wishing
different wishes on
the same star
Posts Tagged ‘haiku’
In Silence Haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, poem, poetry, star, wish on April 23, 2012| 2 Comments »
Though We Don’t Hold On Haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged butterfly, connection, haiku, loss, poem, poetry on April 21, 2012| 4 Comments »
long after it leaves
my arm, I still feel its footprints
the butterfly
In a Day’s Work: Eight Haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, love, poems, poetry on April 16, 2012| 5 Comments »
fresh cut grass—
I imagine some will stick
in our hair
*
open hand—
how much of your weight
I don’t hold there
*
sweet basil—
your buttonhole
could use some green
*
a bigger ass—
all the more likely
to land in your lap
*
sitting naked
on a rock I wonder
why you’re not
*
rising sourdough—
the shape of your hands still blooms
in wild yeast
*
dried cherries—
so much sweeter
the summer in fall
*
light
an open door
lead shoes
spring haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, lucky to be alive, paradox, poem, poetry, surrender on April 13, 2012| 2 Comments »
naked in the wind—
crazy woman feeling
lucky to shiver
A Dozen Long-stemmed Haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, letting go, love, poems, poetry, surrender on April 10, 2012| 7 Comments »
they can stay on,
your clothes, but please take off
everything else
*
blue, blue thoughts—
blackbirds fly
right through them
*
sun and more sun—
still I do not
pray for rain
*
clear spring—
everyone, everything I meet
a lover
*
soft wind—
did it touch
you, too?
*
cloudless night—
we sleep alone
together
*
cattails,
broken open, blown apart—
now the seeds
*
deeper
into the wound—
scent of white lily
*
the moon slips
into my tea—
no sleeping now
*
one cold night—
on every limb
ruined blossoms
*
step outside
I crown you—
billions of stars
*
I keep it
under my tongue—
your name
three more for the sacred barroom
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, intimacy, love, poem, poetry, relationship on April 7, 2012| 2 Comments »
Forever? That’s quite
a promise, but can you
love me now?
*
On my lips
too many rising kisses
left to dangle
*
Reaching for your hand
to touch
what doesn’t speak
haiku for a sacred barroom
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged devotion, haiku, love, poem, poetry on April 6, 2012| 2 Comments »
please kiss them
my palms, I’ve emptied them
in case
*
twilight
everything glazed with shine—
your hum
*
the wind
never asks when it touches me
there
*
these hands, two white birds,
your skin
the sky
*
soft breeze
my longing
grows longer
*
slipping out
of my excuses into something
more comfortable
*
spring storm haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, longing, love, poem, poetry, snow on April 4, 2012| 6 Comments »
wet snowflakes, thousands—
oh that a lover could have
so many tongues
But There’s So Much Coming Across Haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged communication, haiku, meditation, poems, poetry, silence on March 31, 2012| 2 Comments »
At the Same Time
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, love, nest, not knowing, poems, poetry on March 27, 2012| 2 Comments »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged death, haiku, life, obstacles, poems, poetry, radiance on March 26, 2012| 2 Comments »
Moonless
and still this
shining
*
I’m really getting to know it—
that big rock
in my path
*
dust storm
how many lives
did I just breathe
*
Love is Like This
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, love, nest, poems, poetry, refuge, vulnerability on March 25, 2012| 5 Comments »
Featherless but Flying Haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged contentment, darkness, haiku, joy, poem, poetry, singing on March 17, 2012| 3 Comments »
I guess I’d make
a crummy bird … here I am
singing in the darkness.
Bouquet: Six Spring Haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bouquet, flowers, haiku, Leukemia, poems, poetry, presence, shadow on March 16, 2012| 8 Comments »
March sun so warm
I almost believe those yellow flowers
are real.
*
Apricot trees
in first bloom, white and white,
but that is somewhere else.
*
I wish I had
no occasion to send tulips
to room 109.
*
Under microscopes
mutant cells blossom
forget me nots
*
She hands me
a dandelion—an hour later
gold still in my hand.
*
Scent of spring—
even the shadows
grow buds.
Two Together
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awareness, ego, haiku, poem, poetry on March 14, 2012| 6 Comments »
I want to write
my way out of this feeling.
The feeling wears its best leaden shoes.
*
Though she is a breath
made of stone, she notices
how yellow the jonquils.
We’re Not Ready Till We’re Ready Haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allowing, haiku, patience, poems, poetry, spring on March 11, 2012| 3 Comments »
eruption of crocuses—
that old brittle oak leaf still
not ready to fall
Four Questions And
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, inquiry, poems, poetry, separation, tanka, unity on February 29, 2012| 2 Comments »
are you sharing it
with me, this
loneliness?
*
how do they do it,
those birds, keeping a course
through the gale
when even in this still, still room
I can hardly take one step
*
alone is more
alone than
I thought
*
as I fall
I feel how this, too,
is dancing
*
that small voice,
quiet as petals, says
why not be the one
who tears down any wall
that stands between two hearts
*
falling, falling,
I don’t know when I stopped
wanting to be caught
*
new snow in the field
the only tracks there
one woman dancing
*
they sure do mess up
the sheets—excitement
and grief
*
who is the one
that falls and who is the one
who notices her falling
*
midnight.
the power out, I make
of myself a light
Taking Note: haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, haiku, happiness, music, poem, poetry, singing on February 22, 2012| 3 Comments »
Getting Out of Our Own Way: Eight Haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, letting go, life, meditation, poems, poetry, silence, surrender on February 21, 2012| 1 Comment »
sitting beneath the
nothing moon the only thing
stirring is my mind
*
in the produce aisle
slant of sun hits the bananas
and it’s gold, gold, gold
*
easy to give
away old clothes, old cups
not so these old thoughts
*
out of the dirt rise
oh! hundreds of small brown birds
our hearts: dirt and bird
*
Li Po drowned trying
to embrace the moon—I laugh
but still I reach
*
what’s crooked, what’s straight—
silence translates them
the same
*
new tea cup
and the same black tea tastes
not at all the same
*
not only when I am
quiet does the quiet move
through me
Carpe Diem Haiku and Tanka
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aging, carpe diem, death, haiku, life, poems, poetry, tanka on February 16, 2012| 4 Comments »
young girls in pink
tutus—it’s hard to believe
we’re all dying
*
anti-aging conference?
we argue and research
how to stay young,
meanwhile, on our shelves
drums and flutes gather dust