Everyday Lives

Contrasting colors
People in their own settings
Variable themes
Revealing everyday lives.

September Haiku (Peace Found in Music)

Moving through motions
Revitalized by music–
Peace of mind returns

Mirror Eyes

Hundred mirror eyes
Glimpsing a hundred worlds
An outstretched finger–
Gone— rapidly beating wings.

Light and Night

Arising glow brings warmth
To a sleeping world.

A final wink illuminating illusion
Baths summer green in gold.

Birthing light signals
Perpetual end to night’s reign.

Fiery waning wave as darkness prevails
Instills a promise to return.

Raging Seas

Finding the strength today
Amongst the negativity—
The sludge, always thick.

Hearing this inner
Conversation, a ping pong
Game which never ends;

An eruption gone
Wrong, ejecting soot, lava
Pyroclastic flow

Speeding, rumbling
Down an endless spiral, too
Deep; just stay away!

A sorrowful note
Ringing out, breaking this fog
Settling the seas

Raging all around.
Bolt cutters open the way
As chains drop away

Anger’s catch slipping
Through the net toward freedom.
Peace is beautiful.

A Broken String

A string stretched

Beyond the breaking point

Lays limp between nut and bridge

 

Rosary nearly perfect

Blemished near the neck

Imperfectly presented

 

A through high E

Keeping in touch

Tension holding on

 

Head resisting breaking, cracking

While even taunt pressure

Runs through the body

 

The sound hole, a mouth

Resonating with raw emotion

As rhythm and harmony ring true. 

September Haiku (Lagging)

Fingertips moving
Along the neck—layered wood
Lagging picking hand.

September Haiku (A Terrier’s Alert)

Insistent barking

Foreign objects everywhere

Must alert my owner.

September Haiku 3 Campus Trekking

Racking up the miles
Classes distanced apart
Cross campus trekking.

September Haiku 2

Anticipation—

Brutally killing the crowd

While gear rotates.