Field of Flowers

Thoughts peacefully wonder about

As I expand my very troubled mind

Past my fears and woeful worries

I know what is true I will never doubt

That the answers are always there

Far beyond the unknown horizon

For silence is just the absence of noise

In solace I will be shed from this storm.

I must trust in god that things will,

Work out well in the field of flowers,

The sanctuary under the stars of hope

Birthdays Come & Go

Time is unyielding, precious & sweet

It sparks life to every single day

And then gives them all peace

Remember them each then give way,

To the future for that is a joyous treat.

10 Hospital Haiku

First operation / Sadly did not do the trick / So I’m cut once more

A pain in my side / What thoughts will I dream tonight? / Simple, dark or distant?

These hours grow late / I am afraid I can’t sleep / Nor wonder of peace

While I eat ice cubes / Thoughts of Notorious foods / Ever draws near to me

Getting better means / Walking enough times around / the nurse’s station

I’ve gotten the best / Kayla and Rose are nurses / Most lucky to have

Slight fever does break / Worry seems overdone now / based on so little

Come night there is change / Called Michelle and Adam / Nurses change daily

Friendly nurse Leah / Removed what was holding me / To this hospital

An IV to go / I am out of here for good / Hope that is the case. 

20 Haiku - That Makes 100

Thoughts nettle my mood / Fears in the peripheral / Death is laconic

Always  circumspect / When formulating  a plan / Never going far

Whispers come at night / While dreams travel by day / She is close at hand

The moment slips by / For time will not wait for me / She always follows

Egoistical / Erudite, brilliant, bold / Downsized I’m told

Ever so nearby / I sense her watchful presence / In all that I do 

Beyond little things / Quiescent after a storm / Halfway from a tear 

Force to live a lie / Coffee mollified my dreams / I walked between worlds

Circling the end / Beliefs don’t aid any plans / When dark thoughts corrupt 

Same few get the blame / While all sides fan the flames / Hate swirling around 

Austere attitudes / Will pester my cheerful mood / When I am thinking 

Turn to her often / Lost in the black of the night / She always follows 

My thoughts betray me / As she whispers in my ear / One sweet delusion 

A simple terror / I’m faced every single day / An empty white page 

The daily chatter / Digitized across the web / So very fleeting 

The witching hours / before the daily sunrise / stirs the soul silly

Inches from a goal / That was once light years away / Steepest hump to climb

Holiest number / Would probably be a three / Father, son and ghost

Nine is magical / It stands on the edge of change / On the next level

It’s easy enough / Didn’t take too long to write / One hundred haiku

20 Haiku - 80 Total

Was caught in quicksand / As minutes dwindle to none / With gradual pace

Time funnels and moves / Each and every grain of sand / By binding the minutes

For the moments turn / Never to repeat again / With overall peace

A soul might extend / but the body is brittle / Life is but passing

With Death smiling / Filling up the bottom glass / And kept close at hand

A drink in my hand / Sunlight spotlight in my face / Stiff breeze in my hair

Soft summer showers / Soundly cooling the dry days / One drop at a time

One move to checkmate / I just took your queen with ease / Want to play again?

Lustful and sexy / One dirty little number / This sixty-nine is

Can’t win every move / sometimes things will end badly / You can count on that

Time and space abound / sightless searching enduring / wonders never cease

Ice tea waters down / in a glass while I write / another haiku

The mouse goes click click / keys tap on the fingertips / computer just hums

Falling forever / far past the place I began / Never to return

If the king shall fall / I will have a plan in place / for another one

Ostentatious thoughts / The most laconic moments. / Many sweet quandaries

Perspicacity / Thoughts burn brightly in my mind / Realizing the dream

Animosity / For all those on distant lands / My heart is empty

In absentia / carrying  on without you / Wishing you no harm

Ameliorate / The state of my soul within / The shape of my heart

Bipolar Storm

A flipped coin,
Forever spinning,
From heads to tails
and back again...

Two minds next to every point,
Deep South meets Due North,
Far East crosses Old West;
sometimes my tank
Is running on empty.

And sometimes my cup runneth over;
Bound in a knot and completely undone,
A storm within myself...
Summer showers against a winter storm.

Pocket Rockets

By Paolo & Sting

In the zone this is not a game of chance
Others don’t understand why I play
Because I don't play for respect
Winning piles of chips is not my way

I deal the cards to find the answers

This is a love of mystery, not of game

The hidden laws of a probable outcome

To determine the odds of my aim

I know that the spades are daggers of waiting

I know that the clubs will bash a skull in

I know that diamonds aren't forever.

But that's not the shape of my heart

I may play the Jack of diamonds

I may lay the Queen of spades

I may conceal an Ace in my hand

Accepting the memory of it must fade

I know that the spades are daggers of waiting

I know that the clubs will bash a skull in

I know that diamonds aren't forever

But that's not the shape of my heart

That's not the shape, the shape of my heart

And If I told you that your eyes were so bright

You’d perhaps wonder what had I done

I’m not a puzzle that needs to be broken

My absolute desires are second to none

Simple talk means very little to me

And when others fall by my hands it’s a shame

But it is never the toss of the dice in the end

It’s the simple psychology of the game

I know that the spades are daggers of waiting

I know that the clubs will bash a skull in

I know that diamonds aren't forever

But that's not the shape of my heart

That's not the shape of my heart

That's not the shape, the shape of my heart