Clouds above a cemetery

Another 20 means 20 less...

Can't even tell the time of day

Protector – Guest Haiku from Srivatsa Huruli

A mother's pure love
A new man with strength and will
Protector of Light

Ecclesiastes

There will come the day

When we will see and believe

All is vanity

Earthquake

We shall not be moved

Not even by a young child

Dying from no food

300

King Leonidas

And only three hundred men

Kill a bunch of brown guys

Smiling Portrait

Remember the days

When portraits showed toothy smiles

Those times are long gone

300 Nanos

King Ioannidis

And but three hundred nanos

Brought pain to my life

Death of a Car Salesman – Guest Haiku from Jonathan Hernandez

Velocity red!

Life: the American dream;

I am a failure.

Winter Fog

Dark fog owns my soul

The winter hourglass flows

Like rivers below

The following is a series I call Tales of the Gods. Its best read as a whole so once the Haiku series is over, I’ll post it as a note. The entire tale and the missing details will remain with me.

The Dogs of War (Prelude to Tales of The Gods)

War is a fire
set in forests made of men
who burn for nothing.

Tales of the Gods Part 1

Millennia past

In the era before time

There lived the old gods

Tales of the Gods part 2

These gods of long ago

Ruled for eons, but in time

The old gods did die

Tales of the Gods part 3

The death of the old

Led invariably to

The birth of the new

Tales of the Gods Part 4

There came Ragnarok

And a split between the gods

A cataclysm

Tales of the Gods Part 5

High gods lived in bliss,

And Low Gods in agony –

Ruled by pure terror

Tales of the Gods Part 6

Their very natures

Made war inevitable

Such a bloody day!

Tales of the Gods Part 7

For eternity

War raged unabated

Good versus evil

Fall of the Gods

War and all it brought

Were a raging inferno –

The gods were no more

Rise and Fall of the New Gods

Hubris was to blame

But then came the rise of Man

Who loved war far more –

Their end: even more tragic

Epilogue of the Gods

Such is the cruel fate

Of either mankind or gods

If war perseveres

Revolutions (5 7 7)

The world keeps spinning

Yet I remain tethered

To the things I try to lose

Yes, they're yours,

Lloyd Webber