Hi poetry friends, we’re back from a couple of weeks in the sun. Here are some tropical haikulings from our travels …
no answers in the sunset—
watching it redden
I forget the question
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a warm wind blows north
thoughts become clouds—
I chase their shadows
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enormous spider!
or just a scrap of leaf—
the heart leaps just in case
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years after the wreck
returning to the wreck
this time with anticipation
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this body
a million million doors
all of them swung wide
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the further I swim from shore
the clearer the ocean’s invitation—
keep swimming
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on the heart’s cracking walls
such tender graffiti—
you were made to love like this
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the surf and I reach
for the same pink shell—
all day we play for keeps
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in white sand
my fingers trace vague outlines—
what is and what is not here
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butterfly farm—
everywhere I look
life reinventing itself
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diving into clear water
I change from swimmer to wave—
gentle communion
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in the arms of dawn
waking to unfamiliar birdsong—
oh rising urge to sing a new song
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white underfeathers
of the osprey soaring—
my heart comes out of hiding
*
with a drill sergeant voice
he clips out orders for meditation—
deep peace arrives right on time
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imaginary
this last piece of key lime pie—
still, we vote for who gets it
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hold back, my friend says
but I fall relentlessly open—
red red hibiscus
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after two weeks away
new birds outside my window—
or perhaps new ears