Creative February 4 - Cadence – haiku

Lub dub lub dub

Eddy and swirl of blood flow

Life humming

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Rain, fall lightly rain

The sound of falling petals

I, in fragrant thrall

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Your voice on the phone

And the song in my heart

Exquisite duet

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Stardust and darkness

The hum of the universe

Expanding worlds

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For Haiku Heights prompt - Cadence

Useless - haiku

a quirky question -
could it be of any use?
writing poetry

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regret, guilt, useless
both purveyors of darkness
plunderers of life


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cold and lifeless
shorn of beauty, shorn of fame
just a useless shell

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is not so useless
the maggots think, fattening
turning death to life

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for Haiku Heights prompt - Useless

Sharp - haiku

sharp is the night that
births the day in which babies
are killed in the womb

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instead of pencils
children sharpen shooting skills
somewhere a womb aches

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the phone had rung sharp
as though it had been wounded
by the news it brought

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for Haiku Heights prompt - Sharp

Grimace - haiku

one more factory
the earth grimaces under
its grimness and greed

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walk in the forest
city heart sheds its grimace
sparkling joy remains

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eight plus nine times ten
math-is-such-a-bore grimace
the boy yearns for play

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Haiku Heights prompt - Grimace

Clap - haiku

concert in the sky
lightning-struck with wonder
thunderous applause

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clothes flapping on line
applaud monarch butterflies’
summer mating dance

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Haiku Heights prompt - Clap

(Image source - http://www.sabisabi.com/blog/1827/the-butterfly-effect/)

Bat - haiku

eerie calls
midnight mingles with moonless
bite to the neck

Haiku Heights prompt - Bat

Late - haiku

late afternoon light

slanting through half-shut shutters

catches me napping

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Haiku Heights prompt - Late

Ocean - haiku

you had stood there
looking away, face closed
an ocean between us

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our watery birthplace
that hums through our veins
and springs from our eyes

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imagination’s
infinite tides wash up
little haiku pebbles

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ocean breeze stirs up
brittle nests of memories
sand in my eyes

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Haiku Heights #269 - Ocean

Fireflies -haiku

in a cold heart stirs
flickering fireflies of hope
defeat slinks away

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fireflies penning
arabesques for the night
only it can read

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Haiku Heights prompt - firefly

Crescendo - haiku

super large full moon
crawls through night peaking with pain
incandescent dawn

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Dusk - haiku

birds wing in to roost
trees get smudged into greyness
I wait for a knock

the knock never comes
as shadows climb up my walls
azure fades to black

behind closed eyelids
the sun blazes brilliance
dusk a long way off

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Haiku Heights / Dusk

Death - haiku

the clock’s second hand
chops away bits of life
until none is left

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the river meets death
when it merges with the sea
yet it willing flows

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if death had a voice
it would be melodious
soul suddenly free

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Haiku Heights / Death

Script - Haiku

Night composes scripts
tangled lines of light and dark
for Day to play out

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Prancing butterfly
wings writing a love poem
the sky reads and smiles

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If only I had
let my soul pencil the script
life would have been joy

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Haiku Heights / Script

Pain - haiku

some aches can be seen
others eat up the insides
just the shell remains

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let me feast on joy
as pain slinks ‘neath the table
awaiting its turn

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bruised purplish-black
amidst bright yellows and pinks
warp and weft of life

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Haiku Heights / Pain

Storm - haiku

in the aftermath
among the deadened rubble
little shoots spring forth

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heart lacerated
night in the grip of a storm
ends in glorious morn

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my muse brews a storm
of words, plot-lines, characters
a novel is born

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Silence - haiku

bee-buzz and birdsong
in deep silence of forest
God listens to Self

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Haiku Heights / Silence

AEDM - 13

Witch - haiku

reviled stoned condemned
burnt alive at the stake, yet
wise strong powerful

hands that know magic
heart that understands mysteries
soul, ever gentle

beautiful goddess
that witch in every woman
divine feminine

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Haiku Heights / #193 - Witch

Haiku - Conscious

pain presses pulsates
through muscle sinew and bone
mind flickers through night

dawn comes sniveling
bruised red and torn yellow
like blooms after rain

light prises open
the carapace of shadows
sentience at last

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Haiku Heights / 192 / Conscious

Home - haiku

our floating first home
close to heart-beat pumping love
our mother’s warm womb

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earnest and zestful
I prepared your homecoming
but your coffin came

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fragile miracle
carrying us from womb to grave
this body our home

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yet freedom at last
unanchored and unfettered
my spirit wings home

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Haiku Heights / # 190 / Home

Battlefield - haiku

in the war of wills
your smile melts my defense
sweet is surrender

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one more one more chip
until packet lies empty
battle lost again

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battlefield of mind
good wages war with evil
does not always win

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Haiku Heights / September Heights / day29 / Battlefield