Category: haiku

• train haiku

  sway soft like a young
  girl’s dress. we roll on mindful
  of trees and the gap.

  September 12, 2011

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• untitled (fifty years go by)

  the quiet takes form,
  slips by unannounced, settles,
  fifty years go by.

  August 17, 2011

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• my grandmother’s hand

  willow branches with
  graceful touch, you are, with wind,
  my grandmother’s hand.

  August 12, 2011

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• yes or no? (haiku)

  when you know most con-
  sider it wrong; when you can’t
  help yourself… choose now.

  August 5, 2011

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• Marley morning (haiku)

  wireless problems persist…. but these morning poems might be interesting in their own right (maybe)

  Bob Marley grooves the
  morning, coffee seduces
  jam, “feel alright” now

  July 21, 2011

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• the dance before a storm (haiku)

  sorry – had some technical difficulties last night….

  summer wind teases
  lightly flirts, pirouettes,
  snaps lightning in time.

  July 20, 2011

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• burial of a dog (haiku)

  father takes the small
  body to the back, hunches
  over a shovel.

  finished, the small wood
  cross is the only solace
  in the still morning.

  July 6, 2011

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• mantic palm reader (haiku)

  hot breath disapates
  and the mantic palm reader
  predicts your demise.

  July 1, 2011

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• doll baby (haiku)

  i am your doll
  baby you can dress me –
  posed poised and waiting.

  June 21, 2011

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• to be quiet with (haiku)

  love that man to be
  quiet with; that man who can
  understand silence.

  June 13, 2011

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