The things I wanted /
to experience are not/
what God showed to me.
Tag Archives: vision
On The Beach, In The Woods, Up A Creek: Revolutionary IMprov Haiku
Some say my life was/
confusion. They never saw/
me dream, walking here.
Waking Up Sick: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku
My eyes are caked shut./
The only vision I have/
is what God shows me.
Beauty’s Vision: Romantic IMprov Haiku
Every vision of/
her beauty makes my stomach /
capture butterflies.
Too Late Understanding Howl: Romantic ImproVerse Free Verse Poetic Lament
Tonight I howled at the moon,
where I had once gathered firewood
for us,
for s’mores,
but now there will be
no more.
Howling and
screaming and
yelling
until
I couldn’t see
through my tears.
Then I pulled off
the road and howled
some more as I watched
my dreams
and visions
and hopes
and the waxing moon
disappear behind a giant cottonwood tree,
until the Union Pacific’s
long,
low moaning whistle
drowned out my own howling
at the moon
and the dreams
that had disappeared.
And when I was done,
when my howling had ended,
I drove long and slow
down that old swamp path,
eye and eye nearly swollen shut,
caked with dust
that had dried up
in these desert fields,
dried up and blown away,
not like a dream deferred,
but like a vision
and a hope
sacrificed on an altar
of obedience
I wasn’t quite ready
nor prepared
to kneel at.
For My Eyes Only (I Hope): Romantic Blogging Iambic Poem
She sent me
A selfie.
I gasped,
struggling hard to grasp
the beauty
of the vision laid before me.
Skin gold with Rembrandt’s light.
Mona Lisa’s smile sly with delight.
Flowing Botticelli Venus tangled hair.
Picasso’s Laughing Eyes sparkling stare.
Colors, shapes, forms and hues
Glowing, curving, warm, subdued.
A creative, introspective self-portrait.
(Nobody would expect that I’d see that.)
From the mature topic picture I was sent,
T’was not to the profane, but the artistic my mind went.
True Vision: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku
I’m just waiting for/
someone to see me the way/
that I truly am.
Seeing In Holy Places: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku
Standing in holy/
places lets me see the view/
God wants me to have.