Rapidly coursing
Precipice reached pause then plunge
Rock strewn roaring crash
A haiku for Ronovans challenge plunge and rapid are the key words. This evokes memories of waterfalls.
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Sun’s Warmth
Virtually spent
Clouds part allowing sun’s warmth
To lift weary soul
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Aching for Ease
Exhausted soul aches
Unabated suffering
No offer of ease
For Ronovans weekly haiku challenge, words this week are -yes you guessed it…Ease and Ache!
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Haiku Cascade
A haiku distills thinking and I have been writing a good deal recently. Largely as part of Twitter engagement (@lauraelizahay). Here is my Haiku Cascade!
Don’t try to solve life
Probing makes it elusive
Like sand through fingers
“Will I be okay?”
The prayer of all who suffer
If resolve nurtured…
Torpor overtakes
Enveloped in down’s soft warmth
Sleep submerges mind
Slipped into the night
Freedom from glib exclusive
Found the kind and wise
Eventide’s light plays
Dancing through canopy’s boughs
I sigh lost in dreams
Do try for the light
End slumbering in darkness
World waits for your sight
Signs of spring
Life’s grace returning
Warm wind blows
Expect doubt
Life’s harsh leveller
Ego’s foe
In days aftermath
To myself I am unkind
To the achieved blind
To be a hermit
Deep in the woods, riverside
Only lost can find
A community
Of photo-synthesisers
Capturing the light
Like a mountain lake
Clearer, direction once was
Now muddy puddle!
Encouragement is
The act of lending courage
To the fearful heart.
Prophet Hicks was right
Human life’s machinations
Are all ‘just a ride’
Phew if you made it here you have serious commitment!
Thank you.
Seconds slip
Relentless advance
Time’s unbound
For Ronovans Haiku Challenge – prompts are Slip & Time Check it out
A murmuration
Undulating like the wind
Acrobatic birds
Inspired by Ronovan Writes Haiku Prompt Bird and Wind
Toothless age Degrades, undermines Still wit bites
Inspired by RonovanWrites weekly prompt teeth and bite – check it out
I am trying a shorter haiku form than I am used too ( I always thought they were 5,7,5 in syllable count, but they can also be 3,5,3, or shorter), see Ronovan’s guidance . I enjoy haiku’s as they make you succinct, and that economy tends to get me to the root. I am thoroughly enjoying responding to prompts, as you may have noticed. I only just discovered that people did this and I thank them. Life is so dull, the present ‘groundhog day’ routine means there is little inspiration coming from the day to day.
The arboreal
Subterranean network
Hidden from our sight
For the Tuesday Poetics at dVerse on the subject of Fungi. What we see is just a small part of the world of fungi – they are the forest super highway working amongst the root structures sharing nutrients between trees and themselves, they also send information – a wood wide web!
Evanescent pool
Reflection arboreal
Transitory glimpse
Bow of cruel defeat
Hardened by an arctic chill
Suspended beauty
