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Dickie not Richard
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With tulips, still waiting.
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broken latch-
the wind lets itself
back in
#haiku #poetry
October 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Color-coded calendar
Supersaturated schedule
Empty, empty

Sugar in the sieve
Empties, empties

#poem
August 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Cool, sweet
Before the sun
Summer shadows
Before the sun

Just
Before the sun
And after

Just
Before
And after

Daylight forgive me
My absence, remit

Before, before
I avoid the after
Before, before
I fear the after
Colder than before

Long, cool summer shadows
Colder than before

#poem
August 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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cool morning
someone opened
a window in the night

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (cool morning)
July 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Wind starts to change,
River current swiftens
—Heart whisked away.

#poem #haiku
August 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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corn in the sun
I sway between
yellows

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (corn)
August 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Trembling hands sully the cut.

Flower stem stays half-broken.
July 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
wanting cleanest break
before cutting fraying cord
scissors hesitate

But why hold on to damage?
Trembling hands sully the cut.

#poetry #tanka
July 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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July 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
train collides with rainbow
and neither is disrupted

things that'd make life better
can sometimes never touch

#poetry
July 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
sticky summer air
dragging June through September
heels drag along too

#poetry #haiku
July 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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July 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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bark under my nails-
stacking cords of pinewood
like winter prayers
#haiku #poetry #writingcommunity
July 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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her cottage
must be here somewhere
in a garden of flowers

Basho
April 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The clear pond shivers
Holding bated breath
Nearly rippling premature
In anticipation of first bare step
Overearly for love
Just getting my feet wet

#poem #lovepoem
March 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
heart hidden in the rabbit burrow
man forcefully caved in
March 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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memory
of an orange grove
sweet love

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka
February 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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February 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Like an old cat stretching out
towards the sun

I think it might be alright
to doze off here forever

if at least
the hands that held me were warm

#poetry #petloss
February 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My temple is rotting.
My caretaker dead.

If there is an afterlife
will I be allowed to go?

Allow me to go.
Allow me to go.

My temple is rotting.
My caretaker dead.

Allow me to go.
Allow me to go.

–Animism

#poetry
February 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
But listen,
under the compost pile
ditch lilies grow.

#poem
February 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Sometimes mercy
is sharpening the guillotine.

Sometimes mercy
is putting the dog down.

#petloss #poetry barely
February 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM