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12h
· 39
Locks | Haiku
LL
12h
Locks | Haiku
I carry you like
old locks fastened to a bridge —
I unlock nothing
2025/074
#haiku
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13h
· 29
Keys | Haiku
LL
13h
Keys | Haiku
I carry you with
me —
heavy
keys to locks that
I no longer have
2025/073
#haiku
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14h
· 36
Warmth | Haiku
LL
14h
Warmth | Haiku
silence,
your silence
is not a void — it is a
warmth I come home to
2025/072
#haiku
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20h
· 36
Muffle | Haiku
LL
20h
Muffle | Haiku
muffle every groan
and moan,
and whimper,
and sigh
with your mouth on mine
2025/071
#haiku
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23h
· 135
Flower | Haiku
LL
23h
Flower | Haiku
you only water
the plants when you
need
them to
flower and bear fruit
2025/070
#haiku
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Apr 25
· 54
Reclaim pt. II | Haiku
LL
Apr 25
Reclaim pt. II | Haiku
as long as the sea
ends up on top of
me
—
claimed
inevitably
2025/069
#haiku
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Apr 23
· 75
Give | Haiku
LL
Apr 23
Give | Haiku
what if the only
thing I can give you are the
things I leave behind
2025/068
#haiku
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Apr 23
· 48
Carelessly | Tanka
LL
Apr 23
Carelessly | Tanka
if you're the sea I'd
easily drown in — I am
the sea-beaten cliff
you can safely wonder from —
of
carelessly
jumping off
2025/067
#tanka
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Apr 23
· 58
Reclaim | Haiku
LL
Apr 23
Reclaim | Haiku
I saw you walk in—
to this place like an ocean
wave — reclaiming land
(
I'm the land
)
2025/066
#haiku
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Apr 23
· 105
Cicada | Haiku
LL
Apr 23
Cicada | Haiku
summer is the call
cicadas hum and chirp to —
I answer,
find me
2025/065
#haiku
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Apr 21
· 53
Lose | Haiku
LL
Apr 21
Lose | Haiku
focusing on my
pain is how I lose the hand
I'm holding right now
2025/064
#haiku
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Apr 21
· 61
Meaning | Haiku
LL
Apr 21
Meaning | Haiku
can life lose all its
meaning — and could there ever
be one without love?
2025/063
#haiku
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Apr 20
· 100
Bird | Tanka
LL
Apr 20
Bird | Tanka
joy would always leave
me like a bird that flew out
of its cage and — when
it came back knocking on the
glass —
I wouldn't let it in
2025/062
#tanka
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Apr 13
· 317
Floodgates | Tanka
LL
Apr 13
Floodgates | Tanka
I don't tell you things
because explaining in length
things long brewing's like
standing at the floodgates of
a river as it empties
2025/061
#tanka
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Mar 26
· 81
Get | Free verse
LL
Mar 26
Get | Free verse
if I have to kneel before your body
to get
what I want — and
hear songs of quick shallow breaths —
soft praises
— from your mouth agape
— no wonder they call it
a TEMPLE
2025/060
#free
#verse
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Mar 25
· 50
Stopped | Haiku
LL
Mar 25
Stopped | Haiku
know that if I
leave
I didn't stop choosing you —
I stopped choosing me
02/28/2025
#haiku
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Mar 25
· 214
A lone | Haiku
LL
Mar 25
A lone | Haiku
always a lone chair
at every table —
am I
meant to be alone?
02/27/2025
#haiku
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Mar 25
· 64
Stuck | Tanka
LL
Mar 25
Stuck | Tanka
right at that moment
when the sun disappeared, I
should've broke orbit
instead I stayed in place —
stuck
exactly where you left me
02/26/2025
#tanka
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Mar 25
· 80
Got off | Haiku
LL
Mar 25
Got off | Haiku
this feels like a long
ride where everyone got off —
and then
it's just me
02/25/2025
#haiku
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Mar 25
· 53
— | Haiku
LL
Mar 25
— | Haiku
for eight hours a day
I
die
at my office desk —
and then I drive home
02/24/2025
#haiku
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Mar 18
· 105
Raging | Haiku
LL
Mar 18
Raging | Haiku
a raging river
of thoughts, a stream of words —
the
rest flows out as tears
02/23/2025
#haiku
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Mar 17
· 153
Pressure | Haiku
LL
Mar 17
Pressure | Haiku
I
can
work under
pressure — is it
your
job to
put pressure on me?
02/22/2025
#haiku
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Mar 13
· 68
Exist | Haiku
LL
Mar 13
Exist | Haiku
take me by the hand
—
that is how I'll know for sure
that I
still exist
02/21/2025
#haiku
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Mar 12
· 90
Stop me | Haiku
LL
Mar 12
Stop me | Haiku
stop me — stop what we're
doing just so I can get
on my knees to plead
(
don't
)
02/20/2025
#haiku
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Mar 12
· 330
Exactly | Haiku
LL
Mar 12
Exactly | Haiku
teach me how to look
at you like I know
exact-
ly
what we'll do next
02/19/2025
#haiku
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Mar 6
· 72
Own | Haiku
LL
Mar 6
Own | Haiku
to those who told me
they did it for my own good —
I'm not good
— what now?
