Haiku #74

Earth’s immune system 

The planet’s spray ‘gainst the pests

That can’t suss that’s us

Haiku #73

An elderly cat

A threadbare form full of pain 

Murdered out of love 

Haiku #72

Willow bends to drink 

Leaves swim away to make space 

Plants know of karma, too 

Haiku #71

Nights are black as coal

Days are somehow different 

Choose your mood of mind 

Haiku #70

Dawn’s arrived again 

Shadows bloom like black roses

Life’s born in darkness

Haiku #69

Do memories fade?

Or do your genes absorb them?

Time meshed with your meat?

Haiku #68

Cast-off jeans, jackets 

Cast-off lives, the souls they hold 

Value but the bold

Haiku #67

Cannon fodder for 

Shrapnel shot, one second you’re 

Here and then you’re not 

Haiku #66

I’ve a garden green 

Paths wander within its walls 

Even cells can please 

Haiku #65

This is my story 

Just a simple tale of pain 

We’ll all live again 

Haiku #64

Those who decompose

Long before they are interred 

Died to hope long ago 

Haiku #63

Sorrow fit to burst 

Beware the claws of strangers

Tears are born of fear

Haiku #62

You’re up on the wire

Wobbling ‘round while looking down 

Dizzy heights; say good night

Haiku #61

Kalamazoo is

Don’t take it personally 

That’s all you can say 

Haiku #60

Innocence ignites

Your breast a strange attractor

Scented sweets beneath 

Haiku #59

Colour me with love 

From the palette infinite 

Eyes fail your spectrum 

Haiku #58

Offerings in urns

Lost lives transmuted by fire

Alchemies that burn

Haiku #57

Dusk’s meal is the Sun

Each night is spent digesting

Each dawn’s proof it failed