Haikus

 1. It thwarts frozen hearts 

Burns down forests of desire 

A heart breathing fire 

2. Fly away with me

To become one with the wind 

Birds have no limits  

3. Time is like the wind

Both, a storm that wrecks and the

Only panacea

4. Ignorance balks what 

Love can mend in ways untold

Why can’t you see?

5. Amuses and aches 

It stays and then evades 

Vagary of being

6. Perched on a branch,

Rested a moment, then flew

On adventure new

7. Bright, significant 

Hopes for precocious girls

Those born to rebel 

8. Looking on to the sea

Contemplating a dive, but

The bedrock is home 

9. Astray in the woods 

Where do I belong? I see

Daylight sent for me  

10. Shattering tempest

I am learning to live with, 

Rainbows are worth it 

11. Zero hours on the clock

Quietude on the shelves echos

Nowhere else I’d be 

12. Kaleidoscope—

Snow alike or asunder

Flakes ask in wonder

13. Still footsteps at the shore

Listen to the ocean roar

Walk back home wiser 

14. Tremors on skin die

When your hand grazes mine 

Fleetingly I’m home 

15. Lonesome candle burns

As friend of the dark; Who is 

hope without despair 

16. Raindrops scatter away,

Smiles and joy spreads among us all

Monsoon is magic

17. Chaos in the night 

Loud thoughts rage inside my mind 

Can’t hear them, can you? 

18. Do I remember?

Or will I ever forget?

I ask the embers 

19. Horizon awaits,

In the mirror, shadows linger—

Seeking out for you

20. After it blooms, and

before it falls, the flower

takes a solemn drift.

21. I opened the door 

Set a foot out in the world 

It is a new day

22. The more I gave to

the world, the more it echoed—

Smile, smile, smile 

23. Once a river flowed

Saw the rocks watch by; wondered 

What stillness is like 

24. Forgotten, sodden

The driftwood caught pity 

It’s journey unknown 

25. Shining and alluring

I once saw a box spellbound;

Alas it was hollow.