Ashes

Dec 7

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This week’s Sunday Whirl words: prison, cloak, become, lens, goods, cash, pursuit, skirt, wild, Venus, beloved
 


 
~~ 1 ~~
 
Her skirt of ashes—
even the monks turn their heads,
amazed at the sight.
 
~~ 2 ~~
 
wild in the ruins—
children smearing their faces
with dust and ashes
 
~~ 3 ~~
 
sifting the ashes
of old sorrows at midnight—
her fruitless pursuit
 
~~ 4 ~~
 
Is the only bread
this crust made out of ashes?
Prison fare at best!
 
~~ 5 ~~
 
Ashes cloak the town
as the mountain blows its top—
Herculaneum.
 
~~ 6 ~~
 
only seven days
until the ashes become
the man she longs for
 
~~ 7 ~~
 
stories old men tell
about dry goods sold for cash
crumbling to ashes
 
~~ 8 ~~
 
beloved ashes
soon to be buried at sea
cradled by the waves
 
~~ 9 ~~
 
Are these flakes ashes
showering down from Venus
on the prophet’s head?
 
~~ 10 ~~
 
lens focused on ants
reduces them to ashes—
schoolboys’ whoops and caws

 
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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  2. Sherry Marr | December 7, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    A way cool exploration of ashes. Loved them! I most loved the monks’ amazement. Hee hee.

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  3. J Cosmo Newbery | December 8, 2013 at 2:39 am

    So many ashes and not one word of cricket! I’m impressed.

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  5. humbird | December 8, 2013 at 6:06 am

    6 and 9 really mystical…

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  6. jae rose | December 8, 2013 at 6:07 am

    Ashes are all around us aren’t they..they are finer than dust!

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  7. drpkp | December 8, 2013 at 7:28 am

    I always read these as a single piece – this of the majesty of Venus … all about as fine as ashes…

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  8. anmol(alias HA) | December 8, 2013 at 7:30 am

    Such a wide variety of haiku relating with ashes. Well crafted. 🙂

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  9. annell4 | December 8, 2013 at 8:18 am

    All about ashes….great ideas!

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  10. Gillena Cox | December 8, 2013 at 8:48 am

    have a nice Sunday

    much love…

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  11. Misky | December 8, 2013 at 9:08 am

    The first one is my favourite!

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  12. Nonnie | December 8, 2013 at 10:08 am

    amazing array of haikus using ‘ashes’!

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  13. brenda warren | December 8, 2013 at 10:56 am

    I loved the first one so much, I had to come and say so. When the image amazes the monks, it makes me smile. Back to the rest now…

    The last one gets me, too. I love the image. At my old blog home, Beyond the Bozone, there’s an “ants” tag that leads to a series of ant poems I wrote one year. I hate the little buggers when they invade my house.

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  14. priti.lisa | December 8, 2013 at 10:59 am

    #3 deserves an ovation! ♥

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  15. WabiSabi | December 8, 2013 at 11:19 am

    I enjoy how you use this form to explore the richness of words and their varied meanings.. in this case, ashes. I felt an undercurrent of grief throughout this set. #3 resonates for me… perhaps because I have so often lain awake with that cruel bedmate – insomnia!

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  16. 1sojournal | December 8, 2013 at 12:42 pm

    Hats off to you, as usual. You make it look so easy, so simple, when it is anything but that. I always come here expecting much and continually find more. Thank you,

    Elizabeth

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    • magicalmysticalteacher | December 8, 2013 at 12:51 pm

      Thank you for your words of affirmation. You’re right: It looks easy, but it’s not (which, I suppose, is true for most of life).

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  17. Mr. Walker | December 8, 2013 at 3:32 pm

    Always enjoy reading your poems. Love the theme of ashes. I’m partial to number seven.

    Richard

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  18. oldegg | December 8, 2013 at 5:02 pm

    So many memories, so many truisms, so much sadness. We can always rely on you to take us on a journey like no other.

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  20. Maggie Grace | December 9, 2013 at 10:42 pm

    8 touches my heart but your writing is always lovely.

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  21. Cheryl's Voice | December 10, 2013 at 4:00 pm

    These are so wonderful. I love that you themed them. A Herculean effort. Brava!

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  22. purplepeninportland | December 14, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    These are incredible. Why am I not surprised.

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