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[drearydaffodil]

You are my little pretty hummingbird

Such a longing your little wings have stirred

You replenish me like a bright spring rain

Your smile is a balm for all of my pain

& you fill me with a prismatic light

To welcome growth where there was once but blight

More lovely to me than the starry skies

You will always be my favorite surprise

#poetry #poem

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Bare toes in new grass

Thin winter skin all exposed

Fearing the poison

#poetry #poem

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Those brittle, wavy

Mirrors will try to break you—

The spiderweb cracks

Of beauty lost, or never

Had, how ugly never leaves

#poetry #poem #tanka

[drearydaffodil]

Allow me access

Let me rest my weary bones

Amongst the blossoms

#poetry #poem #17

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All this bone-grinding

Weariness, no stardust left

I'm just a flicker

#poetry #poem #17

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Cradled by a dream

Yellow world all drenched in light

Dancing in the sun

#poetry #poem #17

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Wavy rivers kiss

My windows, a soft hello—

Welcome to April

#poetry #poem #17

[drearydaffodil]

Sometimes you simply

Go to sleep in self defense—

Gossamer escape

#poetry #poem #17

[drearydaffodil]

My sister is obsessed with

Where we came from, who

We were, what we grew

What we lost

While I am rootless, apathetic

Uninterested in our ancestry

It fills me with this apathy

No urgency

Why try to plant

A brittle dead branch?

Why count the trees

Of a forest on fire?

#poetry #poem

[drearydaffodil]

Sinister greeting

Or a bright welcoming light?

This soft glow just blooms

#poetry #poem #17 #my photo

[drearydaffodil]

The wind would whistle

Through this emptiness in me—

A building on fire

#poetry #poem #17

[drearydaffodil]

What would make me feel better?

A forest, a sea, a hand-written letter

A wide road to wander, a ride on a train

Bright blue galoshes to splash in the rain

A picnic, a swing, a bottle of beer

Eight billion stars on a night that is clear

A kiss from a puppy, a roll down a hill

To run in a meadow just for the thrill

A day in museums awestruck by the glow

A trip to a place where wildflowers grow

Somewhere to make my clenched jaw release

A place in the sun that feels much like peace

#poetry #poem

[drearydaffodil]

It just seems a most appropriate thing

That world poetry day is in the spring

The trees are budding, the bright flowers bloom

We find escape from unending gloom

The frosts are all waning, the days grow long

The endless heavens are now thick with song

We're storing our sweaters, going for walks

Watching the daffodils sprout from their stalks

Something like hope is springing from the ground

Laughter lilts softly, such a welcome sound

Soon we'll see groundhogs emerging with glee

From winter's cold grip we will be set free

Days growing warmer, shadows disappear

The taste of joy becoming stronger than fear

#poetry #poem #world poetry day

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The weightlessness of water

The way the sea enfolds me

Like a mother, but a fickle

Lover she leaves me listless

Surrounded by self loathing

Lonely, longing for six more

Arms to squeeze as she slips

Out of view—

Maybe in my next life I'll

Live as a blobfish

At the bottom

In a shadow safe and warm

#poetry #poem

[drearydaffodil]

Maybe my back is broken branches

Beckoning for solvent spring

I know for certain the sun

Unfurls my face from this

Winter morning, mostly

I just call the ache a growth

The delicate blooms will

Pepper my bare arms

Soon the honeysuckle

Will find its way home

The blue bird and blue sky

Grow closer each day

#poetry #poem

[drearydaffodil]

I am dressed only

In dilapidated dreams

I'm never lonely

In a house of haunted screams

Little's ever as it seems

#poetry #poem #tanka

[drearydaffodil]

It's a beautiful day to miss you

#seven word story