Thank you 😊

~

You burned through the forest
grove, where spring moaned
with gusto—raw, longing, wild

Your smile slipped between
trees, or teased from the full
moon’s scattered pearls

Your gaze flared through
blue leaves, and

a pink curl—bold—dared
to echo the flush of your
untamed, blushing cheeks

~ 𝓩𝓪𝔂𝓷𝓪𝓫

"Anyone who ever let me in his body or arms I still feel grateful to. That's why so many of my friends are old lovers, I suppose. And that includes, these days, dying and dead friends as well, to whom the flesh, my flesh, still connects me."

Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, 1988

#CanKidLit

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#CanKidlit

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bee-puzzled roses
in your peach deeps and harbours
always afternoon

#Summer

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#Strait

My head and my heart
Are prone, are prone
As I am - to disagree
And me afloat
In a fragile boat
Between these raging seas
Am blown, am swept
Salt burned and wrecked
Pray set my spirit free
To spend my days
On gentler waves
Content in my totality

#vss365

For reasons which
May never become clear
I have lived from regret to regret
Burning blue occupants of yet
Unnamed and uncharted constellations
That speak in the voices of the dead
And of the yet unborn
In them something beckons
and I am left
Stargazing with ghosts #poem #poetry

#Children

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at the end of the path
the overpowering scent
of flowers on a thorn bush

#Haiku by Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
(from book Classic Haiku, Tom Lowenstein, 2007)
#poetry

#Fantasy

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[Jotted on the score card of a 1972 Met's game]
appeal to authority:
the moon is on your side
and frankly,
i trust her

[Slipped into the pocket of a flannel shirt with a note that smells faintly of rain]
anecdotal evidence:
someone once loved someone
in this shirt-
it could happen again
#renku

#sunbeam

Here at childhoods end
Still I find
I can feign and pretend
That the sky, deftly lit
Can stir my heart yet
And the smile on my face
Hardly offers a hint
Of the weight in my soul
That falls

Like a sunbeam

On nothing at all

#vss365

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when the shores
gave her right form
her river ran to the ocean

a flock of ravens
helped her
mark what was closest
& drink from what was farthest

when dusk leaned in
instead of turning away
she drew light
from purple edges
rooting time
into #vision
of the journey itself

#vss365 #poetry 📸 N. Taylor

the poppy chooses
to blaze red against the gloom
vision without flame
at the edge of night she waits
quiet in her certainty

#vss365 #vision #NaTankaMo #choice #MayTanka #tanka #poetry #nature

Thank you 🙏 😊

A faded plastic statue of the Virgin Mary
taped to the dashboard of his green El Dorado
Alligator takes pains to make sure
his satin shirt doesn't wrinkle
his oil soaked boots against the pedal
he progresses against all measure and
He wanders outside the realm
"Of Saturn Devouring His Son"
By Goya

satin drapes shelter
a half-light rests in the room
whispers curl like smoke
the clock has forgotten time
heat pooling beneath the skin

#tankaThursday #shelter #tanka #blueskypoets

Thank you 🙏 😊

sleep on a journey
then you will understand my poem
autumn winds

#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#poetry

Love is like an echo.
You can hear it.
At times, you can feel it.
but can't grasp onto it.
As you pour your heart out to be set on fire within.
Only to be left with ambers in the dark.

#poetry

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#Gloucester

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~

I moan your name
in the glitch between wild sighs,

a brass-laced fire
branding my starving lips.

I hunt the shimmer
of your shadow,
fingers ripping time’s velvet.

Each syllable—a snowy rose,
a brutal bloom of strength,

devoured again and again
until silence screams for mercy

~ 𝓩𝓪𝔂𝓷𝓪𝓫

Lithe fingers hold tight
A slender swan neck throbbing
A quick snap, no fight

#haikuhorrorprompt
#vsshorror

How corrupt are the planets in their orbit
Rotating in strange ellipses
Gossiping amongst themselves
Celestial washwomen about
The earth's unrequited love for its moon
Sunrise and sunset
A parlor trick performed by Titans #poem #poetry #POEMS

night watch
on a winter ship,
the stars
tangled in
the frozen rigging

— M. Kei

#tanka #5lines #MayTanka #NaTankaMo tangled
#poetry