loneliness
comes to sit beside my bed ...
the third night
filled with the monotone
of winter rain
at 3 a.m.
many-mouthed loneliness
talks out loud --
speechless, I'm face-to-face
with my shadow on the wall
NeverEnding Story, June 27, 2015
To the Lighthouse: Haiku Silence by Angelee Deodhar
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(First published in* Simply Haiku,* 3:1, Spring 2005 and reprinted by kind
permission of the author)
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