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)
Category Archives: Life
That’s Real
Contemplating the nature of love…
Excerpted from – That’s Real
Despite what you feel
I love you, like you, am more attracted to you than
Ever. Each year, each month, each day that passes has fanned
My passion’s fire until the heat makes me kneel…
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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)
Feeling the Fears
For the women in my life that keep on…
Feeling the Fears
She wonders how she can go on
Fighting all the little demons
In her body
Wasn’t ready
For this awful test of courage
The fatigue and pain discourage
Mighty spirits
Grown to fear it
But courage’s not feeling no fears
It’s going on despite the tears
That cloud the eye
Wiping them dry
She picks herself up and strides forth
Not knowing how, only of course
For the loved ones
She can’t be done
So she stands yet another day
And will yet again come what may
Until she mends
Or til the end
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From – A Warrior’s Tears: Poems of Pain (aWIP)
Stands Ready
Of love and commitment…
Stands Ready
A father watches
And stands ready to battle
Strife the kid catches
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From – A Warrior’s Battles: Poems of Struggle (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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A Little Girl’s Life
Doing the right thing…
A Little Girl’s Life
A hero acts now
And saves a little girl’s life
He broke the rules how?
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He knows who he is…
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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