Sure. Why not. Why does/
it matter? Why should I care?/
No one else seems to.
Tag Archives: haiku
Getting Ready: Romantic ImproVerse Haiku
It will be a strange/
day when I am ready at/
last and she is not.
Or
Will she feel strange and/
odd when I’m at last ready,/
but she is not close?
Language Barrier: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku
It’s not that we’re not/
speaking the same language, but/
that we’re not talking.
How Mother’s Day Started: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku
Mother’s Day started/
as a world-wide petition,/
by mothers, for Peace.
Or
Mother’s Day started/
not by Hallmark, but mothers/
to establish peace.
Being Good: Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku
I didn’t know that
personal righteousness was
a goodness contest.
This Fits To A T: Revolutionary ImproVerse Free Verse Poetry
You were the mother
of my escape,
of the start
of the birth
of my
(as yet unfinished)
self-discovery journey.
It was you
who set my feet on the path
that opened up my soul
and my heart
and my mind
to what could be
and should be
and now,
increasingly,
is.
She Knows Who She Is: Romantic ImproVerse Haiku
I so often will/
substitute “she” for “you”, but/
she* knows who I mean.
*you know