My very first attempt to write a poem using the 5-7-5 haiku format. So please be kind!
The poem itself describes the dichotomy of nature, its amazing beauty as well as its inherent cruelty.
May a warm sunrise wake you up eve… May colorful sunsets always conclu… Never dampened by thunderstorms an… Only refreshing showers, late on… Your love for each other, let it b…
Behold! All the signs are here Time of troubles soon coming The winter chill in the air The north wind might’ly howling Furious fearsome hurricanes
Summer winds Hot and dry Bluest skies Glaring sun Burning bright
The sky was slate grey, the clouds… The salty air was misty from the o… At the Montauk lighthouse, the la… As night shadows come out at the e… Wave after wave were crashing on t…
when the truth hurts we lie when it’s uncomfortable we lie when we are fearful
Suddenly without warning the storm… Upending all things standing in it… Debris everywhere, the world gone… Houses and trees, no one was spare… Roofs and branches littered fields…
A Love Time Could Never Bind… A Sonnet For ten long years, their love has… A steady light through life’s unce… She lifts his heart, and he, the s…
Taller than him his shadow For it was late in the day The sun sinks in the skyline Behind gray hills far away The chill is just beginning
Periwinkle skies, cold winter morn… After a stormy night of sleet and… Icicles in tree branches glistenin… Invitingly from the upstairs windo… The winter scene calls to her chil…
The world grows darker with each p… As shadows deepen, skies are set a… From mountain peaks to hidden, twi… Sauron’s gaze falls with wrathful,… No cries are heard by heaven’s dis…
It hurts badly where my heart used… Heart, you stole; then vanished wi… My days ever since seldomly with g… You abandoned me; never told me wh… Discreetly! else I would have giv…
Couldn’t wait any longer For the night to be over This unsatisfied longing At last be quenched forever For tomorrow she’s coming
I find myself writing eulogies mor… Because people that I cherish hav… And so many friends from my youth… They have crossed the threshold in… Sadly, no words are left to expres…
We grew in a traditional household Where misbehaving is not an option Discipline and stern rules we must… But love always an expressed emoti… Six sons six daughters a dozen in…
I’m very sad that you got it too It’s not a crock, it’s quite true But words will be back, don’t be b… Before long, you’ll be good as new In two months, you wrote quite a f…