Resolute
23February 7, 2017 by petrujviljoen
Copyright Petru J Viljoen
I offered you my past. Stupid, naive, blind. Meant it as a gift. To aid your understanding; your insight into the condition of another.Child. You took it. You added grit. Kneaded it into a consistency to your own likeness. You let it harden over a period of time. Then you stoned me with it.
When I came to I got up from where I was felled. I’ve grown beyond the point where I remain. Soiled. I’m tired, though. There’s another room in my house…
Awash with silver
gifted light of summer’s moon –
matter dissolves to ether
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Linked to Dverse and acknowledging first inspiration by the blog post on Carpe Diem Haiku Kai
Footnote: I edited this post today, 2 October 2017. The title changed from MW mpu to Resolute as that is the way it will appear in a future anthology which should appear quite soon. The last line of the haiku changed from ‘lead softens to gold’ to ‘matter dissolves to ether’. Petru.
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This one has an ephemeral spare beauty to it… that still point of vulnerability. Powerful writing…!
Thank you! Explored some of your blog last night and am returning the follow.
Powerful, and epiphany of strength. Heartfelt and beautiful.
Thanks Susan!
so heartfelt and beautiful
Thank you!!
you’re welcome! 🙂
I like the “tip of the iceberg” feeling this gives me…and I have my own story that resonates too well with your words. This is dark, intense and beautifully written.
Thank you Mish. I don’t understand people and that’s a fact. I like your insight of the ‘tip of the iceberg’.
Pithily worded. Perfectly kaiku’d!
Thanks indeed.
strongly penned – like overly strong coffee, bitter but bracing – alchemical, like your final line ~
Thanks for the follow.
I’m not sure what to think, then I thought that’s because the person is confused who wrote it. Not to say that’s bad… Wow!
This has grit and pain under the gold ~ The emotional angst is subtle and effective with sparse words ~
Such richness here even though the subject matter has a darkness to it…and the alchemical Haiku is just fantastic.
This got me thinking of the Pygmalion myth.. the creation of a mistress… kneading, and leaving spoiled. The haiku and the artwork adds dimensions of solace that contrast and complements the prose. Great work
At first I started to laugh..that is quite an opening…then I didn’t….I fell entranced, and read this over and over, and I find it very layered. There is something very moving here, but that is obvious….the haiku is lovely in the end. I will be back.
Reminds me of chasing moonlight
I like the way the prose slips into the poem, seamlessly.
Thank you!
I like the idea of gifts being thrown back as stones.
Maybe if you read again you wouldn’t?