I carry no visible wounds, only a landscape still remembering its weather.

Loss, here, is policy enacted by water:
no exemptions,
only conversion—
where even accumulation
is taught to circulate.

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#vss365

AFTER POSSESSION
— audit by tide

What he was #obsessed with did not survive the crossing—
portfolios unfastened, slogans rinsed thin.
The sea recalibrates value without polling,
redistributing excess into reef and current.
What ruled the shore becomes raw material.

AFTERNOON
— easing in

dust begins to #settle,
even worries learn their place—
quiet finds the room.

#haikufeels #haiku

Either way, the lesson stands:
small legumes can convene
remarkably persuasive conversations.

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AFTER EFFECTS
— convivial chemistry

A #peanut enters the room modestly,
then conducts a private symposium below the belt—
opinions aired, silences punctured,
decorum renegotiated.
We call it digestion;
etiquette calls it timing.

THE SPACE BETWEEN SENTENCES
— on what arrives altered

Not everything breaks.
Some things just shift.

Meaning doesn’t always disappear—
sometimes it lands
somewhere else.

🖋️ Distance often begins quietly.

#thespacebetweensentences #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

VELVET ARMOUR
— tenderness taught to survive

She learned silk and thorns together: softness disciplined by pain, beauty sharpening itself into endurance.

@the.writers.corner_twc @tapasya.in.bloom @bloominginstanzas @broke_n_tales @her_inner_wars #silkandthorns #poetrychallenge #poetrycommunity

ANATOMY IN REVERSE
—identity revealed by erosion

#Identity
public gestures private omissions
roles erode contours
truth persists
Core

@whisperin11words @marrowlines @wordsofpoet0
#whisperin11words #ReverseElfchen

But orbit demands care—
constant correction, shared mass,
and the courage to slow
before speed mistakes itself
for commitment.

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SUSTAINED ORBIT
— momentum as policy

Once #velocity is reached, descent is deferred—
motion replacing arrival.
Institutions learn this trick:
move fast enough to avoid reckoning,
call balance stability,
and name free fall progress.

CONSTELLATION
— gathered meaning

thoughts #cluster at dusk,
separate sparks finding shape—
mind names a pattern.

#haikufeels #haiku

CLOCKWORK WOUNDS
—time learning how to bruise

Love is not always broken.
Sometimes it is revised.

Minutes abrade what hands once promised.
Hours learn patience.
Time as Violence.

@cosmosofwriters @thestoryofgreen
#thursdaytwilight26 #cosmosofwriters #poetrycommunity

We don’t miss the wins so much
as the version of ourselves
who believed tomorrow
would always feel this light.
Growing up is learning
which joys were seasonal,
and how to hold them
without asking them back.

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AFTER THE TROPHY
— victories that learned to stay past

The best days never stage a #comeback.
They linger only as texture—
sticky fingers, careless laughter,
a prize that mattered more than mastery.

THE DELAY BETWEEN STIMULUS AND SELF
— on thinking before reacting

Reaction is easy.
Thinking asks for time.

🖋️ The pause is not weakness.
It’s where responsibility enters.

#poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

PRISMATIC BREACH
— on being #shattered

Not all heartbreaks arrive in flames.
Some are immaculately engineered—
precise, elegant and quietly devastating.
This is not decorous grief.
This is refusal.

@wild_ink_and_sunflowers @estlinedwards @laur_enough
#wildwednesdayprompts #wildink #poetryprompt

THE BREATHED CITADEL
— where fear removes its shoes

#Sanctuary is not walls but the pause where breath remembers safety before the world resumes shouting again slowly

@ellie.writes2 @kalpeshdesai.official @mylife.inpoetry @thestoryofgreen @life_and_light_poetry
#WednesdayPromptDay

But endurance requires calibration,
shared mass,
and the patience to circle.
Most ambitions never reach #orbital—
they burn brilliantly,
then return unchanged.

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#vss365

FAILED TRAJECTORIES
— a brief history of momentum

Her heart stayed suborbital—
all launch rhetoric, no sustain.
Each surge promised escape,
each descent blamed gravity.
In systems addicted to spectacle,
thrust is mistaken for progress.

REPLY
— when ready

the #answer waits
until the question softens—
silence speaks first.

#haikufeels #haiku

Some expressions travel this way:
not declared,
but felt—
a grammar of proximity.

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BORROWED TONGUE
— intimacy by implication

We call it #french when language leans closer—
when consonants soften,
when silence permits breath to finish a thought.
No contact is named,
yet meaning tilts, pauses,
and arrives warmer than intended.

THE MYTH OF CLOSURE
— on our addiction to neat endings

Not everything that stays open
is broken.

Some doors remain ajar
so thought can breathe.

🖋️ Understanding does not always arrive as an ending.

#themythofclosure #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

WHITE THRESHOLD
— endurance underfoot

#frostbitten path waits
beneath the frozen gray dawn
each step learns the ache
ice keeps its silent counsel
footprints harden into will

@poeticreveries_#poeticreveries_ #tankatuesday

AFTER THE LONG REHEARSAL
— notes on staying when survival loosens its grip

A quiet detour. Survival unlearned. Mercy practiced without witnesses. Written from February prompts—stitched, imperfect and honest.

@flawedpoetssociety @flawedpoetryandprose
@zenrainbows_ #flawedpoetssociety_prompts

If worlds can survive by physics alone,
perhaps societies fail
not from chaos,
but from ignoring their own equations.

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#vss365

REMOTE GOVERNANCE
— lessons from orbit

I admire the #stellar structure—
systems that endure without slogans,
correcting drift through balance, not decree.
From a distance, the cosmos models restraint:
power distributed, feedback constant,
collapse delayed by attention to limits.

ORIENTATION
— not exact

this #map shows roads,
not the pauses, not the doubt—
I walk anyway.

#haikufeels #haiku

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