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a promontory;
moonlight’s downy glow reveals
silhouettes entwined
moonlight’s downy glow reveals
silhouettes entwined
Literature
Break
"We cannot fight for love, as men may do; We should be wooed and were not made to woo." - A Midsummer Night's Dream.
When you fall in love it doesn't break. When you hope, when you really hope it doesn't break and if it does you mend it, you bind it, you build it back up with glue or bandages or crumbling bricks. You mend it straight away and you keep mending it and repairing it over and over, even if it's breaking faster than you can fix it. Even if all of a sudden it's not the thing it was to start with, it's just a pile of mending...of mended parts. When there is no broken hope or love left, when there's nothing but dust, you die. In one
Literature
Pain
Hangs from your spine
like an incomplete, conjoined sibling
with no mind of its own
but enough of yours to make you fear it.
Comes when you are sleeping
to perch on your face and dip its beak
redly into your dreams.
Shucks its claws
on the upholstery of your flesh.
Is a fog-eyed poet, reading aloud to you
endless reams of his own passionate,
excruciating verse.
Squats in the waste it has made of you,
a basilisk-child
you dare not look in the eye.
Remembers the body when it moved
with the ease of light across a lake’s delicate skin.
Watches your babies grow
skins so thick they can’t feel you.
Is an illusion
overcome
Literature
affection drive
If I recycled
the love littered at your feet
hearts would starve no more.
All right. Lets see if I can work within the framework of classical haiku.
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Lovely as is expected from your work Sir.
I agree that the first line being one word does capture the essence of what a haiku is. Simplicity while still following the five/seven/five rule and capturing a single moment in time. That is the definition of a haiku. I do applaud you for this piece. It is excellent and well written and most pleasant to read.
As always, you never fail to please.
My deepest apologies for taking so long to get to your work. I am rather embarrassed considering you are so good about lending your opinion to my work as soon as it is submitted. Or at least within the first week.
I agree that the first line being one word does capture the essence of what a haiku is. Simplicity while still following the five/seven/five rule and capturing a single moment in time. That is the definition of a haiku. I do applaud you for this piece. It is excellent and well written and most pleasant to read.
As always, you never fail to please.
My deepest apologies for taking so long to get to your work. I am rather embarrassed considering you are so good about lending your opinion to my work as soon as it is submitted. Or at least within the first week.