Through the doorway into meaning
What is it
To be truly pulled
From your body
Through mind
Into a presence
Previously unknown
Most suddenly though
Beneath door eaves
And between
The wooden entryway to
A most inviting scene
Where you be
And become
A most engaged
And yet present of being
And the song
Once you've sung
Has unrolled
There, in true involvement
You are singing
Free at last
Status
I write now
As my mind has been
In so many places alive
As of late
That I fear not death
Or in some ways to die
But here
In this place of minor space and breath
I wait
For the words to beath
And speak their lungs into
A smokey existence new
And for that I wait
And for as much time take
I sit until such a speech is renewed
Crackle me, a tanka
Crackle me like a
Rustic fire from a strike
Of my fathers match
Until winter memory's
Are warm and near like a flame
Desire bursting, a tanka
When a desire
First takes hold and a small spark
Bursts into being
And then, most suddenly is
A warm light you should enjoy
Chai Fires
Lines and expectations
Burn
In the hearts of some
As excitement and
Chai
Whereas others just yearn
For the quiet break
For the tide to turn
And for their future lives
Asleep
To wake
Wish wish becoming
A wish is only as good
For the soul
As the soul is happy with
The result of said wish
Coming through the true mist
Of both time and allotment
Is
Generally what you will let it be
Challenging dreams
We humans need
Hard things to do
To challenge ourselves
Through
Into next
And yet
We dream
Of time unending
And of responsibility faded
As if somehow that
Could be more rewarding
Than the pursuit of this
The wish
Learning to walk as a haiku
Hardled knees of youth
Get up and try now again
With hope renewed, step
In dreams, of dreams, and
A human dream
Which pulls from time
Is often of a place to settle down
And spend, and spend
Even more time abound
In such a place
Maybe when
You finally find it
You will
And won't so much as waste
The time in dreams
Anymore
Friendships beyond, a tanka
Good friend always know
Even if feelings are far
And fading time tolls
Like a bell of reunion
Where again we can be found
Love so bright
How can you write
About a sunset or first light
If your house is of glass
And everyday so
How your eyes ignite
With the same bright rays and rights
How?
How can you not
As you already have
Other ships
One thing you wish for
Always is to see
A ship safe to harbor
And yet able to sail still
Be it away
Or towards
It should be
So
This life unspent
Of all the silly places
And ways to spend
Your life in time
The most must be
This
In the way of which you
Do not desire
Are not rewarded for
And in no ways loved
(For doing so)
Of instability
Help is not
Like water of flowing
Of drinking most sweet
When untouched
But then
When you just know how
To swim for yourself
You will
And when someone
More than they are willing to help themselves
Asks
You won't
Sometimes, once jumped
The jumper wants to drown
Do not die
Such sounds are quiet, a haiku
Kill me with a look
Passing by like a drum beat
So sounds out time, quiet
Breathing breaths
A breath is a breath
Is a breath
Is not a word
Is a meaning perhaps
And yet nothing at all
But to survive
To endure
To desire
To mean nothing
And to learn
That a breath
Is a simple
Yet as a sound
To be heard
A spark amongst sparks
Our comforts burn
And wishes for
Our own ways to wind
Through valleys of hope
Yet one day with a crash
Like these forest fires burn
When an unforseen conflict
Like a friction to start
This occasional spark
To an unpleasant flame
Burst and turns
To dread
Cold knows not
Cold knows not
How harsh it is
Unless summer enters in
After spring has done it's work
And is welcomed such
Near to speak again
And remind within
How the coat of winter snows to know
That they need not always lay
With such chilling force each day and so
And so now at least
This cold doest know