Love breaks
Like the dawn
Sets you free
Vulcanize your heart.
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Love breaks
Like flower petals
Breaks you
Vulcanize your soul.
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Love breaks
New and old, leaves you
Breathless
That’s its joy
Dawn breaks fresh.
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Vulcanize
Ready for love
Ready for love to break
So new and fresh
Vulcanized you!
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January 15, 2021
Alone note struck
The last of winter birds sings
A piano plays note
A grove – suspended silence
A rose awaits the end of gauze.
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December 28, 2020
This poem is an experimentation with Haiku and Tanka forms. It is also a reflection on the year of the pandemic as the year draws closer to its end. A storm passed? Let’s hope.
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Lonely raindrop left
An angry storm passed through
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One rose stood firm
Storm passed through emptiness
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A raindrop kissed
The rose’s cheeks, sun shines
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A new beginning
Write your story in the empty
Space there is reality
What remains – you!
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December 27, 2020
As I hear the news of vaccine successes, couldn’t help but be hopeful and wondered if the Christmas miracle this year is a happier New Year. So, I wrote this simple Haiku hoping we will have happier times ahead.
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Father Christmas
Delivers a Happy New
Year, a wish comes true?
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December 11, 2020
Celerity
The word of the day
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Celerity
The word of the ages
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Celerity
Is today’s word
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With celerity
The unseen visitor makes
It’s calls on houses
Unsuspecting
Innocents
Rides in
Its waves
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With celerity
The unseen visitor gulps
The breath of life slow
Unrelenting
Unforgiving
Administering pain
Steady
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With celerity
It spreads
But the human soul
Refuses to succumb
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With celerity
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Another day brings
Anew sun
To burn the unseen
Into memory gone.
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With celerity
We live
But it may be time
To slow and reflect
On the child within
The miracle that lives.
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I hear celerity
Is out of fashion
In days
Anew.
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December 10, 2020
I write to you
A love letter
Every day,
Not posted
On my table
They stack,
A monument
To love
And fear,
What might be
Your reply!
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December 7, 2020
She arrived unexpectedly
Bundle of joy to a broken heart
Blue green eyes looking.
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She cried and she walked
Now the broken heart misses its cure
Little birds must fly.
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She arrived unexpectedly
Years later back from a life journey
Still blue green eyes joy.
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My daughter
I will be waiting
Your return.
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December 6, 2020
Child cries in the night
Afraid of darkness
That looms.
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She sings for the child
A lullaby calm
Silence.
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Child cries in the night
Calming lullaby
She sings.
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A mothering sound
She utters loving
Words calm.
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The heart is longing
For mother in darkness
That looms.
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Child cries
Mother sings
Calm ensues lovingly.
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December 1, 2020
It rings endlessly
Patience has left last pose
Echos dinner hear last.
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November 30, 2020
It rings endlessly
Your call is unanswered
Hear echos in my head.
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November 30, 2020
