Haiku heal the head

Centering the senses’ bliss

In a joyful heart

Pure pear petal snow

Nourishes the hungry earth

Fattening fall fruits

Guthrie’s songs singing

Has red nostalgia dancing

A funeral march

The double cherry 

Pink petals open to drink

Soft early spring rain

A Blooming Explodes

A blooming explodes

Against the clear

Blue limitless sky

It is spring

Renewal is everywhere

Rebirth is everywhere

As the new day dawns

I realize

That there are many things

I want to do

So many things

I told myself

“I’ll do that later

After I …………..”

Are never going to happen

Because my days

Are not limitless

Like this clear sky

But there is beauty in sunsets

And fall has the colors

Of the dying leaves.

Her Hair

He held her hair
Her long blonde hair
That shone in the sun
Hair that will
 

Never again
 

Be combed
brushed braided
by her mother’s hands
He held her hair
While she twisted away
And tried to escape
He held her hair
As her innocent eyes
Rolled wide with terror
 

He held her hair 

He drew his second gun
 

He held her hair 

 pulled the trigger
 

He held her hair

 Her long blonde hair
That shone in the sun

to serve his god.

Pear petals driven by March's late lion north wind

Form

White whirlwinds

That dervish dance

Across the cold concrete

Before my laughing eyes.

Life aglow

The will to be

Let your Light set darkness free.

Embrace the flame,

Push back the cold.

Defy old death,

Let Life take hold!