Long time no see in my poetry realm, I know, but here’s a set of haiku poems inspired by recent and not-so-recent life events.

 

Iron beside gold

Recedes into the background

Mere utility

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Tried but unnoticed

You’re so-and-so’s sibling, right?

Unidentified

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Behind the spotlight

Are shadow places where those

Like me work unseen

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“I always win.”

You always do. Food for thought

A tough cut of truth

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Competition? No

But maybe I didn’t know

Until I had lost

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My local fifteen

Will come page two, column two

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