Testimony of Outlaws

By Hyacinth Grey

This book is a collection of haiku poetry. It includes new poems, many of the poems previously published on my blog, some of my previously published fiction, and a new piece of fiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hyacinth Grey
• Release date: Dec 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005009687

Hyacinth Grey

I am Hyacinth Grey, Indie Author of fiction in many genres, along with haiku poetry. I also write educational stories for children with my husband, Michael.We live in North America.

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Testimony of Outlaws

By Hyacinth Grey

Copyright © 2022 by Hyacinth Grey. All rights reserved.

Websites: www.hyacinthgrey.com and www.hgb4yr.com

Twitter: @grey_hyacinth and @hgb4yr

This is a work of fiction and poetry.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Intro

Haiku

Numerical

• 2020

A

• A Favorite Part of Myself

• A Good Chance

• A Letter

• A Letter to Haiku

• A Letter to My Internal Editor

• A Letter to My Website Visitors

• A Letter to Summer

• A Letter to Time

• A Sign

• Accomplish

• Air

• All in One

• Always Win

• An Hour Away

• Arrows

• Attached

• Aware

B

• Beautiful Day

• Becoming a Writer

• Before

• Bird

• Blows Over

• Bottle

• Blue

• Brightening

• Build

C

• Challenge

• Change

• Changing the World

• Chills

• Christmas

• Clarity

• Clock

D

• Damage

• December 14, 2012

• Detective

• Doing the Right Thing

• Draft

• Dungeon

• Dusty

E

• Encourage

‣ Enemy

• Everything

• Except

F

• Fantasy

• Faster

‣ Fathers’ Day

• Find

• First Line

• Flies

• Flowers

• Food

• For the Moment

• Freedom

• Full Moon

• Fun

G

• Gabriel and Mary

• Gift

• Glued

• Goodnight

• Graceless

• Grammar

• Gray

• Grief

• Ground

H

• Haiku about Fire

• Happiness

• Happy 2021

• Happy April!

• Holiday

• Hospital

• House

I

• Idea

• Identity

J

• Job Interview

K

• Keeping the Peace

L

• Languish

• Laugh

• Laughter

• Leave

• Long

• Looking

• Love

M

• Meet

• Microbes

• Might Say

• Mindless

• Monster

• Moonlight

• Mothers’ Day

‣ Mourning

• Music

N

• Name

• NaNoWriMo

• Never

• Never Come

• Night

• No Doubt

• Nothing

O

• Only Nature

• ‣ Open

• Outlives

• Oxygen

P

• Patiently

• Peace

• Pink

• Please Wear a Mask If You Can

• Pond

• Power

• Precious

Q

• Quiet

R

• Ramshackle

• Ready

• Red

• Relentless

• Rereading

• Rest

• Revision

• Rewarding

‣ Romance

• Ruined

S

• Sea

• Second

• Self-Doubt

• Sense

• September 11, 2001

• Serve or Simmer

• Sharing on Social Media

• Shepherds and Angels

• Silently

• Sitting

• Six Feet

• Snow

• Soft

• Sound

• Sounds Like

• Speaks

• Stars

‣ Stories

‣ Story Idea

• Strange

• Sunflower

T

• Technology Is

• The Call to the Day

• The Dancer

• The Key

‣ Thought

• Time to Think

• Time to Write

• Title Poem

• To Become

• To Go

• Travel

‣ Two Pictures

U

• Unexpected

• Unveiling

• Up

V

• Veiling

W

• Waiting

• Warm

• Where It Wants

• Winter

• Wish

• Words

• Working Hard

• Worlds

• Writing Fiction Is

X

• X

Y

• Yellow

• Yesterday

Z

• Zen

The Christmas Room: A Story with Two Endings

The Beginning

Ending 1

Ending 2

Lights

Books and Stories by Hyacinth Grey

Intro

This book is a collection of haiku poems about lots of topics, and stories about Christmas. Since I love writing both, there will likely be a second collection in a couple of years.

Throughout the poetry section, I have used a ‣, Unicode U+2023, which Michael says reads as triangular bullet, or the letters tri in braille.

For content that has been previously published on my blog or elsewhere, I have used •, Unicode U+2022, which Michael says is a bullet, but he’s not sure how to describe it in braille since it doesn’t resemble any letters.

The story called Lights was written specifically for this book.

Haiku

Numerical

• 2020

A sad year has gone,

Too many people have died,

May they rest in peace.

A

• A Favorite Part of Myself

What I love about,

Myself is my unending,

Need to read and write.

• A Good Chance

If there is a chance,

To do some good for others,

Take it for yourself.

• A Letter

If you should open,

A letter not meant for you,

God above will know.

• A Letter to Haiku

Dear Haiku,

You are pretty cool,

And people like you a lot,

Cuz you’re quick to read.

Not too long to write,

Lots of meaning in each word,

Syllables must count.

When I think of you,

It’s with greatest affection,

Because you help me.

Not only to gain,

More traffic to my website,

But to put to words.

Things that trouble me,

Or make me rise to passion,

Like writing itself.

Yours truly,

Hyacinth Grey

• A Letter to My Internal Editor

Dear My Internal Editor,

You help me work hard,

Through long days of revision,

But sometimes you’re mean.

Yours truly,

Hyacinth Grey

• A Letter to My Website Visitors

Dear Visitors,

A thousand people,

Have come to my site looking,

For entertainment.

You are each precious,

And I’ll never forget you,

As long as I live.

Thank you for coming,

Even when I started out,

You encouraged me.

To the next thousand,

The next one and the next ten,

You’re inspiration.

Yours truly,

Hyacinth Grey

• A Letter to Summer

Dear Summer,

Spring is just too wet,

Fall is nice but it’s not you,

Winter is too cold.

Yours truly,

Hyacinth Grey

• A Letter to Time

This poem was published on my blog but has been lightly edited.

Dear Time:

If you were my father I’d never be late but also not human.

Yours truly,

Hyacinth Grey

• A Sign

When life won’t be still,

Take it as a sign that you,

Must go where it goes.

• Accomplish

Time’s not on my side,

When I try to do what I,

Want to accomplish.

• Air

Prompt: Air.

Take in a deep breath,

The people who’ve lived before,

Have shared it with you.

• All in One

Honey at sunrise,

Sweetness and light all in one,

Make the breath of dawn.

• Always Win

Time will always win,

We cannot live forever,

Yet we do in love.

• An Hour Away

Surf pounds on the beach,

Sunrise just an hour away,

Be ready for life.

• Arrows

I’ve been reading A Brief History of Japan by Jonathan Clements, which contains vivid descriptions of the armadas sent by