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Haiku for 2025 [No 2]

Be thou my vision,

All that is most beautiful,

Most life affirming.

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haiku   vision   life   beauty

Southern Lights

The lights you seek are not these ones, these are mine

I shall explain more in time

As I have searched far and wide

Yet these are the most beaufitul I find

Unique, like tears in the snow

 

I share these lights with the Emporer, Leopard and Crabeater

With an hour of sunlight, there's nothing more sweeter

Than to sit and watch the carnival of light above

On my own, as the ...

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lights   hope   time   depression   sad   beauty

walk the line

My turn
I’m going to
spin the bottle
no one ever even noticed me
in High School
our first kiss
needs to be perfect
you don’t get a redo

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bottle   alcohol   drinks   highschool   party   love   poetry   poet   poem   poems   writer   writing   occult   metaphysics   metaphysical   spiritual   spirituality   god   nature   model   fashion   makeup   beauty

love-hate relationship

obsession …
β€” envy us
in the way they stay upsetting
themselves.

you’re setting yourself up for failure

possible optimism

two glasses
my other, half
fully blurry vision
they’re prescription
usually she has to squint
and hadn’t felt the planets tilt till now

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Red Dye Number 40

in pursuit of riches
snapped twigs, and
perseverance
exhausted β€”
all my resources …
gone,
in the heat of the moment.

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money   business   mogul   fashion   makeup   model   beauty   love   poetry   poet   poem   poems   writer   writing   god   nature   spiritual   spirituality   metaphysics   metaphysical   occult

Lost Angels

martyred
Tupac Amaru Shakur
Los Angeles

thug poetry

40 ounces of malt liquor
Olde English and calligraphy

slurring my words…
sounds as if I’m speaking in cursive

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losangeles   tupac   city   state   california   love   poetry   poet   poem   poems   writer   writing   spiritual   spirituality   god   nature   metaphysics   metaphysical   occult   beauty   fashion   makeup   model

Welcome

take your shoes off at the door

I’ll take your coat

your hair smells refreshened
from the ozone
and
remnants of soap
lathered and rinsed out
in the rain shower

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fashion   makeup   model   beauty   wedding   married   couple   love   poetry   poet   poem   poems   writing   writer   nature   god   spiritual   spirituality   metaphysics   metaphysical   occult

Rhetoric

attacking my integrity

questioning… me

myself,

I, was taught there was no such thing as a stupid question

second guessing…

why?

you were impolite.

looking for answers in an inner view

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interview   questions   answer   truth   spiritual   spirituality   god   metaphysics   metaphysical   nature   occult   love   poetry   poem   poet   poems   writing   writer   makeup   fashion   model   beauty

Stars and Stripes

big brother
little kids,
children in the middle
of
civil war torn nations

warring

civil discourse

say your prayers

β€œOur Father”

we gather together to ask for salvation

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High Performance

Spun -
A burnout β€”
driven to madness
and
crashing,
in a
drug fueled accident

What a catastrophe!

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depressed   happy   love   quotes   poetry   poem   poet   writer   writing   poems   god   spiritual   nature   spirituality   metaphysics   metaphysical   occult   fashion   makeup   model   beauty

This is not a draft

 

I don’t want to mask my poetry

I want you to understand me

Curse your perfect rhythms, rhymes, haikus

Your lyricism, your literary

When I try to adopt it, I turn mute.

Something channels through me

(I’ve never really found the root)

A demanding stream of consciousness

That cannot stop to breathe, let alone

Wait, conceptualise, draft, redraft

I can’t!

...

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poetic   style   form   format   literary   technique   stanza   rhythm   rhyme   haiku   lyricism   stream of conciousness   freedom   free   talent   craft   draft   perfect   proof   edit   rules   confines   art   metaphors   debate   beauty   imagery   subjective   voice   understand   connect   emotion   feelings   motifs   wordsmith   transparent   loud   bold   unfiltered   accessible   truth   mask

Infinitesimal

dimensional
cellular division
the genomic sequence

time is a light matrix
encoded in
0’s & 1’s
goes on forever …
and, in that order
10, 9.

