Category: Poetry

#american sentence sunday: tears in spring

“Earth awashed in cleansing tears, yet spring arrives and fragrant roses bloom” – Linda Lee Lyberg

#Haibun: Midnight blue sky

In the midnight blue sky, there is no pestilence or disease, only the brief flash of a dying star. There are no planes, only stars and the waxing moon. Somewhere high in the universe beyond my sight a cosmos is being born. I wrap… Continue Reading “#Haibun: Midnight blue sky”

Watching the world from my window

I watch the world from my window and despite All the news today ~ more people dying The whole world crying Signs of spring are everywhere Every morning the thrashers come pecking At the block of peanut suet to feed Their fledglings in tow… Continue Reading “Watching the world from my window”

Crux

And this is the crux, the heart of the mattereven a fractured spirit can love, can feelthough the soul may be in pieces, shattered As frayed remnants are cast off and scatteredit becomes possible for one damaged to healand this is the crux, the… Continue Reading “Crux”

What If?

“Barn’s burnt down, now I can see the moon.”- Mizuta Masahide As each day brings more death and we find ourselves In the midst of this voracious disease, I can’t help but wonder what put us in this place One theory is a bat… Continue Reading “What If?”

#Quadrille: Natural Magic

I awoke before dawn today because I wanted to see The exquisite magical sun coming up in the far east As our closest star rose up into a brush-stroked sky A brilliant sheen illuminated low drifting clouds In tangerine shades surrounding a golden eye… Continue Reading “#Quadrille: Natural Magic”

Guarding Fairies

Hidden deep in the mysterious woodsfar from prying eyes trolls stand watch over the lilliputian people forever watching the skiesfor in this land there be fire-breathing dragons whose dark shadows hover abovehoping to snatch a tasty fairy a delicacy they love Author’s Note: A… Continue Reading “Guarding Fairies”