A Matter of Perspective

Omphaloskepsis

Is far preferable to

Omphalosuppuration

Haiku 30 Mar 2016

Even as daylight

Fades into silent darkness

Hungry eyes find light

“But that’s not…”

Sometimes lessons learned

Differ from the lesson taught

Much to Teacher’s shock!

Haiku 27 Mar 2016

Jupiter has gone,

Leaving Luna all alone:

Mars takes up the dance.

Misery’s Meter

Sharp staccato thumps

Echoing eternally,

Hardly welcome, yet

Embraced none the less,

Serving in the very least,

As this life’s grim metronome.

Manifest Malaise

Thus, another day

Passes into history

Wholly overlooked,

Completely unlamented,

And instantly forgotten.

Senryū 25 Mar 2016

When the curtain falls

And the crowd has gone away,

Music still remains.

Pear Blossoms

Large white flakes, drifting,

On warm spring breezes, gently,

Accumulating

Below, and reminiscent,

Of snows that fell there,

In large white flakes, drifting, on

Frosty winter winds, softly.

Senryū 24 Mar 2016

Why can we never

Run fast enough to escape

When crud’s just creeping?

Polar Politics

A tale of two candidates in Senryū:

                              1.

There is always one

Marching to a different tune

Harshly subversive

                             2.

At least there is one

Dancing to his own rhythm

Hardly subversive

…which is which?   You decide.

Haiku 24 Mar 2016

  
With the coming dawn

A whole new world awakens

Rise and greet today

Senryū 23 Mar 2016

  

Sharing common root,

bulb, stem, stalk, and leaf and yet,

we are not the same.

Senryū 23 Mar 2016

Donald’s trumpery

Threatens to swindle us all

Beware snake oil

A Requiem for Father

Memento Mori Haiku I
“Sorry, It’s cancer.”

Thus began his journey home

To distant children.

                  ~*~

Memento Mori Haiku II 
Bitter grudges pale,

Insignificant before

Cancer’s blinding light.

                  ~*~

Memento Mori Haiku III 
It proved a blessing-

His pancreatic cancer,

Thawed long frozen hearts.

                  ~*~

Memento Mori Haiku IV
Spiritual growth

Inversely proportional

Physical wasting 

                  ~*~
Memento Mori Haiku V
He journeys onward,

Free of all mortal burdens,

Borne on re-found love

                  ~*~

A commemoration on, this, the fourth anniversary of his transcendence.

Ward Andrew Garrabrant Sr.

26 Aug 1940 – 23 Mar 2012