ftwaijing, 24 days ago to Haiku

My suffering is
exploited, put on display;
I must sell my pain

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

Apparently today I chose angst :P

ftwaijing, 24 days ago to Haiku

Don't think that you know
all my needs; you never give
what I can't ask for

You don't hear me when I say
'I wish you'd listen to me'

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #angst

ftwaijing, 1 month ago to Haiku

Everything you are
is what I am not; I wish
I were more like you

Perhaps then, I’d love myself
the same way that I love you

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

ftwaijing, 1 month ago to Haiku

We don’t talk about
our feelings; you assume that
I don’t have any

I admit they’re hard to find,
scattered shards inside my heart

💔

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

ftwaijing, 1 month ago to Haiku

How high is the moon?
What does it matter? It is
far out of your reach

#haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

Unfortunately my camera hates night photography, so this photo doesn’t do it justice (not that the poem does either)

ftwaijing, 1 month ago to Haiku

Quiet stretches on
expanding the house; I am
lost in the silence

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

A slightly more awake poem

ftwaijing, 1 month ago to Haiku

My sleep-haze dulled brain
cannot clear itself; it needs
washing with coffee

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

Apparently my sleep-hazed brain thinks this is a poem 🧠💭💤

ftwaijing, 1 month ago to Haiku

The clouds get lower
the higher you go; heaven
has drawn its curtains

#haiku #senryu #haiga #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

Photos from the top of Redhead Bluff, just before a storm broke

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ftwaijing, 2 months ago to Haiku

She has wings; yet she
never learned how to use them
She stays in the nest

watching others soar the sky,
wondering how freedom feels

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems

ftwaijing, 2 months ago to Haiku

I want to have you
in me, deep as you can go,
lodged inside my heart

Buried where the love I have
throbs for you and engulfs you

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #lovepoem #smallpoems

ftwaijing, 2 months ago to Haiku

Cereal, then milk
in that order; the reverse
is a travesty

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #smallpoems #facts #truestory

ftwaijing, 3 months ago to Haiku

You're my oasis
away from the love-parched world.
I will drink you down
until my thirst is slakened,
and my heart is drenched in you

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #lovepoem

I have no idea if 'slakened' is an actual word, but I'm going with it (I guess I could replace 'is slakened' with 'has been quenched' but it doesn't sound as cool)

ftwaijing, 4 months ago to Haiku

Everything I am
is for you; you have made me
a better person

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #lovepoem #romantic

ftwaijing, 4 months ago to Haiku

Did you think I would
believe all the lies you told?
The truth betrays you

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

ftwaijing, 4 months ago to Haiku

I have been alone
all my life; even when I
was with company

In the middle of a crowd,
I could still find solitude

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #angst #solitude #loneliness

ftwaijing, 4 months ago to Haiku

Just see things my way;
I have had feelings for you,
to which you’ve been blind

You say you don’t love me; yet
you can’t look me in the eye

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

ftwaijing, 4 months ago to Haiku

You're young as you feel
What your heart experienced
has aged you decades

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

ftwaijing, 4 months ago to Haiku

I won't be ignored
Much as you try, you cannot
deny I exist

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

ftwaijing, 4 months ago to Haiku

What is it I want?
If I knew, I would get it;
but I have no clue

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

Sounds like this one is either about finding a deeper purposes in life, or trying to decide what to order from Menulog :P

ftwaijing, 4 months ago to Haiku

Lay it all on me
I can handle it; I won’t
take it lying down

The burdens I carry just
allow me to show my strength

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

ftwaijing, 4 months ago to Haiku

You push me aside
when it is convenient
to ignore my needs

I make no demands of you;
yet there is much I yearn for

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #angst

ftwaijing, 5 months ago to Haiku

Feather collector
lines his nest so he never
has to fly away

He thinks he can build a home
using others' cast-off wings

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

That went to a deeper, more allegorical place from where I started finding feathers on the ground 0.0

ftwaijing, 5 months ago to Haiku

You fill up my life,
pushing me out so there is
no space left for me;
til you tire of crowding me,
leaving a void in your wake

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem

ftwaijing, 5 months ago to Haiku

Reflected on me
Past actions, like fractured glass
break and fall away

The future ahead of me
is a new pane, clear and whole

@stevencudahy @penprompts #tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #SmallPoems #prompt #MastoPrompt #reflect #NewYear #NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear

ftwaijing, 5 months ago to Haiku

Only when sun shines
do I see a brightness that
compares to your smile

Storm clouds roll in when you are
anything less than joyous

☀️ ⛈️

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #micropoem #mastopoem #lovepoem