02/18/2025
#haiku
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Mar 4
· 271
With | Haiku
LL
Mar 4
With | Haiku
if I can only
be happy for you and not
happy
with
you —
f***
02/17/2025
#haiku
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Feb 24
· 215
Sky | Haiku
LL
Feb 24
Sky | Haiku
to see you smile like
Sakaguchi Kentaro
—
is
my sun and sky
02/16/2025
#haiku
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Feb 22
· 165
Lung-full | Haiku
LL
Feb 22
Lung-full | Haiku
oh how I wish to
be kissed like I'm his first
and
last
lung-full of air
02/15/2025
#haiku
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Feb 22
· 78
Which | Free verse
LL
Feb 22
Which | Free verse
when my
palm
is on
the side of my face
and my
fingers
curl
at the back of my neck
I can't tell
which
feels which
02/14/2025
#free
#verse
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Feb 22
· 59
Foreigner | Haiku
LL
Feb 22
Foreigner | Haiku
my skin is foreign
land — just as my hand is a
foreigner on yours
02/13/2025
#haiku
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Feb 20
· 100
Missed | 6 words
LL
Feb 20
Missed | 6 words
missed my turn.
distracted.
missing you.
02/12/2025
#6
#words
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Feb 18
· 70
At home | Haiku
LL
Feb 18
At home | Haiku
not in my room — yet
out here in the midst of this
storm — I feel at home
02/11/2025
#haiku
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Feb 18
· 111
Act | 6 words
LL
Feb 18
Act | 6 words
one-man show.
acting okay.
performs daily.
02/10/2025
#6
#words
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Feb 18
· 103
Footfalls | Haiku
LL
Feb 18
Footfalls | Haiku
I hear rain coming
like heavy footfalls of my
favorite person
02/09/2025
#haiku
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Feb 18
· 63
Mondays | Haiku
LL
Feb 18
Mondays | Haiku
Mondays are for things
often left open from the
night before —
close me
02/08/2025
#haiku
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Feb 17
· 99
Soft | Haiku
LL
Feb 17
Soft | Haiku
made of soft mornings
humid noons, quiet evenings —
I dream of summer
02/07/2025
#haiku
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Feb 17
· 140
Sweeter | Haiku
LL
Feb 17
Sweeter | Haiku
infinitely slow
yet certainly numbered —
this
makes summer sweeter
02/06/2025
#haiku
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Feb 17
· 110
Grandma's | Haiku
LL
Feb 17
Grandma's | Haiku
you're the summer months
I spent in Grandma's house —
moves
infinitely slow
02/05/2025
#haiku
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Feb 10
· 68
Chance | Tanka
LL
Feb 10
Chance | Tanka
you hear my nightmares
because no one would take them
and you would tell me
you had one too last night as
if it's not mere chance —
but fate
02/04/2025
#tanka
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Feb 8
· 69
Taisei | Haiku
LL
Feb 8
Taisei | Haiku
****
I keep losing
you in the crowd, guy who looks
like
Kido Taisei
02/03/2025
#haiku
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Feb 8
· 91
Crowded room | Haiku
LL
Feb 8
Crowded room | Haiku
thank the gods we're in
a crowded room — I would've
confessed
* where I stood
(*or
came out
)
02/02/2025
#haiku
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Feb 8
· 164
Poured | Haiku
LL
Feb 8
Poured | Haiku
days — blurry, nights — hazed
time poured in a glass-like stream
unremarkably
02/01/2025
#haiku
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Feb 7
· 93
Start slow | Haiku
LL
Feb 7
Start slow | Haiku
if you wish to know
me, start slow — I'm an image
still painting itself
01/31/2025
#haiku
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Jan 30
· 90
Disengagement | Haiku
LL
Jan 30
Disengagement | Haiku
can't tell if it's the
cold air —
or disengagement
that makes mornings hard
01/30/2025
#haiku
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Jan 29
· 142
Anguish | Haiku
LL
Jan 29
Anguish | Haiku
you only listen
when you hear the alcohol
talking —
in anguish
01/29/2025
#haiku
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Jan 28
· 80
Infinity | Tanka
LL
Jan 28
Infinity | Tanka
I can explain the
concept of infinity
better than I can
comprehend the breadth and depth
of the space you have for me
01/28/2025
#tanka
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Jan 27
· 75
Difference | Haiku
LL
Jan 27
Difference | Haiku
in the end it's not
the time difference but the
difference in us
01/27/2025
#haiku
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Jan 26
· 81
Allowed | Free Verse
LL
Jan 26
Allowed | Free Verse
your kind
of gorgeous
brings me
to my knees
so hard
—
it shouldn't
be allowed
01/26/2025
#haiku
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Jan 26
· 235
Sheets | Haiku
LL
Jan 26
Sheets | Haiku
got so depressed in
the middle of changing sheets
I slept without one
01/25/25
#haiku
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