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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Sinking down 'neath ground

Heat rises ever higher

Demon cackles loud

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Honeygloom's avatar

This one 🔥 I can feel it.

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

Not a ladies’ man

Rather be a Hades' man

Where the bad girls live

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Honeygloom's avatar

Same. Yep.

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Dustin's avatar

I am especially excited about this one!!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Cassia Lorne -

Urban Fragment Haiku:

Asphalt cracks bleed fire,

Metro’s underworld roars loud, Hades walks, unseen.

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Milo Viceroy -

Single Breath Haiku:

In the heartbeat skip between flashing traffic lights, shadows whisper myths old as time.

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Juno Featherstone -

Echoic Echo Haiku:

Souls cross, river wide, silent, Silent, wide river, cross souls.

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Remy Lang -

Synesthetic Haiku:

Charred brimstone’s scent clings, Whispered shivers taste of mist, Hades’ touch, ice-cold.

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Quinn Leif -

Digital Disruption Haiku:

Silent notifications, Like Cerberus’ gaze, pause life, Hades' domain @ night.

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Each haiku

hopefully brings

a fresh, unique take

on the prompt, reflecting the

individual style of these

fictional modern haiku writers.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Wait, fictional?? I’m so amazed rn! This is so cool 😎 I love Juno Featherstone and Cassia Lorne the most🖤🖤🖤 But they are all so good.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Yes. They are “my people.” If Kerouac and other writers change Haiku, why can’t we?

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh we absolutely should! We should mess with form, invent words. Mess everything up! I love havoc😜

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Ditto

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Ari Chase-Ramos's avatar

Smoke on the water

Charon coming down the Styx

Welcome to Phuket

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Honeygloom's avatar

😅You’re going to have to help me with this reference. All I know about Phuket is it’s in Thailand. But obviously it has a long history so I’d love to know why you included it here. Or maybe there’s a personal connection?

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Ari Chase-Ramos's avatar

I'm calling Phuket's beaches and islands hell. Hedonistic and can be fun as hell, but hell. They do have burning ropes to play jump rope with and fire games on the beach. You do have to take a ferry to get there--albeit on the Andaman, not the Styx.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ah ok! That’s actually a really cool contrast between the dull and dark Hades and what sounds like the empty pleasure of Phuket. I really like it. Thank you for taking the time to enlighten me!

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Iris Shaw's avatar

Here lie before him

Fields of the wandering dead

Speechless, old, unsung -

Do not forget them,

The souls who cross that river

On the cold black tide.

Two today, because I couldn't help myself!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

They are exquisitely written.

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