597.
Learning to embrace
Emptiness, yet my progress
Is in your embrace.
Tag: desire
Black Dress
This bleak and empty screen,
Like repetitive angst, or writer’s block,
Trying to eke and will words out
As contrived as a tattooed snake in my jaw,
Polarising a use of my
Fruitless time, amoral Time,
As trying to help pull you through
From one place in our denuded lineage
And the space between rhymes
To another untested angle,
But there’s your better lover
Returning home from work
While I wait through centuries here,
Willing improvements in words
To emerge like moonlight
On a dim and distant
Drain-scarred stagnant moor.
You dropped your black dress,
Yes, I watched the seismograph
In my mind finding new charts,
In a pool on a kitchen floor.
Haiku #591
You found my shelf-life,
And devoured me in sunlight,
Under succulents.
Día de Muertos
Death was a gift to the living
And life was a gift for the dead,
I’ll find my love when beginning
By no longer being bereft.
I am grateful for you always,
No matter where we are,
I’ll find you in that crowded square
Where everyone wears a mask.
Yearn
I yearn for you,
As nature yearns for birth,
As water yearns to fall
And become something else,
Something different,
As the Moon observes the Earth,
As silence takes its turn.
Moments freefall
Without you
And that is why my love
I yearn.
Haiku #585
585.
I tried, love, I tried,
To relinquish thoughts of you.
Not enough, though, true.
Haiku #584
584.
I understand you,
As you understand me too.
And that is enough.
Della Vita
Una bella donna
Con una gonna,
La gonna e il vestito
Della vita.
Ti sogno di frequente.
Come non posso?
Haiku #580
580.
Humid night, no sheets,
Samurai without armour
Wants just one cover.
Haiku #566
566.
I have a secret
I cannot speak of, shogun.
Leave judge, for judges.
