Willows [Haiku]

willows dangle
over flowing waters:
reaching not touching.

The Slow Flow [Haiku]

teal mountain stream
flows past rock's fluid striations,
proof flow can be slow.

The Flow Slows [Haiku]

seated on the wall,
beside the rushing creek,
the world slows.

PROMPT: Lose Yourself

Daily writing prompt
What activities do you lose yourself in?

Any that I can. If I can’t, it’s probably a tedious work-a-day task that I’m trying to get through so that I can get back to activities in which I can lose myself.

A Feather in Flow [Free Verse]

How do I roll like a
feather in flow?

The one that can't be
pulled from the pool.
It slips around the
lifted hand,
Retreating back into
the water that it never
really left.

It's like sleight of hand
one plays upon oneself:
at once magician & mark.

The faster one snatches at it,
the greater the miss.
The slower one moves,
the more frustratingly
one sees one's failure.

How to roll like a feather in flow?

Yielding to the Flow [Free Verse]

A slender leaf
floats downstream.

Its tip touches
a stouter leaf,
sending the
slender leaf
spinning.

The leaf continues to
twist as it drifts,

Making it seem spastic,
but it neither rushes
nor dawdles.

It matches the flow,
letting gravity &
currents do all the work.

It races only when it
plunges through
a narrow channel,

But it downshifts just as
effortlessly as the
stream widens.

The leaf's action is
unforced, yielding to
energy imparted upon it.

Decisions, Decisions… [Tanka]

the floating leaf
chooses its path around
the island
by not choosing a path
around the island.

Placid River [Haiku]

the river’s flow
doesn’t disturb the cloud’s
reflected drift.