Mistletoe Limerick

A young man of Vienna was caught off guard
smooched by a stranger beside the churchyard.
There's mistletoe
that naturally grows
in the trees above that Viennese churchyard.

Moment Hunting [Lyric Poem]

Seeking perfect moments:

in times of bliss,
in times of pain,
in times of sanity,
and when insane

a divine meal,
a fine strong gin,
the kindest virtue,
a dark age sin

falling into never,
coming out the other side,
landing on one's skates
in the smoothest glide

falling but not crashing,
running but not gasping,
finding but not keeping,
fingers interclasping,

and wishing for nothing more.

Sparrow [Haiku]

a sparrow 
stops in mid-peck
to eyeball me

Edge of Desert [Haiku]

over the crest, the
world turns from grassy pasture
to barren desert

Stormy Shore [Free Verse]

a typhoon stalled offshore,
and dreary clings to this place

a miasma written in solid hours

when will clouds crack 
&
let the light in?

just one blue bolt of sky,
showing through a crevice?

my head is in fog,
and I can't hear 
my pounding heart
over the crashing of waves

Disintegration [Free Verse]

crack the tablets:
smash & shatter them
until they flutter into dust,
dust that's wisped into eddies
and sparkles in the creek bed
and is flushed out to sea
and is but a glittery trace
of what they once were.

Koi of Many Colors [Haiku]

in a color storm 
of roiling koi, a plain
white fish sticks out

Lotus [Haiku]

the lotus stands
boldly in pink & yellow;
one petal fallen