Haiku Story Fragment
(Dedication: In Memorium, Jane Reichhold, haiku poet)
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Once upon then
Only men wrote haiku;
Jane broke trends when?
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Eulogy lines
Fate oversees;
Suicide note
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Death by choice
Broken by water;
Drowning excavation
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Famous haiku poet
Pain drowns life;
Fibromyalgia
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So much reason
Drowns ripe season;
Decay instructs
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Pain gathers more
More than enough;
Death cascades store
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Words feel strange
Strange pain reflex;
A drowning dance
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Sad feels so true
Siren sings the blues;
Stray thoughts of you
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Dawn reveals
A new hymn here;
Light elevates
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Purpose plans
Passion acts;
Death attends
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To create more
Destroy old scores;
Construct new yarn
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Sad misery weeps
Sober strange sleep;
Dreamy moments creep
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Craft in sure draft
Simple words sum;
Draft upon craft
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Mortal fate hangs
Noose upon pain;
A broken brief
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Well-lived life
Words on water;
Quitting par excellence
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If you must know:
Exit speaks hush;
Unfinished business
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Last page stolen
Forfeit that urge;
Pain suffocates reach
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Joy knows a way
Construct destruct;
Forced full-stop embossed
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Here lives lines
Story fragment torn;
No more pain perhaps?
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Words urge
Worth tiles;
Craft smiles
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Quest suspended
Last page unsung;
Abrupt page break
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Simple lines stray
Words cannot stay;
Feel new strokes play
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Leon Enriquez
05 January 2017
Singapore
Copyright © Leon Enriquez | Year Posted 2017
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