From my pierced chest
the days are leaking…
as I walk
a thin stream of clouds
behind me trails
~
Light foot
I travel to you
wafting
on the sounds
of my beating heart
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Tag: Poetry
Tanka # 148
The candle burns…
with her light
I write your name
on the eyelids
of the night
~
La chandelle brule…
avec sa lumière
j’écris ton nom
sur les paupières
de la nuit
~
The night is silent…
once again
I’m calling you
from a window
in my heart
Haiku # 583
حبال عطرها المنساب
…في صمت المساء
مصيدة في الريح
~
Après la tempête
seules sur la branche
la fleur et la lune
Tanka # 147
Congealed in her poem
a thousand years ago;
her tears
on my lips
wet and burning.
A tribute to Izumi Shikibu
Tanka # 146
In this life
and the next
your breath and mine
woven into
a single nest
~
For gift
she offered me her back,
a page
on which to ink
the flowers of poetry.
Haiku # 582
Midnight walk…
the moon remembers
what I long to forget
Free Verse # 426 (where everything is turning)
Her kiss on my wrist
I felt it melting
a river reaching down
to the bed of my childhood
then rising back up
through my past
through my spine
carrying me into the soft glow
of a flower in the sun
~
When we were children
we watched the bubble
and wondered
how high it would go
before it pops…
seeing your face
my heart swelled
but failed to lift off the ground
– it popped instantly!
~
Like the inside of a wave
where everything is turning –
my mind when I think of you
~
He loved her light; she craved his soul.
~
To her words and silence, to the motion of her being, the energy of her light – I listen and respond from the center of my heart.
~
This longing
has left me bare,
a field grazed
by a thirsty fire
now holding out
a single flower
like a prayer
to your moon.
~
I felt like her face
brushing against mine
could make the whole world
flower;
though I woke up
and it was just a dream
I sensed a faint burning
in the night air.
~
I hold you in my heart
the way the sky at dawn
keeps the echo
of the first birdsong
~
I am waiting for you on the curve of the great unknown that we could meet and together vanish inside the great mystery.
