Horror Haiku Club Prompt

[Richard Blaisdell]

Reap the rewards.

Eyes dimmed by age.

See the sorrow sown.

[Honeygloom]

Lovely and poignant, well done🖤

[Jessamine Halverson]

This harvest is grim

the reaper comes from within

winter will bring death

[Honeygloom]

Ooo nice! That middle line is brutal🖤

[Hybrid Sequence Media]

Come… Harvest with us

he who walks behind the rows

waits in September

[Honeygloom]

Nice!! Love that movie🖤

[Lyndsey Resnick]

Do not be fooled, child.

The reaping demands our all,

No matter what we've sown.

[Honeygloom]

Ooo nice! I love the implicit threat🖤

[Lyndsey Resnick]

Thanks!

[Gloria Horton-Young]

The Infamous Henry VIII

Haiku

•••

Golden crowns tarnish,

Power’s edge meets autumn’s end—

Silence fills the court.

Courtiers whisper,

Shadows lengthen on his throne—

The lion grows weak.

Faith turns to despair,

Wings of treachery unfold—

Reapers close in fast.

Once a mighty king,

Now a sickle in the hand—

Blood and crowns fall down.

Misty dawn of death,

Kingdom waits with bated breath—

Tudor’s time decays.

Frost chills royal halls,

Throne now cold, his reign is done—

Silence echoes long.

•••

Senryū

Eyes meet in the court,

Words unspoken, fear runs deep—

Reaping kingly pride.

Royal bed grows cold,

But not as cold as power lost—

Heads bent, necks exposed.

Whispers of revolt,

Secrets buried in dark rooms—

Reapers circle near.

Promises once sworn,

Now broken like his strong will—

Reapers count their gains.

Silent fall from grace,

Words of loyalty now gone—

Crown slips from his grasp.

Autumn winds reveal,

Truths hidden behind the veil—

Reaping Tudor’s fall.

[Honeygloom]

Ah Henry, so pathetic. These really capture his reign quite well🖤

[Chris J. Franklin]

Wonderful interpretation! 😎

[MD]

Raise the scythe higher

This reaping is of them all

Time to forgive, gone

[Honeygloom]

Oh wow! This is so brutal, I love it🖤

[MD]

Thank you! I love that you think it's brutal! 🖤

[Theresa Greene]

Planted bed of okra

Thought for sure I would get some

A bug reaped my bounty

[Honeygloom]

Noooo!!! That’s the worst😭

[erniet]

Ha! That was my squashes this year! My condolences!

[Theresa Greene]

Thanks !

Planted 3 seed packs and watched them disappear day by day.

The horror! Lol!

[erniet]

I got squash bugs; they suck the water out of the plants! I was watering every day and the plants kept shriveling and finally my wife said, "Aren't you spraying them with citronella?" So my bad...

[A.P. Murphy]

Reapers in the field -

one stands taller, staring.

What does he want of me?

[Honeygloom]

Probably your liver😜 Nice one🖤

[Songsterfunsterhamster]

This is the season

Of empty fields, full bellies,

Hungry invaders.

[Honeygloom]

Ah nice! I love ‘hungry invaders’, such an interesting description🖤

[Chris J. Franklin]

Half our crops had been,

Flattened down, and used to form,

Patterns on the ground.

*

They called it a hoax,

But they didn't see, the lights,

That hovered around... 😎

[Honeygloom]

Ha! Keeping the space theme alive👽 Nice!

[Chris J. Franklin]

Absolutely! In true sci-fi fashion, it's returned for a sequel! Haha... 👽😎👽

[Paige Garland]

The reaper of gourds

Takes all the Jack-O-Lanterns;

Every head is his.

[Honeygloom]

What!? I want The Reaper of Gourds to be real so bad! I love this🖤

[Leigh Parrish]

Bringing in the sheaves

that other hands have sown. Where

have the others gone?

[Honeygloom]

Beautifully eerie, well done🖤

[erniet]

The full ripened heads

Nod gently in the autumn

Before the scythe comes

[Honeygloom]

Beautiful! So much kinetic potential, very nice🖤

[Heidi Schuyler]

Faith

[Heidi Schuyler]

Hope

[Heidi Schuyler]

Encouragement