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Calm My Mind

God please calm my mind
And heal my heart, I am drained
Please take away pain

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Glimpse

Hiding in the dark

Sun beams through a rough parchment

Glimpse of a rainbow

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Hello

I arrive in Peace
The warmth of home says hello
I have come to stay

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The Still Quiet Air

The still quiet air
The freezing touch of his hand
Death is by my side

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Chill   Death   Haiku

Poetic insomnia

The battle begins -

Poetry behind my eyes

Will not let me sleep. 

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Insomnia

A midnight black sky

Seen in the bedroom mirror

By eyes that won't close

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Sunday evening teacher blues

I should be working

My brain has reached its limits

And wants to drink wine

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Why the hell did I agree to this

School swimming lesson

The hell of nineteen wet kids

To get dried and dressed

 

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Swimming   children   haiku

Where Poetry Is Found

 

It’s in those moments 

That make us smile whilst crying

We find poetry.

 

It can be found as

The sun leaves behind a sky

Made of candy floss.

 

It can be found at 

Dawn, beneath the thunder cloud

Which could quench or drown.

 

It can be found in

The caress of a loved one,

You won’t see again.

 

It can be found by

Those who still demand justic...

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My Sunset Haiku as a Sunset Englyn

My Sunset Haiku [1] as a Sunset Englyn [2]

 

A green flash from the setting sun - and night

Now sea and sky are one

Dusk from the gold orb is spun

Thus this mystic day is done

 

 

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1.

Where sea and sky meet

                a green flash from the set sun

Lighting distant shores

 

2.

The Welsh englyn unodl union is a straight one-rhymed englyn consi...

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haiku   englyn form   englynion   sunset   day   night   dusk   sun   dark   sea   horizon

A Silly Haiku

William had it wrong

                A haze of purple bluebells

Much more amazing

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haiku   daffodils   bluebells   Wordsworth

To That Person Who Chips In To Finish A Crossword For You

To That Person Who Chips In To Finish A Crossword For You

 

It is much harder

To answer all but one clue

Than the missing last

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Too blue to breathe

Blended is thy blue and sly be the cue
one flew over two,
resting in peace a few,
me and me and me and me and you.

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Words Flow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Words flowing from my mind
Touching people I don't know
Facing the future

 

 

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Haiku   Senryu   Words

Prayer

Set the paper boat

afloat upon the river

to find divine hands

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Stormy Blue Eyes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

His stormy blue eyes
Mesmerized many women
But they sparked for her

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Haiku   Stormy   Eyes

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