Hold

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haiku, hugs, London, love, Manchester, peace, surrender, terror

for London

Wage relentless peace
Take up arms, hug someone, now
Never surrender

Riposte

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Britain, courage, death, England, haiku, life, love, Manchester, poetry, terrorism, UK

Showing their courage
What is Manchester’s riposte?
Poetry and Love

hold tight

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answers, haiku, hatred, horrors, love, Manchester, people, terror

amidst such horrors
do not give in to hatred
reach out and hold tight

 

 

View from a train window

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forever, love, lovers, meadow, poem, poetry, train

Once upon a time
a meadow lay where
one Sunday afternoon
she loved me forever,
the grasses have gone
as has she, fallen
into the unreliable mists of memory
In its place, houses
populated by lovers
whispering forevers

What the World Needs Now …

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crowd, haiku, lonliness, love, need, people, World

Each feeling lonely
I saw a crowd of people
looking for something

Loving

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haiku, love, loving, people, Valentines, World

It’s Valentine’s Day
The World needs much more loving
Than twenty four hours

Oestre

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Easter, fertility, goddess, haiku, love, moon, Oestre, poem

Above the storm clouds
Oestre, goddess of the moon
Pale serenity

 

cup

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astronomy, haiku, heaven, love, moom, nature, sky, sunset

Low in the south west
curved blood orange moon hovers
heaven’s loving cup

from a chance meeting

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baleen whale, humpback, love, nature, tanka, whale

(for a change, a tanka)

on a blue black sea
my heart was gently stolen
by a humpback whale
rising from the holy deep
to stare into my bare soul

 

Short, short love story

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haiku, heart, love, short story, story

(Something different)

She smiled.
With consummate ease
he tripped over his heart and fell
into a lifetime
of penurious bliss.