Leaves floated like feathers, slowly sinking to the sandy ground like hope in a failing heart. The wind whispered a silky voice, taunting and teasing over the pastor’s murmur. Branches lifelessly hung, heavy with a sea of frozen tears. Grave markers stood proudly proclaiming their victory as a cold and empty face could only see one. Only one name screamed from the granite. Only one name ripped through the bleeding soul whose heart was so destroyed, it may as well be shattered glass washing away in the nearby tide. Voices sounded distant like they were inside of a conch shell on the empty shore. Their words were incoherent rumblings to her deaf ears. Whatever gibberish poured from their grey lips mattered not. The sea was calling, demanding she return to yesterday’s memory. Clutching a cold endless band, she stumbled to the welcoming frigid water. Trembling hands shook off today, this dreadful day. Tomorrow there would be no nightmares for she would be in her soul mate’s arms again.
Feet sinking into sand
Drowning heart fills with tears
Peace comes in waves
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Posted for D’verse Poets Pub – Haibun Monday.
Prompt was Khalil Gibran’s quote: “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
This is a sequel to a prose poem I wrote for Writing 201. Read that one and you will understand the depth of this character’s love and passion for her soul mate. It explains her state after such a great loss.
I wouldn’t wish that kind of grief on anyone. Truly it’s too much to bear for some people. Your poem tells of her despair in heartbreaking detail. Well done!
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Thank you. I have to think that when you love so true and deep, the loss would be just as passionate.
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I think it would too.
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I hope to never find out the loss part, but I just might be discovering the love part:)
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This was chilling and beautiful all at once, the sadness and grief are palpable.
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Thank you. It’s great to hear I could convey that emotion.
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“…in her soul mate’s arms again.” So beautiful and moving.
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So happy to hear I conveyed the emotion.
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Very dramatic – and I love the word-play in the haiku.
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Thank you so much for the feedback!
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The first line says it all…so beautifully written….
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Thank you so much.
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To common that you cannot stand the world afterwards.. to leave it for the sea and seek that darkness.. your image of the graveyard was almost goth-dark, but it worked well do describe the sadness of a lost soul-mate
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I always imagined a soul mate being so deep and passionate that I would have to imagine the loss of one would be equally as passionate (except in sadness of course). Thank you. I wasn’t sure if I was being a little too big with adjectives so it is nice to get the feedback on my first haibun.
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Ocean.. a soul
mate with
Love
unrequite..
Humans
Love
FiLL
Ocean
need..
too much
Ocean
for
just
one soul
mate per
soul.. a Tree
of Life branches
out and never withers
when leaves are shared
and
grow
more..
Love leaves Tree
wither
never sharing..:)
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Love the too much ocean for just one soul mate…. 🙂
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Nato, very well done. Your first lines had sound. And your ending is still resounding.
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Thank you. I worried it was a bit overly dramatic. But…what passionately, life-altering love is not? I also wasn’t really sure how to write a haibun since I never did one before. So your feedback means a lot!
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What a dramatic ending Nato ~ This must be a great love to choose death and follow the soul’s mate journey into the other world ~ I hope that peace comes to both of them ~
A lovely haibun of love ~ Thanks for participating in our Haibun Monday ~
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Thank you Grace. I wasn’t sure where I was going with it when I started, but it seemed to lead itself to tragedy. Glad I found the time to participate. Haibun #1 done!
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That first line is powerful. It hits home hard with its tragic beauty. Thank you so much for this.
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Thank you. I am glad it came across well.
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