I unfasten the cloak you made by care without you here it's worn threadbare I draw a bath concern my sponge hot words watered take the plunge I towel off the who, what, why, demeanor's cool when passions dry #poetry

Shaped by your quiet #idolatry I wander through blades of uncertainty, searching for traces of a sea-swept heart. Where does it drift? Through cranberry bogs and evergreen hush, or cactus blooms unfurling under sun’s sleep. Perhaps it lives in fragments, scattered— never found,

#empty black hole pulls stars dissolve in lightless jaws time itself grows frail silent tides erase all mass yet new worlds may rise within #TankaThursday #Tanka #5linespoetry

a dream barely perceptible yet soothing like a warm blanket pulled closer #august #poem #poetry #WritingCommunity 📸Alexey Demidov

Even the #mundane Can seem insane If you need to blame Your lack of game May seem kinda lame From where you came Where same is same All seeking fame No time to explain It must be humane Not a bloodstain Like a candy cane We must refrain I'm here to entertain #vss365

tonight I'll be waiting and when you kiss me I'll surely #reek of whiskey mixed with piano keys scent a malted Irish blend like this northern heart who composes love songs about you, for the world. #vss365

as a Childe I wondered at the #reek of it breaking thru roses & snapdragons now it does not break thru it is pervasive like cruelty like harm now I create it amidst words that name it me how enticing knowing breathe it in breathe out word & deed that change it #vss365 ©rpm'25

Telepathy was no longer a safe way to #communicate. So the humans learned to send messages via sign language. This greatly perplexed the invading aliens; it was a language their antennae like eyes, couldn’t fathom. Hope for survival, was a mere handshake away. #scififri

एक लड़की भीगी-भागी सी… बेख़ौफ़, बेफ़िकर, बेबाक़ सी, निकली थी घर से बहाना करके, आँखो पे चश्मा, गुलाबी गाल होंठों पे गीत, चाल में उछाल रंगीन ख़याल और हाय.. क्या कमाल! टकरा गई रास्ते में एक अजनबी से, मुलाक़ात भी ऐसी कि मंज़िले बदल गई, भागी थी घर से, और घर ही पे पहुँच गई… #She

Ban is the anadrome of Nab so rightly but it gets lifted in our social framework.

I don't seek him, because his soul's dance sparks my essence 💙

#vss365 #reek #FireWriters35 where breath reeks of broken promises, subdued dreams, and hope that leaks. where masks conceal their discontent, and naked hearts break on cobbled stone. and silence gathers, to bury what remains. 🖤 #ωнιѕρєяѕ

कभी–कभी आँखों में कुछ नहीं होता है, ना सपने, ना नींद, ना इच्छाएं ,ना उदासी... बस एक खालीपन सा ठहरा होता है । मन सन्नाटे की गिरफ़्त में सिमट जाता है, हर धड़कन जैसे सवाल बन कर रह जाता है। दिल ढूँढता है किनारा उस वीरान समंदर में, जहाँ खालीपन ही साथी बन चलता है सफ़र में। #kavita250

Leave a lantern on The owls are not what they seem As night stretches its wings (lantern) #HaikuChallenge That 👊

our senses lost to this naked poetry written with each sting as teeth take making and marking floating dreams these quiet wishes delicate moon drops where hearts forget to sit uncomfortably on a hard seat holding hope boldly as each stroke dives deeper where dripping satin grips

#Tanka #star #crazy sunburnt and from sparklers star-crazy star works fill the skies celebrating high summer John Wisdom … an old one from somewhere.

* Read me with your tongue. Seek me within the verses that you write Where words are warm like breath upon the skin Chains shatter softly in the heat of night Yet find their way to bind and start again ~ 𝓩𝓪𝔂𝓷𝓪𝓫 #poem #poetry Background artwork © April Schumacher

Can you measure the night in heartbeats, or I have to scale it with anticipation?!

Love me, love me not What’s love got to do with it First hand emotions (love) #inkMine inkMine That 👊

rain, like tears fall one by one as goes the rising sun there is beauty in these drops if one looks deeply but sorrow draws them from grey clouds they come, true pain they cannot shroud one by one, they fall #FireWriters35