The Get Up: A Haiku

Father may you be
The very strength in my steps
The all that I want

Shelling: A Haiku

To feed their fever
Summer would be sacrificed
It was decided

Walk away, away
From all you’d hoped to repair
I’ll pretend I’m brave

Tenor with a twang
Will you sing of daughters’ eyes
Charge that they not sigh

I waive my white flag
To you my fair, checkered past
My if-only life

Don’t leave me emptied
anymore, evermore -don’t.
Don’t steal away me.

Oh to no longer
be unrecognizable
and disconnected.

You speak soft as if
you are not a universe,
you soft universe.

We betray ourselves
Should we seek a loving heart
Yet look not within

Church bells at 7
Lighted trees in the backyard
Your heart forever