Archive for the ‘Haiku’ Category
This is my first post for the first Haibun Thinking – a new Haibun Writing Challenge. The prompt I chose was:
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
– Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
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His rise through the ladders of work left him breathless.
Time out for marriage that was for sure.
There were kids his wife assured.
No one mentioned this unfairness.
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One more time he had to check this corporate allure.
Corporate Gods before all.
Up, up towards that impossible goal for sure.
With all this some say he had a lot of gall.
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Once there, everything had been left behind.
But no one was there to see him now.
He thought he was a gift to mankind.
But in the end he wasn’t even the cats meow.
a rose for my love
i wish i could play again
one more chance to smell
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Train Station
For Carpe Diem #365 – Yaroslavl
Still travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
slowing down i see
visions are all around me
station in a mist
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In response to Lille McFerrin Five Sentence Fiction Challenge:
Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week she will post a one word inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word. Poem written in the American Sentence style.
Story about someone born with one kidney and after many years of dialysis keeps fighting until the end.
Thanks to Bjorn!
Except for the constant soft beating of the machine, it is quiet.
You lay still, never even a twitch, with that awful thing in your throat.
Few visitors come to see what remains of the once beautiful you.
Most people are born with two but someone decided you only get one.
Sleep little sister knowing that everything was done for you this day.
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Well … off we go on our first part of our journey straight through the Soviet Union with the TSR up to Vladivostok and finally we will arrive at Shikoku Island. I combined a Haiku pared with an American Sentence. Special thanks to Bjorn.
Written for Carpe Diem.
Clouds out my window
violin strings are in the air
a leaving behind
Reflecting on the pleasure of the journey that will be my future.
Table chair bowl of fruit
train whistles mark my journey
a new life begins
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Larvae left behind
transformation overseen
new pupal casing
In response to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Aleph by Paulo Coelho. Click on the link to read about it.
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Here is my entry for the Weekly Writing Challenge. To find other responses to the challenge, click on the words in the previous sentence.
Haiku #5
old age begins now
spring, summer, fall, winter are all gone
a baby’s cry is heard
NaBloPoMo #29
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Here is my entry for the Weekly Writing Challenge. To find other responses to the challenge, click on the words in the previous sentence.
Haiku #4
looking back takes toll
we were great lovers back then
future wants me now
Time
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