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Poetry doesn’t belong to the person who writes it; it belongs to the person who needs it. — Il Postino (1994 film)

A gentleman of a certain age.

Avatar art by R. Lichtenstein.
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Pledges made in flesh
Hands write promises of love
Signed with a soft kiss.

#bedroomeyes #pledge #haiku #senryu
January 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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i ask the birds, the trees
where did she go—the girl
with cornflower eyes

#DailyHaikuPrompt #cornflower #haiku
January 3, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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they
called it

*m a d n e s s*

the way i bear

your pain when you’re

a w a y.

#micropoem #poetry
January 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Her audacious tenderness

#ThreeWordGenre #resolve
January 3, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Peel off the labels
Trod over the typecasting
The stage is your own.

#haikufeels #label #haiku #senryu
January 2, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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This New Year you are
The resolution I make
again and again.

#bedroomeyes #resolution #haiku #senryu

@oldsoulprose.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Strip off your labels
scrape away what people say
now can love take root

#haikufeels #label
January 2, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Chimerical first kiss

#ThreeWordGenre
#inception
January 1, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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she longed
with such depth
it ravaged her—
heart turning wound,
pain g i v e n shape,
love takes pieces of her—
fragmented
she b u r n s;

do you
taste love
the same way i do?

she wonders.

#poetry
January 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Idea of you
An opaque dream, before you
appeared, full colour.

#haikufeels #idea #haiku #senryu
January 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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I have known you since
time immemorial, we
meet again each time.

#weirdmicro #TimeImmemorial #haiku #senryu
January 1, 2026 at 6:55 PM
The merest of hints
the scant idea of you
my heart aflutter

#haikufeels #idea
January 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Her overwhelming kindness

#ThreeWordGenre #genesis
January 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Stars know not the time
nor heavens the hourglass sand
nor our love the years

#haikufeels #year
January 1, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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Tonight I send you
A midnight kiss on the wind
Let it land softly.

#bedroomeyes #midnightkiss #haiku #senryu

@oldsoulprose.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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your goodbyes
t e a r
at me—
paper-cuts
to the heart.

#micropoem #poetry
December 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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soothe this fissured heart with love

#7syllablesentence #soothe
#.⋆☾⋇: ̗̀ꨄ︎𖡼࣪ ִֶ
December 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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rest a while
beloved
take shelter
in my adoration

#whistpr
#micropoem
December 31, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Forest hike fantasies

#ThreeWordGenre #sylvan
December 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The kiss began
an unravelling,
a heart #relinquished,
#liberated through
subjugation—
complete surrender
to another

#reverence shown
by #benevolent hands
that #cherish
& #replenish

their love
an #assimilation
of heart, soul
& body—
a knowing
that needs
no #appraisal

a knowing
beyond question.
December 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Bedtime reverie
Craving your nocturnal charms
Oh, to feel your arms.

#WeirdMicro #NocturnalCharms #Haiku #Senryu
December 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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nothing about survival
is clean
or heroic—

it is p r o c e d u r a l,
it resumes
each time you wake.

it is accepting damage
without surrendering
d i r e c t i o n—

here, still.

#poetry
December 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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a departing kiss
a moment to steal one more,
heart sinking goodbye

#haikufeels / steal
#poetry #WritingCommunity
#.⋆☾⋇: ̗̀ꨄ︎𖡼࣪ ִֶ
December 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Her beautiful words
stole their way into my soul
beguiled and bewitched

#haikufeels #steal
December 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Highlights of the year
Not fit to share, just to say
You were in each one.

#BedroomEyes #HighlightsOfTheYear
#haiku #senryu
@oldsoulprose.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM