Hiroshima’s child
speaks hope for peaceful future
oleander blooms
* * *
seventy years after bomb
ten thousand lanterns float on
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Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai‘s theme: Japanese festivals
metaphorically speaking
22 Oct 2015 5 Comments
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bird in gilded cage
spirit’s canary feels trapped
captivity song
***
hear beauty of the moment
haiku poet wings set free
Connecting to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai metaphor in haiku lesson…
japan’s tango-no-sekku
17 Oct 2015 4 Comments
Linking to CDHK theme of Japanese festivals…
carp kites flying high
fish that fight like samurai
let’s celebrate boys
momotaro’s battle cry
young warrior swings toy sword
Koi Nobori photo: CDHK link above
(Momotaro is Japanese version of David the giant killer)
nordic petroglyphs
16 Oct 2015 16 Comments
Bjorn posted his photos of petroglyphs for poetics prompt at dVerse
(this is also a bit of a gender bender for me writing from male point-of-view)
journal entry: 7,000 B.C.
rise early, dog licks face
snow falls outside cave
wrap fur, pull on mukluks
watch woman, she clucks
adds stick to fire, stirs mash
i’m tired of meatless hash
spring melting sludge
tie husky to sledge
take down light shield
and sharpen long spear
muck, luck run-a-muck
unload twice, runners stuck
traverse miles on hunt
dog smells moose musk
track down largest bull
kill and fill sledge hull full…
shout to woman, “I’m home!”
record big catch on stone
to eat a haiku
16 Oct 2015 3 Comments
taste color orange
munch sweet potato fries as
granddaughter drops peas
a fragile beauty
12 Oct 2015 11 Comments
autumn’s cold whisper
no more chemotherapy
leaf gently lets go
smile warm as salsa
leaving quilted memories
life’s classroom of love
haiku in honor of Loretta Veltkamp Wynia
an adulterous woman
22 Sep 2015 14 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: adultery, lioness, lust, snake
like a lioness with belladonna in her eyes
you prey stealthily
on fools’ weakness
calculate lust’s moment
stalk willing victims of
nights’ shade like shadow
hiss soft enticements as
fluidity of your presence
slithers cunningly into
traitorous embrace
aiming for the eyes
Anthony challenges dVerse poets to use 3 of his lines (italicized) in a poem.
ears are not enough
21 Sep 2015 2 Comments
as his ears grow deaf
she wonders if he ever
listened to her heart
living with someone for life
hearing quiet loneliness
altar of alterations
19 Sep 2015 27 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: altar, change, life, transform, trust
Change is the certainty of life —
we (un)certainly hold choice in our hands:
to fear strangeness of change,
or
to face love’s changing challenge;
to hide from (unfamiliar) monsters
or
to seek soul (familiar) opportunities
to shrink
or
to grow!
As we embrace each (minor) moment’s exchange,
we may become (major) catalysts for change:
watch butterflies emerge
encourage spirit’s surge
relieve evil’s scourge.
One must learn to trust the unchangeable One
who forms life
transforms change
conforms us
until his perfect (and perfecting) will be done.
remembering 9-11-01
11 Sep 2015 21 Comments
Linking with dVerse poets as we dialogue…
“We have a choice whether to implode and disintegrate emotionally and spiritually…or (to) become stronger.” – Rev. Billy Graham
honey, i think you better turn on the news
“A second plane has crashed into the world trade center…”
dear God, is this a bad dream or the end of the world?
“Run, the tower’s coming down!”
oh, no; all the firefighters are in there
“American Airlines Flight 77 has just slammed into the Pentagon”
save yourself or save another?
“God help me. Jesus help me. Are you ready? Let’s roll!” *
Another plane dropped from the sky in rural Pennsylvania
“Tomorrow New York is going to be here and we’re going to rebuild.” **
united we must stand.
“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.” – Pres. George W. Bush
*Todd Beamer, upon dropping call to his wife from Flight 93.
**Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, following the 911 attack in NYC.
postcards home
08 Sep 2015 24 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: beach, refugees, tourists
Turkish peninsula is favored tourist destination. Rent a sailboat at local marina and explore a nearby cove’s cerulean waters, surrounded by lush green hills of olive, tangerine and palm trees. Or stroll the narrow, pebbly beach below Bodrum’s charming white stone houses with mud-thatched flat roofs. Swim with the fish by day, dance under stars by night.
body washed on beach
dinghy overturns in crossing
weep with refugees
cassiopeia: w is us
06 Sep 2015 4 Comments
Linking to CDHK’s Space Odyssey episode…
cassiopeia
wheeling around northern sky
stars bear family name
“w” for wielenga
descendants of wheel-maker
a poem in my pocket 
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