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LL 3d
when you think of how I've only given
//
HALF as MUCH
//
did you think about how that may have been
//
my LAST HALF?
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LL 3d
I have what you would
call a sleeper build — only
mine is built to sleep
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4d · 409
All | Free verse
LL 4d
just because they gave
more than you did
doesn't mean they gave
their all — like you did
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6d · 136
No longer | Haiku
LL 6d
from that moment on
I was no longer just mine —
I knew I was yours
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Jun 28 · 27
Just how good | Haiku
LL Jun 28
ᴵ don't just undress me
unwrap me like a fresh bound
book straight from the press

ᴵᴵ then don't just kiss me
seek me for air and for warmth —
as you would the sun

ᴵᴵᴵ and don't just make me
feel good — savour me — show me
just how good I taste
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Jun 24 · 1.5k
Hands | Haiku
LL Jun 24
the watch on his wrist
says it's time to go — but his
hands say otherwise
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Jun 23 · 32
Warzone | Tanka
LL Jun 23
sometimes when people
go, they do it for themselves —
so while they're still here
give them a home and try to
take them out of the warzone
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Jun 22 · 113
But | Haiku
LL Jun 22
CONFUSING as HELL —
not wanting me to leave but
not loving me now
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Jun 21 · 149
Neck-deep | Haiku
LL Jun 21
ᴵ you feel the water
rising inches at a time
until you're neck-deep

ᴵᴵ you're underwater
telling yourself that you can
always hold your breath

ᴵᴵᴵ you've been under for
so long, you forgot what air
feels like in your lungs

ᴵⱽ but as the sea claims
the land every high tide — you
claimed the sea as yours

ⱽ you wake up in an
underwater castle that
you built with your hands
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Jun 17 · 566
Adrift | Haiku
LL Jun 17
what am I good for
if I'm lost — adrift like a
cloud that holds no rain
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Jun 10 · 332
Parenting | Haiku
LL Jun 10
you'll understand when
you're a parent
— is a bad
way of parenting
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Jun 7 · 94
Ten is two | Haiku
LL Jun 7
you know you've got it
bad
when you check your watch and
what was 10 is 2
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Jun 6 · 166
Now | Haiku
LL Jun 6
tell me where, tell me
when
I can find happiness —
so I can go there
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Jun 5 · 34
Butter | Haiku
LL Jun 5
please just let me melt
like small pats of  French butter
on warm Sunday toasts
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May 29 · 255
Just enough | Haiku
LL May 29
I smile just enough
and I talk just enough to
keep the questions out
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May 24 · 267
Struggling | 6 words
LL May 24
struggling to
make things
make sense.
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May 21 · 595
Lover | Haiku
LL May 21
perhaps life is the
spouse and rest is the lover —
my head is our bed
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May 19 · 118
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 · 229
Lie down | Haiku
LL May 18
to my summer breeze
heavy rain and quiet night

lie down next to me
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May 15 · 64
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
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May 14 · 358
Runner | Haiku
LL May 14
that guy who runs through
temples but stays in place — is
life an illusion

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May 13 · 120
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
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May 12 · 111
Fortune | Haiku
LL May 12
no fortune teller
could tell how fortunate I
am to have you near
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May 11 · 177
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 do all the talking
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May 10 · 141
Treaty | Haiku
LL May 10
there are nights when my
knees write treaties on the floor —
of my surrender
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May 7 · 95
Yet again | Haiku
LL May 7
lost — yet again — like
the only thing I succeed
in is in failing
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May 7 · 296
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
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May 7 · 103
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
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May 5 · 113
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 · 96
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
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May 4 · 120
Locks | Haiku
LL May 4
I carry you like
old locks fastened to a bridge —
I unlock nothing
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May 4 · 88
Keys | Haiku
LL May 4
I carry you with
me — heavy keys to locks that
I no longer have
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May 4 · 104
Warmth | Haiku
LL May 4
silence, your silence
is not a void — it is a
warmth I come home to
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May 4 · 99
Muffle | Haiku
LL May 4
muffle every groan
and moan,
                     and whimper,
                                                 and sigh
with your mouth on mine
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May 3 · 273
Flower | Haiku
LL May 3
you only water
the plants when you need them to
flower and bear fruit
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Apr 25 · 110
Reclaim pt. II | Haiku
LL Apr 25
as long as the sea
ends up on top of meclaimed
inevitably
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Apr 23 · 164
Give | Haiku
LL Apr 23
what if the only
thing I can give you are the
things I leave behind
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Apr 23 · 91
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
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Apr 23 · 110
Reclaim | Haiku
LL Apr 23
I saw you walk in—
to this place like an ocean
wave
— reclaiming land
                                            (I'm the land)
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Apr 23 · 168
Cicada | Haiku
LL Apr 23
summer is the call
cicadas hum and chirp to —
I answer, find me
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Apr 21 · 102
Lose | Haiku
LL Apr 21
focusing on my
pain is how I lose the hand
I'm holding right now
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Apr 21 · 108
Meaning | Haiku
LL Apr 21
can life lose all its
meaning — and could there ever
be one without love?
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Apr 20 · 160
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
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Apr 13 · 373
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
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Mar 26 · 120
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
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Mar 25 · 83
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 · 257
A lone | Haiku
LL Mar 25
always a lone chair
at every table — am I
meant to be alone?

02/27/2025
Mar 25 · 102
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 · 123
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 · 86
— | Haiku
LL Mar 25
for eight hours a day
I die at my office desk —
and then I drive home
02/24/2025
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