My very first attempt to write a poem using the 5-7-5 haiku format. So please be kind!
The poem itself describes the dichotomy of nature, its amazing beauty as well as its inherent cruelty.
She spoke with the tone of finalit… Her words vicious brutal venomous… So unlike her yet it’s reality That was years ago and they’ve bee… But the dull nagging emptiness sti…
how does one describe a sunset, and craft into words the palette o… the interplay of the clouds, the s… the distant hills, the scent of fl… how the sun rays reflect on puffs…
She stares A blank look in her face Anybody there? Behind the unerring gaze… She stares
Sunday early I woke up Three hours before I planned to Tried hard to get more shuteye But my brains just turned to goo I stared up eyes wide open
Life’s a speeding bullet train One moment an eighteen year old Fresh and pure as the morning air Thoughts of changing the world Aspirations ideas visions dreams
When stars hide, the night’s all b… But with eyes closed, we can dream Perchance slay creatures of the da… Thence await the morning sunbeam! When our world is seemingly cruel
Let every word we utter Be fraught with encouragement Each phrase a nourishment... To everyone who’ll hear Let every verse we write
The bookends of life, birth and de… Delineate our existence on planet… We know nothing before our first b… And when we die; dust is all we’re… Between the bookends are the lives…
A water droplet on a blade of gras… One dewy dreamlike beautiful morni… But the sun’s rays vaporized it; a… The verdant blade suddenly more da… In the radiant glare of the early…
Outside, dark and gloomy, almost n… Though afternoon, air stagnant, su… Starling clouds, acrobatic feats m… A waiting game for first raindrop… Then, drop after drop came, an end…
Suddenly without warning the storm… Upending all things standing in it… Debris everywhere, the world gone… Houses and trees, no one was spare… Roofs and branches littered fields…
Steady there it goes Life unfolds on the big stage From cradle to grave No second chances no breaks Sadly no multiple takes
Prelude They have met even before they wer… Far away in the spiral galaxies A remote corner of the cosmic cair… But born on earth, different centu…
A book is more than its leather bi… More than the gilded font in its t… It’s the tales in the pages unwind… The crux of the matter, that is vi… More than a warm skin and a beatin…
A Sonnet It’s oft a struggle between dark a… When the golden sun sets at eventi… Fearful darkness cloaks the fields… Creatures retreat to their lairs f…