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.
We’re the last persons we find at… That’s a fact; perhaps just human… The other parties are always in th… For we’re blameless and innocent a… Often, we’re in a pedestal others…
center he’s the square root of negative one to my senses, he is yet he’ll forever be!
So I asked my wife today Just what I should write about Quizzical she looked at me Perplexed that I asked, no doubt Just like this dread pandemic
Born today gone tomorrow Life unfolds fast never slow Thin slice of eternity Half note in a symphony Ghostly mist life appears
A Sonnet A magical sunrise to start the day With songbirds serenading from the… Leaves rustle gently in the mornin… The balmy air salty from ocean spr…
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…
warm water bubbled up the hot spring; as she minded wet clothes she hung on a string, between two poles wild flowers on her hair;
All the forests are in bloom As cool weather sweeps the land Birds in the air soar and zoom Flying south to winter strand At long last autumn is here
Early morning purple clouds Gleam of light in horizon No sign a storm is brewing But waves stir in gray ocean Wind speed picks up shortly
I. Conception He paused a bit; syllables he’s co… For he’s obsessed, enamored with s… Write he must, a poem about bluebo… Iambic pentameter; so constraining…
center Brown clay, soft and moist Shapeless, without form Amorphous, malleable No backbone like a worm
The sky is darkest in the midnight… When the new moon reflects not bor… The world appears mysterious but n… For the darkness conceals the eart… And all that’s visible are stars t…
Decadent, thus tempting It oozes, like a river It flows, yet viscous It’s thick, and rich, and gooey... So inviting!
With desire in his heart, he gazed… And imagined the taste of her lusc… As he stroked and caressed her flo… Her face reminds him of a thousand… He adored her from afar; never fel…
After five days the egg hatches Atop a young snapdragon leaf The caterpillar starts to chew Its appetite beyond belief A few days its size quadrupled