One deep breath - Conquered.

A long fight and a bad one
Breathless, I admit defeat -
Christ, I'm lonely...

The haiku prompt that I used to do regularly. I might take it up again.

One Deep Breath - Ink

Scratch across the page, sink into a wound. Staining flesh or fibre, indelible, inert - the bullet in the gun is as innocent as you. Pure dark fluid and a cool blank page. What will you be used to say? Potential in the jar to write sonnets or stick men -
to capture stilled hearts
breathless with whirling desire
or to say farewell

And you are not the message, just the means, the conduit. So much weight for one small dark vein to carry across the arcing space of paper or the unmarred skin.
Today a laundry list, tomorrow, who knows?


Apparently, this is the last ever One Deep Breath and I am sorry about that. Off and on I've been doing these prompts for over a year. I reckon I will just start recyling the prompts that have been posted each week until I find a new haiku spot...

One Deep Breath - Vision

Rainbows can't compare
to the breathless, vivid beauty
that I see in you.

I know, I know - eight syllables in the second line. But I like the line more than I care about sticking to the rules.

For more visions check out ODB
Picture credit: Inspirational rainbows. R Brown.

One Deep Breath- Moonstruck

My first go at a haiga - a visual haiku. [Not a haibun which is something else - Thanks for the pointer Crafty :)] I took this at seven am last September. I was taking out the cold ashes and there was the moon looking wistful in an amethyst sky. I love the moon, she is too beautiful for me to put into words. Though I must say that the Welsh for moon - lluad is somehow evocative for me: liquid and distant.
Sleep well cariad, have soft and gentle dreams

PS.
I found one I wrote a while back. It is not a haiku but I still like it

A jewelled sky
aquamarine, amethyst, lapiz,
scattered lazily with crystal,
a disc of silver.

Haiku - A Kind of Beauty

For me there is no beauty like that of winter light, cold and steely or misty and muted. Wales sits well under a winter's sky. Here are three haiku on my favourite times of day: dawn, twilight and midnight. For other haiku on things of beauty check out One Deep Breath here

Frost ferns on the glass
dawn's light paints the pearly sky
the day has begun

Cold silken light. A
robin lifts his solstice song.
Rose kissed clouds linger.

Winters night spits stars
lift to touch the cold white sparks
but my hearth calls me

One Deep Breath - Yummy

Christmas is a time of good things in the oven as well as all the other good things in store this season. I love food and this haiku is the first of a probable few that I will write on favourite yummy comfort foods of mine. For other yummy haiku check out ODB here

Mulled wine
Cinnamon, orange,
cloves and warm ruby wine fills
my home with Christmas

Belonging - Haiku

I have not done One Deep Breath for a very long time. Thanks to Patois, whose lonliness prompt was poignant, heart breaking and rather too difficult to face, I visited there again and found - belonging. Rather easier to sum up in seventeen syllables.

Safe in his warm arms,
I am his and he is mine.
Two souls, one heart beat.

This is, I know, almost unbearably sentimental, but belonging just spoke of the Song of Songs to me. I am my beloved's and he is mine. That is belonging. For other haiku check out ODB here

One Deep Breath - Bodies of Water

I knew that science was not for me when I asked my physics teacher why clouds were not heavy when they had so much water in them. I failed in the most thorough way to understand a word of his patient instruction. I love science, the patterns that I know are there but cannot understand no matter how I try. I'll stick to poetry. A girl has got to know her limitations - unlike clouds...

No one has told them
they are not supposed to fly.
Water floating by.

For more bodies of water check out ODB here

Feathered Friends - ODB

The prompt for this week's haiku is feathered friends. Here is one I wrote a little while ago and had no cause 'til now to post.

Advice to Chickens
Now, listen up girls -
If any foxes show up,
Turn into parsnips!

For more feathery fun check out One deep Breath.

Light and Shadow for ODB

Dante and Beatrice
walking the tightest of ropes,
Sheol or Heaven?


Had a terrible job writing this prompt, just couldn't get it. This will have to do

For better efforts check out ODB here

One Deep Breath - Common Ground

For Barbara, my MIL - enough said I think.

Oil and water - we
find our common ground through the
sunrise in his smile

for more Haiku check out ODB here

The Sea for ODB

I hate the sea, it's
just too big and it holds things
that want to eat you


Great, grey, lounging beast
Huge paws poised to swipe small boats
from its twitching hide.


I tried to write a happy one but couldn't. I really don't like the sea!
Check out more at One Deep Breath

Haiku - Earth Day

We spin here in space,
Are we creating? Or are
we unravelling?