Thursday, January 31, 2013

Tanka



                                          through stained glass windows
                                          rainbow lights for the bride
                                          reciting the vows
                                          I slip my hand in yours
                                          saying words said years before

Stylus Poetry Journal March  2003
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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Haibun


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                                             WINTER DAWN

Neither birds, nor wind, nor humans moving in the smoky grayness.  A duvet of white spread across the landscape.  All shapes softened, angles rounded. Fences and obstacles obliterated opening the way to forever. 

                                             a chugging plow
                                         begins the climb uphill–
                                             feet on the cold floor
 
Contemporary Haibun Online, April 2012

 

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Haiku



                                        blizzard winds
                                        skeletal trees
                                        rooted in snow

Taj Mahal Review December, 2008
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Haibun

Odysse y            An elusive floating.  I reach out and clasp sunbeams. I move forward,  searching for I know not what, yet, understanding...