#haikus poems on Hello Poetry

Victor D López Dec 2020

A baker's dozen
Of speculative fiction
Varied short stories

Could humanity
Survive extinction event
With two years warning?

A plane will soon fly
A cargo of hate that ends
Our Earth and much more

What would dolphins learn
About humankind if we
Could speak in their tongue?

Would the attainment
Of absolute truth result
In joy or despair?

Can the least of us
Be a god in his own right
To species unknown?

Should we take the word
Of professional critics
As to what is art?

Can a long-dead witch
Give a chance for redemption
To one who is lost?

Secret of the Sphinx
To be revealed in prime time
Sure you want to watch?

If you find true love
In a most unlikely source
Don't turn it away

Alien bearing gift
Of life-long health and foresight
Accept it or pass?

What can a man do
When dreams want to live through him
And cost him his life?

Come take a journey
Of inner and outer space
On these themes and more

My newest book of short stories, Echoes of the Mind's Eye: 13 Speculative Fiction Short Stories, has just been published (eBook and paperback versions). You can preview it at all major book retailers, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Apple Books. The book contains ten short stories from my previous collections (Mindscapes and Book of Dreams) newly edited and updated, as well as three new short stories.

#haikus #fiction

arCamm Dec 2020

"Window Pain"

gloomy days
gloomy skies
brighter times will arise

- a.r.Camm

As I look out of my second story window, the world seems ill... has been for a long time. As sunny as the skies are at times, grey clouds still hover. Cries and screams still reside over the speaker systems. And above all else, we go on as if it's the way it's supposed to be...

What comes with darkness, a light to clear the pathway to correctness, togetherness, and love...

Brighter days will come... I'm sure of it.

#optimism #windowpain #haikus #gloomanddoom #brighterdays #arcamm

arCamm Dec 2020

"Our Flame"

warmth, i spew to you,
with time, you must choose,
feed me fuel or let me die.

- a.r.Camm

Whether it's in our relationships, our jobs/careers, friendships, or within ourselves, the life of that flame is something that must be a priority. Given time, it'll dim and at other times we give a bit of it to someone/something else... in hopes that it'll give them light. At times we give someone/something else the gas tank... to see if it is worth saving to them...

Whatever the circumstance, be mindful of that flame. It is our ideas, emotions, effort... our everything. It is our lifeline...

#haikus #relationships #passions #arcamm #fireandwine

Lyn-Purcell Oct 2020

Fears

Lamenting embrace
Memories are lost in time
Murmurs of a dream

Fortune falls on me
Answers take wing on whispers
Leaves without a care

Shame hinders my heart
The light ascends without me
I await the storm

So much worry and fears in my heart.
I wish I could stay it...
I really do.

Be back soon later with more poems!
Much love,
Lyn ***

#haikus #worries #fears #success #future #unknown #unpredicatabilty

Lyn-Purcell Oct 2020

Days

☁️

Today's yesterday
Becomes many yesterdays
Flow like lifetimes past

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Leaving me adrift
As my heart now sprouts its wings
Yet cannot take flight

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Cuddled close by dreams
All I want I wish to be
Then the feathers falls

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Tomorrow echoes
As I reach to grasp its call
I fear the days past

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For dry ink can haunt
Feathers plucked by every taunt
Sleepless heart weeps raw

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Am I of the light
Am I worthy of the heights
or worth a twinkle

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My heart on my lap
Mind abed on sea of grass
As I count the days

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Mini haiku story...
It's one hell of a bad habit, being lost in my own head, my thoughts.
The years have gone by, and I find myself wishing more for a reset button.
Yet, I also wish to learn how to forgive oneself.
Theres so much I want to do, so much I want to prove to myself that I am capable of. I pray that the coming year will be one of deeper self reflection with the goals I have in mind...
I so wish to be a talented poetess for writing has been there for me through thick and thin.
The more I fall in love and improve, the more my heart aches...
I gotta keep moving forwards though
I cant die and not try, not yet,
Not yet...

Be back soon with more poems, thank you everyone for all the love and support, really.
Stay safe and well.
Much love,
Lyn ***

#haikus #stories #heart #reminisce #days #past #fears #life #success #ambition

Henry Oct 2020

After the Battle

The warrior walks
Dawn's first light in the forest
A babbling stream

The birds are chirping
He wades through the tide of mist
Around his ankles

The stream is ahead
Dropping his weapon he falls
The battle was won

He saved his village
But suffered a grievous wound
He reaches forward

The ice cold water
Brings wet fingers to his lips
A slight refreshment

Savoring the taste
A bed of wild flowers
A perfect cushion

Weapon behind him
He thinks about his breathing
With grass on his face

Remembers, exhale
His wife and child, inhale
Beautiful, exhale

Remembers, inhale
The days long battle, exhale
His people saved, still

Remembers, inhale
Vibrant colors of spring, still
His daughter's face, still

Remembers, exhale
Cold water on his lips, still
Birds are chirping, still

Wild flowers, still
Rays of dawn pierce the trees, still
A babbling stream

Oct 7, 2020

#haikus #haiku #warrior #story #spring #imagery

Unpolished Ink Aug 2020

17 Syllables To Save A Life

Asking your doctor
Takes five embarrassed minutes
Dead is forever!

I put off going to the Doctors thinking it is only a little mole-and it was cancer!

#cancer #awareness #haikus

Jennifer Herbert Jun 2020

Im annoying you

Read you my poem
Excited to share, you're deaf
You silenced my lips

Someone please message me to share their thoughts. First haiku, trying to convey the thought about my passion of writing, and how it annoys those to dont understand, or want to understand.

#haiku #haikus