taste lunar eclipse
oreo cookie slides past
creme filling reveal
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earth’s sweet shadow
28 Sep 2015 6 Comments
in haiku Tags: lunar eclipse, oreo cookie
resurrection vision
27 Sep 2015 3 Comments
in haiku Tags: breath, phoenix, resurrection, valley
valley of dry bones
death exhaled, flesh takes new breath
like phoenix rising
photo credit: wikipedia
Connecting with constellation series at Carpe Diem’s Space Odyssey
when i die, as every leaf must
25 Sep 2015 15 Comments
in jisei, tanka Tags: death, fall, leaves
photo by lynn
If i die in fall
(due to my own clumsiness)
as dry leaves crackle
cry over cake, then laugh at
my swift entrance into JOY!
Joining Gayle at dVerse today on theme of Japanese death poems (jisei).
all’s fair in Wonderland
23 Sep 2015 4 Comments
in limerick Tags: Lewis, teacup
Inspired by prompt at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads.
i once read a poet named Carroll
who rolled readers’ minds in a barrel
we spun in a tea cup
until Alice fessed up
and Mad Hatter declared white hare sterile!
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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.
lost in stellar translation
21 Sep 2015 5 Comments
in haibun Tags: Job, stars, unicorn
The idea of the unicorn mentioned in the Bible is intriguing. Job 39:9-11 reads, in early authorized Version: Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? But later versions translate it as the wild ox. Some scholars think it may refer to a rhinoceros or buffalo. Whatever the real animal was, it must have been wild, horned, and powerful!
photo credit: Wikipedia
unicorn’s horn points
to starry back of hunter
watch out, Orion!
I got “lost” in time and missed linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai space odyssey with this one!
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.
a noble cedar
15 Sep 2015 6 Comments
in haibun Tags: cedar, kingdom, tree
“I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”
man on his mountain
bible’s holy poetree
lofty sovereign grace
(Ezekiel 17:22-24, ESV)
draco-nian measures
14 Sep 2015 2 Comments
in haibun Tags: camels, constellation, draco
The protecting Mother Camels is the name given by ancient Arabic nomadic tribes to an asterism in the constellation of Draco. Instead of the head of a dragon, the asterism was interpreted as a ring of mother camels surrounding a baby camel (the faint star in the middle), with another mother camel running to join them. The camels were seen to be protecting the baby from a line of charging hyenas. The nomads who own the camels are camped nearby, represented by a cooking tripod…
(source: Carpe Diem Haiku Kai‘s space odyssey)
baby camel cries
dromedary moms hear fear
credit: Wikipedia
high-kick hyenas
arabs draw camel stars where
greco-romans marked dragon
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.
stars of Delphinus smile
10 Sep 2015 2 Comments
in dodoitsu Tags: bay, dolphin, island
Link with Carpe Diem space odyssey: constellation Delphinus (the dolphin)
cruise across Delphinus bay
perch telescope on bow’s nose
dolphins smile at stargazers
boating with porpoise
photo by lynn
a poem in my pocket 
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