NaPoWriMo prompt: What are you haunted by, or what haunts you? Write a poem responding to this question. Then change the word haunt to hunt.
I’m not haunted by anything, except possibly the possibility of regret. I would hate to find myself regretting something I’d done or not done and now can never put right.
Maybe this is why Christ’s forgiveness, and mandate of such, is so all-important, central to me?
FMF prompt word: LONELY.
I won’t do another FMF, but will write a Haiku to link haunt and lonely.
Haiku 1
I think the only
thing that could ever haunt me –
if you were lonely.
Haiku 2
Many are my fears
but the one that would haunt me –
my lack of courage.
Haiku 3 – inspired by Martin Niemöller’s famous and important words
I will speak speak for you
when you face persecution.
Will you speak for me?
Haiku 4
To not hear the words
‘Well done good, faithful servant’ –
on reaching heaven.
Haiku 5
Haunted or hunted,
they would never come for me.
I’ve nothing they want!
Haiku 6
To sum this all up
about what would haunt me most –
t’is to have regret.
NB: To see other responses to the FMF prompt, LONELY, see below
Loving your haikus Dawn! Especially no. 2. I love how it balances but also hangs in the air leaving the reader to consider their own fears and lack fo courage. Beautiful – thank you.
Liz (I’m at #10 on FMF this week)
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Thank you so much Liz!
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haiku 5 made me laugh, and everyday I’ve learned to seek for those moments of laughter. Thank you for bringing it to me. :) FMF12
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Yay! I’m so happy to hear that. Thank you, Annette. 😀
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Great Haiku’s . It is nice that you have nothing that haunts you. I have no regrets in life. But, I am haunted by the ill words of someone – they randomly appear in my head from time to time.
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I think of what you said about mercy and the power of forgiveness – for your heart as much as theirs. ❤
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