Fading Ember

The Sky Opens to Light

By Rebecca A Hyde GonzalesPublished 4 months ago • 1 min read

Photo by Sarah Sheedy on Unsplash

scarlet embers fade,

yet each flutter marks a soul

passing into light

Haiku

About the Creator

Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales

I love to write. I have a deep love for words and language; a budding philologist (a late bloomer according to my father). I have been fascinated with the construction of sentences and how meaning is derived from the order of words.

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L.I.E4 months ago
Beautiful words 🧡❤️🧡❤️

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