Sometimes the news leaves you despairing of humanity.
Cold Cold News
By Scott Bailey © 2013
The news chills today
The child killers found guilty
Will justice suffice?
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Haiku
Poem a day challenge #60 (Winter)
Winter
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Nothing, nothing, blank.
Beneath winter’s hard black ice.
Water flows freely.
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Poem a day challenge #52 (There yet?)
There yet?
By Scott Bailey © 2013
I am almost there.
At the point of completion
Forever it seems.
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Poem a day challenge #47 (Summer Clouds)
Internet is down. Have spent last three hours trying to sort it. Brain is frazzled. Eyes are barely functional. So, writing this on my phone. It’s one of my old ones.
Summer Clouds
By Scott Bailey
A quavering wave
of light in the summer clouds
as the sun goes down.
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Poem a Day Challenge #40 (Silence)
Silence
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Silence is Golden
Because it’s so very rare
Grab it while you can
Poem a Day Challenge #34 (Cross – Senryu version)
Today I was made aware of the poetic form of the Senryu and what distinguishes it from a Haiku. I was not aware of this and so my past attempts were probably hybrids in many cases.
If you are interested in the difference there is a good page here explaining it.
I was made aware of it by these posts.
and
Over at the blog of Bastet and Sekhmet
So here is my first attempt – which is yesterday’s poem distilled into this form.
Senryu: Cross
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Fleeing from killers
The child runs desperately
To fill out a form.
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Poem a Day Challenge #2 (Nation)
Well – so pressed for time today that I decided to do a haiku – being short!
However – I have also had the kids tune “I’m a Jingle Jangle Scarecrow” going around and around in my head! And toothache!
So this one is born out of all that.
Nation
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Kerching! Kerchang! Pow!Our economy picks up!
Soul still desolate.
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