For the time
I held you in esteem
Woman
The empire shone
The Jewel in the East
None war
None pain
Ukraine
Boyspeak: A Haiku
Now you lovely one
Think aloud courageous thoughts
Don’t neglect to feel
heal thyself (19)
What never started
Is over
Because it had to
Be
Be
Being
Am
Is
I leave
This
At
That
heal thyself (18)
As with the look in need
The reaching out
And switching off
The bedside light
A calming tell-tale moment
Came
Quietly
Thankfully
For a fleeting flash
That noise
Was graciously
Over
heal thyself (17)
No one
And their apology is coming
To hold my heart
To stroke my hair
How the twisting
The imprinting
With the counterfeit
Occurred I don’t know
I need you
Sleeptalker
Tell me
Why tell me
The Will: A Haiku
The how and the when
I have not yet decided
To live my own life
verity
There’s a grittiness first
A glassiness next
And the thought of its haunting doesn’t deterThe almost too-sweet
Yet the never-enough
Residue on the fingers proves there is more to come
heal thyself (16)
A matter of time
A granted taken away
Will eventually provoke
Your feathers
A heart that would
Do as yours wouldn’t
Is made
And cover blown
Swim away you will
Pursuer
Or crack you Stubbornest
Shred my heart in the square
heal thyself (15)
When in flight I notice
The actual
White-winged clouds
I’ll ask nothing of them
On the day
That hopes
For my quiet well-wishing
(I feel its onset)
Look
See
I am human and grant it now
I wish you peace
heal thyself (14)
Shout to you I do
Darkness posing
As promise
As light
I waiver
In my flesh
And often steal
Bravado
But I’ve wings too
On lifetime loan to me
By The One
To Whom I am Consecrated