Contemplating beauty…
So Very Sad
She asks that I pray
Why’s his face so very sad
It’s just made that way
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From – Short Thoughts: A Book of Haiku – (aWIP)
Category Archives: Contemplation
How So Much
Contemplating love…
How So Much
How much can I say
How so much in love I am
When I missed the day
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From – Straight Thru the Curves: A Book of Haiku (aWIP)
Yesterday Stilling
Contemplating weakness and pain and why I’m late…
Yesterday Stilling
My back did go out
Yesterday stilling my voice
But for pain filled shouts
&
Of Clay
And now but a rock
Or a wobbly lump of clay
Learning how to walk
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From – Straight Thru the Curves (aWIP)
My Son Knew
Laughing at life…
My Son Knew
Once again
The training has saved my life
This many more times than twice
The trained reactions take care of me like an old friend
The first two lines all I said
And from only that much my son knew
At hearing his certainty I bellowed with laughter
And he waited for the story that would come
Sure I’d fallen like something he’d do
Glad I wasn’t dead
Three steps up then flat onto my face. Marble doesn’t bend
Limping the next few days. Bruised the price
But still with my life
Once again
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From – A Warrior’s Battles: Poems of Struggle (aWIP)
Sing-Song Of Whales
Contemplating perspective…
Sing-Song Of Whales
Seas subtle and blunt
The sing-song of whales echo
Submariners hunt
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From – Short Thoughts: A Book Of Haiku (aWIP)
Cause Of Such
Contemplating the nature of duty…
Cause of Such
It’s words like duty
The cause of such abhorrence
Honor and beauty
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From – Straight Thru the Curves: A Book of Haiku (aWIP)
Seven Was Enough
Contemplating struggle…
Excerpted from – Seven Was Enough
In legend, Robert lay restless in a cave
Taken with grief
At the horrors beyond belief
He’d brought to family and friends that led to their graves
He pondered giving it up
Of sailing off to the holy land
But at that moment espied a spider
Struggling to reach the wall while he lay there
Six times it was that it failed…
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All The History
Of love and commitment…
All The History
An old man speaks of
His wife and all the history
Still so much in love
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From – Straight Thru the Curves: A Book of Haiku (aWIP)
A New Star In The Sky
Contemplating the wonder of life…
Excerpted from – A New Star In The Sky
I looked up and there it was
New star in the sky
Why’s it there? Or just because?
Beauty way up high
Doesn’t really matter why
Only that it’s there
And I watch it with a sigh
Shine without a care…
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Lightning’s Leap
Contemplating the power and beauty of nature…
Excerpted from – Lightning’s Leap
Lightning rips the night sky
Children flinch even while deep asleep
Thunder cracks in the wake of sudden lightning’s leap
Hear nature’s awesome cry
Watching out the window
Nothing there but light filled explosions
Darkness darker under the solid sheets of rain
Storms delivering renewed life as well as pain…
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