white roses
soft and sweet
resist rush hour din
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Photo: Flower Cart, Prague, Czech Republic, c.b.w. 2008
Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2018
Month: January 2018
Reality
Standardsome days
I wake up
forgetting
I fell asleep
wiping blurred
dreams from
my eyes
reality looks
nothing like
I imagined
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free-verse, c.b.w. 2018
Warm
Standardyour touch
once set me
on fire
the embers
have dimmed
and cooled
not my heart
burning still
content and warm
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free-verse, c.b.w. 2018
Speak
Standardwe walk in silence
I wait for you
to speak
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Photo: Xi’an, China, c.b.w. 2005
Words: senryu, c.b.w 2018
Rippled
Standardthoughts of you
a rippled heart
carves the shore
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Photo: Pool at Multnomah Falls, Oregon, c.b.w 2015
Words: senryu, c.b.w. 2018
C.B. Wentworth 