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Fighting love – haiku

July 28, 2008 · 7 Comments

Cold bed, blank white sheets
The sore battlefield of hearts
In pyrrhic conflict.

This was written for Pen me a poem’s latest prompt – war

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7 responses so far ↓

  • Noah // July 28, 2008 at 9:15 pm | Reply

    Oh, powerful punch.

  • Brad // July 29, 2008 at 4:09 am | Reply

    Fabulous imagery, Lirone. I am sensing another level of metaphor beyond my intuitive response.

  • ybonesy // July 29, 2008 at 9:40 am | Reply

    I loved knowing what the prompt was on this, too. It really made me look at the haiku anew.

  • lirone // July 29, 2008 at 10:19 am | Reply

    In my Buddhist days I remember doing meditations on loving kindness, and my teacher saying that it was often easy to feel a generalised love for unspecified human beings in the world, but that to really have securely-grounded love we needed to focus on feeling it for those closest to us – whose faults we know and live with on a daily basis. And, of course, we need love for ourselves too.

    Often the personal seems insignificant in the face of the global problems – but if we can’t live at peace with ourselves and our immediate contacts, how can we hope to do better at a global level?

  • Brian // July 29, 2008 at 1:18 pm | Reply

    from the dark ashes
    dumped in raging emotions
    placid pool awaits

  • lissa // July 30, 2008 at 9:33 am | Reply

    I had to look up “pyrrhic” but good take on the prompt, “The sore battlefield of hearts” – what a great line

  • rio // August 2, 2008 at 7:17 am | Reply

    I love the double entendre here.

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