Abandoned Lighthouse

abandoned lighthouse –

here and there poppies

lighting up the shore

Cecilia Birca

This haiku poem was meant as an offering to the waves of the passage of time that make lighthouses collapse and put on the fires of poppies.

It suggests that it is summer and we are on a seashore — but far away from the bustle of the holiday season.

We find ourselves on the shore of life, where a true universal law is present: the conservation of energy, yet the continuous transformation of its forms.

The light of the lighthouse has been transfigured — into the fire of the poppies.

(Comment by Cecilia Birca)