Elle S

I could sleep here

all that's missing are the stars.

And you.

(Always the absence of you.)

Too many pieces of my heart live

beyond this plane.

The breeze whispers your names

in my ear like a song

anytime I am still enough to listen.

#poetry #poem #grief #writeyourheartout #loss #memorial

You feel brittle, love
tough to look at hard to see
tides break you recede.

#HaikuFeels #haiku #poem #prompt

thunder sombers sky
clouds close ranks rain charges earth
grace falls between drops

#haiku #poem #poetry

Love haunts me alive
casts your shadow on my mind
your last frame echoes

#haikufeels #OneLineOctober #poem #haiku

The light on your tongue turned dark
truth hidden by the moon's wanting
your face
a land I used to know

by heart

your love
a place I once called

home

now your name
is the myth I tell
to explain why stars fall
like tears across the face of the sky

#poem #poetry #myth #love #lore

If I could bend time
love you over to the end
even now I would

#haiku #poem #poetry #lovepoem

Maybe the cracks are
how the moss & lichen get in
reclaiming once wild pieces of you
turned hard against hope
terraforming barren places
with rains of change
& seeds of possibility
planted in slanting sunlight
turning you soft & vibrant green
rooting you back to life

#poem #poetry #vss #nature

A million steps away from you
I've wept an ocean of our love
been sanctified by salt water
waves of grief cauterized the wounds you left
into scars that bleach the past
like a map on my skin
in the shape of your name
a reminder, a truth
love would never leave me to drown

#poem #poetry #love #grief

When you leave
I lose my world
& every word in it
obliterate the language of my love
turn my muse to ash
leave me mute and faded
bud to bloom to dust
let this barren ending
be the seed
of a story
I barely dare dream
when I leave
write a new world
& my place in it
mean every word

#poetry #poem #vss

Give these tears a river run
free the ache in my throat
this smoke in my eyes
every step I take
they follow
the bridges you burned
stain the road
I make through my solitude
once I held an ocean of love
now you're a trail of salt
rung round my heart
memory of an ache
& watery eyes

#poetry #vss #poem

You do not have to be whole
to be holy
some wounds cut marrow deep
leave scars like lightning
in your bones
life practices kintsugi
pours gold over what matters enough to leave a mark
maps the making of you
shines into your aching darkness
your future lighting a candle in the window

#poem #poetry

In the waiting
strains of old songs
echo like light on still water
curious sunbeams
paint a net on the bottom of the sea
gather all my lost pieces
abandoned treasures
shine me back to myself
lift me where the light beckons
liminal sand still on my toes
break the surface
breathe again

#poetry #poem

Scattered seeds love lies
only springs to come know true
what grows from us now?

#haiku #poem #poetry

Thank you so much. I would love to know if you turn it into something.

Yield my autumn heart
hands once warm with love gone cold
I'm falling like leaves

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poetry #vss #poem

melancholy poets
burn bridges mourn the ashes
love fading shadows

#haiku #poetry #poem

I find myself in the death of night
sky soft with darkness
lighter than what I carry
paints my periphery
gloaming shades of grey
whispers "dawn is coming"
to still impenetrable shadows in me
first light a molten river
pours across the horizon
of my brokenness
turns every crack to gold

#poetry #poem

I flooded your plains of doubt
blessed roots you didn't know you had
planted love and hope in you
left you trying to uproot them
but truth grows like dandelions
their seeds already blowing on the
winds of your future
growing flowers in the cracks
so you can't fall through

#poetry #love #vss #bloom

I wake in the dark hours
pour my pain across page
like paper beats sadness
like every word
isn't dancing around your name
like the vastness of night has pockets to hold the pieces
of my shattered everything
my brokennesss
chiming like bells with every step
as dark gives way to dawn

#poetry #write

Image reads My apologies to every plant I ever repotted without whispering to your trembling untethered roots, "Even though it seems like everything you've ever known has been torn from you, you are safe, I promise. You just outgrew your pot. I know you thought you'd found your forever home, but it wasn't big enough to support the magnitude of who you are becoming. So it wasn't safe for you to stay there anymore. It was stifling you. The new pot I'm putting you in has everything you need to keep growing even more beautifully into yourself. Of course, you'll need some time to adjust. You might wilt, lose a few leaves. It's totally natural to grieve an ending. I know you didn't see this coming but trust me, you're going to love your new pot I made it just for you." I am uprooted. Untethered. Sorry. -l speller

#poetry #plants #poem

Buried in the old roots of me
a hidden cavern holds your memory
love once golden turned to brass
hopes and dreams crumbled to ash
song unsung story untold
regrets blown from love you couldn't hold
there is no light just a candle spent
in the absence of everything we meant

#Firewords280 #poetry #vss

Grief melts to your soul
unravels you to starstuff
begins you again

#haiku #MoonMystic #poetry #grief

Pay the ferryman teeth
to usher my forsaken heart
across the River Oath
irony winces
faithfulness drowns in the mythical
waters
your shaking hands made love walk the plank
the ghost of the woman who believed you
haunts the shore of your memory
floods your dreams every night

#poetry #poem #lore #vss

Puddle me to earth
grief watering roots life hope
fall then bloom again

#dailyhaikuprompt #puddle #haiku #poetry #prompt

I'm breaking like a hurricane
storming the shores of your sandcastle lies
undertow every grain of you
let the #current carry you out to sea
my love was faithful as the tide
moving oceans to meet your moonlight
now I wash you from my coastlines
another waning salt stained memory

#wss366 #poetry

you gave me saltwater lungs
every wretched second
a desperate gasp for air
I can't find
breath I can't catch
like I never had you
just an oasis of illusions
I'm coming to
unravelling all the pretty pretenses painted over the barren landscape
of your love
I'm a fish out of water

#OurPoetryX #poetry

Thank you so much for your kind words.

#poetry
#poem
#vss

I have learned to steal joy
even while grief led me by the heart
if only from the slanting sunlight
falling between leaves
as if into a lover's embrace
it is the only way I know
to keep breathing
when the world falls apart.

#poetry #poem