B H H Burns

B H H Burns Jun 2017

Midnight's milky eye
blindly stares across a sky
written in star dots.
Feeling with fingers of cloud,
Moon reads the braille of Heaven

Inspired by #JunePoeticWings prompt 'Read The Stars'

#tanka

B H H Burns Jun 2017

The Longest Day

On the longest day
The sun barely blinks, then sets
Her sights on Winter

Inspired by #NatureVerse prompt 'on the longest day' and the summer solstice

#haiku #solstice

B H H Burns Jun 2017

Short & Sweet Poem; Big and Bad Pun

Cooking clay to make pottery
Smelting thoughts to get poetry
Melting words into punnery -
Kiln in the name of...

Inspired by #micropromt 'Kiln', Rage Against The Machine & a general love of excruciatingly bad puns

B H H Burns Jun 2017

Mnemonic Gin And Tonic

Drinking to forget;
Mnemonic gin and tonic
hasn't helped me yet

B H H Burns Jun 2017

A Right To Be, A Right To Breathe

Sometimes all we need
Is for us to believe
We each have the right
To keep breathing

Inspired by #MadVerse prompt Just Breathe

B H H Burns Jun 2017

A Summer View Via Haiku

Speckled sea-green leaves
wave wistfully in the breeze;
Summer ebbs and flows

Inspired by #NtionalWritingDay prompt #TellYourStory describing the view through the window where I am sitting

B H H Burns Jun 2017

Married To Death

She was married to death -
Given away on her wedding day
To one who took her breath away.

Now the only thing left
Is an expensive ring indicating
How she sold her soul for wealth

Inspired by #DarkLines prompt Married to Death