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

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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

sad

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birds, birdstrike, death, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, sadness

on the clean window
faint outline of a songbird
such a sad demise

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

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.