falling
the caught camera
captures a smile

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#kidlit #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
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#haikusaturday #senryusunday
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#inkmine #challenge
#haikuchallenge #tableau #photo

#1328 Evening Ember

Evening ember flares
seeing him for what he is,
then extinguishes

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When daylight is gone
You are the glow that warms me 
My evening ember.

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#haiku #senryu

Sunset was a dull,
Evening ember, snuffed out by
A crushing darkness.
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For #HaikuSaturday and host
@andrewssusanm.bsky.social
and #BSPP47 : evening ember

fall leaves flying in
evening ember
rhythm of a winter bonfire

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With nervousness I wake
Feeling for you in the night
Listen for your breath’s escape
Always worried you took flight
Then I feel your body’s shape
whisper soft gratitudes and sigh
Letting go of terror’s ache

#BSPP47 #softgratitude #emoetry #nervousness #poetry

I say thank you
With gratitude
Time slows, it knows
I remember
Decembers of past
And before the
Winter approaching
Encroaching my
Sanity slips softly
Dips back into
The times before
The nightmares returned
And burned with a fear
Again, it is here
The holiday cheer

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#1314 Soft Gratitude

In soft gratitude
the weary travelers pressed on
on fumes and tailwinds

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gratitude each year
expressed around the
table
soft whispers daily

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#softgratitude

The mother holds her child
in #soft #gratitude
that a piece of her heart
lives on for another day
safe within her arms

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A single red rose
your soft gratitude, my cheeks
bloomed red in response.

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The eyes slowly close,
Cat lays her weary head down
In soft gratitude.
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#1308 Gentle Warmth

Sister Mary Ann
Underneath her gentle warmth,
brutal discipline

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The warmth came in waves
A gentle hum pulsing through
Though it had only been days
Years had passed by
In my world without you

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A #gentle #warmth
of soft twilight
at the end of
a long day
stand on the porch
as the autumn leaves
a shining carpet
and the cool wind
ushers in the stars

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a streetart cat in Berlin #caturday

flu
too tired to haiku

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#kidlit #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#scifaikusaturday #haikusaturday #senryusunday #2wordprompt
#inkmine #dailyhaikuprompt #tea
#bspp47 #gentle #warmth
#vssmagic #impossible #art
#vss365 #health

but: happy #caturday to you!
stay healthy & happy!

Spreading slowly over
gentle warmth surrounds
Guarding my exposure
A warm hug so profound
If only the heat circulated
But it stays where I urinated

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Cat purrs, gentle warmth
of fur, then a bird appears,
hiss, bang, wild uproar.

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#haiku #senryu

Ball of fluff beside
Me, purring gentle warmth back
Into my cold heart.
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Gentle Warmth Inside: heat rushes to greet me, soup-scented waves of garlic, blankets seal me in, belonging, comfort, warmth. Outside: wind claws doorway shelters, iced flags break backs, addictions rob lives, loss, hunger, confusion. Now: every toasted toe, every bowl filled, every glowing ember, is a promise to give, as I was given. To those who are hungry, displaced, alone. To myself, offer to trembling hands, what I received in need.

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The #soft #pulse
of autumn fire
as the sun sinks
lower on the
horizon.
Listen to the
wood crackle
and see
the sparks fly
maybe you will see
the shadows of
old friends within
the flames

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i just reached her in time
felt the flutter of movement
slow-sluggish but real
in her thickening veins

she sought poison escape
nearly did but i caught her
i snuff out her life
binding her with the name

#poetry #horror
#bspp47 #blueskypoetry
#soft #pulse

#1286 Soft Pulse

The engine’s soft pulse
the road enters through my bones
highway animal

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Correction… #BSPP47 : #softpulse

#autumnal #designs
#learning in dusk’s soft pulse
rhythms of fall

#vss365
#2WordPrompt
#BSPP47 : #softglow
#Oulens
#haiku #senryu
#blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

Never a soft pulse
When you sit close beside me
Thump-thump in my heart.

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#haiku #senryu

Drifting to sleep, a
Soft pulse from festive lighting,
Multicoloured dreams.
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evening
ember

feverish

from
the blush

your kiss
is like water

keeping me

from burning up

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A glimmering frost
Dawn light on the horizon
Natures glitter bomb

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#dailyhaikuprompt #frost #haiku

#1269 Glimmering Frost

Popular teacher,
mohawk caught glimmering frost,
reading poetry.

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