Daybreak #midnighthaiku

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Summer bathers blush
Destructive purity weeps
Stealing innocence

Dawn brings the scent of roses to tempt me outside. Pale faces whisper good morning to the rising sun. I share the moment with an invisible blackbird. The world sleeps as the rain falls, marring perfect petals… each clear drop outlined in red as if the living earth bleeds for their loss.

Rain-heavy roses genuflect, bowing before Great Nature. I have watched them grow from eager bud to overblown maturity. Even in their ending, there is beauty still, though after another order. Soon the petals will fall and only their memory will remain, a seed of beauty captured, their fragrance a ghost on the breeze.

For d’verse‘s Haibun Monday

About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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25 Responses to Daybreak #midnighthaiku

  1. rafrafrafia says:
    August 9, 2017 at 00:02

    Amazing! 💜

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  2. Faye Catherine says:
    August 9, 2017 at 00:28

    Ooo genuflect. I’m keeping that one! Lovely as always!

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  4. Grace says:
    August 9, 2017 at 01:33

    Beautiful even when dying ~ I have these flowers outside too ~ Love the ode to nature’s roses ~

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  5. Frank Hubeny says:
    August 9, 2017 at 02:06

    The blossoms are bathing in the rain and genuflecting to Great Nature. Nice way to describe this.

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  6. susielindau says:
    August 9, 2017 at 03:02

    Lovely and sensuous. Nice one, Sue!

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  7. colorfulpen says:
    August 9, 2017 at 04:42

    A gorgeous piece! I love the word ‘genuflect’ and all the wonderful details in this. I’ve kept dead flowers for months just so I can use them as photo props sometimes. They have their own beauty, just as a blooming flower.

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  9. jenanita01 says:
    August 9, 2017 at 10:03

    A beautiful hymn to one of Nature’s best accomplishments…

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  10. Victoria C. Slotto says:
    August 9, 2017 at 22:32

    So much beauty in this–the photos, the descriptions. You have captured the essence of Wabi-Sabi: transience here. So glad you shared.

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  11. dgkaye says:
    August 10, 2017 at 02:00

    Stunning Sue! ❤

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  12. patriciaruthsusan says:
    August 10, 2017 at 04:04

    Reblogged this on Musings on Life & Experience and commented:
    Beautiful.

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  13. D. Wallace Peach says:
    August 10, 2017 at 13:02

    Beautiful, Sue. The whole piece reads like poetry. 🙂

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