today is international haiku day - there's even a NaHaiWriMo every february.
some of these are brand new haikus, and some are reconfigurations of some previous lines of poetry. anyway...enjoy.
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my poems are getting
shorter. everything
is more measured now.
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this is the moment
promises are made lightly
and i hide from view.
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some words were exchanged
and emotions hard bartered
for scraps of meaning.
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please come home and spend
whatever time is required
to make your way clear.
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lay down your burden
at your enemy’s feet
and find yourself alight.
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you are mostly empty
space and light traversing
the gap between hearts.
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then come take my hand
and eat the words i lift to
your lips with longing.
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the only thing known
to shift story from whispers
to a memory.
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this and this and this
longing and desire for joy –
a settled embrace.
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walking the slow path,
i stop to smell a flower –
a reminder of you.
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the way to carve space
is to assign it new names
and set it loosely.
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i only wanted this –
this thing i now desire –
this unending joy.
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your mouth, delicate,
dances lightly across skin
all electrical.
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the way a shell breaks
and light enters like a thief;
each desperate thought.
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and then the flag raised
and trumpets sounding the depths
as we brace ourselves.
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the earth will own me,
will claim my songs as ransom,
a verse to all change.
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my face set like flint
against or towards mountains
and valleys and seas.
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until our bodies press
next to time and flesh weakens,
spirit and blood rise.
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again, the promise
to have and to hold and to
never walk away.
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again the path, again
the light and sound of drumming,
echoing the bones.
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and thus I am known,
and perhaps rejected, and
perhaps too, embraced.
