Ricardo Miguel Silva - Writing

Haikullection

Blackbird chirps in tree / Two cats flocked outside looking / Third one is working

Deep night Haiku: Dark night brooding stress / Keyboard typing I digress / I should be sleeping

Deeper night Haiku: Floating thoughtless mind / Bathes in silent monologues / Sunshine's footsteps creep

Sunrise Haiku: Shutters replace my eyes / Blinking lights are no surprise / Bed sheets summon me

Free flowing matter / Teardrops filling both my eyes / There is no sadness

Fast food really sucks / Slow food is so much better / Easier to catch

Blister in my tongue / Can't stop playing with it now / It's worse than an itch

Rewind this feeling / I know I've been here before / I recognize it

Horizontal me / Of mood and physically / Hours pass slowly

Sometimes hearts shatter / We wish we could buy new ones / But they're out of stock

Round tastes in my tongue / Warmth of grapes so well mashed up / Delightful night comes

Paradox of taste / One half bites, the other licks / Really love wine

My cool cat Moony / Stares at me in pure dismay / She just does not drink

The head spins and hurts / Thoughts are so overwhelming / I just cannot speak

Fucking huge headache / Splitting my brain right in half / Thumping music helps

Slow but just steady / Anesthetised so simply / When numb there is peace

Slipping my hand in / Touching, shape-shifting shadows / Clamouring for truth

Vile this emptiness / Bred from spellbound desistance / Sleep will not come now

Sleep a great battle / The Knight in rusty armor / May not come to win

Riding to full moon / Howling in all this distance / Slumber as a gift

Thoughtless wandering / Cold hands like my shiny shell / Is it bulletproof?

Lágrimas-chuva / Máscara p'ra estranhos / Com quem me cruzo

Cat makes man crazy / Man can't sleep, chop sueys cat / It's fine and dandy

Insomnia kills / Not medically proven / With respect, my ass

Catsomnia pills / No frills, gives shrills, many thrills / Sysiphus-like hills.

Schizophrenia / The voices are no problem / Unless you listen

Meeow goes the cat / SHUT THE FUCK UP goes the man / We just disagree.

Tired but relieved / Morrow brings new challenges / Writing more haiku?

Incomplete this breath / Oxygen stifling whisper / Choke on this, my friend

Chirping brethren sings / Mornings full of cleanest light / Woe is he who wails

Drench me in your sea / Of uninvited screaming / Silence does bequeath

Dreams of happiness / Hitherto fathom this change / Or maybe just not

Sleep does come slowly / Waking up in this address / Sleep while I digress

Lessons learned abound / Years come and gone start weighing / Older than my body

I'd rather learn from others / But this is the way it is / Start living with it

Cruise control speed set / The road is long, tortuous / Where will it lead to?

If hearts had nine lives / Mine would have none left by now. / What about hairballs?

Vozes-silêncio / Panela de depressão / Numa explosão

I'm sleepless again / Mind wanders to dark places / Please: turn on the lights

My skin wearing thin / What's left of this, my armour / Is slowly fading

In late night fever / Mind dwells very strange places / Touching purity

Refugee wanders / Sanctuary in lost steps / Oblivion heals

Nights like these nights like / Wondrous delights like I like / Nights like these nights, alike

Consciousness that floats / Tumbling boats in troubled seas / Heeding drunken nymphs

Misshapen and bent / Burdened with iniquity / Mirrors loathe of me

Testing the calmness / Provoke and banter, fragile / Hermetic thus far

River flowing wine / Ariadne drooping, drunk / Dreamed company

Goddess imperfect / Twisted, finite intellect / Conceived It in swoon

Keep dancing, circling / Unyielding - faint sorcery / Hissing desire's choirs

Dawn is coming now / Slumber a gift, with sweet dreams / In worlds this immense

Happy late full Moon / Gliding beyond clouds at home / Wolves' howls are (truly) sadness

Inertia fading / Night approaches stealthily / Body doesn't lie

Life's rewind button / Broken or missing in action / Dragon slayer's tired

Exorcism of pains / Through angered poise and resolve / Sic, ecce homo

I will sleep to dream / Just like feeding to survive / I need hunger fed

My mind is burning / Nowhere to go to, hollow / Vacant and ugly

Sweet smell of wet earth / Wishing it would cleanse it all / Dripping inside, too

Darkness creeping in / Lessons learned the hardest way / Intolerance broods

Too much hate inside / Where love once flowed like water / Now turning to ice

Low battery, low / Please connect yourself to plug / Before you die out

Last wood still burning / Warmth not reaching the heart's void / Surrendered machine

Wordplay, truth is bare / Double entendre saves face / I appeal to you

Without loss, no growth / Without growth, no death-rebirth / I need a new skin

Fireplace hissing / Sheets of my bed summoning / Let me sleep tonight

Disconnect, Machine / Reprogram yourself anew / Armour growing back

Frozen to the bones / Read all night and found comfort / But now my back hurts

Like honey dripping / Marvelous nectar of gods / Slipping through my tongue