Haiku Train

[galaxy13]

The bloodied shovel
Propped outside an old hovel
Who dares enter in?

[juliadebeauvoir]

Who dares enter?
Fee, Fie, Foe, Fum...I'll grind his
bones to make my bread!

[Mickpjb]

“Bones to make my bread!”
Cry the voices in my head,
guilt, heavy like lead.

[juliadebeauvoir]

Guilt, heavy like lead.
Lead--laden, heavy with gilt.
Oh the IRONy!

[Danté]

Oh the IRONy!
Ho Ho, it just gets better
each time I hear it.

[Raisin]

Each time I hear it.
Far better than the tiny
voice, in my left ear.

[juliadebeauvoir]

Voice in my left ear,
tells me that my right ear is
conspires against me.

[Danté]

conspires against me
like passing of time assaults
my body with age.

[barrie]

my body with age
grows strong, withers to weakness,
grasps eternity.

[Lake]

"grasps eternity"?
if I am lucky enough
to grasp the instant.

[Mickpjb]

To grasp the instant
For a moment of pleasure,
we hold and embrace.

[Lake]

we hold and embrace
both fortunes and misfortunes -
that’s how the world runs.

[oranggunung]

That’s how the world runs –
minute by erratic hour –
not at all clockwork.

[Lake]

not at all clockwork -
inhale and exhale at will
is all mental work

[Mickpjb]

Is all mental work,
surviving the daily toil,
all for some small change!

[Raisin]

All for some small change!
"Chuck it in the guitar case,
enjoy the music."

[Mickpjb]

Enjoy the music,
as the flames lick the coffin,
now follow the light.

[barrie]

now follow the light
said the candle to the moth
put your trust in me

[juliadebeauvoir]

"Put your trust in me",
said Frank to Nora as he
slipped her a mickey.

[oranggunung]

Slipped her a Mickey
as they rode on a steamboat,
eighty years ago

[Lake]

eighty years ago,
a pain to talk about it.
grass turns green again.

[Mickpjb]

Grass turns green again,
time has healed the deepest cuts,
love restored beauty.

[oranggunung]

Love restored beauty -
an operation beyond
the plastic surgeons.

[writedis]

the plastic surgeon
aesthetically pleases
extrenal worship

[barrie]

Extrenal worship?
It could be an outside job -
pray externally.