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)
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)
A Personal Challenge
Doing what should be done, or not, or must…
Excerpted from – A Personal Challenge
…As a general Robert should have turned
But this king and this man could not refuse to fight at this Bannock Burn
The eyes of all his fellow Scots looked to him
As their king and champion
Whatever his reasons Robert spurred his horse and moved to meet the foe
Quiet, as all waited to see how the fight would go…
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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)
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)