empty

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granddaughter, haiku, life, loss, love, poetry, sadness

baby granddaughter
visit ends, waves and kisses
such an empty space

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ache

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haiku, life, loss, people, poetry, relationships, sadness

On observing a sadness

With the ache of memory
she suffered his weight
the insufferable boredom
the physical presence
she had not carried it well
neither her heart
nor her back
remained unbowed

Beware

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animals, cats, death, haiku, lilies, Lilly, loss, nature, poetry, poison, toxic, wildlife

On hearing a neighbour’s dilemma

Elegant lilies
such innocent assassins
poisonous to cats

Bruised

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beauty, camellia, flowers, garden, haiku, loss, nature, poetry, rain, spring, weather, wildlife

bruised by springtime rains
delicate camellia
brief lives cut so short

Damn!

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death, friendship, haiku, loss, mortality, poem, poetry

Damn, blast and damn it!
Another friend ceased to be
Mortality sucks!

 

calm

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grief, grieving, haiku, loss, memories, pain, peace, poetry

On hearing of a friend’s grief

She had reached a peace
becalmed in her memories
years had eased the pains

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

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.