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Caro Henry's avatar

Crystal veins entwine

My frozen heart blue with cold

Shatters at your touch

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love this image, it’s so beautifully tragic. 🖤

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Jeff Kinnard's avatar

The ice cracks beneath

Frigid water swallows whole

Where did I fall through?

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Honeygloom's avatar

This is one of those panic inducing haikus. Made me take a deeeep breath, nice work 🖤

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Jeff Kinnard's avatar

Was it wrong of me to have "break on through" by The Doors playing in my head while I wrote this? 😂

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Honeygloom's avatar

Haha! No, not wrong at all.

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Lizzy Co (she/they)'s avatar

***CW: trauma survivors take care***

Icy veins make for

Bloody water down the drain.

Nah, I will remain.

***CW OVER***

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love the fighting spirit infused throughout. Well done🖤

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Andrei Atanasov's avatar

I thought you loved me,

But when you stabbed me, I knew -

Your soul is frigid hell.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Brutal! I love it🖤

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Jon T's avatar

what I woke up to

on new years day this morning

where's my ice scraper?

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oof don’t envy that. But at least you got a good haiku out of it. Any state or happenstance that produces a haiku is good luck I heard.

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Sean Thomas McDonnell's avatar

Tapping on the ice

I see a face, ballooned cheeks

Panicked reflection

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Honeygloom's avatar

🥶Made my heart beat a little faster. 🖤

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Miles MacNaughton's avatar

Fractal splinters spread

A gruesome, grasping death threat,

Slow until the end.

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love that visual 🖤

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

With ice in my veins

My blood congeals like syrup

Strawberry Slurpee

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh dear god, well done!😝

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Michael Carter's avatar

/Harassment mode on

Unrepentant man

five seven five haiku form

six is so ice like

/Harassment mode off

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Honeygloom's avatar

Sir, I’m not going to lie, you have baffled me. This haiku appears to be in the correct form. Is it harassment because I had to count? Lol, I’m confused. Not unpleasantly, just your standard huh.

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Michael Carter's avatar

Your prompt haiku is 5-6-5

Still Haiku, but I felt the urge to toss a wee pebble into your pond ;-)

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Honeygloom's avatar

Damn! So it is. Pebble gobbled up into my dark and bottomless maw. I rarely feel bad about breaking rules 😜

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Kent Peterson's avatar

On an icy road

Center yourself above your feet

Lest ass and ground meet.

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Caleb Taylor's avatar

Faith froze and shattered

Like an icicle that falls

On the ground of grief

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Honeygloom's avatar

Wow, nice take! 🖤

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

The dark breath of winter’s night.

My lungs with icy crystals torn.

The dawn will never come.

(Not really haiku, because I’ve no idea how to write one.🤷‍♀️)

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Iris Shaw's avatar

Do you like mirrors?

I can keep your face unchanged

Always young, frozen

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Honeygloom's avatar

Haha! No worries! It’s a great poem, that middle line is wicked. 🖤

If you want to learn more about haiku, you can go to the post pinned to the top of the Horror Haiku Section on my newsletter. Happy to see you here!

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