Mahogany waves
Stilled, drop diffuses it’s self
Empty cabinet
Empty cabinet –
no exit left from the Globe’s
curtain of the world
Curtain of the world
Part, ghost ,loved ,lived, part,you,me.
Forget not ,before…?
Part, ghost, forgotten
As cistern bowels in ice lie
fathomless, unsung.
Forget not, before
Fathomless, unsung ghosts part,
in cisterns of ice
In cisterns of ice
vegetable love rises through
the dry steam of death.
Ref: Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”
“My vegetable Love should grow
Vaster then Empires, and more slow.”
The dry steam of death
The whirling clouds left behind
Seen by those who cared
Seen by those who cared
at great cost, sacrifice
another like, come
another like, come
Spring ~ I bid you come ~~ quickly.
Winter - ice sculpture.
Winter ice sculpture –
the dragon of the arctic
shining fiendish fire.
Shining fiendish fire
Over a sepulchre’s vault
Of all yesterdays.
Of all yesterdays.
My college days were the best.
learning how to learn.
Good!!!
Learning how to learn
To live to learn how to live–
This is all there is.
This is all there is.
Religion: one man’s answer.
He fools himself thus.
Got back there in the end.
We, I included, are getting far afield from traditional Japanese haiku, which is a word picture without a moral.
He fools himself thus
The springs shadows midsummer
Nights dreamed, gently, hush
Nights dreamed, gently hush.
The gloom has stars stirring
The day that will come.
Haiku is about nature; senryu is about human emotions. We are doing senryu here. One of the best nature poems I’ve read, which would have made a good haiku, was my mentor’s definition of a squirrel–“An undulating urgency in fur”. At the expense of diluting that good line, I’d add
An undulating
Urgency in fur, fast leaps
Onto support branch.
But, I’m off the tag lines here.
The day that will come
And I will be you again
Then not remeber