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My Haiku

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words ~ felt, breathed, cried, bled ~

added to novel’s body

this tale, constructing

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📸 Alannah Cliff

Life Moves

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life
moves
down a path
strange
yet known
like the soft cheek
untouched
but kissed
or the moon
distant
and understood
in the liquid reflecting pools
of the eyes
seen
unseen
seeing
blind
felt
in the dark
shining
through tears
reaching
probing
always
seeking
strangely
known

life
moves

its
juxtapositions
positioned
sublime

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Words and Photography ©2018 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me

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A Skewed Haiku

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Earth’s rains, unbalanced

caught in men’s blind-justice scales

fat floods top famines

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Cherita #14

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dissonant chord struck

guitar strings pulled
too tightly

their tension teased
latent teardrops
from the heavy air

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Words and Photography ©2018 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me

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An Enduring Haiku #2

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deep roots sustain bloom

flower persists in its hue

in tender display

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A Rapturous Tanka

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deep sanctuary

surrounded by a garden ~

trees, flowers, old books

feasts for passion’s partaking

undone, satiated soul

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Words and Photography ©2018 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me

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A Growing Haiku

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adventure awaits

step ahead and glance behind

know that I am there

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Note: Photo taken at Stonefield Village, part of the Wisconsin Historic Society

A Reflected Haiku

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lakeshore walk at night

cool waves bathe stones and bare feet

in liquid moonlight

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A Luminous Haiku

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humble in splendor

glory tops watered lilies

while rain rusts kings’ crowns

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Danced

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danced on the edge of the baker’s knife
the plot thickened
like chocolate ganache
until it crumbled

tension released
in a shower of shavings
over the already frosted
chapter-layered
cake

hands, poised to crack open the book,
positioned the knife
and sliced deeply

then, like cake devoured,
the story
savored,
swallowed,
digested,
and
imbued

baker and patron,
reader and writer,
danced

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