death

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Haiku/Senryu Challenge 4/13/2020

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge 301 Cake / Steak

Cook’s best cut of steak
Served with light Angel Food Cake
-Prisoner’s last meal

                                    ©2020 cj holm
Ronovan’s Haiku Challenge (4/13/20)

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https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/04/13/haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-3/

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Haiku/Senryu Challenge (2/17/20)

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge 293 Drain / Rain

Colors drain slowly
from the soldiers left dying
-blue eyes cry in rain

Precious price of nation’s valor
Flowers on field of honor

                                      -CJ Holm
Ronovan’s Haiku Challenge (2/17/20)

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https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/02/17/weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-293/

“Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land, drawing no dividend from time’s tomorrows.”
-Siegfried Sassoon
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Murmuring Souls

Created for Susi Bocks Challenge

woods

Art Credit – Google Image

I write her weekly Haiku/Senryu Challenge 30 – July 30, 2019

These murmuring souls
sacrificed to the dark god
of the pagan woods

Forever silenced soldiers
-lost Tiberius’ phalanx

-CJ Holm
From Chapter 73 of Tacitus’s Annals.

“Soon afterwards it was ascertained from deserters that nine hundred Romans had been cut to pieces in a wood called Baduhenna, after prolonging the fight to the next day, and that another body of four hundred, which had taken possession of the house of one Cruptorix, once a soldier in our pay, fearing betrayal, had perished by mutual slaughter.”

https://iwriteher.com/2019/07/30/i-write-her-weekly-haiku-senryu-challenge-30/

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Destiny

https://iwriteher.com/2019/06/18/i-write-her-weekly-haiku-senryu-challenge-24/

Susi Bocks Haiku/Senryu 5/7/5 Challenge
I write her weekly Haiku/Senryu Challenge 24 – June 18, 2019

prague clock

Prague Clock Image

Posed for all to see
Chilling view of destiny
At the edge of time

-CJ Holm

 

The legend of the Astronomical Clock Tower of Prague
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/prague-astronomical-clock