Battle Haiku, by Bacol Serlui

Poetry

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Wed, 03/12/2025 – 14:53

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1

Earlier than dawn
launched for publication
morning prayers

2

Mount Herzl lit up
scent of lifeless flowers
practically fall

3

A line of troopers
crossing the border
inexperienced fields

4

Between the sirens
with evening falling
rain falls

5

The autumn solar.
Troopers’ uniforms
transfer within the wind

6

An open door.
On the challah dough
a fly lands

7

We don’t go to sleep.
On shaking home windows
evening butterflies

8

A star at 5
on moist hair
earlier than the interceptions

9

Six within the morning
a knock on the door
solely the wind

10

Alarm throughout prayer
a silent girl beside
the Torah scroll

11

Sabbath candles
angels on the door
Shalom aleichem

12

The solar all of a sudden
pours inexperienced on
the row of mourners

13

A flag within the rain
on the puddle’s finish 
bent in sorrow

14

Her hand caresses
her stomach over 
a tear in her garment

15

Subsequent to ideas
one star shakes
within the puddle waters

16

Wind on the window
a department casts shadow
his empty room

17

His physique with us
however the fireplace within the blue
lakes of his eyes

18

After he went off
on the Sabbath desk
challah crumbs

Translation from the Hebrew