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3 Haikus called “for life”



By reading these haikus alone one might not denote them to mean goodbye. I don’t know if haikus can work this way but together they mean something new. The unconventional set up of these poems to me represents how goodbyes are not experienced the same way and how the feeling of it can be diverse depending on the person and the relationship. Together however they all end up meaning the same thing - loss.


A splash of colour

You paint my grey life with light

Canvas stained for life


A deep scratch that scars

My flesh now under your nails

Things we’ll keep for life


Alive to them now

But for a fleeting moment

Then dead to their world



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