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#fleetingmoments
Some things aren’t meant to be said Some are meant to be seen Some are meant to be felt But others are meant to be lived Everyone has those moments where, if you could, you would freeze time just to keep them from fading It could be the first time your lips almost meet and suddenly you forget how to breathe properly like the world pauses but no one told it to Or the first time silence doesn’t feel awkward just heavy in a good way like saying everything without saying anything Or maybe that moment when you catch her looking into your eyes and everything else goes quiet the crowd disappears and for a second it’s just you and her you notice the way she almost smiles before looking away But unfortunately we can’t stop time We can’t even slow it down And maybe that’s for the better Because the moment you realize it won’t last that’s the moment you actually start living it Only then you start enjoying those moments hoping for them to happen again despite knowing that they won’t last And that’s why some things aren’t meant to be said, seen or felt But are meant to be lived
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Apr 28
Apr 28, 2026 at 5:48 AM UTC
BUILT FOR A MOMENT
Yes, we are late. The sky waits, heavy with unshed rain. You know how some silences grow longer than lifetimes. Still, come. Sit with me here, where the old banyan’s shadow touches the water’s edge. Bring only your breath, the memory of a firefly’s pulse in your palm, and the faint, fading scent of champak on your skin. Let this be the last stillness— the moment before the downpour, before rivers remember how to rise, before all paths dissolve into the rain. For the last time, come close. Let the world blur, and leave only this: your hand in mine, and the quiet, just before goodbye.
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Feb 9
Feb 9, 2026 at 7:00 AM UTC
Final Monsoon
an iridescent dragonfly hovers nearby sparkling in sunlight
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Jul 7, 2025
Jul 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM UTC
Haiku - Dragonfly
Two souls, strangers yet familiar, cross paths in a fleeting moment—an unplanned glance in a bustling city. The air hums with a silent melody, an unspoken promise carried in a whispering breeze. They collide in the rhythm of a passing crowd, their first words exchanged over an old, torn book at a café. She loves stories, he loves the way she tells them. Laughing, they fill the space between them with warmth, letting their hearts confess before their minds catch up. But love, like an inked page, does not always follow the lines we expect.
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Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM UTC
Post 1: Serendipity – The Beginning (First Meeting, Sparks)
saw this cute girl the other day… while smoking a cigarette at my balcony: i was hovering over the pathway   she’d eventually cross, like an apparition watching over her resplendent ignorance. she eventually did - the cigarette, having not been ****** on for a while, drooped flaccidly between my fingers. i flicked the bud: the ashes drifted away with the wind, like confetti - in the same direction she walked off below - as i watched from above.
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Jan 6, 2025
Jan 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM UTC
saw this cute girl the other day
She struck me out of the blue, the way that most beautiful songs find you. It plays out of nowhere, normally when you're out and about— one foot out the door, slipping through the holes of a random speaker. Before I knew, I was nodding my head. It's already full of things that don't matter. My head and the thoughts That go through it. Her voice cuts through all of that, a song you want to know the name of, so you can hear it again— one that you hope doesn't end too soon, but still delicate enough to not notice when she tips away. She's a song, a uniquely beautiful woman that you notice before she walks away. There's not enough in the world that makes sense. She pulls me in and confesses that she's just like me— the way that most beautiful songs do. I knew that I would chase her before she walked away.
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Dec 25, 2024
Dec 25, 2024 at 3:29 AM UTC
Before She Walked Away
twig moves with the flow of strong tides of the river a man swims upstream
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Aug 22, 2020
Aug 22, 2020 at 9:42 PM UTC
Twig And Man (Haiku)
How could I ignore the signs Everyone drooling at the sight of you Rushing to follow you Barely believing you’d choose me Instead wishing it was them Excited to wake up to your name But you were the first to Really look at me like that Only to drop me in a second Killing me with flirty remarks Every time you saw me Maybe I was naive but Everything seemed right with you
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Dec 31, 2017
Dec 31, 2017 at 8:15 AM UTC
Perfect for a Moment
blades of grass gather the wind cattails sing of shallow rain tremors of dragons litter the sunlight some carry tears others cry away a curl of absence embroiled with relief
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Mar 26, 2016
Mar 26, 2016 at 2:59 PM UTC
Fleeting