a butterfly
sits in the road, until
a car passes
Road Butterfly [Haiku]
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Category Archives: poem
Funerary Bath [Haiku]
the white walls
of the funerary bath
glow with morning light
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Wading into the Flood [Kyoka]
floodwaters rise.
peacefully drifting
around the calves
of those in search
of things that float
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Sunset Mirror [Haiku]
Dark Cave [Haiku]
bats squeak & poop: unseen in the dark, but each sound amplified
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Spider in the Sand [Haiku]
a spider scurries
across the sand, without
dislodging a grain
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Macbeth Limerick
Théodore Chasséria (1855)
There was a great General named Macbeth. All that kept him from kingship was a death, but - as with a Pringle - he couldn't do a single. So, he showed seven more their last breaths.
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No Christmas in April Blues [Blues Poem]
The dust is risin' down that dirt road; someone is comin' my way fast. The dust is risin' down that dirt road; someone is comin' my way fast. Hope it's not the f#@kin' tax man. Maybe it's Santa Claus, at last.
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Slack Flags [Haiku]
prayer flags hang still. i hear them go silent as i sit - eyes closed
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Kapok Tree [Haiku]
sinuous roots of the silk-cotton tree; are they moving?
