Cradle

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baby, doorway, empathy, haiku, life, people, poem, sadness

once somebody’s child
now lives, dross, in a doorway
cradle has fallen

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Killed

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death, hunters, pathos, pheasants, poetry, sadness, shooting, tanka

On the welsh roadsides
windblown feathers of pheasants
mown down by traffic
Hunters robbed of their victims
Unconscionable pathos

Woe

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author, haiku, poem, poetry, sadness, woe

On listening to a tale of woe

his fair, faded dreams
such great, crumpled ambition
unpublished author

Feline

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cats, feline, friendship, philanthropy, pity, poetry, sadness

Neighbours cat is thin, gaunt in fact.
He moves stiffly through his silent world
intent on getting to his next comfortable spot
wearing a ‘Please don’t feed me’ collar
to deter philanthropists, like me
who are tempted to overlook his kidney problems.
I dread that approaching day
when he is taken for the final
vets visit.
Please Fate, let him have at least
this one last, contented summer
a fine feline in the warm sun

sad, smile

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haiku, people, poetry, sadness, smiles, stranger, tea

 

On noticing a stranger

There sits a sad soul
Permeated by lost dreams
A cup of tea; smiles

Condemed

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beauty, flowers, haiku, photography, poem, poetry, sadness, trapped

Imprisoned in gloom
flowers at a closed window
condemned by beauty

Thoughts

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dispossessed, haiku, homeless, nature, poem, sadness, weather, winter

On feeling sorrow

Snuggled in the warmth

Bitter east winds scream outside

Thoughts of dispossessed

Miserable

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birds, black, corvid, Crow, haiku, nature, poem, sadness

On hearing a lone corvid

Fed up with all black

Shoulders hunched, notes of despair

Disconsolate crow

reaching out

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compassion, haiku, hate, hatred, kindness, love, poetry, sadness

On seeing an act of kindness

’tis said that kindness
is best bestowed on haters,
on the bleakest souls

Merry

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christmas, dogs, haiku, pathos, poetry, sadness

Merry Christmas, ha!
Enjoy your wee tree they said
Come on, let’s go home