26 responses to “Carpe Diem Haiku – Sacrifice”

1. pull ever upward
   against wind, through fire, through pain
   dropped at last ascent

   • Great one 🙂

2. This one is heavy and grim, Bjorn — lovely.

   • Sacrifice can be grim

3. Definitely a sacrifice that still goes on. Very sad and well penned.

   • Thank you . Yes it’s a sad sacrifice

4. Well written thoughts on the prompt…a difficult subject.
   Peace
   Siggi

   • Thank you.. I found the word very hard…

5. That is a sad and heavy sacrifice to have to make!Sacrifice

   • I agree…

6. Lovely and deep. You are saying a lot with a few words. Good work on this one.

   • Thank you.. It was a difficult word for me.

     • 🙂

7. Well said Bjorn.
   We often forget in this day and age that it wasn’t so long ago that both sexes married more for family positioning than love….indeed in some social circles today they still do.

   • Thank you. I think it’s more common than we’d like to think.

8. I’m sure that I couldn’t marry someone for the sake of strengthening a political alliance.

   Sacrificial Fire

   • Nope… but I guess in the past I might have

9. marrying for the brothers sake…what a sacrifice and one she will def have to live with…

   haiku has never been easy for me…so i am learning as i reaqd along with you man…

   • I might share haiku tomorrow on dVerse

10. so glad I live in this time and place!

    • I think it’s easier

11. Me too, 4joy. That is a terrible sacrifice indeed 🙂

    • I think to some extent it still exist…

12. I never thought of a rose as a sign of sacrifice before. (Maybe I haven’t moved in the right circles!)

13. what a shame … to sacrifice her freedom for the good of her brother.

14. the picture brought your words to a new level.
    Arranged marriages, arranged love is such a hard pill to swallow. LOVE doesn’t move well in confined places.

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