Time

Published in Three Line Poetry Issue # 9

With laboring strokes
The elastic hand of time
Cancels a known past

Author's Note

I tried to write a proper haiku after a very long time. Word prompt : elastic, cancel, labor

Reviews

[exotic flotsam]

Yea, a Haiku. Absurdly more difficult to write than most verse. Its rules feel an alluring menace. Ya gotta try. Then the need for Edit Death needles the work. I like this. I attempt many Haiku. I have pages, but only reluctantly release them fearing art issues. Space/time are a single dimension, a construct for our measurement. You trifle with one of the most intriguing elements of our existence. Awesome.

[Muse]

the picture...the words...amazing. I can't do haiku...I feel my words are too long...too complex...it just doesn't work for me. So admire your ability to do this...beautifully done.

[Chris]

You spoke very distinctly in this... well done!

[Myenigma]

great haiku! leaves me wondering what time is and why its connected with space and matter.

[Marie]

This is beautiful and a great haiku. I love this form, though I don't use it often. I like to see it written.

[Kaylee]

simple, yet it tells all. Time is one of the inevitable things in life that once past can never be retrieved again.