Sleepwalker's Haiku

Full blue moon spilling

Through open window shutters--

You knee-deep in it.

 

Poetic Negative Relativity

To sit absolutely 

Quiet while writing 

Your thoughts down 

Means you are not thinking 

Out loud and clearly 

No one can hear you.

 

 

In Perpetual Remembrance

Everlasting storyteller
True to your fleeting 

Fly-by-night storyline
You said you'd be 

Here as long as your word was,
And sure enough 

You didn't keep it. 

 

 

Ambivalent Accommodation

Poems fit everywhere,
Save the heart

Of the heartless.

 

Aubade Made-To-Order

In bramble thicket, 

Two morning songbirds chirping 

Nothing fitter at hand.

 

Excess Baggage

It just so happens 

There is much 

One can get 

Out of the vehicle 

Of poetry— 

A free ride is not

One of them.

 

 

Apple Of Our Poetic Eye

first off,
leave nothing 

to chance
and listen: 

no baubles, please—
whatever we hold

dear must be surely
precious to the ear,

and to that eyeless,
munching under-

study of a worm, under-
taking everything, all in

good stride.