haiku – Page 8 – One Woman's Quest

Chance

Ignorance divides –
willingness to cross fear’s lines –
chance for unity

(Written for Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge: chance & unite)

Hush Child; you are safe –
torment ended, threat dispersed –
we have survived, whole.

(Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt is child & safe.)

Physical prowess
a weighty goal – bliss delayed
by self-punishment.

(Written for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Challenge: brawn/bliss)

(Inspired by Steve Still Standing‘s “An Exercise in Poetic Styles”)

Even the river bleeds –
fiery frigid essence –
earth’s watery voice.

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It is the river
that calls, waters flowing
through my veins
and I am the banks
steadfast in my holding

the razor sharp edges
like liquid steel
eroding my earthen
postures, challenging
the hardened places.

Serenity waits,
wrapped in Nature’s artful call,
harmony’s invite.

Light fades, as do I –
with age comes redundancy,
moving with shadows,
safety in darkness –
wisdom in obscurity.