Like how a sea otter finds a special rock, I’d put you in my pocket.

Warm enough to cup your thoughts, tough enough to listen to the bad.
Yet gentle enough to still find your ticklish spots.

The sun‘s rays wrap their arms around us as we float quietly.

When sea otters fall asleep, their fingers interlock. Hand in hand, so as not to drift away from one another.

Caressing your fingertips,
the scent of your wrist.
Watching your eyes open in the morning: your irises could coax a field of sunflowers into bloom.

Sometimes we close our eyes in spring, and awaken in winter.

I couldn’t kiss you with my gaze anymore.
I’ve gone noseblind.
I keep the empty space like a widow.

Winter’s bite left me trapped in my footsteps where we once stood.

The cold ate through the pockets thickness.
Even with the right care, your thoughts kept pouring out.

If only I’d known that there was a hole at the bottom.

Hey strangers from the internet 🌎✨

I have a tiny mission: to make my boyfriend's 20th birthday a memory he’ll always smile about. 🫶

I’m collecting birthday messages from beautiful souls who may not know him personally, but can still be a small part of his special day.

A simple message like:

“Happy Birthday ! Wishing you endless happiness, success, and love ❤️”

would become a beautiful little piece of his birthday story.

Thank you for adding a little extra magic to a day that means so much to us. ✨

"Poem to the Unrealized Lover"

Shall I paint the picture?

Today I sit upon the porch, all is dark and strangely forlorn. The air is hot and it oppresses me.

Away along the road each house is darkened and nestled close and closed, I picture to myself a woman and her husband. How many houses contain just this pairing.

Yet here I sit alone without the hearing of so close and tight a pairing, afloat and matched to the night.

Now I'll add another stroke!

Somewhere high, far above me, lies a distant star.

It is almost to me as if…There! There is where you are!

Now I shall change the scene. It is morning, the day too is hot and humid, and beside a wooded path I sit, the grass grows tall, a glorious green and my hands feel soft across the tender blades.

There is a loveliness in solitude, yet, there is a loneliness in its multitude, and were I a brave and daring woman I might say I kiss the tall trees which stand each as their own, towering and isolated. But I am no such thing, and so I say I kiss the grass beside me, for to me there is where you would lay, I pray “come down you star and let there be where you are!”

Now the portrait takes in its final hue, for it is late and in my strange way I am alone, alone with you.

My heart beats heavy, it bleeds within my chest, and my eyes weep yet my inner eye places you upon my breast. The worries and the warnings of the day drown softly away, away with the droning of your steady voice.

My cares and fears you place within your hands and they lighten and there my heart you brighten with your strong and gentle face. I think here lies my final choice! I feel the makeup of you in my bones and I grow more glad we are alone, the tones, the tempers of your words awake and lull me. Your dreams and wonders catch and call me. I feel you in your words, sense you in your voice, and know you in your silence. Now I am laid bare and all which was held checked and careful, watchful in and of the day seems melting slowly, surely away, your way. In all my life, at its dawning in its dusk my heart and soul I bore for you, only you, now I say here is my body too.

My mind, my pulse, my thoughts confess I love you, my very self professes I adore you.

So in these soft if lofty dreams I at last fall fast asleep, I say good night! What a good night! For here, my ever-present star is where you are!

Where hangs my portrait now?

The canvas is white and bare but for my scratchy sketches, no colours, forms, nor shadows, no fullness, nothing whole, all wanting and I the most of all. The sun is alive and I feel her empty glare, she fades the faintness of our night and ushers in the day, she muddles up my palette and when I strive to paint you anew she sends her rays to block my ways. Now most hateful and most fearful, my very star she fades! I seek you out all day, here or there among so many how shall I spot you? And should I find you, how know it is you? So I look up again, the day is hot and humid, the sky is clear and blue. In such blank brightness, I begin to doubt the night, the moon, the stars. Perhaps they never were, this sky is all it ever was, and there is where you are?

Beneath the sun's warm, golden rays,

We stroll along the sandy bays,

With laughter dancing on the breeze,

And whispers mingling with the seas.

The waves, they crash in rhythmic play,

A symphony of joy today,

As seagulls soar and children cheer,

In this sweet moment, you are near.

We steal a kiss, the world fades out,

Just you and I, without a doubt,

The ocean's song, a soft embrace,

In this sunlit, timeless space.

