Here I let go a wish again
Here I lose one more bargain
Was ready to start early at the dawn
Would have accepted a game drawn
Was instead handed a routing defeat
Call it a harakiri or a rival's feat
Never aimed as high as sky
Anyway didn't have wings to fly
Never aspired to be the brightest swan
Ended up being a favorite pawn
Time still has been good to me
Always had a few moments free
Life of me, didn't demand too much
I too have been abstinent just as much
Jan 24, 2016
For the poetry contest 'Self Inflicted'
Sponsored by: Anthony Slausen
Categories:
harakiri, character, conflict, confusion, growing
Form: Sonnet
Cut down those opposed
More in how one seeps tea leaves
Harakiri death
Categories:
harakiri, feelings,
Form: Haiku
where the seagull dies
stringless origami cries
loneliness of soul
koi fish suffocate
colors fade in Bonsai trees
island in distress
words not understood
shadows grin tricks on rice walls
tsunamis in eyes
geisha of the world
love is lost in illusions
freedom is her dream
men with cold fingers
whither blossom of her spring
harakiri end
in the seagull's grave
origami secrets kept
chicks learn how to fly
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Categories:
harakiri, life, nostalgia, sad, social
Form: Haiku
The task commissioned,
the black sand tested,
deemed worthy
of hard use.
A sword-smith's prayer
lifts aloft to the Shinto shrine
requesting his soul be captured
in the mirrored grain
of this, his finest blade.
An earthen furnace raging,
flames licking the entrance.
To smelt, to cleanse,
charcoal carbon to mix,
breathing strength
into raw tamahagane.
Shingane, kawagane,
one brick of each.
feeding the mouth
of a greedy forge.
Regurgitating and melting,
making pliable these.
Leathered craftsman hands
drive out flaws and sparks,
hammering, bending,
meticulously folding
thirty-thousand times.
Tired and spent,
black eyes linger
over the polished steel,
to inspect and examine,
acknowledging a masterpiece.
Now, commission completed,
his motive revealed.
with an unthinkable descent;
momentum for a sickening plunge,
as his own life force
runs red the reflective hada.
Categories:
harakiri, life,
Form: Free verse
Crossroads without roads
Bonsai trees slapped by sandstorms
Kites slam in rice fields
Categories:
harakiri, life, nature
Form: Haiku
Origami dream
Bonsai blossoms illusions
Harakiri wish
For Brian's Noun Haiku Contest
Categories:
harakiri, life, lost love, sad
Form: Haiku