HAIKU--A FIRST SHEET Rising early I find your offer of newest jonquils If I walk near the ocean-- the waves will drown you out! My voice sings, But here, today birds take flight Listening to a lecture I drift while outside the sun appears Back country roads the hush of tires against snow crocus push the earth i respond by raking Writing is spring all over again! Torrents of rain my mournful cat stares into the yard The white flower drops to the damp ground my spirit lifts with it Into the blue velvet night resound the peepers-- my endless regrets. |
HAIKU--A SECOND SHEET
Another winter looms but first the reprieve of autumn--glory days! A student reads-- around her a concentration of silence. The toad in my garden a sentinel of patience his reward--a fly. Crusin' home, suddenly red, blue lights flash in my rear view... Flowers on the patio a boisterous reminder of my hard work. The sun, milky white, a pale resemblance of itself-- another dawn! BE-ing thirteen, a janus-time, backward, forward, which way to go? Like seaweed opaque and tangled-- such are my thoughts this morning. A winter storm passes leaving icicle beards on bulging gutters Fat cat, one eye open, asking "when will I feed her?" |