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(mostly) short poems on life and love

short poems about life and love

evening song

August 29, 2023
cicadas fill the stagnant, humid air with their song. the sound is deafening as i stroll a gravel path beneath hundred-year-old oaks...
Continued

heat waves

August 15, 2023
six straight days of ninety-eight degrees have kept me locked indoors. my overworked ceiling fan whines and wobbles but can’t cool this...
Continued

a lazy summer morning

July 27, 2023
early morning sunshine knifes between the canopy of oak and pine, disturbed by cool breezes which drift in waves through my open...
Continued

touch the clouds

July 24, 2023
as a kid i climbed every tree in my old neighborhood hoping to touch white cotton-candy clouds, my outstretched index finger straining...
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in flux

July 22, 2023
outside my window a cold gale rattles wooden shutters. a dog’s howl echoes over black and white streets as the lights flicker...
Continued

absinthe dreams

May 17, 2023
i. an evening shower speckles the window. a candle burns on the bedside table, its fitful flame my sole companion. upstairs, a...
Continued

a thin crescent moon

May 11, 2023
beneath a wash of starlight the chill night air invigorates these bones. my beloved’s whispered voice echoes in my blood and pierces...
Continued

falling, in kashmir

May 6, 2023
standing barefoot in a mountain stream her sun-kissed figure flames with autumnal fire. a cool breeze scatters stray strands of long black...
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