Fellow author, Munazza Bangash commented on the blog yesterday with a link to a weekly Article and Poetry Contest she is running on her blog, Desirable Purity.
The prompt for the poetry contest is – Emptiness. Here’s my entry…
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Sands pour − vacant hopes
Measuring meaningless times
Of a soul drained dry
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This sounds like something I might have written as an angst-ridden teenager, and was very tough to do when I’m so far from feeling what I’ve written above…Thank Goodness. ;0)
Donna L Sadd 
Donna that is fabulous! You are far better than me at haiku.
You’re too kind, Catherine. I learned haiku in third grade, I think, and have written it ever since. It’s amazing how hard it is to give 17 syllables power. It’s like trying to get to Carnegie Hall…practice, practice, practice. ;0)
I never learned it at school. That would have been helpful
Wow, yes, this is entirely unlike your usual, but if that’s done as an exercise (and not from something horrible happening) then that’s not a bad thing!
Lovely Donna. Did you write this and then search for photos. They match so perfectly. I feel a little sadness but hope too.
Yep, I always look for pics after the fact. The funny thing is that in the back of my mind, I remembered a poem I wrote when I was an angst-ridden teen…I had drawn a similar pic to the drawing of the girl in the hourglass and freaked out when I found this one. I guess that’s how this poem sprung up. (Boy, I wish I hadn’t lost all my old poetry books.)