candles (Sketchbook haiku thread editors’ choices)
There are many beautiful haiku in this thread revealing emotions, contrasting light with darkness, and other experiences which captivated their authors and which can provide us with a multitude of meanings and feelings. (Bernard Gieske guest editor and John Daleiden, editor, Sketchbook haiku thread)
1.
vigil candles
the flicker
of mumbled prayers
2.
the steady flames
of tea candles
my mother’s prayers
3.
among mom’s
jewels
our baptismal candles
4.
graveyard visits
same candle
one prayer
5.
candlelit
his hands so deft
on the lute
6.
prayer candles
from the Virgin’s robe
the essence of roses
Sketchbook Nov-Dec 2011
my ‘heart haiku’ (published in Sketchbook’s haiku thread Jan-Feb Vol 6 issue)
My choices
hearts of romaine—
between them candles flit
in the silence
she finds the embryo
of the seed–
not his heart
monitor—
his heart’s dips and coasts
but where is love?
losing a heartbeat–
on the hollow of her neck
and on her wrist
Editor’s choice included under ‘maternal love’
heartbeat—
her hand on her belly
searching for it