Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge # 37 – SMOKE & VEIL

HAIKU

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grey smoke blinds the foe
battlefield veil for many
the band plays on… sad
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smoke kills… all take heed
no veil will ever shield you
life… to short… give up
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smoke… a forest burns
deliberate distillation
business veils hide death
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TANKA
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the smoke filled room
a veil hiding shyness
why it shies who knows
one dares not to lift it
for great fear it could be death
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HAIBUN
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A veil hangs over our world, governments debating this and that, threats of war, their rhetoric knows no bounds. Each night, and tonight is no exception, I watch the news, read the news, my eyes go all cloudy. No not smoke, err one day it might well be! This night and those past, its  tears  that cloud my eyes, sadly. Shed, perhaps in vain as things have not changed for what seems like an eternity. Maybe my tears are tears of hope for the world and all of humanity. That peace will be, and bring us all together. My tears, now rivers that flow with words, I hope will flood the minds of politicians

veils cast by smoke
wars perpetuate… no need
give peace a chance

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© Mick E Talbot 2017/66

Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge #37 – SMOKE & VEIL