #vss365 #poetry #air

Affection, profuse, falls where no hands wait to catch. Love still blooms alone. #haiku #poetry #profuse

I love you in the quiet spaces you never enter. My hope waits where your certainty already moved on. Every kindness I don't receive feels like a eclipsed sun. To want you is a daily struggle I never confess. I keep choosing you, even when you don’t choose me. #vss365 #poetry #struggle

Silent night lingers, one stocking still waits alone, cold lights blink for you. #haiku #poetry #night

The lights look sadder this year, each bulb a poor substitute for the light you gave me. Carols drift past like notes I no longer sing. I keep trying to survive this season on memory and stubborn breath. Another solitary Christmas passes, and I'm still here, loving you. #vss365 #poetry #survive

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I tend the garden where your love never takes root. Still, I water hope. #haiku #poetry #garden

I line my hope along the edge of your silence, waiting for a sign that never comes. My love lifts its hands anyway, reckless and bare, as if devotion alone could change the outcome. I tell myself not to shoot, not to risk the echo of refusal, but my heart keeps aiming for you. #vss365 #shoot

No matter where I go, you’re stitched into my quilt of days, warm, lasting, always. #haiku #poetry #quilt

It would be so easy to reach for you again, to pretend the past has softened with time. Every look dares my heart to jump, to forget the nights it learned how to break quietly. But longing isn't the same as healing, and I can't offer my chest to another wound. #vss365 #poetry #jump

Your love, my overcoat, cold winter yields to your heat, I walk through snow warm. #haiku #poetry #overcoat

I'd stand with the patience of Saturn, waiting without complaint. I'd relearn my name if it meant you'd say it softly. I'd shoulder every doubt like a quiet vow. I'd choose you in storms, in stillness, in the absence of reward. If proof is required, let my staying be the evidence. #vss365 #saturn

I wait through long nights, your love hovers like solstice light learning to stay. #haiku #poetry #solstice

I'll stand here when the rooms go quiet and the easy exits start to look tempting. My love doesn't depend on your certainty. I choose yo even when choosing is a fight. I'll keep showing up, steady and unarmed, loving you without asking you to be ready. #vss365 #poetry #fight

Each time I see you, my heart forgets its own age, love always blooming. #haiku #poetry #blooming

I've learned to love you quietly, to carry my wanting like a folded letter. Your happiness matters more than my ache, so I keep my hope humble, unannounced, and patient. I want to stand close enough to warm you, not to claim you. Some love survives by asking for nothing. #vss365 #poetry #humble

Unanswered footsteps echo through the long winter, my warmth waits alone. #haiku #poetry #winter

I carry the bruise of your leaving like a pressed flower, still fragrant. You taught me how deep I could feel, even when the lesson came with pain. There's gratitude in knowing my heart works, that it chose love, even here. #vss365 #poetry #gratitude

Every night drags on, without you, a long night waits, dawn feels far away. #haiku #poetry #longnight

I don’t want my love to harden into regret. I want it to stay soft, even in memory. What I gave you was real, not foolish. It mattered, even if it was unanswered. Let it remain a clean ache, not a wound. Let me remember loving you without sorrow. #vss365 #poetry #regret

I circle your light, a moth drawn to borrowed warmth, wings ache, still I stay. #haiku #poetry #moth

I recall the easy laughter, the days that fit us without effort, when love felt like a habit we’d keep forever. I carry those moments gently now, from before your silence learned my name, from before you broke my heart. #vss365 #poetry #recall

Feel me with your tongue, let my softness fill your mouth, swallow my essence. #haiku #eroticpoetry #swallow

I don’t want to be in the echo of your memory. I want the ordinary hours, unpolished & real, to choose us. Let me stand in your today and walk in your tomorrows, my hand strong & steady in yours. Leave yesterday where it belongs, and meet me where life is still unfolding. #vss365 #poetry #memory

I stay, heart open, profuse in love and bleeding, still, I choose you. #haiku #poetry #profuse

I love you in ways that don’t fit frames or vows. My devotion wears frayed denim and borrowed beliefs, lighting candles without altars. Call it boho if you need a name for the truth. I stay, not from duty, but from chosen gravity. This is faith without permission, and it's yours. #vss365 #boho

RIP Rob Reiner and my sincere condolences to everyone who loved him.

Midnight wind listens, your name rings softly in chimes, heard by me alone. #haiku #poetry #chimes

I wake each day to the same quiet ache. Your name moves through my hours like weather. Hope knocks softly, never staying long. Loving you becomes a monotonous ritual of giving without echo, waiting without return. Still, my heart refuses to learn silence. #vss365 #poetry #monotonous

Love's a waterfall. Relentless, bright, unafraid, it carries us through. #haiku #poetry #waterfall

My love doesn't arrive quietly. It rises, deliberate, undeniable. Every feeling before it becomes a foothill. What I offer you is the apogee of devotion. Nothing beyond it waits to be surpassed. Only the knowledge you've reached the highest point. #vss365 #poetry #apogee

My favorite line from Blazing Saddles: "What's a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?"

Let my love hold fast, anchors growing into roots, storms pass; we remain. #haiku #poetry #roots

Your heart still bears the map of old fractures. I can’t erase them; but I’ll learn their edges. Let me be gentle where the past was sharp. Not to replace, but a successor who gives hope. I’ll warm what went cold without asking for credit. Stay, my love & let healing choose us. #vss365 #successor

Guide me through the dark, you're the north star of my love, I follow your light. #haiku #poetry #star

I want to slip away with you, chasing our illicit spark, the secret heat beneath the noise, your breath close enough to steal mine, the world forgotten for a moment, just us, lost in the wanting. #vss365 #poetry #illicit

I don't love you with my mind and heart. I love you with my soul, in case my mind forgets and my heart stops. - Rumi

Camellia falls, unrequited hearts drift too, soft and unanswered. #haiku #poetry #camillia

My heart stays bewitched by the way you move through the world, even as you walk past me without a flicker of recognition. You never asked for my devotion, yet I keep offering a path to a door you never open. I stand here loving you in the shadows where you can't see me. #vss365 #bewitched

Good evening brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors, vibrations in the mind of the one true God whose name is Love. I miss Bill Hicks.

Heartbeat stumbles up, you pull quicker breath from me, wild as rising flame #haiku #poetry #breath