A Spooky Haiku
babes put on their masks
join haunted street processions
feet crunch dead leaf paths
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Words and Photography ©2017 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me
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Month: October 2017
A Gusting Haiku
burnt foliage displayed
like ancient kings’ blood-stained cloaks
strong winds rip away
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Words and Photography ©2017 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me
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Falling
falling
gentle drop down
the sole flight of spent leaf
cut off from life-sustaining tree
spinning freely, wind-tossed, euphoric flight
lands among the ground’s dead fodder
fuel the tree roots tap
autumn’s leaves are
falling
~
Words and Photography ©2017 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me
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Cherita #9
the writer was blocked
chapters and characters remained nameless
and the plot had holes
kicked the word bucket,
flooding pages
with a title wave of letter combinations
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Faced
faced, unmovable
tree grew on unyielding stone
roots stretched to tap ground
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Cherita #8
slice through thick skin
gut core
and scrape clean
candlelit brain
illuminates
jack-o-lantern grin
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The Hour Passed
the hour passed
the flowers –
some we dried
hung upside down
life evaporated
taking
scent
and
hue
leaving crinkled paper petals
fragile shell reminders
of the bloom the hour spent
some we pressed
trapped between the pages
smothered
removed
stiff
and
dry
coated in artificial fragrance
sprayed from a non-aerosol can
added to the bowl of potpourri
but
whether
dried
or
pressed
the flowers
remind us
of the
hour
before
it
passed
~
for my friend, Terry, whose light lives on in the words he left behind on his blog: https://spearfruit.com/
~
Words and Photography ©2017 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me
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