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5d
· 223
Struggling | 6 words
LL
5d
Struggling | 6 words
struggling to
make things
make sense.
2025/089
#6
#words
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7d
· 501
Lover | Haiku
LL
7d
Lover | Haiku
perhaps life is the
spouse and
rest
is the lover —
my head is our bed
2025/088
#haiku
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May 19
· 73
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
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May 18
· 158
Lie down | Haiku
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May 18
Lie down | Haiku
to my
summer breeze
heavy rain and quiet night
—
lie down next to me
2025/086
#haiku
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May 15
· 43
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
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May 14
· 302
Runner | Haiku
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May 14
Runner | Haiku
that guy who runs through
temples but stays in place —
is
life an illusion
2025/084
#haiku
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May 13
· 77
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
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May 12
· 82
Fortune | Haiku
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May 12
Fortune | Haiku
no fortune teller
could tell how fortunate I
am to have you here
2025/082
#haiku
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May 11
· 126
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 does all the
talking
2025/081
#tanka
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May 10
· 108
Treaty | Haiku
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May 10
Treaty | Haiku
there are nights when my
knees write treaties on the floor —
of my surrender
2025/080
#haiku
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May 7
· 72
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
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May 7
· 261
Mint | Tanka
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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
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May 7
· 68
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
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May 5
· 76
Tempered | Tanka
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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
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May 5
· 56
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
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May 4
· 84
Locks | Haiku
LL
May 4
Locks | Haiku
I carry you like
old locks fastened to a bridge —
I unlock nothing
2025/074
#haiku
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May 4
· 68
Keys | Haiku
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May 4
Keys | Haiku
I carry you with
me —
heavy
keys to locks that
I no longer have
2025/073
#haiku
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May 4
· 75
Warmth | Haiku
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May 4
Warmth | Haiku
silence,
your silence
is not a void — it is a
warmth I come home to
2025/072
#haiku
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May 4
· 70
Muffle | Haiku
LL
May 4
Muffle | Haiku
muffle every groan
and moan,
and whimper,
and sigh
with your mouth on mine
2025/071
#haiku
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May 3
· 227
Flower | Haiku
LL
May 3
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
· 80
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
· 110
Give | Haiku
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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
· 71
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
· 83
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
· 133
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
· 71
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
· 81
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
· 121
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
· 341
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
· 95
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
· 65
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
· 232
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
· 75
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
· 91
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
· 61
— | 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
· 123
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
· 171
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
· 77
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
· 100
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
· 345
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
· 77
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
· 285
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
· 224
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
· 175
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
· 89
Which | Free verse
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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
· 68
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
· 113
Missed | 6 words
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Feb 20
Missed | 6 words
missed my turn.
distracted.
missing you.
02/12/2025
#6
#words
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Feb 18
· 79
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
· 120
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
· 108
Footfalls | Haiku
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Feb 18
Footfalls | Haiku
I hear rain coming
like heavy footfalls of my
favorite person
02/09/2025
#haiku
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