(2013)
Haiku about friends
Brown hawk with spotted tail, soaring on the wind, balancing like a sail. Your piercing cry
Firefly shine your light, Brighten my life, Lead the way, through The meadows, in my mind. Firefly, float so high,
Memories of my childhood Visit more and more Each day, As ghosts of past relatives Cast their shadows,
Orange full moon with a half smile, a hanging lantern, lighting the way, through dark streets,
What inspires me... Hummingbirds buzzing as they land, on nearby flowers. Their amazing wings
You may not know what you’ll do next: Hit the open road With your thumb stuck out. Give up all you own
The white snow, thin Like sand, over The fields, blowing Across the road. My car rambles
The flesh withers as we age But our inner spirit Remains the same. And when the body dies The spirit breaks free
To open and risk hurt... Or stay closed but Never really live. Pain can reveal... A connection to
Many thoughts in the mind, Some productive, some not. They glow like fires, Created by needs and
What is truth? It’s a changing sky, One day clear, The next, cloudy, Holding the blue and grey,
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.
As I age this last quarter of my life, I am fading into the background. As I let go of roles,
Life is not fair at times... But of course things Change quickly down the line, We are born into a No guarantee world.
Time is going by fast, Trying not to live in the past, To keep priorities straight And not falter at the gate. To join the universal goal