A singularity
and absolute zero

the big freeze or heat death

he said no one can help us
when, asking the universe
for answers

what, times any number
… is nothing other than zero

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Blue Moon

This tidal,
ebb and flow
of our own
mixed feelings
as a solution,
salted tears …
we are 60% water
with
these waves of emotion

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Blue Moon

This tidal,
ebb and flow
of our own
mixed feelings
as a solution,
salted tears …
we are 60% water
with
these waves of emotion

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moon   newmoon   fullmoon   ritual   magic   magick   spiritual   spirituality   metaphysics   metaphysical   god   occult   nature   love   poetry   poet   poem   poems   writing   writer   fashion   makeup   beauty

Family Ties

ancestors
shackled
and put in line
following the customs
of those, who
came before them
 

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nature   USA   god   spiritual   spirituality   metaphysics   love   poetry   poet   poem   poems   writing   writer   beauty   makeup   fashion

Moral Support

We shouldn’t be embarrassed
to talk
…. about our problems
to a therapist

always looking at me, before you speak

I’m here for β€”You
if ever
you feel the need to talk about anything.

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therapy   depression   mentalhealth   love   poetry   poet   poem   writer   writing   metaphysics   occult   god   USA   fashion   makeup   beauty   nature

Trojan Horse

Generation X
plagued
with
this ease
that is,
going viral…

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sex   love   baby   spiritual   spirituality   metaphysics   god   creation   poet   poetry   poem   poems   writing   writer   nature   fashion   makeup   beauty

Web of Lies

Paralyzed
like a spider
checking in on his victim
tied up, entangled …
makes me think
of a bad dream
worsened
the familiar feeling of
waking up to the news of death

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spider   bugs   nature   god   spiritual   spirituality   metaphysics   occult   USA   poet   poetry   poem   poems   writer   writing   fashion   makeup   beauty

smooth...

They say he has his way with the ladies
the bruiser at the door
thought to himself
hey, let’s not get carried away

what a light weight ...
they had been seen leaving together
after a fightβ€”being broken up
over a year at least

she said to all her girlfriends
β€œit was like I was blinking
then my eyes rolled back
into my head and everything went black”

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Bible on a night stand

intermingling with a demon in the flesh
you realize your life was a lie
and your soul suffers in hell
for what feels like an eternal
date with death

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Ebonics

A child
talking black
to their parents
acting out of character
arguing about upbringing
taken back
some things are best left unsaid…

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Dark Side of the Moon

prophesied
the premonitions
foreshadow people
who live lives with
similarities parallel to our very own

when your third eye intakes light
and all the shades disappear in the night
their life is vibrant
the dream seen as an auric phenomenon
it’s either that
Or, are you completely isolated
in the back of the black of your eyelids

see an oracle or dream interpreter,
our aura’s rainbo...

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Fog of War

smoking barrels
in talks β€”about the past
around the campfire

you could cut the tension with a knife

the only thing needed is a good sense of humor

And,
…try not to lose your self along the way

the buddy system
marchingβ€”
side by side
do you trust that man with your life?
willing to take a bullet for them?
behind every great man is a great woman…

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Sweating in my Sleep

This is a dream full of desires,
and I like to think
when we go to sleep eternally

our soul
will not be without
the rest in heaven.

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nature   love   poetry   poem   poems   poet   writing   writer   god   spiritual   spirituality   metaphysical   metaphysics   makeup   fashion   beauty

Doe

Wide eyed gaze
And lusty lashes
"You and those doe eyes"
He'd say
Before he hunted
And feasted

In my eyes, what did he see?
Shades of browns and yellows?
Hues of blues and greens? 
The girl of all his dreams? 
Someone he could love?
An angel from above?
Or did he only see himself?

