#asteriskspoets

[haphazardlyparked]

So you tell me you’ve been having a shit few weeks— and man, I just feel like shit.

And I think, god, if only we could go back to before. To when everything was easy— to when I didn’t know how much I cared.

I remember you in shades of laughter drunken giggles, raucous howls that dissolve into breathless gasps, and even that time we ended a fight because we couldn’t stop laugh-crying in an elevator— right before we closed the doors on everyone else.

I was fearless, then.

And now sometimes I can’t breathe.

[straycatreadsthat]

no, I am not this flesh and fire inside a skull, not without the rest not without the rest of me; formless in my way you cannot shape me

@haphazardlyparked

A pair of haikus for you

[haphazardlyparked]

[haphazardlyparked]

april 7, 2018

thanks to @gingerly-writing for the prompt.

[haphazardlyparked]

april 4, 2018

thanks @straycatreadsthat for the pep talk :p <3

and the wording discussion

[straycatreadsthat]

I am an optimist, clearly.

[straycatreadsthat]

I’ve recycled a lot of imagery from some of my other poems, but I kinda liked this incarnation. No formal structure for this one, but I tried to do long first lines that “trail off” (I’m sure there’s some fancy poetic term for that)

Thank you @haphazardlyparked for the prompt “a smile that is not”

[straycatreadsthat]

quiet girl haiku

quiet, girl, quiet

sweet things should stay silent here

and softly depart