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poetry, prose, and photography
Distant echoes play
Emotions raised from my past
Words obscured by time.
Insecurities
Flickering across my mind
Sleep brutalized
Critical to climb
Ascend to the greatest heights
Thus see the long view
My response to “Today’s @baffled #HaikuChallenge: any haiku you like, as long as it has the word ‘long’ in it….” on Twitter.
Reflect on myself
Walking upon these same streets
Changed and new blended.
Walking upon old roads
My childhood feet trode.
Memories, feelings lurking
Forgotten flit forth, bird-like;
A flicker upon consciousness
Vanishing like morning fog
Leaving no trace save the
Dream-like phantom reflection
Of my youth.
Sunlight drifts on wind
Cool intensity floating
Flowers greet the morn
Journeys create souls
Deepening our deepest depths
First step: send ourselves.
Daily decay’s
Raging presence
Death’s fragrance
Fills me deeply.
Then that morning’s
Ragged breathing,
Brutal truth of
Impending silence.
Air moving with grace
Bright colors dance lightly now
Resisting still air