Toys in the tub
Clothes in a pile on the tile
Defense at the ready
Will we survive the giggles of The Big Day?
The Grace of Family
My family sustains me
They give their love freely
And shape the world I see
More perfect they can’t be
Live, Love, Lawyer
I do not want to want more
I am content at the ground floor
I’ll give a hand up, open doors
Serving the many who need more
Someplace Far
Dearest glassy wheels
Let’s travel to Where Scares Me
Feel the fear fade fast
Refined Sugar
Sugar’s undone me
But if asked, with glee you’d smile
And tell of the deep
The toys that you stacked
The books that sustained young you
These bricks on your path
The gleam of the teeth
The taste, the smell of sky’s kiss
These truths on your skin
The steps to your calm
The mindful choice to bear pains
These questions matter
What I Wanted: A Haiku
As a child, I’d read
“Beauty is as beauty does”
You’ve taken that long
New Moon
I fear you’re not there
That your eyes do not know mine
So I gate my heart
To Sea or Not
She’ll take you too far
Don’t entertain the mermaid
Breathing down your neck
Lest you find yourself
In the belly of the whale
That you’ve befriended
He’ll smile “Welcome home”
That mermaid will be there too
With tea and kelp cakes
Next comes surgery
To retro-fit you with gills
Now you’re one of them
You’ll live in the depths
Meet with the surf and shores, then
Teach sonar to schools
But you could also
Not entertain the mermaid
Breathing down your neck
Wonder Kid: A Haiku
Helping hamstringed hearts
That sci-fi superhero
How does he do that?
We Cheat Death
Start again.
To breath again
and feel again
then smile again.
Stretch again.
Then ask again
and know again
to help again.
See again.
Next do again
then teach again
and add again.
Don’t fail again
to cry.
Original Thought Credit: “See one, do one, teach one” Unknown
