My best friend told me:/
“If I was you, I’d kill me.”/
He doesn’t see joy.
Tag Archives: working through issues
Joy Comes Upon Opening: Romantic IMprov Haiku
I ask her to tell/
deep thoughts. She hides hers from me./
Joy if she opens.
Staring Into A Void: Revolutionary Haiku
She stared into/
her void. Her guide had never/
seen such emptiness.
OR
She stared into/
the void. Guides never saw such/
possibilities.
Justifying Your Word: Revolutionary Haiku
Justification:/
It’s never as good as you/
honoring your word.
Break Some Gears: Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku
Your mind machin’ry/
runs no matter how you think./
Take time to break gears.
Removing Barriers: Romantic Email Rhyming Haiku
Barriers ahead?/
Figure possibilities,/
then do those, instead!
OR
Barriers ahead?/
Imagine the possibile,/
then do that, instead.
Don’t Expose Yourself: Revolutionary Haiku Lament
Don’t expose yourself./
Open your butterfly heart:/
They’ll rip off your wings.
What We Remember: Revolutionary Blogging Haiku
Strange how memory/
is stronger around heartache./
Remember joy, too.
Avoiding You, Avoiding Flames: Romantic ConTEXTing Haiku
Maybe I avoid/
you the way that a moth should /
stay away from flames.
Conjecturing What It’s About: Revolutionary Poem
Conjecturing what something’s about
won’t tell you what it’s about
until it comes about.
And once you find out
what it’s about
give me a shout
and we can talk it out
(’cause you’ll know what it’s about
without
a doubt).