Imperial-Haiku

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1/4/22

ballets and monsters / dancing swans and crude darkness / beauty and cruelty

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1/3/22

two days sober now / three months of sober days left / the dry march to fools

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1/2/22

there's a new year now / another chance to eat pain / another full plate

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1/1/22

Live with me again

There are more sins to be sung

Live and sing with me

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12/3/19

we clutter ourselves / with needless and empty things / like cruel jealousness

@julykings december prompt #2: clutter

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12/4/19

the view from heaven / is really hard to forget / just please don’t look down

@julykings december prompts #3 “view”

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12/5/19

the warmth of winter / can ruin unready hearts / brace for the cold dear

@julykings December prompts #4: warmth

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12/6/19

poetry has teeth / it chews and swallows our words / a pure inky mouth

@julykings December prompts #5: mouth

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12/7/19

we eat rotten fruit, / heart-shaped plums and red apples, / juicy and eager

@julykings December prompts #6: fruit

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12/8/19

in this dark winter, / we seek strength in brittle hands, / warm, soft, and tender

@julykings December prompts: #7: strength

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12/9/19

self-love must exist / without it, we are all lost / enjoy life or else

@julykings December prompts #8: self-love

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12/10/19

her eyes have become / my favorite song, sweet brown / featuring soft tears

@julykings December Prompts #9: Favorite Song

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12/11/19

her tongue is abstract / an art formed from a pink haze / paint with me darling

@julykings December Prompts #10: abstract

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12/12/19

we embrace and die / lives spent in tender pale arms / clutching at wishes

@julykings December Prompts #11: embrace

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12/13/19

she was someone else / someone who couldn’t find love / someone who broke hearts

@julykings December prompts #12: someone you love

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12/14/19

the window opens / and the soul finds true relief / butterflies and wind

@julykings December prompts #13: window

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12/15/19

animalistic / fight with sharp claws and wet fangs / be your truest self

@julykings December prompts #14: animal