Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allowing, approaching the world, haiku, new lens on January 5, 2013| 4 Comments »
like playing piano well
this love, practicing
every day
*
show me, said the leaf
another way to see
the fall
*
trying to find
an oracle when it’s really
just a broken glass
*
cranes in the field!
or just geese—bidding the heart
to swell equally for both
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flute, friendship, haiku, harmony, poem, Wendy Videlock on January 5, 2013| 2 Comments »
for Wendy Videlock
impossibly sweet
two notes played at once
on one flute
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beginnings, haiku, poem, poetry, prayer on January 3, 2013| 3 Comments »
just like heaven
–Katie Melua
she said, girl you ain’t
got a prayer, and I thought that’s
a fine place to start
*
odd, all this snow
around, six below, and here
we are blossoming
*
in the bowl, reflection
of sky—kneeling
I drink it
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allowing, beginning, haiku, losing the self, name on December 25, 2012| 2 Comments »
on the wall
those shadows so much larger
than our problems
*
in the frost
on the window she writes
her name
*
recalling all those
prayers
I never learned
*
like a worm in kale,
something nibbling
all night on her dreams
*
air, snow, shadow, wind
she loses any names
she has been given
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged daughter, haiku, loss, mother, move, poem on December 24, 2012| 2 Comments »
pretending not
to cry, I throw out the herbs
she dried, she grew
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cold, haiku, hands, love, poem on December 22, 2012| 3 Comments »
so cold I could al-
most forget about your hands—
not quite.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, end of the world, haiku, mayan calendar on December 20, 2012| 3 Comments »
so pink-ly the dawn
blooms out of night as it would
if I were not here
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged darkness, door, haiku, hope, poem on December 15, 2012| 2 Comments »
between the night
and the fear, a door appears
a dark bird sings, sings
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged carpe diem, gratitude, haiku, impermanence, loss, love on December 14, 2012| 5 Comments »
every day the right day
to smell the lily as if
never again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged change, haiku, poem, poetry, sand on December 13, 2012| 5 Comments »
but it was written
in stone, said the woman
to the sand