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The Poppies
March 24, 2015
The souls of the dead
Roamed the lonely battlefield
Surveying each corpse
Replayed before them
With the haunting sound effects
Are their gruesome deaths
They wept at the sight
Tears watering the cursed ground
Then grew the poppies
© Claire V., Lubbock, TX
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BeautyWhispers PLATINUM said...
on Apr. 8 2015 at 8:18 pm
Beautiful! It really tells a story. Keep it up!
I really enjoyed this set of haikus. It certainly encompasses the cold darkness of war, just how haunting and terrible it truly is. The ending is hopeful in the way of new growth/life and I feel like it's a great way to tie it to a more peaceful, optimistic end.
This is a series of three haikus to create a haunting image of war, and also to accentuate that from sorrow always comes happiness.