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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morality

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bears, guns, haiku, hibernation, hunters, hunting, immorality, morality, nature, poem, sadness, wildlife

little men, big guns
now they can shoot sleeping bears
Oh, America!

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

Sad

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

Found an old vet’s bill

‘Euthanasia, white cat’

Memories, heartache 

Lost

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coffee, haiku, sadness, shadows, us photograph

 

 

 

Lost on a dark shelf

Way out of their comfort zone

Vase of sad flowers

sad

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birds, collared dove, garden, haiku, helpless, injury, ornithology, sadness, sorrow

there in the garden
collared dove with broken wing
such dire helplessness

goodbyes

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airports, faewell, goodbyes, haiku, loss, sadness, separation

Airport departure
tightest hugs and broken hearts
such a big wide world

Fly

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flight, flying, gravity, haiku, nature, sadness, seagull

Carried by the breeze
a seagull on high, calling.
Feet cannot leave ground

Casualty

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bird kill, haiku, nature, sadness, wildlife, window

Outline of a bird 

Smeared on kitchen window

Breakneck collision