Carpe Diem haiku today is sacrifice.

Before the wedding by Konstantin Makovsky
the single rose
adorning wedding gown
a sacrifice
a sacrifice
marry for her brother’s sake
family
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July 7, 2013
Carpe Diem haiku today is sacrifice.

Before the wedding by Konstantin Makovsky
a sacrifice
marry for her brother’s sake
family
—
July 7, 2013
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis
pull ever upward
against wind, through fire, through pain
dropped at last ascent
Great one 🙂
This one is heavy and grim, Bjorn — lovely.
Sacrifice can be grim
Definitely a sacrifice that still goes on. Very sad and well penned.
Thank you . Yes it’s a sad sacrifice
Well written thoughts on the prompt…a difficult subject.
Peace
Siggi
Thank you.. I found the word very hard…
That is a sad and heavy sacrifice to have to make!Sacrifice
I agree…
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.
🙂
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.
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
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
so glad I live in this time and place!
I think it’s easier
Me too, 4joy. That is a terrible sacrifice indeed 🙂
I think to some extent it still exist…
I never thought of a rose as a sign of sacrifice before. (Maybe I haven’t moved in the right circles!)
what a shame … to sacrifice her freedom for the good of her brother.
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.