Haikus: Dark Mode Collection

Ocean (a day in St Kilda):

Light skies hide behind

dark filters and blue-hued paint.

Three hearts glow orange.

City:

A lone chair

in a car park in a big city

where big buildings rose.

6/12/25:

A ceiling moth watched

yeast rise dark brown and macaroons melt

to the sunset.

Blue Pt.1:

Blue painted me 

as I drove into night blue skies

and neon blue streets.

Blue Pt.2:

We drove miles into

a blue-lit ghost town, where nights

turned to blue sunrise.

7/12/25:

Fog creeps between blinds

engulfing everything in a blur

but the light.

5/12/25:

Alice escaped the room

where people watched her grow.

She found Wonderland.

Cold:

‘Did dinosaurs feel cold

when death creeped on them’

I wondered one cold noon.

Take Me Back:

Could time take me back

like new waves at shore

that wash back to sea, back home.

by Helani Munidasa

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