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(mostly) short poems on life and love

short poems about life and love

Down Time

January 21, 2026
It’s been six months since a transfer to Seoul, and I’m drowning in a sea of civility. When the safe confines of...
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a farewell, from arles

August 29, 2025
on the platform a cold breeze blows between us, raven hair obscuring your face. tourists cluster in twos and threes as i...
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daffodils

March 23, 2025
march’s pewter clouds scurry and flit over fields laid bare from winter’s cold. on the porch, I spy a single crow perched...
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shades of blue

March 12, 2025
they say silence is golden. but fixed on the shore beneath a blank canvas of soft gray skies as the extroverted sea...
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midnight reveries

February 24, 2025
beneath my bare body, cool grass tickles my skin. surrounded by evening primrose and its intoxicating scent, my thoughts meander and drift...
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Sakura (in four movements)

February 23, 2025
A dusting of snow blankets weathered limbs, bare beneath barren skies, as I shudder from the cold. Late March sunshine slants through...
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down elephant road

February 15, 2025
beneath wire-frame oaks a north wind blows down the street. stripped bare of their leaves they groan and creak unable to bend...
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empty bottle

February 6, 2025
from atop her dresser i catch the occasional glimpse of deep blue sea as linen curtains flutter from an afternoon breeze. but...
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