haikus - EPIC POST OF MANY HAIKUS
I used to write haikus in my spare time. I wrote quite a lot of them, and here are the best ones. Some of them have titles and some don't, and this: [*] means that the words didn't actually fall into place according to haiku rulings but I still liked the piece enough to keep it.
A lot of these are based on U2 songs. See if you can spot the relations.
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All because of me,
Careless to his delicate,
And I can’t blame him.
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Cold, black heart in love,
Sparkling with unknown depths,
Hanging by a chain.
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In confines of heart,
Perpetual despair owns,
This is your life now.
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Despair when I see
Lies ready on your red lips,
Conscience on paid leave.
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Black as darkest night,
No signs of your salvation,
And you see it too.
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Grace
Thoughts that changed the world,
Find beauty in everything,
It could be her name.
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A Day With You
I would give the Earth,
Sell my soul to the Under,
For only a day.
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Firestarter
Watching your soul there,
Burning so the fire makes,
Your life in the Ink.
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Darkest Days
Hate, reason unseen
Sorrow fills the desperate dark
Will you make it through?
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And They Call It Good
They say it’s called love,
But all I see when I look,
Is pain, blood and tears.
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Age Does Not Justify
Dark eyes arresting,
Accusing, condemning fear,
Age is no factor.
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Grievance
Pools of sorrow,
Think what has been done to him,
Never be the same.
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Boy
Angelic features,
Shadowy thoughts stain virtue
Through jaded eyes he sees. *
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A Child’s Realization
He finally sees,
Too young to be cynical,
But too old to lie.
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Master of the Music
Notes live in his soul,
Never before has rhythm
Met such a master.
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See
See the change you need,
See the world by candlelight,
See how it compares.
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First Time
For the first time, I
Feel like someone needs me there
Incomparable.
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Final
Should look to the West,
The first and final truth,
We both see it there.
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Captive in Shackles
This: Your life in chains
Held to ransom, Hell to pay,
But would you give up?
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Revolutionary’s Lament
What gives you the right
Just because you don’t agree
With the people’s message? *
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Be the Change
Don’t just change your mind,
Be the change you want to see
in the world right now.
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Rally Speaker
At the podium,
The truth of that: what she says,
Clouts fear in my heart.
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The Mistake
Before he came, truth
Shone, a lantern in her eyes,
Now she knows better.
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‘Helping’
Stop trying to heal,
The fear that resided there,
Since the day I left.
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Ideas drift by,
Pounding rhythm in my brain,
Waiting to be typed.
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Stonehenge
Mysteries lie here,
Shelter behind stone, hiding
Secrets of the past.
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Isolated
Captivating dark
Moments trapped in an instant
Grey eyes shroud his fear.
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New York
So many lives, these
Are the streets where they collide,
All this history.
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The Times
Can you tell me now,
Does anyone remember,
What it used to be?
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Evolution or Regression?
I can’t touch you now,
I can’t make you feel it now,
Like they did back then.
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Traveler
Seeing the world,
You look ahead, I look back,
Since someone has to.
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Live It
Each day we borrow
Brings us closer to the edge,
Live like it’s worth it.
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And Never To Come Home Again
Look back with wonder,
The spring of the Last New Dawn,
Will it never end?
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Eternally
No light at the end,
There’s supposed to be light here,
So who took it from us?*
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Nevermore
No going back and
Surely no moving forward,
Trapped forevermore.
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Cyber-Friends
A thousand miles
Friendship through reality
Bonds that will break steel.
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October
The trees are stripped bare
Of all they wear…do I care?
October lights flash.
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Disbelief & Truth,
And the Piper Will Lead Us,
To Reason & Rhyme.
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Poison Darkness
From the poison rain
Lives are borne of and shot down,
Darkness rules the day.
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Looking Glass
Thinking it was love,
But through the looking glass, I
Finally saw you.
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Twilight Master
Numbing you slowly,
Catching you but you don’t see,
The Twilight Master.
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It Calls Me, I Follow
Looking to the East
My spirit cries for leaving
The music leads me.
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Faith
Because you can give
What I need forever more,
I have faith in this.
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Black Death
Blown by the trade winds,
Cities aflood with plague blood
Our love turns to rust.
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Transparent
Always thought I knew
But looking through it,
It was transparent.
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It’s Here Too
I heard it here too:
West-bound whispering winds
Carry you away.
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Hard Times, Desperate Measures
Hard times to live in,
Dark knights and gunslingers reign,
Dangerous to know.
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Penance
I have climbed the high,
Been made to suffer for it,
And ridden the low.
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Musician
Still can’t understand
Why so much of you is false
Lyrical liar.
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Bad
Looking at your shell
That faceless poison alive,
It’s all I can do.
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Hit the Road Running
Should be happy here
And yet I still haven’t found
What I’m looking for.
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Black Rain
Hauntingly familiar
The black rain falls over us
Wash away our sins.
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Lust (Love?)
I’m happy with you
Now, but I know down deep it’s
Still not what I need.
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Still
I’m still here because
You know I still believe it,
What you still tell me.