hard edges softened by loss, pain, grief, betrayal joy beyond this life who has not envied a bird in flight, soaring up above life’s chaos mid-life assessment fewer questions and even less answers to flaunt people do not seek answers but understanding and heartfelt comfort not Pollyanna but joy surely follows…
Category: Haiku
haiku: relativity
relativity is gray and lacks the sharpness of life black and white
haiku: sabbath
sabbath peace settles flecks of gold, copper, and light pierce the dark of night
haiku: serenity
serenity sits in the sanctuary of nature’s open fields
haiku: ancient waters
bone cold and distant warm and alluring, ancient waters ebb and tide
haiku: widows and orphans
widows and orphans society does not see their wind broken lives
haiku: raindrops
raindrops soak the earth but the soul longs for meaning beyond finite life
haiku: little girl
no shoes to tie or hair to untangle, but the little girl lingers
haiku: season of hope
Pontormo’s “Visitation” -famous mothers, Elizabeth and Mary mothers carried seeds of change in their wombs, the whole world waited in hope
haiku: funeral dance
blown before the wind brittle brown leaves dancing at their own funeral dirge
Bonnie Saul Wilks 