Haiku 2011 - #84

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... a heavy heart

felled and voiced in drops

of winter rain ...

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Pages to ash

unwriting old words

back to the winds

to the earth, to the rains

to the oldest of dreams.

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No fade

these shadows in the rain

... no trade.

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Yes, chickadee, yes

songs to remember

... songs to forget.

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Sitting
leaving my lies
... to sediments of autumn.

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Tones of silence:
an open wound
... briefly forgotten.

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Earth sleeps, hearts atone
and crows ascend
... 'til night is done.

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Dip into velvet
this rest few fears can brook
... summer night.

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Here's a photo
a fragment crisp and coddled
... a prejudiced blade.

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Working hearts to find
... a shovel more
... a shovel more.

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(Inspired by Javi Indy at Flickr)

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Should I thank her
for nails unused
... and leftover peaces?

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Of far womb
the breast of day
too sweet to share.

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(Inspired by iliveinoctober at Flickr)

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She slips of black
to cover the grey
but not ... not to stay.

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(Inspired by Rachel A.K. at Flickr)

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Sinking into forest -
tempered blades of light
plunge, bleed and mend.

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Now to chrysalis
its desperate stitch -
home again ... home again.

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365 Tao Day 011 "Healing":

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Vicodin and color swatches
lip-biting and pristine crutches
bridal magazines and growing lists.

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