Robert

Seeking happiness
an unexpected journey
writhing twist of fate

#haikufeels #writhe #poetry

desolate laughter
of the cold graveyard wind
blowing through the stones

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka

it’s halloween night
everyone’s masks are in place
mine, finally off

#vss365 #halloween #senyru #haiku

That’s exactly what I’d expect a witch to say. 🤣🧙‍♀️🙏

You haunt me
like a bad witch
bent on my
debauchery
hiding your spells
in beautiful poems
like magic potions
and brews
luring me into
your lair
of inequity
bewitching innocent
souls like me
until all I
can say is
haunt me
more

#BedroomEyesPrompt
#youhauntme
@knickersnpearls.bsky.social

They tried to
distill the blood
with distance
like temporal, spatial alchemists
but the dark magic
lingered in our DNA...

#poemsabout #blood
#IrishHistory #MagdaleneLaundries #MotherandBabyHomes

I close my eye
& you appear
wraithlike before me—
tall, pale & ghostly

your strong
spectral hands
grasping me tightly

phantasmal lips
pressed against mine,
kissing me ardently

dark tendrils explore,
as I beg
for more

you haunt me
so passionately—
just like
I asked for.

#BedroomEyesPrompt

Her voice in the static
as if she is whispering
my name

vision in the fog
as if she is summoning
me to her side

breath in the air
as if her heart is
beating against mine

she is but
a wistful
dream

#BlueSkyRelay
#hervoiceinthestatic
#poetry

My baptism—
annointed in sin,
dripping in
the history
of a church,
that failed me

I left it behind,
thinking God
was a fallacy

only later
to realise,
be God real
or fantasy,
it's humans
are the worry—

creating
false prophets
& all
of the hierarchy

so now
I can kneel
for a reprieve
from humanity

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Silence is a grave
where we bury our sadness
no one else can hear

#haikufeels #silence #haiku

Lost & #defeated,
lying in the middle
of a dark #tunnel,
dim mists swirling
of #cherry red
& #purple

in the dream
then you came,
like a gleaming
#ray of light,
taking my hand
to show me
the way out.

Real life—
less dramatic
yet you were still
my saviour

handing me a pen
you told me
to write.

Want whispered
on the evening wind—
I called & you
came to me.

Even shrouded in sleep,
I sensed your shape
shift in the shadows

brush of lips
against my neck,
fangs in my flesh—
a vampire's kiss

sorrow sucked
right out
of my soul—
I gasped in gratitude.

Then,
you were gone.

#BedroomEyesPrompt

Maudlin midnight blue—
the stars cry chandelier tears,
a galaxy weeps.

#dailyhaikuprompt #maudlin

The day is crisp
as I step outside—
a feeling of icicles
kissing my lips

my breath,
swirling tendrils—
ghosts of words
I wish we'd spoken

I pull my cardigan
tightly around me—
poor substitute
for strong arms
around my body

I whisper 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 
on the breeze
& hear it travel
on rustling leaves.

I want you—
the mantra of years,
a yearning grief,
clawing desire for
your company

like a child crying out
in the night
for a mother
that will not come

so I learned
to hold the need inside
quietly coiled
in my mind—

sorrow's snake
to slither forever
over my soul.

#BedroomEyesPrompt

when i die i will
pass through you
like a soft breeze
a flutter of wings

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

In the bleak mid-winter
you came to me
as if floating
on a dream...

#BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoets #poem #Poetry

Thank you, so kind of you to say! 🙏💛

Thank you so much! 🙏

in the soft light
of your late autumn smiles
I see you so well

#haikuinlove

Thank you so much! 🙏💛

Thank you! 🙏 Always nice to see your comments. 💛

Darkest night—
stars haunted the sky
like twinkling ghosts,
under an ominous veil
of moonlight

you held me close,
arms tight around me,
the life in your kiss
keeping shadows
from my soul

as we drifted into sleep,
your breathing became
a talisman,
seeing me through
to the safety
of daylight.

Our lives
but a moment
across the eons
and our love
but a moment
within a moment
and yet it is
only within us
do I feel
the infinite

#BlueSkyRelay #moment #poetry

Sensuality pressed
against book shelves,
secrets inscribed
in illicit ink—
a kiss stolen
in the library

where dusty tomes
could hide
the brush of lips,
the sweep
of hands over skin
smooth as vellum

words written
across our souls,
of love burgeoning
within those
hallowed walls.

#MPPrompt

Thank you!🙏 I appreciate the prompt. 💛

I wear a dense shroud
not to deceive but to hide
mostly from myself

#haikufeels #shroud #haiku

I write to fill
the void inside
but nothing works
it's just an endless
cascade of words
spilling ever
downward...

#skypoets #blueskypoetry

It was but a #moment,
fleeting as a mayfly

but in it's transience
it radiated brilliance,
only the length
of an intake
of breath
before it left

beauty echoing
on the breeze
as it flitted away

a chest ache
the only indication
that something precious
had been

and gone.

#BlueSkyRelay