Let Go
...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'...
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Categories:
harakiri, character, conflict, confusion, growing
Form: Sonnet
Honor
...Cut down those opposed
More in how one seeps tea leaves
Harakiri death...
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Categories:
harakiri, feelings,
Form: Haiku
Buried Secrets
...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
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Categories:
harakiri, life, nostalgia, sad, social
Form: Haiku
Harakiri
...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 thi...
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Categories:
harakiri, life,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Harakiri
...Crossroads without roads
Bonsai trees slapped by sandstorms
Kites slam in rice fields...
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Categories:
harakiri, life, nature
Form: Haiku
Sadness Love
...Origami dream
Bonsai blossoms illusions
Harakiri wish
For Brian's Noun Haiku Contest...
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Categories:
harakiri, life, lost love, sad
Form: Haiku