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Morning Glory

Their leaves
large and small hearts

climbing the wall
of hatred--

the royal purple
of a new day.

Billy---


i like the poem best with this edit:


Their leaves
large and small hearts

climbing the wall


the royal purple
of a new day.


hatred is too strong.

what do you think?


but more, i hope, haiku like.


bernie

Hello.
Yes, hatred sounds too harsh.

 
Hi Billy,

workshop sharing these distilled to 3 lines less than 17 syllables       Michael (MV)

leaves large and small hearts
purple upon the wall --
  Morning Glory


leaves large and small hearts
the wall falls to purple --
  Morning Glory


 leaves large and small hearts
the wall appears purple --
  Morning Glory
 
 
 leaves large and small hearts
purple reigns the wall --
  Morning Glory
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I like the idea of a haiku here as well....I like Michael's first try at it:

leaves large and small hearts
purple upon the wall --
Morning Glory