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Floor of the abyss --
what lurks there? Abandoned fears,
rest, a simple peace

#haiku #haikufeels [abyss] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
"If leaves and cow thieves
can rustle, why can't I?" said
the cold soup, failing

#haiku #haikufeels [rustle] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
Reposted by John Kerl
Hollow bones, light flight --
keen minds, territorial --
rancorous murder

#haiku #haikufeels [marrow,rancor,crow] #writingprompt #blueskypoets
Abashed, I stumble --
stutter -- utter fears -- eerie,
then, your warm smile

#haiku #haikufeels [eerie] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
When stubborn lovers
don't move on -- rancid taste fills
each room they enter

#haiku #haikufeels [rancid] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
An antique mirror --
baroque-framed, half-silvered -- I
reflect spectrally

#haiku #haikufeels [spectral] #writingprompt #blueskypoets
"They were just like us",
we say -- ten thousand years on --
haze of ignorance

#haiku #haikufeels [haze] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
In cold, damp barrow
warm hand grasps graven relic --
jealous old bones stir

#haiku #haikufeels [relic] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
Reposted by John Kerl
a splinter of thought
buried in my waking mind
festers into dream

#haikufeels #haiku
Cringey things I said --
like splinters in the soul, deep,
not to be plucked out

#haiku #haikufeels [splinter] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
The veil to the
other world parts -- young me
smells Grandma's cookies

#haiku #haikufeels [veil] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
A blood-curdling scream --
oh reader, the horror! -- my
coffee cup's broken

#haiku #haikufeels [curdle] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
Passion's words spoken
Flame demolishes decades
Just embers remain

#haiku #haikufeels [ember] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
Bones, pottery shards --
these we dig up; songs, dreams, loves
gone like dust, all lost

#haiku #haikufeels [skeletal] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
Vines twining upward
not creepy but stalwart -- yes,
I admire them

#haiku #haikufeels [creep] #writingprompt #blueskypoets
Nothing as lonely
as amends gone unuttered:
pride goeth alone

#haiku #haikufeels [desolate] #writingprompt #blueskypoets
Clouds torn by the wind,
aches of unspoken regret:
rain and tears come soon

#haiku #haikufeels [tatters] #blueskypoets #writingprompt
I won't say it's a
shrine, per se, but the shelves of
books read are holy

#haiku #haikufeels [shrine] #writingprompt #blueskypoets
Thought it was three-star --
their bread rolls weren't even hot --
ghastly experience

#haiku #haikufeels [ghastly] #writingprompt #blueskypoets
Well, I thought it said
Feta Cheese -- too bad, so sad --
won't do that again

#haiku #haikufeels [fetid] #writingprompt #blueskypoets
Forever is not
a thing, to have, or hold --
let's make tomorrows

#haiku #haikufeels [forever] #writingprompt #blueskypoets
Future lies ahead,
an unpaved and unplowed road,
carved by our choices

#haiku #haikufeels [future] #writingprompt #blueskypoets