I watch the sunset’s/
solitary beam reach to/
heaven like prayer.
Tag Archives: working through issues
Drowning Relationships: Romantic Blogging Haiku Lament
He’d seen it often./
She, interested, bantered./
He fell overboard.
There’s A Reason: Romantic Email Haiku Lament
I asked her some tough/
questions. I hoped for answers./
She left, got yogurt.
Natural Life Is: Revolutionary IMprov Haiku
When you’re surrounded/
by nature, feeling the flow/
of life, sad happens.
Sliding Glass Door Requiem: Revolutionary Blogging Free Verse Lament
Oh, goldfinch!
Bright yellow cheer-bringer,
Flash of color
even in winter’s darkest days.
Too late I moved toward
The sliding glass door
Where you would have seen my shadow
And veered away.
Instead:
Thunk.
“Oh no nonono!”
I cry
and reach for you,
fallen,
as your glowing tail feathers
fan out wide
in a blaze of color,
then close as tight
as your dainty feet,
curled.
You are still warm
as I hold you,
tiny,
in the palm of my hand.
Tears well up
as I wait,
hoping.
But your eyes stay open,
fixed and dilated,
and even as I hold you,
admiring your bright gold feathers
and the tiny streaks of red on your breast
that I’ve never noticed before,
you grow cold in my hand.
I place you
tenderly,
at the base of the daffodils
which mimic your radiant glory,
but which,
like you,
are starting to fade away.
Not Grabbing What I Shouldn’t: Revolutionary IMprov Haiku
I once held her close,/
swayed gently. I could have grabbed/
there; glad I didn’t.
Yawp, Find Your Center, Then Do: Revolutionary IMprov Free Verse
Yawp.
Feel.
Find
your divine
center,
You.
Yup.
Yawp.
Then do.
Sunset Yawp: Revolutionary IMprov Iambic Free Verse
I feel
a great deal
of melancholy
folly
going on.
It’s not fun.
But I’ll face the setting sun
and again soulfully yawp
like Uncle Walt
Whitman.
Carpe Diem.