Haiku Friday. ‘Lost Muse’. A haiku trilogy.

Posted bystevestillstandingPosted inhaiku, Love, Poetry, WritingTags:, , , , , , ,

Lost Muse. A haiku trilogy

1. Purpose
When it takes its leave.
Gone: the purpose, the will and
the testimony.

2. Black
Where do we exist,
now that the sun is dimmed,
fallow and so spent.

3. Steps
What I would give to
hold her hand. Another step
beyond this despair.

My love for the 5/7/5-syllable majesty of Japanese haikus will never dim. As will my longing for my muse, no matter how hard I try to extinguish it.

Steve 🙂

Published by stevestillstanding

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