This summer solstice
Golden sun’s prodigious eye
Aligns with flowers
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #192: Eyes and inspired by Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #90 Crossroads … Summer Solstice (Troiku Hineri)
Acrid ozone
Before spring rain
Washed my tears
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #190: Before
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
Man made heavens
A meretricious imitation
To trees covered in birdsong
Don’t get me wrong, I am in awe of the human capability to create beautiful art, but nothing compares to the cosmos which is what inspires our art in the first place. Waking up under a canopy of trees by a birdsong alarm is my idea of heaven (even if my old back is stiff from sleeping on the ground).
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #185: Heavens
Everyday struggles
The disconnect from nature
Restored by a camp
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #184: Dis Connect
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
Breath deep her shadows
As secrets inside emerge
For those with patience
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #182: Shadow
You reached for my hand
As shadows elongated
Sunset lullaby
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #182: Shadow
