all fresh wounds bleed red
but silent cuts unmended
weep in blackest dread
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*Inspired by the prompt Vigor from The Daily Post.
Haiku #632
Tag: The Daily Post
070 – Spare
He sees the world through bubbles and glass. Breathes air rationed through a mask cupped to his face. His limbs, when he did have them, have always been bound by wires from sources he couldn’t see.
“He’s just fully grown his right leg, Mrs. West,” the familiar garbled voice of a man says. “But his right eye is ready for harvesting.”
A woman’s exclamations of joy fill the room.
But nobody ever tosses a word of gratitude to him—
The human freakshow stuck in a vat of fluid, regrowing and losing body parts to fill up the incompleteness of strangers.
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*Inspired by the prompt flawed from The Daily Post.
Haiku #631
we are of one race
forced into differences
by mad ignorance
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*Inspired by the prompt Culture from The Daily Post.
Haiku #630
love’s vicious cycles
unchecked pillages of time
numb fossilized hearts
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*Inspired by the prompt Together from The Daily Post.
Haiku #629
wild desert flowers
underneath dark grains of sand
old, forgotten blooms
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*Inspired by the prompt Unpopular from The Daily Post.
Haiku 5
hearts yield sight to love
when souls start to remember
old flames long-forgot
~*~
A heart in love values souls not body parts.
Happy Pride Month~! 🏳️🌈
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*Inspired by the prompt Flames from The Daily Post.
Haiku 4
one less soul on earth
is one more watchful angel
in god’s great army
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*Inspired by the prompt Liminal from The Daily Post.
Haiku 3
true survival starts
when we move past numbing fears
to lend helping hands
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*Inspired by the prompt Resolved from The Daily Post.
Haiku 2
limbs gently swaying
aged rhythms of the wind
rustic trees in spring
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*Inspired by the prompt Tender from The Daily Post.
Haiku 1
we rise and we fall
we break like waves on the shore
on bold winds, we soar
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*Inspired by the prompt Tenacious from The Daily Post.
