Tuesday 28 January 2014

haiku and micropoetry by gennepher




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I say my prayers
a lullaby of hours
begins its song

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on the bedroom wall
my shadow
it shivers

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in the mirror
a dreamscape
of your day around me


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a gate
that never opens
keeping distance alive

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daisy chain
in that shallow stream
her thoughts floating


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rippling
the silent lake
a stone echoes


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curtains of gauze
my soul's longing
what was it I saw?

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cradling the crescent moon
gently rocking her to sleep
an old gnarled hawthorn

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blue wedgewood china
willow tree, bridge and stream
a bird flies free

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whispering my name
in the gentle woods
your quiet spirit


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radiance
she keeps her light
within her dreams

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conspiracy of silence
together always
old unmarked gravestone


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looking glass sea
sea of sky
sky of sea

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in the palm of her hand
she caught it
a falling star


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in between
bare winter trees
scarlet dawn

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blue clouds and sun, majestic white clouds ~ you slipped away as night turned into day

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winter's frost, jewels of the morning sun

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sea foam taking flight, fluttering white butterflies kiss my toes

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carved on the bridge, our moss covered names

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midnight's moon, her lace shawl so still

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I breathe in sea air as I gather empty seashells
inside each one I write a haiku
and leave them to be found

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across a wooden bridge over a waterfall, a leaf tumbles

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white cat on the snow crust suddenly sinks, her two odd coloured eyes

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when the mask was lifted, the eyes were still fathomless

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sunset
trembling on the horizon
cards clouds of dusk

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sun behind the houses, I close my curtains and switch on the lamp

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deeper and deeper into the woods, the heady smell of pine

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origami
my young daughter
hands me a perfect crane


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seventeen years old
fat tabby cat
suddenly turns kitten

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yellow flower
all winter
waiting for a butterfly

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for the entire funeral
the only time
he held my hand


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a white horse rears
hooves pawing
snow covered ivy

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fog, just I and my car surrounded by a blanket of white


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wind chimes chiming
fat tabby cat opens her eyes
glares hard

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I go to bed to sleep
but sleep eludes
wanders somewhere else

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a dandelion
explodes stars
into the night sky

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wright's coal tar soap
my father scrubs me
behind the ears

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I drive past a field
shrouded in mists
just for one moment I see a unicorn


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a pavement puddle
more blue
than the sky


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unblinking
between slender stems of grass
a frog's eye

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snaking across the moors
in sunlight
an old tarmac road


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as clouds
race across the pond
a frog sits perfectly still

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rain and wind
rattle my window panes
dog and I disappear under my bedcovers

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raindrops
racing
down the window

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midnight rain
mannequins
dry behind the glass

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the silent child
she breathed in
the moon and stars

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I open the front door
a heavy blanket of fog
invites itself in

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