LL: Poems

Apr 13 · 380

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

#tanka

Mar 26 · 129

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 · 92

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 · 262

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

Mar 25 · 104

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

Mar 25 · 129

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

Mar 25 · 98

— | 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

Mar 18 · 151

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

Mar 17 · 220

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

Mar 13 · 126

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

Mar 12 · 128

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

Mar 12 · 377

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

Mar 6 · 99

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

Mar 4 · 318

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

Feb 24 · 238

Sky | Haiku

LL Feb 24

Sky | Haiku

to see you smile like
Sakaguchi Kentaro —
is my sun and sky

02/16/2025

#haiku

Feb 22 · 200

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

Feb 22 · 117

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

Feb 22 · 89

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

Feb 20 · 137

Missed | 6 words

LL Feb 20

Missed | 6 words

missed my turn.
distracted.
missing you.

02/12/2025

#6 #words

Feb 18 · 106

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

Feb 18 · 156

Act | 6 words

LL Feb 18

Act | 6 words

one-man show.
acting okay.
performs daily.

02/10/2025

#6 #words

Feb 18 · 122

Footfalls | Haiku

LL Feb 18

Footfalls | Haiku

I hear rain coming
like heavy footfalls of my
favorite person

02/09/2025

#haiku

Feb 18 · 81

Mondays | Haiku

LL Feb 18

Mondays | Haiku

Mondays are for things
often left open from the
night before — close me

02/08/2025

#haiku

Feb 17 · 129

Soft | Haiku

LL Feb 17

Soft | Haiku

made of soft mornings
humid noons, quiet evenings —
I dream of summer

02/07/2025

#haiku

Feb 17 · 167

Sweeter | Haiku

LL Feb 17

Sweeter | Haiku

infinitely slow
yet certainly numbered — this
makes summer sweeter

02/06/2025

#haiku

Feb 17 · 151

Grandma's | Haiku

LL Feb 17

Grandma's | Haiku

you're the summer months
I spent in Grandma's house — flowed
infinitely slow

02/05/2025

#haiku

Feb 10 · 104

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

Feb 8 · 81

Taisei | Haiku

LL Feb 8

Taisei | Haiku

**** I keep losing
you in the crowd, guy who looks
like Kido Taisei

02/03/2025

#haiku

Feb 8 · 116

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

Feb 8 · 181

Poured | Haiku

LL Feb 8

Poured | Haiku

days — blurry, nights — hazed
time poured in a glass-like stream
unremarkably

02/01/2025

#haiku

Feb 7 · 106

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

Jan 30 · 121

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

Jan 29 · 185

Anguish | Haiku

LL Jan 29

Anguish | Haiku

you only listen
when you hear the alcohol
talking — in anguish

01/29/2025

#haiku

Jan 28 · 98

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

Jan 27 · 90

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

Jan 26 · 103

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

Jan 26 · 263

Sheets | Haiku

LL Jan 26

Sheets | Haiku

got so depressed in
the middle of changing sheets
I slept without one
(for months)

01/25/25

#haiku

Jan 24 · 128

Stuff | Haiku

LL Jan 24

Stuff | Haiku

you came to take your
stuff — you can take everything
just take me with you

01/24/2025

#haiku

Jan 23 · 237

In need |Haiku

LL Jan 23

In need |Haiku

getting rid of your
memories made new ones in
need of forgetting

01/23/2025

#haiku

Jan 21 · 120

How many | Haiku

LL Jan 21

How many | Haiku

how many mails left
on 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 are too many — to
consider stoping?

01/22/2025

#haiku

Jan 21 · 134

Sarcasm | Haiku

LL Jan 21

Sarcasm | Haiku

sarcasm demands
shared intimate history
for it to make sense

01/21/2025

#haiku

Jan 20 · 338

Jealous | Unsent letter

LL Jan 20

Jealous | Unsent letter

W,

When I talk about my past lovers,
it's only with the intention of making you jealous.

Love,
ML

01/20/2025

#unsent #letter

Jan 19 · 519

Knock | Haiku

LL Jan 19

Knock | Haiku

some nights I wish you'd
just knock — it's not just my door
I'll let you in through

01/19/2025

#haiku

Jan 18 · 132

Trapped | Haiku

LL Jan 18

Trapped | Haiku

when people feel trapped
sometimes they're the prisoner
sometimes they're the cell

01/18/2025

#haiku

Jan 18 · 97

Longer | Haiku

LL Jan 18

Longer | Haiku

the sound of rain on
a moving train makes me wish
the trip was longer

01/17/2025

#haiku

Jan 16 · 140

Freely | Haiku

LL Jan 16

Freely | Haiku

what does it mean when
the time they used to give free—
ly, we beg for now?

01/16/2025

#haiku

Jan 15 · 108

Infidelity | Tanka

LL Jan 15

Infidelity | Tanka

infidelity
can be to one's own self for
choosing another
person's happiness over
being faithful to your own

01/15/2025

#tanka

Jan 14 · 639

Now | Free verse

LL Jan 14

Now | Free verse

let me
want your future —
   one that's
   certain and sturdy
and need your now —
   where we're
   calm and quiet

where waking up
   doesn't hurt
   anymore
   because it's
   no longer
   just
   a dream

01/14/2025

#free #verse

Jan 14 · 131

Lazy | Haiku

LL Jan 14

Lazy | Haiku

slow mornings are for
taking his time to hold me
like a lazy cat

01/13/2025

#haiku

Jan 12 · 121