Where poppies flew – For Friday Fictioneers
My days pass slowly under the shadow of a temple bell. That ominous bell tolling threnodies of losses, of sorrows I bear under a facade of stoic boredom. The poppies […]
Category Archives: poetry
Your persian rugs – for dVerse and Visdare
I’ve walked these passages before, the passages and corridors you’ve sent me to explore. My sanity I’ve found behind a door, that’s painted blue. The door you guided me to […]
Carpe Diem Haiku – Zenrakuji
on the temple yard covered in cherry bloom – an old tortoise Linked to Carpe Diem — February 17, 2014
Her gown of white – haibun for trifecta.
With every injection she hoped to meet her mother. Her sweet mother not yet lost to stepfather’s fists. In her drug-induced dreams she was running across orchards outside their trailer […]
Carpe Diem Haiku – Kokobunji
her compassion – tears are like raindrops for the rainbow The different colors of the feminine form of compasion I interpreted as a rainbow, and my thought was that this […]
