Half-Forgotten Spirits

White clouds on blue skies
Eight p.m. sky in mid-Spring
Life within brown bricks

Light shrouds the dark lies
Faith dreams a-flyin’ dancing
Strife fades in town tricks

Height louds throw the dice
Fate ageing suff’ring dying
Mem’ries the flame licks

May 3, 2021; a trio of haiku about lives in nursing homes