My very first attempt to write a poem using the 5-7-5 haiku format. So please be kind!
The poem itself describes the dichotomy of nature, its amazing beauty as well as its inherent cruelty.
I’m very sad that you got it too It’s not a crock, it’s quite true But words will be back, don’t be b… Before long, you’ll be good as new In two months, you wrote quite a f…
center The future looks bleak As he stared into the abyss For it will be a world Where he will not exist!
Thin line west to east Light cerulean sky above Blue ocean under Mystically bright Sunlight in the sky refracts
Life is a string of pearls; black,… gray of every shade Each pearl a moment; happy, sad, a… emotion in between Moments in our life shape us; that…
Twilight, and the skies are premat… As starlings, a throbbing, swirlin… Eclipse the last vestiges of the a… There’s foreboding! Aye, an incip… The starling cloud dazzles in the…
Sadly, the bathroom mirror never l… An old man, three scores and a dim… Stares at him, dark shadows under… Face wrinkled, ancient like Fathe… Hair once black, wavy; now sparse…
Romance, Anyone? when we satisfy our partners’ unspoken needs or desires, we get a soulful kiss, for we’re r… but when the action is prompted,
Portrait on the wall His daughter when she was young Big smile on her face Now grown up married with kids Living thousand miles away
center Old photographs Smudged and dog-eared Sepia, black and white Yellowed and faded
Suddenly without warning the storm… Upending all things standing in it… Debris everywhere, the world gone… Houses and trees, no one was spare… Roofs and branches littered fields…
Do you remember? The first day of school? You couldn’t wait to get home Tell all your experiences to mom How thrilled you were…
From the Ashes Twilight it was, storm clouds roll… Lightning flashes tortured the ski… Torrential rain and fearsome winds Power’s out as the tempest flies
Faraway long, long ago Lived an old, grizzled wizard With long beard as white as snow But the eyes of a lizard He walks with a long-gnarled staff
A Sonnet Wizened owls and battle tested eag… From faraway oceans and distant sh… They all came to roost to bond wit… To reminisce, lay down their weary…
Crisp the air; cool, refreshing th… Clear, the night sky, looking like… Silvery the full moon, peeking ato… Into the woods she gazed, and felt… But go! She must! Quickly, no tim…