Haiku

[UsuallyPresent]

What is more needed?
The knife paring away rot
Or the bandages?

 

[summer_reine]

Version 1
As ghosts of the past
Fade, trusting calm returns so
new ghosts can emerge.

Version 2
Ghost whispers withdraw.
Believe, trust calm faded time;
Consummate new shades.

Which do you prefer? What would you change?

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Ghosts from the deep past
Haunt, changing our behaviour
As we remember


My take on the ghosts theme from @summer_reine

 

[AlinaX]

sign of things to come
assholes jerking off
in my DMs

 

[Voboy]

Things to come? Or came?
Dickheads toy with their cockheads,
Unasked and unassed.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Version 1
As ghosts of the past
Fade, trusting calm returns so
new ghosts can emerge.

Version 2
Ghost whispers withdraw.
Believe, trust calm faded time;
Consummate new shades.

Which do you prefer? What would you change?

Version 2

change? the ink is dry.
let your haiku drift like leaves
in an autumn wind.

 

[AlinaX]

ghost whispers fading
... from the calm
new shades

 

[Oshkosh60]

Version 1
As ghosts of the past
Fade, trusting calm returns so
new ghosts can emerge.

Version 2
Ghost whispers withdraw.
Believe, trust calm faded time;
Consummate new shades.

Which do you prefer? What would you change?

I like version 1 better

 

[Voboy]

I like version 1 better

...or,

Endless universe.
Unlimited choices... but?
First haiku: better.

 

[Oshkosh60]

whispers in the dark
of the love lost or far worse
love not even sought

 

[Oshkosh60]

afternoon hunger
being vegan and served
the fucking wurst lunch

 

[Voboy]

When worse comes to wurst,
Nothing else available.
Or, tofu? Too few.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Human food taboos
Fascinate omnivore-me -
Heart-felt obsessions

 

[Oshkosh60]

Often in summer
an erotic encumber
hefty cucumber

 

[Oshkosh60]

Homoerotic
The verse, the art and the prose
Sends tingles to toes

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Complementary
Verse rapidly becomes a
Well-intentioned curse.

(And yes, that's irony, right there...)

 

[AlinaX]

Okay....let me throw this out there....

If someone would like me to compose a haiku (why anyone would I have no idea) but I would be willing to try to do one for them personally.

ice on the window
crystals glitter between here
and the road ahead

 

[UsuallyPresent]

The road just ahead
Wrapped in time’s opacity
May swerve or run straight

 

[AlinaX]

uninvited guests
I need a fly swatter please
can anyone help?

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Yes, the world will keep
Turning after I'm gone, and
That is a good thing.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Your name passes on.
Whatever you do, just know -
Your name passes on.

 

[Voboy]

Whine of packing tape,
Heavy-laden steps outside.
The dumpster rattles.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Black pixels on white
A prosaic medium
To share thoughts across

 

[Candy_Kane54]

When I was born, the
Flag bore only forty-eight
Stars, two less than now.

First came Alaska
Just three days before my fifth
Birthday, a nice gift.

Then came Hawaii
Seven months later, making
Me older than both.

 

[Oshkosh60]

Twin Spires and bourbon
Pageantry, hats, racing forms
Horses, no horse sense