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Vlad gave me the thumbs up to go ahead and post this, so here it is:

 

Illianna and Vlad's first Haiku

 

Night, the soul's black cave

The air too still to breathe in

Smothers you with cold.

 

 

Fear encompasses all life,

A heartbeat breaks the silence.

 

Frost slowly attacks

Syncopating passion's flame

Making you a slave.

 

 

 

Slavery need not be found

If beyond passion dwells love.

 

To love one must trust

Fear is the slayer of trust

Deny fear or fail.

 

 

 

 

Love can always lead astray

Watchful eyes will never help

 

Lover's hearts exposed

Open many doors for blight

Frozen dreams denied

 

 

 

As love draws it's final breath

Night regains it's smothering

 

Wretched circle this

Love's demise robs us of sleep

Again we know fear.

 

 

 

And so it goes forever

We will never know of peace.

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ImmortalGrace and Degenero Angelus' first Haiku

(my verse is first, second is his, so and and so forth)

 

Slowing your soul

Your keys to tranquility in reach

Nothing to fear

 

Love is the last thing I want

All it does it hurt so much

 

Struggles within

Seems to be my only existance

Searching, seeking

 

Finding Answers

Answers bring me so much useless pain

Want to forget

 

There can be no forgetting

The world crumbles to my feet

 

Fearing the dark

Leaving nothingness behind me now

I run crying

 

 

A trail of tears

Marking my way down the road of life

All I have left

 

Faceless people scream at me

Why can't they leave me alone?

 

Why must I run

Why must I be the one to fear them

Hopelessly lost

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I like Illianna's idea so... mine and Vlad's haiku's...certainly not particularly proud of my side of the set, but...

 

The tree stands in grass

Sun setting red ...makes shadows

To hide a killer

 

Dusk be the perfect cover

For death to strike in it's wake

 

Marching fire ants

See unwary picnickers

Move in as to strike

 

 

 

Just as I'd fallen asleep;

Warm grass and my yelling son

 

The plump child sits

Bread crumbs spill over the ground

Chomp--ant bites--kid yells

 

 

 

Burning sensation in chest,

Last light he saw - setting sun.

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I also like the color change idea. Wren and Vlad gets the black. Thank-you Vlad for you patience.

 

 

Modern Knowledge

 

 

Just a few short words

Writen down in cyberspace

There for all to read

 

The joy of having knowledge

Found in a few simple thoughts

 

Spread information

A plague through the internet

Ignorance be bliss

 

Much can be learned if you take the time

A gift given to the literate

 

What happens to the hardcopy

A tool for all everywhere

Lost in the internet age

 

Treasure never to be found

Mist of time sweeping away

 

We are so brutish

In this so-called modern day

Brains thought of as naught

 

Creativity abounds

New artforms are growing strong

 

Between who has all

There must be a balance found

With who lacks access

 

Passwords and security

Mistrust and lies create hell

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Alaeha and Doomgaze's Haiku:

 

Cold Reality

 

 

Spinning all around,

Into a world of beauty,

Real and sometimes fake.

 

Look into the lands of dreams.

Look into the realms of life.

 

Imagined wonders,

Wishful thoughts, and memories.

False, yet sometimes true.

 

We are beckoned by hungers,

That are so unreachable.

 

Why do we desire?

Are they simply in our head?

Realities come true?

 

Tantalizing images,

Creations of our dreaming...

 

Always out of reach,

No matter how we struggle.

Shall we, then, despair?

 

Despair the loss of our hopes,

Define what's real and what is not.

 

Watch them flying by,

Trying to grasp the fakeness,

Of what we can't have.

 

Fantasies, our fondest dreams,

And adventures... our escapes...

 

All are crushed by Earth.

The cold realities of life

Crush us in the end.

 

We can never escape them,

No matter how hard we try.

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Kalypso and Vlad

 

Life

 

I print on paper

Revealing layers of life

Truth in black and white

 

Peel away from evil here

But learn lessons of the past

 

A man can be great

Or his own worst enemy

Through much scrutiny

 

The eyes of society,

Always judging and shaping.

 

Are young minds molded?

Individuality...

Does it still exist?

 

Secrets of the solemn mind

Avoid contact with others

 

Pressure to be like-

Desire to be alike-

Everybody else.

 

Mankind is mindless mirrors

Reflecting on each other

 

Clueless clods are men

All marching mechanisms

Casting off their selves

 

Mindless mayhem thrives on them

Life sans reason is not life

 

To fight for a cause

Die for a noble purpose

Man can never learn

 

Self discovery is key

To unlock man-made shackles

 

Some can overcome

Slaying stagnation of thought

Gaining your true self

 

Looking far within a soul

Seeing depth to existence.

 

 

Edit: Typos

Edited by Vlad
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