A slight cooling tinge
A small cricket weariness
Sings autumn to the trees
Haiku: Changes
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Tag Archives: mortality
God’s fate
God was in one of his moods
Lightning seared the mountaintops
Bilious gases erupted in the seas
The earth opened and swallowed cities
Whole
Sacrifice a son? For what?
For that pathetic string of snot
Befouling my blue pearl?
Fate, serene, unmoved
Merely kept her gaze
Focused on the navel
Of heaven and earth
You banished them from their birthright
Sent them tumbling, willy-nilly
into the blackness
Of their own hearts
Into deathless ruination
Now some part of your immortal spark
must suffer anguish and die
Alright, alright!
But I’ll make the bastards pay!
Monday poetry prompt #17
A good one from We Drink because We’re Poets. Here’s my take:
Blustering grey clouds
No cover for the weary
Winter eyes shiver
Glass
The temperature of the planet‘s atmosphere is a scorching 1,000C, and it rains glass, sideways, in howling 7,000km-per-hour winds.
It rained.
Hot, searing transparencies
Welded too soon to our
Lovely dying skin
The howling thunder
Clapped, ignored, derided
Wreaked its vengeance
Each moment anew,
Anew, anew,
Until agony seemed a respite
Our muzzled minds could only bark
Why didn’t we…
In leaps dawn
In leaps dawn
Like impetuous whimsey
All dressed in fiery red
Eyes burning with mad ambition
A pox on sleep!
The fawning dead
Drifting endlessly into
Oblivion
Not for us!
Up like buttercups
Like spiky woven thistles
Up toward the solar apogee
Until finally, inevitably,
The long graceless glide
Begins again
In slips dusk
All dusky
exiles child 