The Cracked Door – Daily Haikus
Reflections on life, the world, and society. Come explore with me.
Poems about relationships
Is there a person
Who matches someone who is
Different like me?
Context (if you’re interested):
This poem was inspired by a poem I read while in Manila called “doomsday prepper”. But I forget the name is the author.
I was the extra
In your own movie, supposed
To support your quest
Context (if you’re interested):
This was based on a poem I read, but I cannot remember the name or author of.
Argumentative
Antagonistic
Adversarial
Aggressive
AltercationBad-tempered
Bold
Bombastic
Bad-mouthed
BelligerentCantankerous
Combative
Conflicting
Conflating
ConnivingControversial
Contentious
Cheeky
Cross
Debating
Dramatic
DrawnDaring
Dangerous
Debating
DisparagingDisbelieving
Disregarding
Dismissive
Disrespectful
Disputing
Disdainful
DeceivingEscalated
Elevated
Fractious
Flippant
FlightyDisruptive
Disturbed
Encroaching
IntrudingFierce
Fiery
Gladiatorial
HawkishFriction
Defensive
Factional
Intensifying
Dissenting
Heightened
Finishing
FinalFlinching
Foregoing
Fleeing
Defensive
Guarded
Hemming
Fenced
HedgingFenced-In
Fastened
Fortified
Firm
FoolproofHome
Free
Healing
Frank
Gentle
Healthy
Happy
Context (if you’re interested):
I’m trying something new with today’s poem: telling a story/stories through list of words.
I am not the cold man
Who fled because it was easier than staying
Who wouldn’t listen
Who wasn’t willing to grow
Who never tried to make it workI am not the cold man
Who couldn’t stand the pressure
Who chose an easy way out
Who ran away from sufferingBut I am the cold man
Who is too sick of it all
To do anything but
Find his own warmth
Context (if you’re interested):
Someone in a recent interaction portrayed going your separate way as a type of cowardly retreat, and the idea for this poem came to show that that is not always the case.
I know you didn’t have forever,
But I thought you had longer than this.
I wish we could have talked
Even hugged
Without that other looming face
Standing in between us
Context (if you’re interested):
Someone I know just died. That is what I am working through here.
The used up lovers
Are the most tender of all,
For they have already
Broken one heart before
Context (if you’re interested):
I was thinking about this reading a book of love poetry, but I cannot remember the name of the book anymore. It got me thinking about how those who have others’ hearts (at least those who did so with remorse) tend to be the most gentle the next time around.
Is life cruel?
It brought me you,
But it prevented me
From ever actually
Enjoying that.
Context (if you’re interested):
This poem based on an unnamed poem in “You Are Here” by Dawn Lanuza.
Each night we’re apart,
I look up at the same moon
Like you smiling down
Context (if you’re interested):
Based “Water Melody Prelude: When Will the Bright Moon Appear?” By Su Shi. This is also a tribute to the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, although I am a few days late. (At the time of the festival, I was running around too much to be able to pause and write a poem about it.)
We were once two peas in a pod
But I grew in a few ways
You couldn’t match
As you returned to your real self overtime
I can no longer see how we fit together
Context (if you’re interested):
This is about how I and a significant other changed over the course of the relationship into different people.
Where lies the root of
Your belief that you are a
Hard person to love?
Context (if you’re interested):
This one was based on a conversation with a friend about insecurities.