(2015)
The backyard no longer green Autumn leaves cover the ground Some floating in the stiff breeze Little eddies round and round All the tree branches stripped bar…
Haiku A friendly face he sees In the early morning mist Serendipity Periwinkle sky
It’s April, spring has arrived Warmer temps with lots of rain Perpetually overcast But hopes good weather will reign Buds break in twigs and branches
worry and panic drag us down towards misery and despair often, we wear a big frown and love we can’t even share there’s no joy in the air
The brave dies today The coward dies tomorrow In shame and sorrow He survives another day His cowardice on display
The debris that weigh us down, It’s best to let them go To compassion, open our hearts And let the feeling show Let the flotsam float away,
center Misunderstood, inscrutable, She’s an enigma; A paradox, mysterious; White-hot as magma
With no time pieces Yet they were able to see Days getting shorter The cavemen fearful Sun will disappear from view
When young, we haven’t been around… Nearly everything, we could rememb… Whether all those events really ha… Who knows, but it didn’t really ma… Dreams and fantasies all we had wh…
From a dream I wakened Sleepy eyes I opened Refreshed Energized Feeling like a teen;
Once upon a time there lived a som… He married a young lady who is a s… She talks incessantly while asleep While nightly he’s on a walking tr… They lived not unhappy for at nigh…
surely, self-annihilation never an acceptable solution to a life filled with sadness, of great heartaches and pain to a broken spirit, a soul unforgi…
Fears are reminders Of unwanted memories From whence we were young They continue to haunt us When awake and in our dreams
No one cares about the past; I kn… I’ve locked it away; threw away th… Got no use for it, be it now or ev… I choose not to recall unpleasant… I’ve loved, I gave it all; now I’…
A cup of latté Guilty yet simple pleasure To welcome the day At the deck I sat Squinting at the morning sun