haiku, tanka and poetry by gennepher

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even death
does not release
promises made

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black raven
cawing
prayers

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they called him shiftless
but
he was merely shifted

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a black tear
falling from the sky
raven

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old road ends
untrodden path begins
the fool leaps

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with every stitch
she carefully placed
a thought
finally
the hand made doll was ready

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time
got the better
of her
she always
arrived late

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words

holding you

insect snared in spider's web

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mist separating her
from herself
sometimes it cleared

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the telegram came
vitriol and poison
seared in every word

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the children
two leaves dancing
caught in the breeze

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bereft
lost
searching

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one by one
they faded away
she was heartbroken

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interconnecting links
broken
one by one

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from the beginning
death
arose

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lying in the snow
weeping
black rose

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soul less windows
buildings gazed
unseeingly

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transitory wanderer
homeless
between worlds

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echoing silently
the whisper
died

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holding hands
they kept the shadows
from each other

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utterly still
single crow
on a blackened tree

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the shadow
gone for awhile
waited to come back

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cradling
diamond bright stars
tree  branches

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beautiful flower
seldom lifted her petals
thought she was ugly

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she wondered
where
does thought end?

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flying as one
wing tip to wing tip
two ravens

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stories
getting lost
in the telling

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on the far side  of parting
loneliness
accompanies

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dark  mantle of night
threadbare
pinholes of light

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writing
in the sky
untidy flock of starlings

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