The Art of Poetic Brevity

Apr 2018

yúyīn

Untitled #13

But sleep doesn’t come for a long time, and when it does, the nightmares are all still waiting.

Apr 2018

ryn

Wish

Confide all you want
But listening ears bleed too
If only you’d see

#hellopoetry107 #wish #haiku

Apr 2018

ryn

Runner Up

Everyday...
These days
is a race.

Just wished
of all days...
Today,
I’d come in first.

#hellopoetry107 #runnerup

Apr 2018

L B

She Sips

She sips wine and drinks the night
as every darkness
held
Is time

adrift

Apr 2018

Willard Wells

Images

Life is never what
one imagines,
it is a story
unfolding by the moment.

Apr 2018

ryn

Careless

We will walk
this crumbling precipice
with the kinks in our backs.

We will pay
no mind and no heed,
the darkness that encroaches
from unassuming cracks.

#hellopoetry107 #careless

Mar 2018

ryn

Thing

This thing...

Delicate,
fragile
but potent.
Erratic even.

Yet I hold it close.
I clench it fast within my grasp.

I care not
for its volatile nature.
I care not
if it’ll sway me.
I care not
if it’ll explode.

Because at the end of the day,
it’s all I have.

#hellopoetry107 #thing

Mar 2018

Cné

Filigree & Lace

Hanging like a scimitar
suspended in the sky,
the moon beside a gleaming star
is pleasing to the eye.
How desolate, this satellite
in airless ebon space
and yet, from here
‘tis beautiful
filagree & lace.