#imperialjanuary

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Imperial January Prompts 2023

Be you. Do you. For you.

Chaos

Kirche

DIY depression

Zenith

[praggya1993]

Winter's hands don't touch

The marrow within,

This time they won't be able

To coax a groan out of me.

They tickle me now instead

Of making me shiver like before.

No longer do I fear their cold

Seeping and holding me numb.

The year that has just gone

Vanished even though it seemed

Like a never ending bad humour

Is making me turn around

And embrace winter's kindest hands now.

[imperialhaiku]

288/1000*

drinking sweet bubbles / a night to remember, soon / a day to forget

@imperial-poetry-prompts January prompt: Champagne

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January prompts 2022

#imperialjanuary

Fear

Angst

Anxiety

Terror

Darkness

Shadows

Monsters

Leviathan

Abysmal

Languishing

Salem

Asylum

Sanctuary

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#imperialjanuary

Winter's kindest hand.

Withering heights

Lingering kings

Savage words on slender hips

Breathe

Quaint experience

Expressive

Silently weeping

Open ended questions

Devour

@imperial-poetry-prompts

[praggya1993]

Let the silence tug and caress

Devour all that you think

Is implacable and tasteless,

Let it tell you firmly and gently

That you needn't recall

That which kindles a wince

In your being everyday.

A seamstress of fate

Isn't your calling

Wave goodbye to the cloud

That keeps hovering overhead,

See that tremble of your hands

And aim to steady it

Instead of thinking,

About all that it cannot lift

At the moment.

[praggya1993]

There's my life she says

I can see it twisting and turning

Like a child,

Ready to deal with the inevitable

Moving all the time

Beckoning me to come and adorn it

Around my heart,

Yet here I am

Trembling under the weight

Of my own unwillingness

So steeped in the thoughts of what ifs

That instead of running toward it

I choose to wave it goodbye.

[praggya1993]

Here's a presence of nothing at all

Just a brief morning

And subtle nights,

That ask you live in the moment

Gaze outside the window

Covered by breezy curtains,

Feel your breath meandering

On every part of your skin,

You don't need shining stars

And luxurious comfort,

Just lay back

And smile at everything

That's ever-present

Making you the recipient of

A quaint experience.