Tag Archives: haiku

Intimation

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star” – William Wordsworth Once upon a star, lyrics mated with the dark– Memory was born.

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Cracked Plate

“Sometimes, though, the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity.  It can never again be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; … Continue reading

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Lovers

Between true lovers, a throbbing flight of totems, carved from moon and ash.

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Come Wander With Me

At the break of day, wandering softly within– you, from a distance.

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Music

To the call of light, Music, unending, beckons you to harmonize.

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This Way In

Between passages, a dark pause to recollect the lighted means home.

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Transcience

Where were you last night, my dreams asked of my silence— Between worlds, I longed.

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Ascension

Crisped at the edges, gilded wings of the Phoenix fanning flames to rise. Image by Izumi Yokoyama

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Film Treatment

Silence, within a dark empty theater, starring you on a blank screen.

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Losing my Religion

Religion of rain, I prayed to get wet, and then entered her slowly.

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