The Haunted Sky
Sky-ku
A murder of crows
Above the skeletal trees
Circling, blackened dawn
About the Creator
Deasun T. Smyth
Eighteen years ago… I was born into the wind-swept lands of the prairies – where I regularly fly on dragons and battle goblin kings.
I'm a First Nation's wannabe writer, trying to survive college...
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Do you understand haiku?
Do you ever get sidetracked when writing? I do. I think it must be in the nature of the creative mind to draw connections and have a need to explore them. Since the World Wide Web became established in the 1990s, this has become a lot easier to do. The phenomenon being described as ‘going down a wormhole.’ Sometimes a distraction, but I have written some of my best work when I have disappeared down one web wormhole or another. It also happened in the days when most of my research was book based so we can't blame it on the internet. Book research was just slower. These days, guided by my AI friend, it is much, much quicker.
By Raymond G. Taylorabout 10 hours ago in Poets
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Wow, what a fantastic haiku! I like it ✨👏
Oooo, loved tge ominous vibes here! So well done!
Very appropriate for the season! Wonderful haiku. 🍁🍂🎃
Excellent Haiku dark sky poem. Bravo 👏 👏 👏
well written
This was fantastic!! I loved every word. Such great visuals!!