A hunter on attack
Hoping to fulfill some predatory promise
Sensing a weakness
Smirking at the bre...

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eyes   beauty   EMOTIONAL POETRY

Dubbed Subtitles

what I say goes β€”
if I say so -
don’t allow an application to control anything
they need permission in these settings
and turn down your background music
β€œfor what?”
if I’m going to green light your on screen time

we cannot have anyone getting an extreme close up
portray a picture perfect image

believe me...

flash forward,
when you’re using the front camera shutter you’ll see

y...

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spiritual   spirituality   god   metaphysics   nature   love   poet   poetry   poem   fashion   makeup   beauty

Creature of Habit

at times I find myself
with insight
into my third eye
the inward perception
of crystalline tears
holding onto emotions
looking for one thing

The truth

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Waxing Poetic

my love letter
stamped with a pair of pressed lips
licked,
then sealed with a kiss

the silent observer.
waiting for his moment
with the present

trying quietly not to mouth breathe aloud
smothered in your undergarments

while fire from the two flames
arose
on a magic candle
over and over

like a brazier come undone

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lingerie   love   pretty   beauty   fashion   poem   poetry   poet   nature   god   spiritual   spirituality   metaphysics   metaphysical

The Vacuum of Space

star dust -
quantum particles β€”

and, strings ...
from the fabric of the universe

ashes to ashes,
A bindi
black glasses,
fragmented obsidian
and, an asteroid belt

A Shero
β€” deified
hereafter she received
Saturn’s ring.

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space   cosmos   astrology   spiritual   spirituality   metaphysics   metaphysical   god   nature   love   poem   poet   poetry   beauty   fashion

just walk away

pack your bags
and
go get ready

to walk the walk
through the traffic
of differing directions
wave down the runway
and remember…
never, look back

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modeling   beauty   fashion   nature   model   love   god   spiritual   metaphysics   poet   poem   poems   100 best poetry blogs

questioning my destiny

In my study,
the test subject,
had to have
strands
of  this
genus’ genotype
β€œA” and be
exhibiting these abnormalities

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school   Nature   love   poem   poetry   poet   metaphysics   spiritual   god   beauty

Summer breeze and the bee’s knees

The sky’s serenity

The sun’s strength

Mother Nature’s pride and poise

Earth’s balance

A bouquet of beauty in every way

The stillness between the trees

The calmness of the wind’s whispers

The modesty of mother nature; sacred and serene

The breathtaking beaches

The comfort of a campfire

The boisterous BBQ gatherings

The coziness of a cabin

With sun-kissed skin

...

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summer   beauty   mother nature

On The Train This Morning

On the train this morning
I sat alone, by the window
Where normally there’d be coffee, warm
and all the world’s news in my ear

Instead, I chose dry silence
I chose the undulating wildness
strobing past my view way
I chose high green hills
and glinting mirrored rivers 
I chose lone trees, centuries old
strong against the elements
I chose lambs and sheep
moving in pairs or herds
I cho...

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peace   train   mindful   mindfulness   countryside   beauty

makeup sex

Ugh
Beauty standards ...
 
makeup your mind
you said you'd be ready
an hour past ...
you haven't changed at all
I'm leaving you
 
While i tease your hair,  suck it up
I'm head over heels in love

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beauty   makeup   love   nature   spiritual   spirituality   poem   poetry   poet   valentines   valentinesday

Beauty

Your beauty makes YOU invisible

Do people see the real you or just your beauty? 

Beauty is a barrier 

I broke the barrier 

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Beauty   soul   real   you

Beauty

I see it time and time again

that beauty’s made by what is spent.

 

A beauty that demands a price

with outer glow and inner ice.

 

And observation seems to tell

it’s only as deep as the well,

 

for come the day the well runs dry…

such beauty simply waves goodbye.

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beauty   fake beauty   outer beauty   vanity

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