Redux
Melting in your mouth.
Little chunks of medicine.
Happy pills in brown.
Tag: haiku
Foreign Destinations
Inspired by Sadje’s What do you see #71 & VJ’s Weekly Challenge – Dig
rad reflection pool
i so dig the Taj Mahal
visit overdue
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Still
the view unmoving
nature in homoestasis
humans are in awe
Unexpected Journey
huge tsunami waves
flood moved house to the city
faceplant in the park
Inspired by VJ’s Weekly Challenge – Waves & Sadje’s What do you see #70
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Non-Chippy
pretty bearded tit
panurus biarmicus pose
flight above reedbed soon
Shuddering
Inspired by Sunday Writing Prompt – Aghast
the lips parting wide
i am aghast and disturbed
spider oozing out
Pure Haiku OPEN to submissions!
Pure Haiku is open for submissions!!
Welcome back to Pure Haiku!
Our new theme is UNFURLING.
Please use this beautiful painting, Unfurling, by Elisa Ang to inspire you to write 5 haiku to submit by email before 28th February 2021 at midnight, UK time.
Take a really good look at the picture. I mean, a REALLY good look. Don’t just write about what’s there, write about what’s beneath the painting. What emotion or image or memory does it awake in you? Tell me something different about this picture. Don’t just rattle off 5 haiku with the 5-7-5 syllabic line structure. Really let Elisa’s painting speak to you. Then tell me about it, in your own words. Be different. Be aware. Be inventive! Use this image as a starting point for your creative flow…
You are NOT allowed to use the words LEAF, UNFURLING, UNFURLED OR UNFURL/S in either your haiku or the titles…
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A Descendant’s Envy
Inspired by Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Wolf Moon
canis lupus howls
canis familiaris barks
wolf moon shines bright
The Orb
behold the dark night
with distant luminescence
stillness captured here
Lorraine Lewis
SOOTHING THE CHAOS
In between the cracks
Love and eternity peep
Soothing the chaos
NOW I SEE CLEARLY
Soft words deceived me
Until I saw through the mask
Now I see clearly
ALL NOW IS DYING
Leaves crunch beneath feet
As stones cry out in anguish
All now is dying
NATURE HOLDS HER OWN
Nature holds her own
Gulls are shrieking overhead
Echoing our pain
I TRAVEL ALONE
Journeying in death
I had to let go of you
I travel alone
HEAVING EARTH
Heaving the earth threw
Its dark embers into play
Until shoots peeked through
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My name is Lorraine Lewis. I have always written poetry but began to write more in earnest following having serious advanced blood cancer and going blind and becoming wheelchair-bound. I greatly enjoy experimenting with different forms of poetry, preferring the shorter forms. Editor’s note – This is Lorraine’s second feature on The Short of It.
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