Polaris

“Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.”
—Bill Richardson

My crestfallen soul

roams around

with a dejected look

waiting to get entwined

in your white moon

with pure serendipity

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Split wide open

I’m split wide open
for you to see
my soul is sliced in half
for you to
scrape pieces of me

HAIKU: LAW OF THE JUNGLE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Law of the jungle

Nautilus

I travel spiral path

bare feet sinking deep into soft sand

circles twisting ever tighter

as I navigate this nautilus

walls curved and translucent

The Flame is Alive

by Belen L.Méndez

The flame is alive
but it’s fighting
trying to burn on

Love Scars & Shipwrecks

by Debbie

      

Being shipwrecked on an island, standing alone in the sun

I realize the waves keep coming in one by one.

When you first left my life, it ripped a hole in me.

Funny it was huge to me but no one else could see.

Unseen

You have no blood”
Father John used to say,
but clearly she had blood,
it ran rich and red,

~ Pittsburg Street Scene

Pittsburgh Street Scene
Pittsburgh city street

She stood on the corner

Guitar in hand

Her sign read:

“To ugly to prostitute”
So she played

On and on,

Coins tossed in her case

Occasionally a green back;

~ Out of the Pain

 

The hurt DIDN’T make me stronger –

I fell through the cracks in my character

‘Til someone cared enough to pull me out

Out of my years lost to the pain

The anger, the stages of mourning

All consuming guilt of survival;

Surviving

It’s 3 am and I’m still awake
With an empty heart, an empty head
With dim lights and a gnawing silence
And things I’d rather forget.

~ Instinct ~

~ Instinct ~

Green man howling loud
Surge of wave mounds of snowfall
Hunters, gatherers

O’Prunty
1/28/15

~ Phycological Warfare ~

 

Soldier in a trench
Thoughts of loved ones comforting
Means of survival

O’Prunty
11/15/14

Dialogue

Multiple Haiku Form

Art of dialogue
Step for humans to evolve
To survive, sustain