Her teeth Just crooked Enough To bite well Cowboy shirt Cool With attitude Bitten cheese Evidence Of love In lieu of A handy neck Paint not Quite dry On canvas Crying softly On the wall Wistfully #poetry

Beside a tree With heart Stepped in stone Just standing Monitoring Lonely path A little too Treacherous Guardian of Likely pilgrims On the Way Some even Stopping to Say hello As if speaking To a rock Was not at all Not normal #poetry

Dark aspirations Spiraling out of control Evil spells well cast #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

Nothing at all If not words Consumed By the light Of distant worlds #poetry

Jump because Rock said so Climb until Tree says top Waves whisper Swim too far Then walk back Dragging toes In the sand Chasing gulls While laughing And mud puddles Mean nothing Just a splash In time while Wishing for friends With dirty sneakers And a heart Not made of stone #poetry

Suspicious of all Deep wariness of the soul Eyes Always open #haiku #senryu #poetry

Darkest night too long Poets arrested at dawn Words carried away #haiku #poetry

Just an amulet Not at all superstitious Never take it off #haiku #senryu #poetry

The descent Into madness Is paved with The inane language Of clinicians What good Tilting at windmills If identified as Delusion Better to Stride bravely Into battle And know The name of The dragon #poetry #dragon

Almost paranoid Haiku hashtag abundant Not watching her now #haiku #poetry

With eyes cast skyward Searching for just the right cloud Dragons in the air #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

Accused of Being two faced He laughed And thought of A closet full Of any countenance That might possibly Be required Thank you He replied With a visage That he hoped Might be appropriate Not lost The pathology Of Personality #poetry

She spoke in The language of Falling robes While he was More fluent In clumsy Pardon me Awkwardly said Better wait outside #poetry

Sometimes when Someone Smiles at me Caught off guard Face is late Mouth won't Cooperate They are gone And then it comes Bursting forth For nobody But still it is Energetic if not Punctual Infinity receives it No apology With abandon #poetry

What bridge Is this That people Mill about On and under With nary A thought To transit What eyes Are these That do not see But look With longing? Desire lost Across a Span of time #poetry

Hand reaches Toward nothing An idea Just concept Not real Even the hand Only seen In mind's eye And yet Creation is Manifest A piece from inside Animates A piece from outside An object wrought While the universe Patiently waits #poetry

Both eyes closed slightly Splintered panoramic view Memories of youth #haiku #poetry

Words wander Refugees of a Neurotic impulse An existential leak In search of Watercourse way While scribbler Wonders where Pencil went #poetry #micropoetry

Long days Languish Hesitant of haste Stars wait So patient To shine Conversation tends To lapse Toward comfortable Silence Days will be hotter But won't linger Like today Marginally smaller All the days That follow #poetry

Composed solely On a phone Words that Drift away Still imagined On paper Wincing at Illegible script And misspelt Awkward words With erasure And crossed out Catastrophes Insisting on A rhyming structure Not forthcoming Crumbled paper In corner Madly thrown Wishing it Were a poem #poetry

Lost language Of birds Other than cranes Glimpsed From windows Not overlooking Construction sites Herons possibly Articulated movements As expression In a mirror Framed by society Loathsome of Heavy lifting Or even perhaps Graceful flight Of angels #poetry

The monster Within Doesn't Come out Even on Hallows Eve A curse Holds it Bound to bone Safe inside Where tears shed Are hidden From those Who should be Rightly afraid #poetry

Upon soft Soil Wet from Rain Heart still And sad Mind Slightly off Hands Pocket deep Lost In heavy fog Looking for The Way #poetry

Always start With the premise That there is Nothing to say Then do Poem on a Paper floor Arrived #poetry

October so Numerically Ambitious Not encumbered By names and Lesser numbers Nor Julian Himself Gregorized And laughing Two more Than intended #poetry

Machine cutting shapes That leave The shapes of things That were cut In passing Skeletons linger And are discarded Treasure of artist Scavengers of Industrial ruin #poetry

Books on shelf Reminder of Who once was But is no longer Their words Having wrought New eyes With which to see And a voice More likely Not to wobble Mere boards Unpainted well Holding up The foundation Of perception #poetry #vss

Mistaken for Unappreciative But mostly Cognizant of A universe That delivers What it must Utilizing The services Of the indigenous Inhabitants Of a world Not capable of Quantum Understanding Or even Rural Free Delivery #poetry

Lord Mephitidae Lingers in the field nearby Night air too fetid #haiku #senryu #poetry

She didn't walk Anywhere on purpose But strolled everywhere With a nonchalance That didn't go Without notice Leaves fell bravely In her path #poetry

Who's name Can't remember Comrade of The night Never mistaken For another Is it you? Just fun between Frightful souls Woods walking Under dark Foggy moon Whistling past The Yards Of the departed Strangely alive For a moment #poetry

Inside and safe With white walls Gone grey Dim light flickers Announcing wind Metal thoughts Of electric dreams Stranded on a Strange world In the rain Dust on the mantle Where sweet family photos Used to be Waiting for morning To arrive #poetry

Seemingly Partners in Wonder Symbiotic Love Attempting To meet Most immediate Needs Laughing happily When lucky Tears when Deemed Necessary Familiar enough Though Ultimately strangers Just passing And on the Way #poetry

Life so fabulous Celebrated in fable Tale with a moral #haiku #senryu #poetry

Last scent of freedom Carried off on an ill wind Foul air approaching #haiku #poetry

Acorn scared to fall Nothing really forever Sprout springing to life #poetry #haiku

Into heart Gnarled hand Seeking reaches For just the Right string While wounded eyes Gaze blindly In awe of Even this Manipulative love Anything To ignite fire Cold soul Vaguely remembers Only the moment Between two Nothing else Matters Willingness And weakness Desirous only Of strength #poetry

Song in the Green trees Such wild Ambiance From a mouse Of a creature Black head With white cheeks All a flutter Flashes of Green and yellow Grey and black Parus major In the feather Great tits Of Eurasia Just a songbird Singing #poetry

Walk on missing rocks Path disappears before us Civility lost #haiku #senryu #poetry

Cartwheels turned Through leaves And time Forgotten memories Unintentionally Resurfacing Rust colored Ratty dime store Sweater Lovingly worn And worn again Darkening days And crisp breezes Inviting nonchalance In matters Not pertaining To adulthood #poetry

Trees telling secrets Quite sane in this wilderness Promise not to tell #haiku #poetry

Clouds finally part Gazing at the sky above Eyes full of star shine #haiku #poetry

All of this is mine Forest path so inviting Hours forgotten #poetry #haiku

No need for sharing Hands already stained red-ish Good & Plenty alone True story Ancient confectionery #senryu #poetry

Accidentally Cobbled Words together That sound Differently better As if language A sentence fit Rather than Nimble tongue That might Spoke it wrong And be misheard And then speak say Hoping not noticed While dreaming Page wise Letters mostly Likely preferred #poetry

Season fading fast Short afternoons and long thoughts Sun on horizon #poetry #haiku

Old notebook in hand Interpreted by pencil Thoughts by the water #haiku #poetry #senryu

The dream Slipped into The sleeper Almost Unnoticed With the grace Of a succubus In training It's tentacles Slithering to Where they Needed to be The minds own Raw material Utilized for pleasure Promising ecstasy That is Until the Moaning turned To screams #poetry #vss

Taming the Reptile Not a job For the weak A near constant Rodeo of Obsessive Repetition Training the mind To be still And just let Everything be As it is At least for A little while Or until the Next distraction #poetry