With the palest pink
these summer Myrtle showers
litter my sidewalk
Haiku
Anodyne Applied
Dawn’s fury displaced
by a walk among the blooms.
Harmony restored.
Haiku 5 Apr 2021
Dawn above the marsh
Ignites watery fires
Amongst the grasses
Punctuation
As the sun descends
and the storm clouds dissipate;
one last gasp of snow.
Baptismal Balm
Basking in the flood
of, maybe too hot, showers;
washing aches away.
Harken Ozymandias
With your every stride
Fallen leaves and memories
Fragment into mulch.
You think yourself bold,
Decisive man of action:
Midas of decay;
Modern day Nero:
Tweeting while Rome succumbs
To internal flames.
Survey these ashes
Stark remains of the fury
From your careless match.
Where Colossus stood
Only dust and rubble stir
In warm autumn breeze
And yet:
Despite your chaos,
Slender verdant tendrils grow
Rooting your ruins
Proving to you, Wretched Waste,
That even now, hope remains.
Haiku 25 Feb 2019
Transcendent sunsets
defy borders, fences, walls
Unite all peoples
Haiku 18 Nov 2018
A glorious end
Writ large ‘cross the firmament
Restores perspective
Sanguinary Expressions
My Birthday, surprise,
Artsy opportunity!
A Rorschach in red!
Haiku 11 Sep 2018
Beneath willow boughs
Stirring in an easy breeze
We’re a feast for fleas
Haiku 12 Jul 2018
One towering oak
Can’t a healthy forest make;
No one thrives alone.
Where? When?
Like Schrödinger’s cat
I exist in quantum flux
Time and distance merge
Haiku High Summer
Dragonflies soaring
On thermals above asphalt
Far from any pond
Haiku 20 Apr 2017
When chaos blossoms
In varicolored riots
Springtime spirits bloom
Aroil in Pain 