HaikuPoetry 1
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May you wash away
All the petals of summer
As you eye winter's storm
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The flower bites through
As convoluted chaos reigns
Across nature's land
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121
It's been laying roots
Through wars and hatreds of old
This tree that stands alone
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120
Would you be merry
If time were to memories
What hands are to time?
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119
The troops carry on
Shouting words of wisdom's past
Into darkest night
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118
Tunicate the soul
Until its mouldy flowers
Rise out of chaos
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117
From sleep the embers grow
As night fires burn our dreams
Into glacial wings
116
Have you ever felt
The cold and blunt emotion
Of a poet's heart?
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115
I unplug my eyes
Then turn to the moon and howl
To silence the wolves
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114
Sometimes there is hope
A flourishing in the dark
In unseen places
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Thunder stills the air
Lightning illuminates souls
Rain puts out fires
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112
The ease of objects
As they bear the weight of time
Between life and death
111
Lavender dreams
Memories torn by fragrant beasts
Hearts broken by water
110
Nights are always strange
Things in darkness don't exist
Until the light affirms
109
We hollow beings rise
In the pearly white of dawn
Guardians of the edge
108
Gathered memories
Lost in the pioneering dark
To insignificance
107
Until they are lost
Memories are like seashells
Playing the ocean
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106
We are entities
Hoping to sharpen our edges
And fill our insides
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105
Mirrors shed tears too
Reflections of human hurt
In that other world
104
This battleground breathes
Squeezing the light out of souls
Making space for the dark
103
Let the darkness play
Let it covet darkened rooms
And hide inside cupboards
102
The best wild places
Are those that carry their fruit
Into winters' dawn
101
Perhaps the rain can sing
And forests dance to melody
In dreams of the sea
100
Stark jungle of life
Were that I knew how to live
To rise above the mud
99
Thickest candles burn
And smoke is a predictable fate
When the wick has won
98
Truths belie their age
They melt and mould beyond time
Out of existence
97
If I can be me
In any room that I find
Only then am I free
96
Fear not brave fellow
For when the dancing sinks the moon
Those creatures will be lost
95
Emptiness abides
As the unknown sends whispers
From beyond the dark
94
What use is living
If all living memories cease?
Lost upon the wind
93
Inconspicuous soul
He who waits for tragedy
But does not intervene
92
Memories of the past
A faint line of yesterday's flood
And now the rotting wood
91
Frozen imparted words
Unable to reach the dark
To spread news of the light
90
I dreamt of horses
And of men galloping along
Where fish raced in tanks
89
Blurred clouds on the sky
Are they but a dream of charcoal
In a black and white world?
88
Like empty flowers
Caught in the stilled breeze of time
We rest on hollow stems
87
Bright sapphire stones
Catching the sun's light in beauty
In a moment of time
86
Raised by human wolves
Who know not of gentility
Only of preying in packs
85
Candles burning low
This magnificent life burns
Then hardens like wax
84
Quiet feet on the roof
Is it a bogeyman of night
Or a sleepwalking cat?
83
Never outside yourself
Since birth you have worn this vessel
And shared its time and space
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Transcendently sublime
Masters of the age of science
Strangers to the soul
81
Alien landscapes
Arid visions of the future
Just something I dreamt
80
Nothing ever brightens
Until its flame has gone out
Physicality no more
79
The fire furious
Burns through the night of winter
Of all illumine things
78
I have never seen
The void between life and heaven
Nor have I dared look
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No light asunder
Let the darkness find its way
So that it may depart
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There is friction in air
This physical world rubs us
Out of existence
75
No scene as bleak
As this empty sky, but for gold
Reflected from thy view
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Jagged edges of light
This carpet of dreams called city
A graveyard of hope
73
Dark illumination
Of the words that hide in shadows
Fleeing from my pen
72
The hours of darkness
Filled by purple coloured dreams
Until dawn bites my eyes
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The dividing line
Between beautiful chaos
And logical sense
70
Giant beasts sit in groups
As we pass on white horses
Looking for angels
69
The distraction of bees
While words fly off of the page
Between sips of tea
68
The wild rush of words
Like a twisted fever dream
Hunting for blank spaces
67
Destiny loves freedom
To act outside of any fate
And to follow faith
66
Ears are sculptured things
That bend the thoughts of others
To suit our own minds
65
The atmosphere looms
Like a cauldron of human thought
Of beating hearts conjoined
64
If our memories
Were like towns that we could visit
Which would we call home?
