We won’t stop testing
it’s bitter-sweet truth. We must
feel what life tastes like.
What Trust
Is there a reason not to do this?
Is there a reason not to tear out my mind, haul it to sea, throw it to the deep?
What right has it had to do the same to my heart?
Day after day, year after year.
May it be my mission.
I see no reason not to do this.
This Haiku: august 26, 2015
This Haiku: Ire’ Up
Kind, Wild, Friend
“August 25th,” she said and thought breathlessly, searching for wisdom and a pen. “I have called you friends.” Joy…surrender…eyes on Him. Yes, all wise mortar for new Life.
Onto love. It doesn’t matter the date, love “Is.” Daily. Lasts only a moment, but exists in each moment. Thanks, god. Her method today: seek it upside down and backward. Flip with eyes closed through its intentionally silky pages and choose the one just after the most proud. Turn it up-side-up and look to your right. There he is. Talking about wild again. Blurred, inked wild. Yes, this is only love.
Truth? She knows so. Here, see youth, invasion, then the dark surrender – but not invasion of the soul, not surrender of the spirit. She takes from today its lesson and gives back the gift of her understanding. Yes, truth demands kindness and compassion nevertheless.
He placed a piece of His divine in us all, she’s relieved to learn. “I have called you friends….”
This Haiku: august 25, 2015
This Haiku: Little Lake Home
This Haiku: august 24, 2015
This Haiku: For Turtles
I Ever
I can say goodbye
Knowing you released me
I cannot say goodbye
Knowing I was never yours
Was I ever yours





