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 Jan 2018 fadwa
Shilpa Shyam
As I try to Haiku
while you drift
to sleep,my wee one
I'm struck by how life waltzes
like the energy in a wave, a zephyr of color,
I'm a rainbow fading as you
slowly gloriously gain your splendor
 Jan 2018 fadwa
Maggie Emmett
The cram of stars in the navy-night
blue-light of summer solstice.

The majestic zodiac sprawled
across the ever-stretching sky.

Ancient definitions of myth
star-stories of pre-determined fate

mapped in the moment and place
of our birthing; such fantasies

such imaginings of stellar systems
and mankind’s significance.

Heavens and humours; rules and rights
from Gods to kings and subjects

All settled in an ordered Universe
until, curiosity, ingenuity and invention

observation and record, rigor and Science
with its license to question freedom.


© M.L.Emmett
 Jan 2018 fadwa
Maggie Emmett
Moonlight swimming
bodies of shadow
wet skin-bright cloth
My Shot poems are modern forms of Haiku

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