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Triangular judgement
Fear of not being circular
Of coming back around
62
The cerebellum
Helps us move moment to moment
Like curious ants
61
I love to stroll through
The quaint villages of your mind
And pick flowers there too
60
The butterfly moves
Through all society's ills
Without losing beauty
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Over the city lights
Simplicity enraptured
As you flap your wings
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If trees could bleed out
Or if blades of grass could scream
We'd live nestled like snakes
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Never frowning seas
Deliriums of nature
I swallow the breeze
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The ethereal sky
Lifted from my solemn dreams
And replaced by war
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Beauty of the mind
Like a rosebud yet to unfurl
Its folds are in place
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We loose our senses
In the art of misdirection
Until time is all
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The dark mines of sleep
A series of hollow tunnels
Beneath my waking eyes
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The vibrating edges
On which reality sits
Is where I fall to sleep
51
Eyes closed under sand
The weight of the world all around
Inner peace underground
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Down this cobblestone road
No baggage and light as air
I find sublimity
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The dying wind carries
A million hopes and dreams
Surrendered to the rain
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The echoes from here
Spread like wildfires in summer
Bad news travels like this
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The scalpel's edge bleeds
For the many cuts underneath
Its sterile silver
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The winter hearts burn
Condensation upon their souls
Icicles on their toes
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The rainbow ends up
In a puddle of fresh rain
Muddied by the land
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We are building this
Candyfloss generation
Fluffy but no substance
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When this smoke clears
Follow me into the fire
Ashes in your teeth
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The whiteout of sense
As we enter metropolis
And forget the trees
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Concoction deadly
These ardent melodies
Refrain common thought
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This vacuous wound
Is the pity of dark souls
And timbered frames
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The dreams not hurried
Into winter's shallow bowels
Have chance of summer
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The ragged pilferers
Weighed down by their inner guilt
Not their bag of bronze
37
The myriad of ways
A soul can be born to hell
Bit by bit... unaware
36
These veins are cinder
Burnt like the emotions within
Lost incombustible
35
Frozen memories
Can be picked and defrosted
But do not refreeze
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The greys are coming
To sleeping towns and consciences
With a synapse surprise
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Bended tree wilting
In love with the soggy ash ground
Hell awaiting fury
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The dark frame bone lines
That define me to matter
Like an acid cartoon
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Regret is rooted
In the places you never lived
Among broken fences
30
There is a north wind
That freezes your inner soul
But warms your tender heart
29
I love it when clowns
Do not hide their saddened eyes
And portray something true
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The salient moon
That rises above our kingdom
Gives weight to our dreams
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The oblivion
That explodes inside of you
When you close your eyes
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Those beautiful eyes
Broken by yesterday's tears
Saved by tomorrow's hope
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The raven stares at me
And I stare back at his darkness
Deeper than the night
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Eyesores are common
When you love beautiful things
But your stare is ugly
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The floating grandeur
Of a life born from decay
Is never solid stone
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He, Overlander
Must trench out the desert's miles
To live up to his name
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That blood of Jove
Beautiful Sangiovese
Melting into my tongue
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She fell into nature
Consumed by the falling leaves
And kissed by the petals
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The trickling streams
Talk to my inner calm
And silence my mind
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Sleeping villages
Sheltered by the forest trees
And nature's spirit
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The silence of the moon
That strange mirror of my soul
Is where beauty lies
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These anonymous streets
Where the rain falls heavy and hard
Are good for the soul
15
Raise me when I sleep
Let me see my dreams awake
The colours between the sands
14
Our minds forbid change
For understanding is blind
The world doesn't conform
13
My perception of now
Is but a fleeting conscience
That never repents
12
We flounder in silence
Faces of chaos and despair
Looking for the light
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May all lovers' ills
Be rectified by the gods
That fix broken hearts
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Let me fall into
A quiet revelation
Disguised as a lie
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Let these words roll out
With hurried spontaneity
And absence of mind
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The future is waiting
It is thinking on the past
A present whisper
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Between grains of sand
Warrior atoms are born
To break matter apart
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We roll on like spheres
Hollow moons with no direction
Destination unknown
5
The flames kiss the sky
For all that humanity
Has burnt to ashes
4
All is quietly unseen
In the land of silence and darkness
I wait for you there
3
Everything dream
Locked in uncertain circles
Never discovered
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Delve your head in snow
Feel the purity of it unfold
As it freshens your soul
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This brings to mind
The many things unspoken
The many truths unheard