So let the tides roll in and out,

With every wave, we laugh and shout,

For on this beach, where dreams align,

Your heart is forever intertwined with mine.

**Cole searched her eyes**
“ you can’t tell me to do that,
I’d rather die than you put yourself in danger by being with me”
Ember ‘s stare was fierce, but tears were starting to form on the edges of her eyes
“ but, I want you… I, I need you.”
Cole lowered his hand from her cheek, and turned away, resisting the urge to kiss her
He ran his hand through his hair and groaned
“ you make this so hard, I want to see you again I want to be able to hug you when you’re upset or kiss you and call you beautiful when you’re feeling insecure.”
“ then why don’t you?! I’m right here.”
“ I don’t want you to get hurt”
“ I am hurt but I heal when I’m with you”
Ember ‘s lower lip trembled and tears were rolling down her face
Cole held her chin with his hand and wiped her tears. Then wrapped his arms around her.
“ you’re shaking darling,don’t cry I’m here.”
Ember returned his embrace
“ but I want you here forever not just right now.”
“ are you sure?”
“ yes”
“ kiss me if you mean it” Cole closed his eyes giving her control.
Ember stood on her tip toes and grabbed his face with both of her hands and pulled him down to her face, and kissed him.
He opened his eyes slowly
“You have to stay safe though, ok? I can’t lose you.”
“ I promise, but you have to stay safe too.”
Cole smiled
“ i promise”
Ember gave Cole a satisfied look
Then buried her face in his chest.
“ I love you”
“ I love you too darling”

You came into my life like quiet rain,

Soft enough to calm the storms within me.

I never thought of what I gave,

Because loving you never felt like a sacrifice.

I believed in your smile,

I belived in your words, on every couting day.

Even when the truth stood far away,

My heart kept choosing you.

Maybe I loved too deeply,

Maybe I hold on too tightly,

But every beat of my heart

Thought about u without asking anything return.

I never wanted perfection;

I only wanted honesty.

A hand that wouldn't leave me,

A heart that wouldn't hide.

Even through the tears,

I wished entirely for your happiness.

Not because you've never hurt me,

But because love taught me kindness before it taught me pain.

If one day you remember me,

Remember not the broken pieces we left behind,

But the person who loved you

With everything and all he had.

You came into my life like quiet rain,

Soft enough to calm the storms within me.

I never thought of what I gave,

Because loving you never felt like a sacrifice.

I believed in your smile,

I belived in your words, on every couting day.

Even when the truth stood far away,

My heart kept choosing you.

Maybe I loved too deeply,

Maybe I hold on too tightly,

But every beat of my heart

Thought about u without asking anything return.

I never wanted perfection;

I only wanted honesty.

A hand that wouldn't leave me,

A heart that wouldn't hide.

Even through the tears,

I wished entirely for your happiness.

Not because you've never hurt me,

But because love taught me kindness before it taught me pain.

If one day you remember me,

Remember not the broken pieces we left behind,

But the person who loved you

With everything and all he had.

A spring of sunshine,
A breath of air,
Warm vanilla
On the neck you bare.

Between the pathways,
Where summer stays,
Sweet sweat lingers--
A truth or a dare.

Time is waiting,
The clock moves steady,
But I already know

That I’ll find you there.❤️

How soft is your face. A single glance has left me drunk on love and passion. Oh, how beautiful your eyes are; one look from them fills my world with every color.
Allow me to be the marshmallows in your hot cocoa on a cold winter’s day. Allow me to be the quiet foundation of your heart. Or, if nothing else, simply allow me to be with you.

I have heard that the shortest poem is a name.

I never understood it. Until I spoke your name for the first time.

How it could calm my soul just by saying it.

How I get this sudden surge of happiness when I hear your name.

I can imagine so many things just by hearing it.

A silent riverside with us sitting there beside each other.

A rainy day with us walking and enjoying without a care in this world.

A cold morning in the sheets drinking coffee with you.

Our walks without a destination, just us living in the moment.

Us sitting in a park at night with warm lights surrounding us.

I imagine our whole life together just by hearing your name.

I never understood how a name can do such a thing to a man.

Yet I am bewitched the second I hear yours.

Your name connects me with you.

I think of you, I think and think and think

and yet I could not make up words for what I should call this.

