Fear Sijo Poems

The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted.
In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth.
Writes a future living...

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Wars within and without with unimaginable ends.
My imagination crawls through the network of tunnels.
Minor hostages bound to their mother’s terrified heart.
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It takes a brave soul to face the hard truth in life we’re living
Without courage, fear may consume and limit righteous decisions
But faith in the...

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Walking through gardens and chards of glass, roses and thorns contend
    Sailing on whitecaps, drowning in fear, blues skies surrender no sun
Souls...

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Life is now broken piano, rhythm lost in isolation 
    Keys of happiness are silent, waiting for some miracle 
  ...

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Shame and fear of ridicule; chief contributing factors
for shrouded public awareness about depression, by bravely...
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Darkening skies blast colder challenges; the wise meet them with grace.

What brings hardships, shapes character; builds strength.

Face challenges well and be the best you can;...

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The raven has a bad reputation; it is undeserved.

Superstition has caused some to hate raven but, some fear him.

Birds are symbols for the soul; they...

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Clashing, flashing arrows; Bolts pierce the cotton ball clouds; thunder booms.

Another rainstorm visits and all lives, run for cover; in fear.

Old man, cloudburst, has a...

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In the darkness, glowing tiny green lamps.  No, that is not thunder; 

a guttural intonation echoes.  Crispy crunching dead twigs, 

reveal black cougar;...

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Tightened muscles tweak foreboding trills marking his silence

while aches of shrill shadows pit my paled bravado against loud fears -

my love etched heart would bear...

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Dandelion, standing tall, proud, no fear, guarded by the fairies.
A butterflies Spring salvation, the fairies bid them all welcome!
Sadly, fickle Spring poses a threat to...

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As the golden threads of silver, a mother protects her child
The path they will follow together, through life they leave deep footprints
The love that is...

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Sijo 4. 

          I wonder why as night deepens/my heart ponders from the fear
  ...

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(Although I have written a haiku on the same subject, I think this Sijo expresses my feelings in a better way.)





Rain swept away the debris...

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