connected

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bonding, connected, contact, distress, haiku, humanity, loss, poem, poetry, sadness, strangers

(being human)

Oddly distressing
sadness in a stranger’s face
eye to eye contact

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Loss

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charity, haiku, ideas, loss, politics, Tolerance, victims

In today’s climate
Charity and tolerance
Such easy victims

times

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fishing, haiku, loss, time, times

Thinking we had time
We planned a day fishing
Sometime, then, no times.

 

fallen

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bugles, death, history, life, loss, memorial, memories, sadness, short story, war

On finding a neglected memorial to a forgotten war …

 

The bugle’s long faded call took with it all promise of eternal memory.
Names carved in stone often lasted not much longer than the generation
that composed them, causes became historical and worse, academic,
families adopted new priorities and the dead faded into unrecognised
faces staring from indistinct sepia cards.
Perhaps it was for the best: the solutions to conflicts were invariably the
result of pragmatism and essentially found in the present with an eye to
the future.
The fallen remained beyond all wanting; such is the nature of lives and
of deaths.

Lost

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flowers, loss, poem, poetry, roadside, sadness, shrine, time

on passing a road side shrine

 

Haphazard blooms
From sodden bouquets
Roadside pathos
Empty armed,
Teddies with fixed grins
Clutch condolence cards
“Now with the Angels”
“Rest in Peace”
“Miss you”
Traffic, and time, passes

Gone

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death, friend, friendship, grief, haiku, humour, loss

An old friend has gone

Passed on, is no more, snuffed it

His humour, great loss

Sad

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cat, death, euthanasia, haiku, loss, memories, sadness, veterinary

Found an old vet’s bill

‘Euthanasia, white cat’

Memories, heartache 

missed

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beauty, foreign, haiku, loss, morning, screen, sun, sunrise

staring at the screen
looking for foreign beauty
he missed the sun rise

browsers

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browsing, existence, haiku, internet, loss, mind, mindfulness, people, summer, thoughts, weather

unused minds browsing
vicarious existence
summer passes by

lost youth

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death, depression, facebook, haiku, loss, suicide

Being young and lost
he stepped off life’s brief journey
Friends wrote on Facebook