March April May lack of discipline

Assorted short forms from the past few months:

3/2 (old)

first edition
a pink crayon heart around
‘no matter how small’


3/3 (doll)

winter sun
the doll, the dust and the spider
on the sill

3/4 (death)

so many lilies
still I search
for just the right words

3/7 (fasting)

deep in prayer
the full fish moon
on an empty plate

3/13 for Susan

free of winter’s grasp
I wonder is she at peace
wandering the stars

3/18 (Sunday)

seventh day
a double sunrise shell rests
at my feet

3/21 (nature)

southern breeze
how softly winter passes
through the willows

3/25

view from the street corner
venus, jupiter and the moon
still hangin’ out

3/28 (growth)

rising
above her surroundings
the daffodil

3/29 (humor)

6 p.m.
all the neighborhood dogs imitate
the firehouse whistle

3/31

spring mist
only in the light
does the truth show

(romantic trip)

river sunset
an extra round
on the ferry

April 2012

4/3
Holy Tuesday
psalms whispered
in the rain

(blossoms)

this shoulder pain
still I reach for a clump
of cherry blossoms

4/6 (moon)

midday prayer
the weight
of the good Friday moon

4/11 (mountains)

lengthening days
the wildflowers brighter
on the mountaintop

4/12 (swings)

winter’s end
the freedom of the swings
long forgotten

4/17 (autumn cool)

this mind helpless
against its own trappings
autumn cool

4/21 (earth)

welcomed rain
as if they never existed
those cracks in the earth

4/27 (memorable trees)

outside the fence
mis-shapen apples from
a mis-shapen tree

May 2012

5/5 (moon)

sea and fog
all that is shared between
the moon and me

5/6 (intimacy)

easy silence
our summer night punctuated
by turning pages

summer heat turning into an endless walk...this dream

dressed in lotus
on a wooden pyre
float me out to sea
bathed in moonlight cast
by all the goddesses gone before

5/17 (voice)

after the mockingbird
unable
to find my voice

5/19 (tea)

morning tea
the words he knows are coming
stuck in her throat

5/20 (blue)

blue sky to grey
the cormorants come ashore
ahead of the storm

5/21 (open) for Hortensia

spring sunrise
through the open gate
a shadow