Category Archives: Haikus

Haiku No. 173: Where Light Cannot Reach (8 Parts)

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where-light-cannot-see

You were ev’rything
To me. Sun, moon, heat, light and
Shadow. Also that.

Where light could not reach
You crept, with distorted truth
Filling the dark space.

Dazzling me, like light
I could not discern, at first.
I dreamed it was real.

You laughed, suffusing
Darkness disguised with strange glow
Sorrowful aching.

It’s taken me time
To eradicate your gloom
You’re strong in your fear.

But only light can
destroy the darkness, so go.
You can’t hurt me now.

You also can’t change
My belief in love’s power.
Still, I can see you.

Love needs no reason
to be unconditional.
Always, and all ways.

Haiku No. 169: Food Enough for All

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Endless cornfields

Endless plains of grains

Bountiful yield Mother Earth

Hunger should not be.

By Deborah E. Bedrick

Picture taken by me, somewhere in the midwest.  1000’s and 1000’s of miles of scenery like this, farms growing food.  I feel like no one should be hungry, there’s food enough for all.  If only money never entered the picture, and we just cared for one another.