Smell of gunpowder
Cartridge spent, bullet is sent
Friendly fire is not
My First Haiku
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This is brilliant, and so powerful, Thank you.
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I’ve been reading about “friendly fire” all day…😢😢
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Hope and prayers this poem is not as rebarbative as my prose.
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The charge is placed…😜
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Lol 🙂 Your writing is never rebarbative, Simon, but thank you for teaching me a new word 🙂
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The recovering English major in me has got to say that your prose is revelatory, even when its subject matter might be seen as rebarbative, by some.
The term ‘friendly fire’ seems ironic, at the very least. The haiku is uniquely yours: It evokes finding/imposing order – and, perhaps, beauty amidst chaos.
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