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Long distance relationship

I knew I wouldn't stop loving you, wherever you were.  200 miles only on the outside. But I had no idea I would feel beautiful, for the first time, when you weren't around. That when I invited myself to the dance, I found it was waiting for me, wildflower in the mirror. LJ Ireton, 2025

Haiku

Thirsty, growing seeds sigh into the petrichor cracked, damp shells let go LJ Ireton 

Any frozen spirit

The tea-coloured soil is stiff, dry that giving-up line on the faded myth of spring I wake it with fork and fingers, twist the deeper dark out, blinking in the sudden, burnt light. Turning the un-oiled tin of winter upside down - I'm pouring butter potential  now, blood colours stir  the size of insect buttons. I pull cosmos dusk, ox-eyed daisy seed futures down from the borders  of my cobwebbed mind. My wanting to try was iced by the moon nights, you are the words I release with the trowel  for the ladybird to land on, the moth, any frozen spirit, needing to hear flowers after the silent cold. C. LJ Ireton 2025