Haiku

The Sea. Honorable Mention in Haunted Echoes Challenge.
Beneath moonlit waves, pale hands reach for passing boats the tide hides their cries.
By ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTYabout a year ago in Poets
The House
Doors groan without touch, footsteps cross the empty hall, shadows breathe like lungs.
By ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTYabout a year ago in Poets
The Mirror
In the glass I see a version of me that waves, but I never moved.
By ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTYabout a year ago in Poets
The Fog
Mist swallows the road, shapes appear then disappear none return again.
By ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTYabout a year ago in Poets
Empty Swing
Chains creak in the wind, a swing moves with no one there laughter fades to ash.
By ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTYabout a year ago in Poets
The Doll
Porcelain face cracked, its eyes follow where I move smiling in the dark.
By ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTYabout a year ago in Poets
Alone?
I live all alone. No one else is here with me. My basement door creaks.
By Austin Blessing-Nelson (Blessing)about a year ago in Poets
Please, Make Them Stop!. Content Warning.
Somewhere in the dark Screams shatter the fragile night And they draw closer *** One more for the Haunted Echos Challenge:
By Dana Crandellabout a year ago in Poets
Forgotten Well
Something calls my name, from a well with no bottom, echoes never end.
By ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTYabout a year ago in Poets
The Watcher
Eyes glow in the dark, closer each time I look back yet no steps are heard.
By ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTYabout a year ago in Poets
Marrying Life and Death
Foul mouthed grave bride, Peppered rum giftee spitting Yes, "I do", Voodoo ..... Author's Note: This haiku is based on Maman Brigitte, one of the most important loas, known for her association with death and cemeteries. Brigitte is the only loa depicted as white and is believed to have come from Ireland not Africa.
By Marilyn Gloverabout a year ago in Poets
Cathedral
Mosaic above, matting below, encircled with stained-glass wonder
By Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago in Poets