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Sunset Sadness

skyward straining sees sunflower sunset sadness: spent shells, soaked, shattered SECOND PLACE WINNER for the Sunflower Haiku Poetry Contest sponsored by Robert James Liguori written on 03/02/2022
The sunflower is Ukraine's national flower

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Date: 3/4/2022 1:05:00 PM
Congratulations on your win. "sunset sadness" is a lovely write. Have a great/blessed day.......................
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Date: 3/4/2022 12:45:00 AM
Congrats! Thanks for sharing this... with sentiments seeking supplication to be settled by the Saviour. God bless you.
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Date: 3/3/2022 6:44:00 PM
WoW! Jeff, This is stunning. Nice alliteration and content. Congratulations on your 2nd place win. It was well deserved. Have a nice evening-Alexis
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Date: 3/3/2022 5:45:00 PM
Love the amazing alliteration in your stunning haiku, Jeff! Congrats on your win! :)
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Date: 3/3/2022 4:27:00 PM
wow, that is quite the haiku. Strong message. Congrats for your win
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Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/3/2022 5:15:00 PM
Thanks, Andrea, I really appreciate that!
Date: 3/3/2022 3:55:00 PM
Congrats, Jeff, on second place!
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Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/3/2022 5:14:00 PM
Thank you, Kim!
Date: 3/3/2022 3:51:00 PM
Congratulations on your placement in this contest, Jeff. Good job!
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Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/3/2022 5:14:00 PM
thanks, this is not an area of strength. I don't think I understand them most of the time.
Date: 3/2/2022 11:35:00 AM
This poem weeps. May a new dawn arise with more sunflowers of joy lifting leaves in praises of salvations light. Amen.
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Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/2/2022 11:43:00 AM
Amen, indeed!
Date: 3/2/2022 10:30:00 AM
The sadness in the third line but may those sunflowers seed and reseed and take back what the enemy has tried to steal and quickly!
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Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/2/2022 10:35:00 AM
I agree completely. I did not mean it as an ultimate outcome. beauty from ashes, but there are some sorrowful tales coming out already

Book: Shattered Sighs