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Caro Henry's avatar

Solstice dawn breaks bleak

With mist that seeps into bones

Long night’s harbinger

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Honeygloom's avatar

Very nice job of evoking a setting here, I can really picture this.

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Caleb Taylor's avatar

Bleak and desolate

Like the prospects of the world

Life of poverty

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Honeygloom's avatar

Very bleak, indeed. You always manage to get such big ideas into these little poems.

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Caleb Taylor's avatar

Thank you very much. That is very kind of you to say.

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

A little experimental Haiku here.

One of my favorite books. But don't tell The Bard. He gets jealous when I read other Englishmen...

“The wheels of ‘Jarndyce…’”

(Lawyers suck, Dickens is great)

“…grind so very fine.”

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Honeygloom's avatar

I- (please don’t hate me), think Dickens is boring and avoiding reading him at all costs.

That you were able to get a quote into a haiku is pretty impressive though, hats off, Sir🖤

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

Yeah, he's not for everyone.

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Honeygloom's avatar

I do have to say, I’ve read his letters against public hangings and they are beautiful.

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erniet's avatar

Full moon glowering

Over bleak, windswept moorland.

Is that a wolf's howl?

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Honeygloom's avatar

I like the depiction of the moon, as though there’s something it disapproves of, but is it the wolf, or the wanderer?

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erniet's avatar

I was thinking American Werewolf in London...😂

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Honeygloom's avatar

That did cross my mind, but I liked the whole moon bit so I went with it. 😏

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