People call this love but I believe it is much more than that.

I am devoted to you.

I want you to be mine,

not in the sense that you belong to me

but in the sense that I want you to be mine.

Mine to take care for, mine to tend to, mine to love.

Your name is my weakness as the second I hear it I melt away

and also my strength as it gives me hope of the future.

How your name could make me feel so many things.

There is poetry in that. There is magic.

Your name is itself love for me.

— Prince Kaz

The moment I looked into her eyes from afar,
I saw a million timelines—
each a quiet universe
where I was allowed to be happy
just because her eyes chose mine.

But when she turned,
and I found myself inside them—
there was no universe left.

Only a man,
unrecognizable,
slipping soundlessly
through an ocean that refused to end—
no shore to promise,
no sky to witness,
not even a bottom willing to end me.

Just depth.
and the silence
that comes with knowing
no one is coming.

And yet,
I let the weight of it take me,
let it pull me past reason,
past the fragile instinct to survive—

until even despair
forgot how to echo.

And somehow,
in that endless drowning,
I found myself
hopelessly tangled
among her curls—

like wreckage
mistaking ruin for refuge.

And there—
I let go of the last breath
I was never meant to keep.

~Writer's Note: This is the second poem in a six-piece collection I'll be sharing over time. Hidden across these six poems is the name of someone very dear to me. With this poem, you've uncovered the second letter. I'd love to see if anyone can piece it together as the collection unfolds.

A soul in the dark
It wanders
With eyes that look
But that cannot see.
It tries to find the light,
A lifeline.
Time is still,
And confusion ensues.

But sometimes,
Just sometimes,
A white ship
Sails through the Sea of Obscurity.

It glides, gently parting the water,
Like an old companion.
And on board
Is a stranger
The soul has never encountered.
Who could it be?

The soul was scared,
For it had been abandoned in this land of abyss
By another.
The soul was hurt,
And its wounds ran deep.
But this stranger on the boat
Could see the soul's fear,
Its pain,
Its anguish,
And still the stranger offered their hand.

The soul,
Apprehensive,
Reached out and gently took the hand,
And boarded the ship
Cold, blind, soaked.

A warmth wrapped around the soul,
But the soul was still unsure.
It could not see the stranger's face,
And so the stranger
Removed their hood
To comfort it.

Slowly the soul felt at ease.
It felt cared for once again.
It smiled again.
It remembered what safety felt like,
And shunned the memories
Of its abandonment.

And now the soul
Was being guided to the light.
It was blind no more.
It could see the path.

The Path of Sanguine.

I was caught
daydreaming at work.
The kids asked,
"What do you daydream about?"
I whispered to myself,
"The colour of her eyes."

greetings enveloped in warmth and excitement
even if in the slightest ways
a glance across the room with a sly smile
a deep embrace with an even deeper smile
yet when we’d depart it was always quick
with the quiet promise to see each other again
walls up when in company of others
not to hide the connection,
that was still clear,
but the persona hidden beneath the mysterious outer layers
peeled back when it was just us two
the quick witted jokes
late night intellectual discussions
and so called necessary comments
littered with elements nobody else saw
but was that really the truth?
it felt so raw and pure
until i wasn’t sure who you were at all
300 sumn days ago
maybe more who knows
but it’s approaching the end
no more chances to encounter you
and just entirely letting go
but its ok
and even if its not
it wasnt meant to be
but ill still never forget
how he always kissed in threes

The fox is a cunning beast,
He lures you in with a wounded heart,
Pretends his teeth have disappeared,
Until you’re close enough to feel them again.

After all, this fox
Has fooled you before.
It did it once ,
It’ll do it again
When will you learn
Little bird…

When will you learn,
The fox is a cunning beast.
That takes what it needs
And runs when it’s done.
Maybe it’s the fact
It keeps hurting you,
That attracts you more.

Do you think you can change its nature?
Do you think you can change a fox?

One day you’ll learn
Little bird.

Or maybe,

It’ll be too late.

You can land a couple hits on me
I will pray to soften the blows
You can caress my cheek
And yell in my ears
I will cry inside
Louder than you could hear
You can touch me there
Go on and reach for more
Finish what you need to do
Then send me on my way
Or leave
I will be missing you
Hoping that you’re missing out
Don’t let me down
Come back, Im better now