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LL
LL
Poems © 2016–2026 by LL | Cover photo by J Lee on Unsplash
I had a long and cold dream from a sleep so heavy, so deep: I woke up in the middle of the woods covered in pale mist and in thick shadows a field of fallen leaves veiled in pre-dawn dark the grass beside me bent in your shape and the ground below us still warm from our haste I was standing in the middle of a road stretched without end in a cyclic bend devoid of any movement, of sound, of noise so nothing stopped me from screaming as I remembered being tired and alone I was sailing in the middle of the sea a drift glass on a starry mirror lens when rain came, it shook and shattered that’s when I fell into the water and learned that I didn’t mind the fall so I waited, and I let the waves swallow me whole Then I was beside you, and it wasn’t a dream, not anymore it was a different sea, it was another road but we came back to the same woods and it was just the two of us, when one of us asked the other, don’t you want me here? which one of us I couldn't tell
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Jan 3
Jan 3, 2026 at 8:07 AM UTC
A long and cold dream / Poem
ᴵ what then shall we do while I wait — for the coffee to kick in — and you ᴼ oh how easily you can walk away — from a lit cig — and from me
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Dec 20, 2025
Dec 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM UTC
Coffee and cig / Sedoka
slip your hands through the cuffs of my shirt — there, reach out for the butterflies
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Dec 6, 2025
Dec 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM UTC
Reach out / Haiku
some may drink, not for the taste of spirits but for the spirit to taste
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Dec 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM UTC
Taste of spirit / Haiku
when they told me that I would fall for your eyes, they didn't tell me that it would be from a cliff, and that I would land in a maze
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Nov 27, 2025
Nov 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM UTC
Cliff and maze / Tanka
ᴵ there will be days when I'll put up my walls and shut the door on your face ᴼ everyday, I'll wait outside and knock harder than I did yesterday
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Nov 26, 2025
Nov 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM UTC
Knock harder / Sedoka
I've always been yours — even back when you weren't sure I'm yours to hold
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Nov 25, 2025
Nov 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM UTC
Back when | Haiku
there are things I can't shout to the world until _you hear them from my mouth_
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Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM UTC
From my mouth | Haiku
I know that when this great big storm hits, it won't stop to pray — _like I do_
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Nov 20, 2025
Nov 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM UTC
Does not pray | Haiku
I've spent too many nights alone as it rains — _drenched, cold and_ — in the dark
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Nov 19, 2025
Nov 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM UTC
Too many | Haiku