Dr. Deepak Dev

BEE-LINE
—my talent for trouble

tried to #slink away
but the bee knew my address
and my softest parts

#haikufeels #senryu

KNOT
—where endings hold their breath

we never #tie knots
yet somehow the thread between
still refuses break

#haikufeels #senryu

INKSPORE
—confessions that seed in silence

my shadow writes essays
behind passing clouds then rain
begins to #profess

#haikufeels #senryu

OVERBREED
—math the world should fear

#multiply
hatred multiplies
faster than compassion breathes
and still calls it peace

#haikufeels #senryu

SPINEBEAT
—when the body tells

#drum
inside my chest drum
the truth keeps leaking in beats
I pretend not hear

#haikufeels #senryu

MURMURCRAFT
—whispering what I can’t

#talk
the wind leans closer
whispering to the branches
what I can’t tell you

#haikufeels #senryu

HOMING —where absence folds itself into presence

"Some addresses are not found on maps,
but in the way a room remembers you".

#ps24hours #poetriespots #king2303 #iflovehadanaddress

Honoured to have my poem 'Salt in the Bones' included in the latest issue of Poetic Reveries. Grateful for curating such a rich and resonant collection worth every page.

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UNDERTOW
— the chorus that pulls you under

#dive where shadows sing,
silver lungs and velvet waves
rewrite the heartbeat

#haikufeels #senryu

WINGSMITH — forging silence from a fall

"A single feather, its voyage complete,
still persuades the earth to remember the sky"

#prtanka25 #poeticreveries_ #tanka #poetrycommuníty #writingchallenge

ONBOARD
— signed up without reading the fine print

#recruit my free time—
every hobby I once loved
now calls itself “work”

#haikufeels #senryu

TIDELINE
— where horizons borrow each other’s light

#Marmoris tides mirror skies—both endless, untamed.

#zoya_charmz #cosmosofwriters #poetrycommunity

CONSTELLATE — the shape love took when I stopped naming it

"Some patterns are only visible when you stop tracing the one you thought you wanted"

#ps24hours #alliterisen #justatry🙈 #poetriespots
#king2303

AXIS
— the stillness that binds all things

#Silken geometry holds dew, proving even the smallest threads can anchor a universe.

#a.b.poems__ #cosmosofwriters #poets #poetry #writers #poetrycommunity #poetscommunity #words #writerscommunity #cosmos #prompts #writingchallenge

STATIC
— when loss buffers in pixels

#zoom call from afar—
their faces froze before words
could finish the news

#haikufeels #senryu

THE SEAT BESIDE ME — where love learns the discipline of distance

"Not all absences are empty—some are crowded with the syllables we dare not speak. I leave the space untouched, knowing it will never be mine, yet still I wait"

#ps24hours #poetriespots

UPDRAFT
— absence in outline

claw-marks on the branch
remember the weight of wings
that left no shadow
the beak holds a note unsung
to keep the silence breathing

#completethehaiga #110 #prompt #tanka @completethehaiga.bsky.social

SCARLET VEIL — where ache is the only fluent tongue

"Not all seduction begins with touch.
Some unveil themselves in the hush between restraint and surrender—
where silk becomes witness, disobedience wears devotion,
and the sacred is not spoken but trembled into being"

#poetriespots #pssensational

SUNTHREADS — what August tried to mend in me

Braided into one breath—where golden grief blooms, shimmer softens the ache and memory walks barefoot through light.

#a.b.poems__#cosmospromptsaug #cosmosprompts #cosmosofwriters #justatry🙈

STANDBY
— what refuses to quit quietly

browser fatigue—
I close tabs like old regrets
some still #stand by me

#haikufeels #senryu

THE SHADOW ARCHIVIST
— who rewrites me in hush

some shadows stay back
to rewrite our exhale paths—
when we aren’t looking
they pause where we nearly wept
and mend what time misheard

#tanka #wild_ink_and_sunflowers  #sundayserenades #cosmosofwriters

FORTE
— where her hush hit like thunder

She didn’t need a voice.
Her silence had direction.
Her leaving had rhythm.
And somehow,
my body still remembers the applause.

#SpicySaturday #BlueSkyWrites #joscar.poetry

RUBICON
— where Fevered Ghost(s) lit the unwritten

AHOOOOO!!! 🐺🌗👻🔥
Written beneath Scorpio’s quarried moon, where silence stings and memory burns.

#wolfpack_prompts #kry.wolf.poetry #taylor.jean.poetry #poeticgal360 #patrickellisonpoetry

CASTIRON
—grief tempered into stillness

he tried to #forge calm
from the heat of unsaid things
but it always bent

#haikufeels #senryu

VEILCRAFT
—the tender art of staying without showing

I never wore #camouflage to vanish.
Only to remain—
felt in the hush,
known
by those who never needed proof.

#cosmosofwriters

I let you #devour my silence—
you mistook it for consent.

#late__night__poetries #LNPprompt
#poetryprompt #weeklyprompt #poetrypromptchallenge

GLOAM
—sunset wearing a grin too wide

We laughed beneath a blistered sky,
called the sear a celebration.
But—

Death of the Summer Sun.
Our Ending is Nigh.
Heat is for Fun.

The sun bowed out,
smiling like it meant it.

#poetry #prompts #writing #writingprompts #poetryprompts #thethreepanelspress

A QUIET EXIT

"Not every goodbye needs closure.
Some doors are best left unknocked—
not for lack of wanting,
but in honour of the silence
that kept it kind.

A smile was sent.
Whether it landed or not—
that's a different kind of poem."

#UnsentSmiles #WhenIntentStepsBack

FORECAST
—based on imaginary events

she #drew the line sharp.
I wasn’t married yet… but
still said “yes, dear” first.

#haikufeels #senryu

GHOSTWARE
—currently freelancing with global disruption

This ghost audits cloud storage, schedules grief and bills by the minute.

Here’s my #CascadePoem for the #psdarkfriday on absurdities of power, tech and modern control. Because in this world, even hauntings need encryption.
#poetriespots