Category Archives: haiku

Evensong

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

evening, midweek, overwhelmed and underprayed, counting blessed sheep.

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Creation, stillborn

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

Broken waters heave; Spirit gasps, shrinks, shocked breathless, breeching the shore, still.

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Transfiguration

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

stripped to our atoms, our shining core, is glory [still] captive to chaos

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Old moon

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

Yellow moon tonight: jaundiced, gibbous, waning; still shining like the sun.

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Haikonic afterthoughts

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

On blasphemy against the Holy Spirit Blasphemy: wilful submission to delusions of divinity Blasphemy: pinching out air, pressing the human back into the clay Blasphemy: wilful misinterpretation of the mercy of God

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YouTube nation/BlackLivesMatter

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

a child lies in the grass; we tattooed her at birth; we’ve got her number

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Ascending

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

because the grip of gravity cannot hold life down when heaven waits

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Is it?

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

it is not as though love can outrun the shadows  thrown by the long stones

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Impetuous

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

For two pins, I’d rip out every stitch, if it weren’t a waste of time.

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Pray

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

Pray, not for an end to grief; tears fall, the waters of a hard labour.

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