Tems

The salt elemental looked up from the swing as the rain coated them in brine.

"I have no good words left for this place."

#vss356 #raincoat

promise can't be kept
like old duct tape, stretched and torn
it's elastic shit
I give it a sneer and tug
let it snap back in your face

#vss365 #elastic #tanka

Ten years later on
They played at Hyde Park
We greeted the moon
And pretended to be teens again
All the people, disperse
Tube stations closed
Hand in hand

#vss365 #blur

hearts beat on the grid
a moment bound in earnest
follows a wedding of candlelight
and memes shared

hemp ropes connect us
a collar that finds us in the dark
with its short-lived promise
and final climax fading to static

#vss365 #earnest #poetry

a smile on your face
you flinch an inch in the race
to go to first place

#vss365 #flinching #flinch #haiku

Poppy in another office selfie in a blue button up

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You don't like any murder, period? Well, thank you for expressing that. And I guess I'll see you at Trans Day of Remembrance then. 😶

research late at night
a determined but grim mind
formulates a plan
articles on testicles
to maximise the damage

#vss365 #article #tanka

the kitchen is cold
I am conscious of the stove
as the water heats
a small box of dry couscous
sits before me, untampered

#vss365 #conscious #tanka

the final word falls
from the arbiter's red lips
an arbitrary
dividing soul from body
with jarring mundane detail

#vss365 #arbitrary #tanka

the vow I once took
has no words for this place
its name will elude
and only exist to those
who are completely adrift

#vss365 #eludes #tanka

Ha. Spent, of course.

warm sunlight finds us
full hearts beating, soft and slow
the whole world is here
no need for a distant star
my yearning rests in your arms

#vss365 #yearn #tanka

the books on my shelf
lingering, leather-bound friends
holding wisdom close
in constellations of words
that light up my twisted path

#vss365 #constellation #tanka

Illness break. ✌️

​forever is here
jovial discovery
no lines stretching on
just a moment that is full
of all that was and will be

#vss365 #jovial #tanka

a blossom of tar
stretching towards the moon
with roots still clinging
to sentient life, long interred
drinking deep a poisoned past

#vss365 #sentient #tanka

a strange, crooked grin
manifests on blank A4
toner coats the page
a malformed and twisted shade
as it finally runs out

#vss365 #malformed #tanka

*expel

The chimney's cold throat
Spews a dark and twisting reek
To meet the grey sky
As the fire's dying lungs
Expels the last breath of warmth

#vss365 #reek #tanka

​A mundane morning
Small things calling to be done
Yet my eyes see swirls
The dark mundus in my cup
And the vast skies I forgot

#vss365 #mundane #tanka

Twilight watches still
Over the living, unreached
A constant vigil
for their lingering sadness
Throughout their guideless journey

#vss365 #vigil #tanka

Noise has receded
An empty and placid world
But you are at peace

#vss365 #empty #haiku

A lost look in the eyes
External senses peering
For spend days, long gone
And that simpler, weak body
Before bionic burdens

#vss365 #bionic #tanka

​A toy on the floor
No little hands reaching out
Abject emptiness
The space left where you should be
A pale hollow in my heart

#vss365 #abject #tanka

Small moth, a shadow
Pixie flirts with the dust motes
Then gone with the light

#vss365 #pixie #haiku

You have an amazing mind. ✨️

​Light bleeds over stone
The beating of rusted wings
Sold bronze ambition
And forgotten, faded names
Of war, neither here nor there

#vss368 #wings #tanka

A northern wind calls
Tawny owls scowl as it falls
On stone garden walls

#vss365 #scowl #haiku

​I raise my glass high
But their moment of mischief
A joke in my wine

#vss365 #mischief #haiku