three-body problem #chaos in the equations Newton perturbed #vss365 #senryu

rewind time quench the fires of #creation unmake the stars and let silver moonlight fade away for without you the heavens dim and all that was is nothing #vss365

tight tendrils of #temptation slipped around the unwary heart choking good intentions with duplicitous lies now those shackles lie broken cast off by a soul learning to breathe again for even a wounded spirit can still find a way back to hope #vss365

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

rhythmical reproach the #cadence of old mistakes drums inside my skull #vss365 #senryu

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

i twist and #turn the knife, reopening the old wound again and again. the pain reminds me that I failed you. how can I ask you for another chance when I can’t even give myself one. #vss365

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

thoughts gain #momentum rational mind cowers from compulsive onslaught unbowed i resist patterns carved by obsession broken by my strength #vss365 #haiku #ocd

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

when inner voices screamed pathetic, weak, unworthy you believed in me and gave me the strength to stand firm and fight back to #conquer the demons that flayed and scoured and now their claws have lost their cruel edge it is because you gave me the courage to endure #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

#unabashed fondness warms my soul like summer sun when thoughts drift to you #vss365 #haiku

our #magnetism waned the force that bound us tightly turned to repulsion #vss365 #senryu

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

with filth-crusted claws illness rakes and razors my kind and gentle mind and good intentions curl tight, foetal-like while darkness prowls harvesting the light i am broken but i will not yield and every new breath whispers fresh #defiance #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

once upon a #swoon i kissed you under starlight five hundred moons gone time only deepened our love i still bring you tea in bed #vss365 #tanka (true story - except it was after a disco, and probably cloudy)

to observe my flaws mirrored in your quiet eyes was a #stunning blow #vss365 #senryu

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