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LL 5d
struggling to
make things
make sense.
2025/089
7d · 501
Lover | Haiku
LL 7d
perhaps life is the
spouse and rest is the lover —
my head is our bed
2025/088
May 19 · 73
Sun | Haiku
LL May 19
don't give me the faint
glow of a distant star — bring
out your raging sun
2025/087
May 18 · 158
Lie down | Haiku
LL May 18
to my summer breeze
heavy rain and quiet night

lie down next to me
2025/086
May 15 · 43
Night before | Haiku
LL May 15
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
May 14 · 302
Runner | Haiku
LL May 14
that guy who runs through
temples but stays in place — is
life an illusion

2025/084
May 13 · 77
No matter | Tanka
LL May 13
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
May 12 · 82
Fortune | Haiku
LL May 12
no fortune teller
could tell how fortunate I
am to have you here
2025/082
May 11 · 126
That thing | Tanka
LL May 11
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
May 10 · 108
Treaty | Haiku
LL May 10
there are nights when my
knees write treaties on the floor —
of my surrender
2025/080
May 7 · 72
Yet again | Haiku
LL May 7
lost — yet again — like
the only thing I succeed
in is in failing
2025/079
May 7 · 261
Mint | Tanka
LL May 7
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
May 7 · 68
Picking up | Tanka
LL May 7
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
May 5 · 76
Tempered | Tanka
LL May 5
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
May 5 · 56
Miles | Tanka
LL May 5
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
May 4 · 84
Locks | Haiku
LL May 4
I carry you like
old locks fastened to a bridge —
I unlock nothing
2025/074
May 4 · 68
Keys | Haiku
LL May 4
I carry you with
me — heavy keys to locks that
I no longer have
2025/073
May 4 · 75
Warmth | Haiku
LL May 4
silence, your silence
is not a void — it is a
warmth I come home to
2025/072
May 4 · 70
Muffle | Haiku
LL May 4
muffle every groan
and moan,
                     and whimper,
                                                 and sigh
with your mouth on mine
2025/071
May 3 · 227
Flower | Haiku
LL May 3
you only water
the plants when you need them to
flower and bear fruit
2025/070
Apr 25 · 80
Reclaim pt. II | Haiku
LL Apr 25
as long as the sea
ends up on top of meclaimed
inevitably
2025/069
Apr 23 · 110
Give | Haiku
LL Apr 23
what if the only
thing I can give you are the
things I leave behind
2025/068
Apr 23 · 71
Carelessly | Tanka
LL Apr 23
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
Apr 23 · 83
Reclaim | Haiku
LL Apr 23
I saw you walk in—
to this place like an ocean
wave — reclaiming land
                                            (I'm the land)
2025/066
Apr 23 · 133
Cicada | Haiku
LL Apr 23
summer is the call
cicadas hum and chirp to —
I answer, find me
2025/065
Apr 21 · 71
Lose | Haiku
LL Apr 21
focusing on my
pain is how I lose the hand
I'm holding right now
2025/064
Apr 21 · 81
Meaning | Haiku
LL Apr 21
can life lose all its
meaning — and could there ever
be one without love?
2025/063
Apr 20 · 121
Bird | Tanka
LL Apr 20
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
Apr 13 · 341
Floodgates | Tanka
LL Apr 13
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
Mar 26 · 95
Get | Free verse
LL Mar 26
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
Mar 25 · 65
Stopped | Haiku
LL Mar 25
know that if I leave
I didn't stop choosing you —
I stopped choosing me
02/28/2025
Mar 25 · 232
A lone | Haiku
LL Mar 25
always a lone chair
at every table — am I
meant to be alone?

02/27/2025
Mar 25 · 75
Stuck | Tanka
LL Mar 25
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
Mar 25 · 91
Got off | Haiku
LL Mar 25
this feels like a long
ride where everyone got off —
and then it's just me
02/25/2025
Mar 25 · 61
— | Haiku
LL Mar 25
for eight hours a day
I die at my office desk —
and then I drive home
02/24/2025
Mar 18 · 123
Raging | Haiku
LL Mar 18
a raging river
of thoughts,  a stream of words — the
rest flows out as tears

02/23/2025
Mar 17 · 171
Pressure | Haiku
LL Mar 17
I can work under
pressure — is it your job to
put pressure on me?
02/22/2025
Mar 13 · 77
Exist | Haiku
LL Mar 13
take me by the hand
that is how I'll know for sure
that I still exist
02/21/2025
Mar 12 · 100
Stop me | Haiku
LL Mar 12
stop me — stop what we're
doing just so I can get
on my knees to plead
                                      (don't)
02/20/2025
Mar 12 · 345
Exactly | Haiku
LL Mar 12
teach me how to look
at you like I know exact-
ly
what we'll do next
02/19/2025
Mar 6 · 77
Own | Haiku
LL Mar 6
to those who told me
they did it for my own good —
I'm not good — what now?
02/18/2025
Mar 4 · 285
With | Haiku
LL Mar 4
if I can only
be happy for you and not
happy with you — f***
02/17/2025
Feb 24 · 224
Sky | Haiku
LL Feb 24
to see you smile like
Sakaguchi Kentaro
is my sun and sky
02/16/2025
Feb 22 · 175
Lung-full | Haiku
LL Feb 22
oh how I wish to
be kissed like I'm his first and
last
lung-full of air
02/15/2025
Feb 22 · 89
Which | Free verse
LL Feb 22
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
Feb 22 · 68
Foreigner | Haiku
LL Feb 22
my skin is foreign
land — just as my hand is a
foreigner on yours
02/13/2025
Feb 20 · 113
Missed | 6 words
LL Feb 20
missed my turn.
distracted.
missing you.
02/12/2025
Feb 18 · 79
At home | Haiku
LL Feb 18
not in my room — yet
out here in the midst of this
storm — I feel at home
02/11/2025
Feb 18 · 120
Act | 6 words
LL Feb 18
one-man show.
acting okay.
performs daily.
02/10/2025
Feb 18 · 108
Footfalls | Haiku
LL Feb 18
I hear rain coming
like heavy footfalls of my
favorite person
02/09/2025
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