crocus buds (my haiku at THN)
crocus buds–
secrets we’ve kept
from each other
The Heron’s Nest, Volume XIII, Number 2: June 2011
unfinished poems (for One Shot Wednesday)
red rose in a fluted vase sitting on its petals
for no one pretending prettiness passes
for love…
the gift in its box but a heart
unwrapped its beating unfelt like the ease
a lover leaves at dawn…
notes left unwritten cloud the heart
wilt on tight buds in a garden
awaiting a storm…
in the soil roots fight over names
like delphiniums like fuschia like hostas where
have heather dug stiffness out of hairs or simply rise
as rose at dawn…
the hand drenched in the haze sags under the moon
the night has so much to say so few
understand…
for us and the stars among sparrows spits turn
talisman in the dark as a dream finds a nymph
on a moss a croak becomes you…
Posted for One Shot Wednesday at One Stop Poetry. Come on in. Join me and other poets in this gathering place.
the calm/rereading cards/round and round (3 tanka on the calm from the earthquake elsewhere)
1.
the calm–
from Kyoto Mie writes
far from earthquake
the wedding garden today
light snow on cherry buds
2.
rereading cards–
from Michio in Saitama
her New year’s wishes
of Rabbit hopes and dreams
today mine for her in pray’r
3.
round and round
moon and earth mirror each other
chaos of winds
ruined faces blemished cheeks
to be cleansed over and over