Night Breeze Carves Calm Waters - Hiku 12 -
Written: May 31st, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand
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Categories:
carves, beauty, night,
Form: Haiku
Geppetto Carves a Son
Geppetto was tired of being without a son.
He had dreamed of a son all his life
It had not happened for him and his wife
A son? Yes, a son. Geppetto really wanted one.
In a dream he thought of carving his own.
One with scruples, not an Al Capone.
He would name his son Pinocchio.
And train him the ways
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Categories:
carves, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Why Sweetheart Why Do I So Love, Then Life So Carves Me Up
Why Sweetheart Why Do I So Love, Then Life So Carves Me Up
As I wrote a surging stab of pain splashed into my brain
Electric agonizing pulses ate ever deeper within
I wanted to touch love but darkest devil bid me abstain
Crying out, "You are mine dog such would be a mad, raging sin
This old aging heart
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Categories:
carves, art, break up, creation,
Form: Rhyme
It's Worth It All
IT'S WORTH IT ALL
He carves and sands where I am rough
And smooths those corners down
And “ouch” it often hurts, I say
As His tools go all around
And yet I know that when He's through
No more a 'plaint I'll make
E'n though it may hurt at times
I know it's for my sake
Sometimes if I had tried to live
In
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Categories:
carves, appreciation, character, christian, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
The Tombstone Carves Itself
The tombstone carves itself
When you are ready to embark
On an underground journey
Where your body fades
But your soul survives
Your name is being spelled out
In charming calligraphy
And as the gravestone crafts 2005
You are incapacitated with fatality
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Categories:
carves, death, introspection, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?