(2013)
Haiku about friends
The white snow, thin Like sand, over The fields, blowing Across the road. My car rambles
Rolling painted deserts of the west. Shrub bushes dot sloping hillsides. Relentless sun heats up
It’s a billion stars moving and co… While we sleep. It’s one miracle after another and… We do not take the leap. It’s the great heave of nature
Inhale, the arms float up, Exhale, the arms float down, Namaste, at the heart. Inhale, the body bends, Hands at top of mat,
Today, I wish the pain to go, the fatigue that I fight so. This process of aging is unkind and yet, the law of nature is a fast lane of change.
This evening the blank, white page is open. My nerves are on edge, while a storm forms on the horizon.
Life is like a dream A star studded sky A blink of an eye Oh, how life slips by. Life is like a song
Sitting on the lake shore, Which made my heart soar, The water rippled at times, Swirled into beautiful lines, Clouds reflected in it’s mirror,
Brown hawk with spotted tail, soaring on the wind, balancing like a sail. Your piercing cry
When I first heard “The Blackbird,” In the middle Of night, I was just thirteen.
As I enter my sixty-third year, Fall leaves grace the path I love, With hues of red, Gold and orange.
The hummingbirds are buzzing As well as the bees. The Orioles land gingerly On top of the feeder. Cautiously they move down
Walking on the beach of long ago, the constant roll of the gulf, it’s sound, like a lullaby.
On a walk this morning, the rocky cliffs that reach the blue-green sea, talk of strength today.
I lay still While my loved one, Sleeps. His warm hand In my hand,