814 - A Leaden Haiku or two.

Haiku Horizons has the prompt ‘Lead’.

Something of an ambiguous word when taken out of context.

Here goes:

A Leaden Haiku or two.

All paths lead to Rome.

So they would have us believe;

Mine leads to the world.

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Politics is dire.

Where have all the leaders gone?

A depressing void.

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We think we’ve found gold

But mistake weight for substance.

Just lead.  Heavy.  Cheap.

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To turn lead to gold—

The alchemist’s holy grail.

But they all died poor.

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Full of fancy words,

She lead me to think she cared.

Harsh words killed that thought.

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Leaden clouds gathered.

The storm swirled around itself—

A whirling dervish.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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