THE AWFUL SIMPLICITY OF TEN

This was selected by The Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for their "Highly Commended Poems" section.
This was my first attempt at haiku so I'm just a little extra kicked about that.

THE 

AWFUL SIMPLICITY 

OF 

TEN

ONE

A single petal

Rose red velvet scent supine

Snow white pillowcase

TWO

Carmine awakened

Surprised by the wind warmly

Gathered up in musk

THREE

Venturesome brightness

Pearl and obsidian eyes 

Peals of laughter twinkling

FOUR

Sugar rush times two

Rush slow down run mosey sleep

Dream learn together

FIVE

Copy model rebel

Coalesce disperse return

To love and home 

SIX

Roots adventitious

And tap recall recursive 

Journey seed to seed

SEVEN

Generations weave

A quilt of traditions real

Unreal bittersweet

EIGHT

Life ebbs flows begins

Ends endlessly organic

Builds tribes and nations

NINE

Nine lives of each act

Of random kindness also

Of evil design

TEN

River wends its way

Through destiny doership

Drenched in rose and musk

                                                                                                   

                                                                                                    ~ Sonali

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