that dream

 

I don't have a place to call home

I don't have a woman to call love

I thought I had all that

For a day or two I had all that

There are days when I can remember

That dream in which I had all that.

#vss365

from 'Path of No Return'

 

"Is there a temple on this #skerry?"

"This is not a skerry. We call it thuruthu. There's a temple for lovers---the Place of No Return."

"Lovers?"

"Only couples are allowed. If they are truly lovers, they won't return."

"What happens to them?"

"What happened to us?"

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/11/path-of-no-return.html

vote

 

If you really think

You can #impact the future

With your #vote, dream on.

#vss365

#vssdaily

#haiku #senryu ?

life, life, life...

 

They let their fingers search, grasping, teasing, caressing each #hollow and vein, following the creases, the mounts and the valleys, racing, slowing, their breaths cooling and blowing winds that ruffle all those layers which years have deposited; 

#vss365 

1/4

close but a little away but closer than ever; no weeping willows, just tresses uncared but natural above, laying shadows; tears as dew or rivulets dampen, soften, the smell of earth ploughed fresh, each muscle straining to produce; 

2/4

landscape urging the farmers, as they pluck, cut, dig deeper, harsh at times, kneading the flesh between fingers, feeling the texture, sensing what it is, what it should be; weeds ripped, searching up, below, side and over till the roots of disuse are gripped, mangled,

3/4

strangled, shed aside; little blossoms, tiny hair standing, trying, asking forgiveness, granted, growing; fingers feeling, nerves awakened, kisses, little bites, pinches, sucking tenderly; the morning over marshes of yesterday, the pasture of today, life, life, life...

4/4

from

https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/01/just-for-weekend-from-scrap-shop-v.html

MO to fail

 

With much #astuteness,

A modus operandi 

To fail: shut out all.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

(pic from X/the Internet)

mono no aware

 

I woke up saying,

"Ah! Mono no #aware."

Her side of the bed.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

malice

 

When I talked about love,

Your #pejorative criticism

Could not be mistaken 

For jealousy or possessiveness.

Undisguised malice,

Wielded so brutally,

Leaving no survivors,

When we talked about love.

#vss365

 

misconception

 

Zombies don't shuffle

And #forage for human flesh.

They aren't creeps like us.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

hopeless prayer

 

Why do I use words

That's like a hopeless prayer?

For example, #guide.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

  

what's with them

 

what's with them

liking poetry

no twists in the tale

not even a cliff-hanger

it's not the brevity 

or life love lust

or ways to #slaughter

not even a romp in the sack

why do they lie #together

not ask a question

not in blank verse

not even in iambic whatameter

#vss365

#NALove