As I sit in your quiet house
A lifetime of memories haunt me
Sweet snippets of laughter play
A flickering old movie reel
Until the film finally runs out
Celluloid flapping against metal
Jolts me back to reality
Past relationships lost to time
Unwilling to mask my sorrow
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #188: Mask and #189: Quiet
No more dances
Around the sun
She is now
Back to stardust
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #185: Heavens
From the moment we are born
Until the moment we die
Our lives are a series
Of calculated risks
That make life worth living
And ventures worth taking
When fear of regret is greater
Than the reality of danger
in response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #183: Risk
Youth is not an age
It is having the courage
To keep life an adventure
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #180: Courage
Silvery
Rivulets fall
Upriver, life giving
Light runs through mountain
Veins
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #177: Upriver
As the two of us stand
Side by side
Having explored
The highest peaks
To the lowest valleys
The mist finally clears
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #174: Valley
My power born from
Acknowledgment of weakness
Rapid evolution
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #169: Rapid
Another dear friend
Crosses the misty bridge
Fog condenses into tears
In response to Patrick Jennings’ Pic and a Word Challenge #168: Bridges and Kristjaan Panneman’s CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI: Carpe Diem #1575 Fuyukasumi (Winter Mist)
Borrowed energy
Many steps of life and death
All one with the earth
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #165: Steps
My contemplation
Of all life’s impermanence
Stars subtle decay
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #160: Contemplation and Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Carpe Diem #1537 Decay
