LL: Poems

3d · 509

Adrift | Haiku

LL 3d

Adrift | Haiku

what am I good for
if I'm lost — adrift like a
cloud that holds no rain

2025/095

#haiku

Jun 10 · 332

Parenting | Haiku

LL Jun 10

Parenting | Haiku

you'll understand when
you're a parent — is a bad
way of parenting

2025/094

#haiku

Jun 7 · 68

Ten is two | Haiku

LL Jun 7

Ten is two | Haiku

you know you've got it
bad when you check your watch and
what was 10 is 2

2025/093

#haiku

Jun 6 · 166

Now | Haiku

LL Jun 6

Now | Haiku

tell me where, tell me
when I can find happiness —
so I can go there

2025/092

#haiku

Jun 5 · 34

Butter | Haiku

LL Jun 5

Butter | Haiku

please just let me melt
like small pats of French butter
on warm Sunday toasts

2025/091

#haiku

May 29 · 255

Just enough | Haiku

LL May 29

Just enough | Haiku

I smile just enough
and I talk just enough to
keep the questions out

2025/090

#haiku

May 24 · 267

Struggling | 6 words

LL May 24

Struggling | 6 words

struggling to
make things
make sense.

2025/089

#6 #words

May 21 · 595

Lover | Haiku

LL May 21

Lover | Haiku

perhaps life is the
spouse and rest is the lover —
my head is our bed

2025/088

#haiku

May 19 · 104

Sun | Haiku

LL May 19

Sun | Haiku

don't give me the faint
glow of a distant star — bring
out your raging sun

2025/087

#haiku

May 18 · 195

Lie down | Haiku

LL May 18

Lie down | Haiku

to my summer breeze
heavy rain and quiet night —
lie down next to me

2025/086

#haiku

May 15 · 64

Night before | Haiku

LL May 15

Night before | Haiku

you wear my shirt from
the night before like it's your
turn to fill my space

to savor and taste
where there was only hunger
just the night before

2025/085

#haiku

May 14 · 335

Runner | Haiku

LL May 14

Runner | Haiku

that guy who runs through
temples but stays in place — is
life an illusion

2025/084

#haiku

May 13 · 106

No matter | Tanka

LL May 13

No matter | Tanka

I thought I needed
you — for me to be happy —
turns out I only
needed you to be happy —
no matter where that leaves me

2025/083

#tanka

May 12 · 105

Fortune | Haiku

LL May 12

Fortune | Haiku

no fortune teller
could tell how fortunate I
am to have you near

2025/082

#haiku

May 11 · 177

That thing | Tanka

LL May 11

That thing | Tanka

I cannot help but
notice how that thing between
your legs listen when
my tongue writes long letters and
my lips do all the talking

2025/081

#tanka

May 10 · 139

Treaty | Haiku

LL May 10

Treaty | Haiku

there are nights when my
knees write treaties on the floor —
of my surrender

2025/080

#haiku

May 7 · 89

Yet again | Haiku

LL May 7

Yet again | Haiku

lost — yet again — like
the only thing I succeed
in is in failing

2025/079

#haiku

May 7 · 291

Mint | Tanka

LL May 7

Mint | Tanka

you, who asked me if
I already brushed my teeth —
I said I'd prove it
when you come closer and taste
the mint from my very tongue

2025/078

#tanka

May 7 · 83

Picking up | Tanka

LL May 7

Picking up | Tanka

you, who keep singing
a song after leaving the
room — coming back and
picking up where you left off —
like you never even left

2025/077

#tanka

May 5 · 90

Tempered | Tanka

LL May 5

Tempered | Tanka

having a blacksmith
for a father always set
the house on fire — some
children get tempered like steel —
some get brittle like charcoal

2025/076

#tanka

May 5 · 92

Miles | Tanka

LL May 5

Miles | Tanka

the thing about it —
walking for miles with storm clouds
overhead is that
the sun becomes a distant
memory, and the shade — home

2025/075

#tanka

May 4 · 120

Locks | Haiku

LL May 4

Locks | Haiku

I carry you like
old locks fastened to a bridge —
I unlock nothing

2025/074

#haiku

May 4 · 88

Keys | Haiku

LL May 4

Keys | Haiku

I carry you with
me — heavy keys to locks that
I no longer have

2025/073

#haiku

May 4 · 99

Warmth | Haiku

LL May 4

Warmth | Haiku

silence, your silence
is not a void — it is a
warmth I come home to

2025/072

#haiku

May 4 · 95

Muffle | Haiku

LL May 4

Muffle | Haiku

muffle every groan
and moan,
and whimper,
and sigh
with your mouth on mine

2025/071

#haiku

May 3 · 273

Flower | Haiku

LL May 3

Flower | Haiku

you only water
the plants when you need them to
flower and bear fruit

2025/070

#haiku

Apr 25 · 92

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

Apr 23 · 147

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

Apr 23 · 91

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

Apr 23 · 108

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

Apr 23 · 163

Cicada | Haiku

LL Apr 23

Cicada | Haiku

summer is the call
cicadas hum and chirp to —
I answer, find me

2025/065

#haiku

Apr 21 · 95

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

Apr 21 · 99

Meaning | Haiku

LL Apr 21

Meaning | Haiku

can life lose all its
meaning — and could there ever
be one without love?

2025/063

#haiku

Apr 20 · 145

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

Apr 13 · 359

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

Mar 26 · 111

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

Mar 25 · 83

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

Mar 25 · 247