Via Dolorosa - Elfje

Friday

Via Dolorosa

Walk of Witness

Each footstep remembers his 

Sacrifice

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Fidget -Elfje

Patience 

takes time

a saintly talent 

Which explains a lot

Fidget

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Past lives - Elfje

Reliving 

past lives 

then and now 

learn from them, then 

forgive 

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Broken again - Elfje

Hearts

break daily

Life rumbles on

How strange that nobody

notices

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Standstill - Elfje

Alert - 

snow storm

weather beaten traffic

gritted, grey, corrugated ice

Standstill

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Not all that - Elfje

Criticism 

bites hard

doubts slither in 

So- you're not all that 

then 

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Tree - Elfje

Tree

cut down

to make way

for internet distribution centre

Deadline

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Boat - Elfje

Boat-

sea water

in its belly

sailing in a parallel 

universe

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Tears - Elfje

Cry
wordless prayers
eighth, holy sacrament
pouring from broken hearts
Tears



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Sanctuary - Elfje

Torrent 

roars through

wave chasing wave

rough timber'd stilted refuge

Sanctuary

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Marooned - Elfje

Moor'd

red boat

awaiting the tide

timbers shining like copper  

Marooned

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Knock - Elfje

Behind 

closed doors

there's a wanting

silence waiting for release - 

Knock

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Evening - Elfje

Evening, 

fragmented heavens

magenta over violet

watercolour'd smudges of pillowed

clouds

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Winter's night

Sun sinks into softly focus'd rest
chilled presence of winter'd night
frost sprites nip at bare faces 
snow has come again
treading sky
undecided 

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Walk Haiku

nakedly blue sky 
as clouds roll idly below
playing loosely at fog

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Woman - Elfje

Desire
Creator's helpmate
birthing earth mother
crone of wisdom years
Woman

International Women's Day

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Memory - Elfje

I 
was here
a moment ago
my life pictured as 
Memory

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Willow - Elfje

Bow'd
Willow woman
Skeletal fingers gathering
rippled fragments of lost dreams
Re-membering

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Sentinel - Elfje

Ahoy,
Iron Man
at Crosby Beach
neither waving nor drowning
Sentinel

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Harbour haiku

Harbour wall embraces
skittish fishing boats straining 
against anchor'd hearts

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Snowdrops

Fragile,
blossoms birth
delicate as gossamer
spirits of winter past 
Snowdrops

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Phoenix

Hawk
ruffles feathers
on filigree branches 
rises against firelit sunset
Phoenix

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Dragon's tea Haiku

Sipping Dragon's tea
imagining curled claw
around fine china

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Junction 3

Junction 3 
Buzzard shared my journey today 
for a stretch or two
until a beat of wings
lifted her into the airstream 
that pulls away to the sea

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