Gymnopedie #1 – a Haiku

Ivory keys fall
in mournful chords, notes dancing
like rain on pavement.

 

Posted for the Daily Prompt: Music and inspired by Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie #1
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Resetting the Dial

In line we jostle
in green-eyed hustle,
striving for the next rung –
a discontented crowd
with feelings stored in a cloud.

Is this life?
This constant strife?
No!
Let’s step down
onto solid ground.

And sit awhile,
resetting the dial
to another space –
a peaceful penury
all the richer if you’re with me.

Inspired by the Daily Prompt: Keeping up with the Jones’

 

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The noon sun blazes,
and all hide under shadows,
but the wrought iron
instead reveals its facets
in intricate defiance.

 

Posted for the Daily Prompt: In the Summertime
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Sun rose gloriously,
coloring the world vivid,
but, setting, deprived
sky and sea a brilliance – light
singly tied to future’s rise.

 

Loosely inspired by the Daily Prompt: Turn, Turn, Turn
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The weathered bench sits
empty in a garden crowd,
drawing only shadows.

Very (very) loosely inspired by the Daily Prompt: It’s a Text, Text, Text, Text World
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Individuality – a Haiku

Though shrub grows as one,
individual branches
dare the hedge trimmer.

Very loosely inspired by the Daily Prompt: Truth or Dare
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My mirror lies constantly;
who’s that lady reflected?
That’s not me!
With the gray strands
and the oval face
more my mom’s than mine.
Yes, my mirror lies
for in amber light,
I see the me I remember.

Posted for and very loosely inspired by the Daily Prompt: The Clothes (May) Make the (Wo)man
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Sometimes footsteps echo along
the stretch of road in somber song
and, when faded, is all the more profound
for soon the sound in other noises drowns.
But for a few, with ears attuned, the cadence
still rings and so today bow in obeisance.

 

Posted for and loosely inspired by the Daily Prompt: Linger
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Sometimes life, in shadows, blooms
while sunlight entombs,
and envy blinds the one
who wishes only for the sun,
for brightness holds no monopoly
over a life lived joyfully.
So, take the sun with the clouds
lest you be by the day cowed.

Posted for and loosely inspired by the Daily Prompt: Green-Eyed Monster
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