nightingales #arrive with tender notes of twilight to ease your heartache #vss365 #haiku

through every tempest their love held fast those storms mere whispers in the past now they #coast toward night’s final embrace into time-softened waters awash with grace #vss365

in silent solitude atop the #summit of broken dreams where shattered stones lay like old regrets the age-worn man pauses learning to forgive himself mending what he can while higher crests beckon Hope & Kindness brighter peaks urging him on for his climb is not yet over #vss365

diaphanous #shift beauty caressed by moonlight romantic nocturne #vss365 #haiku

the #road less travelled lonely footfall in the Frost winter solitude #vss365 #haiku

cosmic wanderer solar #tailwind guides it on weeping icy tears #vss365 #haiku

in yesteryear our youthful love was a passionate #sprint full of zest and fire age now slows us yet we’ll cross that final line limping, laughing still arm in arm #vss365

though #headwind assails the close-hauled ship of hope seeks your safe harbour #vss365 #haiku 🎨: maritime painting titled "A Mind of Her Own" by artist Tom W. Freeman, featuring the USS Constitution

when i saw you #depart with a slam of the door it shattered my heart like nothing before no final farewell to soften to blow in silence i dwell with an empty echo forced to forsake our love you did sever i'm alone with an ache that will haunt me forever #vss365

a love letter to my wife who has been my oyster for over forty years - in all that time you could have rejected me as the irritant i was but you held me #patient and in your tender love i grew into a pearl #vss365 #love

small Arthur's grave, two centuries nigh a #rose laid soft, a heartbreaking sigh mere five days lived, a lifetime cried a parent's pain that never died what stranger's hand did pink petals lay? a grief remembered in modern day #vss365 📸 my photo of a grave in my hometown, 2017

within living cells the anabolic #frolic grows complexity #vss365 #haiku

There once was a pony called #Frolic Who was owned by an old alcoholic When tipsy one night He did the girth up too tight Which ended with a kick in the... stable #vss365

diaphanous shift bursting voluptuous lust #revealing dark sin #vss365 #haiku 📸: Lust for a Vampire (1971, Hammer Films)

a slow, silent fall of snow petals #tenderly mantles in winter white our graves ’neath willow’s quiet veil keeping the warmth we kindled once embers of our love that refuse to cool still burning on into the endless hush #vss365

final #appraisal his torment scarred hearts that cared heaven bars its doors #vss365 #haiku #ocd

#apprehension like knotted vine its tendrils entwine my trembling spine dare i ask? will you be mine? do you love me? please give a sign alas, alas! my courage fails doubts undermine i fear decline though i do adore i let heart resign what might have been if i were thine #vss365

in the dark hours #florid thoughts flourish feeding on imagined fears blossoming into tangled thorns a garland of if‑onlys perfumed with what‑ifs rooted in the ache for clarity forming a wreath, not a bouquet, laid upon the grave of happiness #vss365

some chefs are proper crooks and get caught cooking the books when made to come clean they say "it's #novel cuisine" and rarely give two fooks! #vss365 #limerick 😬

#fiend confined within inner demon whispers harm morning feels far off #vss365 #senryu #depression

i've watched ten thousand sunsets across the wide South China Sea nature's incandescent needlework embroidering night's tapestry now just fading memories of a #distant reverie yet the warmth of those evenings will always remain with me #vss365 ~11,500 sunsets, all photos my own

evening #quietus sun withdraws at night's approach warm in your embrace #vss365 #haiku

#Forbidden Planet Robby the Robot steals scenes Got one for Christmas! #vss365 #senryu

velvet dawn on skin vampire lips trace trembling pulse hunger blooms to heat #vss365 #haiku

like a crookback hag arching above the poison path the dreadful #deadfall warns the weary -- be watchful, wanderer! lest fearful footfall awakens awful ancient baleful beasts #vss365 📸: DiKiYaqua

fair Chomolungma Goddess #Mother of the World cradles tired climbers #vss365 #haiku 26 May 1953: Tom Bourdillon & Charles Evans on the South Col of Mount Everest. They got within 300ft of the top before returning, exhausted. Hillary and Tenzing summited 3 days later. 📸: RGS

dark fetid #horror bloody nails scrape coffin wood screams swallowed by soil #vss365 #senryu

in a multiverse of possibilities every version of me drifts towards you drawn by the same quiet gravity across infinite lives i find the world that lets me #cradle you in gentle embrace your heartbeat warm against mine as if love itself chose us in every timeline #vss365

#falling embers dim losing light the way we did cold where love once burned #vss365 #haiku

soon young bodies will fall through iron-cold death-black night slanted music* their only requiem like spent sparks torn from life shattered they fall into silence and memory another #victory for boys who themselves will die tomorrow and on and on it goes #vss365 * see comment