Ashes to Ashes

Poem 10/10! There. I finally finished my 10 poems for Synergy at for their August Contest. Here is the full set (along with the general plots for the overall theme).

Update 9/2/2013: I placed 1st with this haiku set

The overall theme was a persons life from beginning to end, generally, in 10 haiku.

Poem 1: Birth medoriko.deviantart.com/art/Cr…
Poem 2: First Words medoriko.deviantart.com/art/Fi…
Poem 3: First Step(s) medoriko.deviantart.com/art/Bi…
Poem 4: Starting School for the first time. medoriko.deviantart.com/art/Of…
Poem 5: High school/teens/bullying medoriko.deviantart.com/art/Th…
Poem 6: College medoriko.deviantart.com/art/Ac…
Poem 7: 'The Real World' medoriko.deviantart.com/art/As…
Poem 8: Mid Life Crisis medoriko.deviantart.com/art/Co…
Poem 9: Old Age/Loss of Companion medoriko.deviantart.com/art/Un…
Poem 10: Death (this one).

I hope you guys will read them first to last, and get the overall sense of what I was going for. It was difficult trying to tell everything in a haiku and in only 10 of them. I had to keep some themes out that i wanted cause there wasn't enough space. Anyway, let me know what you think. I may do these again sometime for fun.