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{un}holy haiku - 3rd Edition


mskate

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recognizable 

silhouette at horizon 

this life and the next  

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springing and unsprung 

questioning life before death 

while burning laurels 

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feel her aching heart 

febrile to be fertile when  

the fool's pride is past  

  

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can't disguise the truth

raise the dead by decree or

silence flutes of reed 

 

 

(Legend says that Roman emperor Trajan had goat ears. When his barber noticed that, he knew he must keep silent. But the urge to tell somebody was too strong. So the barber went outside, away from anyone who could hear him, dug up a hole in the ground and said into that hole: "Emperor Trajan has goat ears!" There, he said it, filled the hole back up, he felt better and no one will know.  

But the reed grew over his buried words, young shepherds made flutes of that reed and when they played their flutes, everyone could hear - "Emperor Trajan has goat ears!"

The moral of the story is that it's possible to silence people, but it's not possible to stop the truth from becoming apparent, even if it takes some time or unusual means.)   

 

  

 

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find wizard's balloon 

in your cross-hairs while sober 

hamster stops in wheel  

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isolation hope 

reinforced by light feathers

shield of love and will  

 

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Hecate's answer 

in flowers scattered across

endless greening field 

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young the ancient mind

laughs with cat who steals bones cast

by once broken hand  

    

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kettle starts piping 

cold, they say, fingers in ears 

honey in my brew   

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steam scents and bird song 

reminiscent dark clumps in

luminescent stream  

   

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in and out of lives 

easier done than said but 

we forget so fast   

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we forget so fast

sounds of laughter, heat of a

kiss, embrace of love

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kiss, embrace of love 

sent by soul mail at speed of 

living, healing light 

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