96

Ninety-Six

Whim

Timeless suspension

Stand and drift by God's own whim

Dust floats to the ground

95

Ninety-Five

Air

Actions almost bound

Out of reach of grasping hands

Fingers clutch the air

94

Ninety-Four

Sewn

Watching for the snow

The sky is sewn together

Rising from below

93

Ninety-Three

Retreat

Dawn and dusk descend

Even stars retreat the sky

All at once, goodbye

92

Ninety-Two

Replace

Space between the lines

Empty thoughts replace the void

Take it all away

91

Ninety-One

Noose

Rope so cut and frayed

The noose holds itself in check

Tremors don't forget

90

Ninety

Die

White has since been raised

A thousand cries on the wind

This is where they die

89

Eighty-Nine

Price

Scarcity breeds wealth

High praise for the spoils of war

Ask your price in blood

88

Eighty-Eight

Hand

When I'm at your side

There's no place I'd rather be

Take your hand in mine

87

Eighty-Seven

Char

Boxed and well-restrained

Beasts of char and burning ash

Kindled by a spark

86

Eighty-Six

Close

Depths I cannot know

Follow close my beating heart

Home is where you are

85

Eighty-Five

Neglect

Shadows toll the mind

Reason fades with long neglect

Swarming brighter lights

84

Eighty-Four

Blossoms

Thunder claps at dusk

Blossoms brave the dying storm

Suffer what they must

83

Eighty-Three

Skin

Beckoned by a cloud

Rain on frozen city streets

Fog seeps through your skin

81

Eighty-One

Brevity

Never forgotten

Brevity is not the same

As unremembered

80

Eighty

Eclipse

Void of all that was

Watch and wait as time erodes

Praying for eclipse

79

Seventy-Nine

Rage

Willingly confined

Chains bespoke the cruel and cold

Roar in ancient rage

78

Seventy-Eight

Phantom

Phantom in the dark

Dreary lights exhaust the night

Embers cool and die

77

Seventy-Seven

Sludge

Draped and ever-torn

Chagrin lost and found again

Crawling through the sludge

76

Seventy-Six

Forever

Bound in unwept tears

Forever swelling outward

Pushing him to shame

75

Seventy-Five

Sea

A warm, sheltered laugh

Rolling with the waves to shore

Echoes in the sea

74

Seventy-Four

Quoted

Volcanic and cool

Sweeping low on barren fields

Quoted once, it comes

73

Seventy-Three

Walls

Messengers within

Pushing out these walls of steel

Hungry for a breath

72

Seventy-Two

Flesh

Hollowed out and worn

Flesh is the colour of cold

Front your darkest depths

71

Seventy-One

Wounds

Trembling hands and heart

Wounds haikus could never heal

Broken through and through

70

Seventy

Glow

Morning breaks the end

How long before the sun sets

On this waning glow

69

Sixty-Nine

Sing

Blamed for unknown truths

Holding tight to long-lost ways

Fallen angels sing

68

Sixty-Eight

Unmask

Skies aflame by night

Foreign stars unmask our fate

Fear deceives the world

67

Sixty-Seven

Dusk

Nature's violent reign

Her prowess known to those at dusk

Shadows hiding beasts

66

Sixty-Six

Slow

Droning past the hour

Juxtapose his last slow breath

Zealotry repressed

65

Sixty-Five

Exile

Ice berates my soul

Held in chains to soft bemoan

This winter exile