Dr Steve Fleischer

#lightning without storm
my world erased in a flash
colpo di fulmine
your cobalt gaze enfolds me
my soul refracts in your light

#vss365 #tanka

moonlight's benign face
#spellbound sakura weeping
fragile season wanes

#vss365 #haiku

#jewelry glitters
yet her quiet eyes reflect
nature’s pure beauty

#vss365 #haiku

to err is human
repentance opens the heart
be #magnanimous

#vss365 #senryu 🙏

bountiful spring rain
fresh shoots rise from waking earth
renewal takes root

#vss365 #haiku

the quiet erosion of hope
at the periphery of thought

#lethargy settles in the bones
not as rest but as surrender

dreams that once rose like wings
now lie folded and flightless

no storm, no violence, no anger
only stillness and memories

#vss365

opaque #cataracts
blind to your your misery
hindsight is cruel

#vss365 #senryu

🎶He-eey, big #splendor!
Splend a little time with me! 🎶
Dyslexic Bassey

#vss365 #senryu

in the still hush of midnight
she breaks the seal of longing
his words ignite a hidden fire
while #timid flame trembles
too frail to rival the passion
that blazes in her tender heart

#vss365

📸 Girl reading a letter by candlelight by Jean-Baptiste Santerre (1651 - 1717)

spacetime rips apart
a #quest through the dark abyss
silence swallows light

#vss365 #haiku

dreadful compulsion
#obsessed mind unravelling
trust crumbles to dust

#vss365 #senryu

the #velocity of love
is the sudden rush of breath
when your hand brushes mine,
it is the quickening of my pulse
when i kiss the curve of your neck,
the flush of blood to my cheeks
at your smile across a crowded room,
love is faster than light
collapsing time to a heartbeat

#vss365

another trip around the sun
candle burns like joint pain
fragile bones crack like ancient timber
their echoes haunt this hollow house
my life cycle tightens its tether
each dawn a fresh punishment
my resistance ablates
i surrender to
#orbital decay
a final flare
darkness

#vss365

#stellar nursery
gaseous tendrils cradling
fragile infant stars
faint promise of unborn light
The Pillars of Creation

#vss365 #tanka

📸 NASA
The Eagle Nebula (M16) is 7,000 light-years from Earth. Inside the dust columns, about 5 light-years tall, new stars are born.

this sad misguided fool
never #knowingly unkind
yet too blind to see
joy dim in your eyes
soft echoes of laughter
turned to silent ash
your smile frozen to rictus
friendship’s fragile lantern
flickered, faltered, failed
& night recalls the glow
that once burned bright

#vss365

#crazed stone masks the man
dysmorphia carved in rock
soft heart beneath cracks

#vss365 #senryu #BenGrimm #fantastic4

a kitten is laying on a person 's lap and looking at the camera . ALT: a kitten is laying on a person 's lap and looking at the camera .

a clean litter tray
she poos neatly beside it
#blatant disregard

#vss365 #senryu

she masters the brush,
erasing my outline,
painted out of her world
just a ghost in her canvas,
yearning softly to be seen

#FoxProse @FoxProse

clonazepam cloud
pain erased in numbing fog
mind moil, #mystified

#vss365 #senryu

slippery twins twist
in the hollow of my stomach
anxiety bites keen
while excitement roils
two serpents writhing

her presence warps the air
i stand quaking, voiceless
a tangle of praises
straining to break a throat
clenched tight with nerves

#FoxProse
@FoxProse

manic mood balloons
#bouncy bipolar brainstorms
deflation awaits

#vss365 #senryu

#mountainous sorrow
valley echoes my sadness
but no one listens

#vss365

#enchanted skyline
fragrant harbour embraces night
while stars kiss the moon

#vss365 #haiku
📸 Shutterstock

"Fragrant Harbour" is the literal English translation of the Cantonese name for Hong Kong, 香港

Artemis ascends
#minuscule capsule drifting
silent moon awaits

#vss365

📸: NASA
Artemis II launch: early March 2026

Thank you for all your encouragement, Bethany. I really appreciate it!

Thanks very much, Daniel. And thanks for all the great prompt words over the last couple of weeks!

around your #kiss my world revolves
upon your lips, all pain dissolves

a blaze of fire consumes my soul
within your touch, i lose control

our passions alight, we burn like stars
in endless embrace, the night is ours

#vss365

silent abyss gapes
vast #lacuna of galaxies
God's unseeing eye
#vss365 #haiku

The Boötes Void, or “Great Nothing,” is a vast supervoid spanning 330 million light-years, containing ~60 galaxies, rather than the expected 2,000.

📸 Volker Springel/Max Planck Inst. for Astrophysics

tick, tick, tick…
inexorably she comes
the witching hour creeps
bearing decades of despair
a baggage of failure
to haunt & torment

night thickens
#dark seeps into pores
weighted with self-hate

laden, sinking
to where blackness devours

i reach in panic
but you’re gone

#vss365