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April Musings - 7. Pulse and Drought

I wrote this haiku for the Love is Love anthology, but unfortunately I read the time for the submission deadline wrong and missed it. I'd still like to share it here, though.

Pulse

Red wails and flashes

Blue hastens to the fallen

A rainbow appears

 

 

The area I live in is currently suffering a severe drought, which inspired this piece.

Drought

Wizened stalks fold, defeated,

finding fractured fissures

burning for nature's quenching embrace.

A big thank you to AC Benus and Parker Owens for their input. You guys are awesome! Please leave a like or review and let me know how you liked my poems. :)
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Aw it's a shame your haiku missed being in Love is Love... It's very good, Val!
And the drought .. you poem made me feel the heat and dryness.. we aren't having one, but we could be soon....great job!!

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On 07/23/2016 07:43 AM, Mikiesboy said:

Aw it's a shame your haiku missed being in Love is Love... It's very good, Val!

And the drought .. you poem made me feel the heat and dryness.. we aren't having one, but we could be soon....great job!!

Thanks, Tim :) I'm glad you liked them. :)

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On 07/24/2016 02:51 AM, Parker Owens said:

And sometimes I feel like the drought itself....it is a great metaphor, too.

That's exactly what I was going for with the drought poem. :) Thanks for the review :)

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I totally agree with Tim, such lovely poem to be missed from anthology. Those two Haiku's have their own specialty according to love and nature. I loved them both. Lovely poems Val... :)

 

~Emi.

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On 07/24/2016 08:01 PM, Emi GS said:

I totally agree with Tim, such lovely poem to be missed from anthology. Those two Haiku's have their own specialty according to love and nature. I loved them both. Lovely poems Val... :)

 

~Emi.

Thanks, Emi. I'm glad you liked them. Only the first one is a haiku, though ;) Thanks for the review!

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Loved it! 

The last line of drought was so lovely...burning for nature's quenching embrace...such beautiful use of words...

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