Haiku Challenge for Jan. 26: ‘Open’ (Part II)

Today’s haiku challenge:

Today's @baffled #HaikuChallenge: any haiku you like, as long as it has the word 'open' in it….

— baffled (@baffled) January 26, 2021

This is a repeat prompt from Nov. 20, 2020. You can read my first 10 haiku poems with that prompt here.

My style is the five/seven/five syllable structure. Here are my five haiku poems:

she opened my heart.
out came the caterpillars
dead in their cocoons.

she opened my heart.
out came the pain, like scarecrows
amid a dead field.

she opened my heart.
out came the flailing shadows.
scenes from a dead reel.

she opened my heart.
out came the billowing leaves,
dead like scar tissue.

she opened my heart
out came the candle wax with
a dead wick in tow.