Incense Dreams 1.3

My first appearance in Lucia Fontana's journal, Incense Dreams 1.3

remembering you

a seagull's shadow

glides on the sand

moonbeams . . .

will you let me see

the real you

behind the shadow

of your past

Heart Breaths

     Grateful that 11 of my haiku are included in Heart Breaths: Book of Contemporary Haiku. Available to purchase here .

cloud break . . .
a fledgling peeks out
of a cracked shell

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spring dawn . . .
a baby robin's trill
warms the sunlight


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tumbling leaves . . .
I drift where grief
takes me today

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tracing the cracks
on his leather chair . . .
death anniversary

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this feeling of knowing
you were already gone . . .
murmur of stars


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spring buds
his pinky finger
slips into mine

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banjo strings
the night he plucks
the stars

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fall morning
a lily laps up
a ray of sunshine

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sunlight slides
from the mountain top . . .
a seagull's call

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winter dawn
the cry of a hawk
piercing the fog

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empty sea . . .
in a fisherman's boat
a bucketful of stars

 

A Few Poems in Seize the Poem Anthology

     Here are the poems accepted by Caroline Skanne for the Seize the Poem Anthology. It was sometime in March that she asked me if she could include this in her project. So far, I haven't heard any publication....

a white butterfly
carries my prayer . . .
cancer remission

each moment with you sea asters

___________________________

I hold my breath
between these words
I long to hear
the soft, hushed sound
of a violin
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watching
a seagull glide against
the overcast sky . . .
I forget to tell the driver
to turn right

O'Words Anthology

     The contributor's copy of O'Words Anthology I received last May.This is compiled and edited by Sasha Kasoff as a semester project at University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. Find it on Goodreads here.

Seize the Poem (January 2015 prompt - April 2015 prompt)

January 2 prompt: branches

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summer clouds

the taste of a moment

as it melts away

January 9 prompt: cloud watching

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February 3 prompt: moon

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healing after a good cry cloud break

February 5 prompt: one-liner/monostitch

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magenta lips the kiss of summer wind

pink moon the taste of our make-up kiss

summer clouds my dreams sailing away

apple blossoms blowing kisses in the wind

Kathy Uyen Nguyen's response:

falling myrtle your apology a kiss away

fishtailed sky another wish woven through bubble wands

koi pond I stir my hopes into the patchwork of clouds

February 5 prompt: one-liner/monostitch

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February 5 prompt: one-liner/monostich

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watching

a seagull glide against

the overcast sky . . .

I forgot to tell the driver

to turn right

February 6 prompt: road signs

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February 8: sky colors

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February 9 prompt: straight lines

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Kathy Uyen Nguyen's response:

opal blue skies

a robin pens its story

with a throaty flourish

February 10 prompt: grey

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scarlet sky

diluted with dreams

of having you near . . .

this winter I dwell on

the love, not the pain

February 17: winter palette

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February 23 prompt: petal

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barn door . . .

horse grunts slide out

into the sunshine

* Previously posted at NaHaiWriMo. Thanks to Kathy Uyen Nguyen. I love the way she revised the second line for me.

February 21 prompt:

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the frays of sadness

fading into the sunlight . . .

the yellow flowers

we planted together

now in full bloom

March 26 off prompt

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thunderstorm —

our pillows strewn

all over the floor

March 27 prompt: thunderstorm

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not knowing

the exact moment

I knew I loved you . . .

footsteps of a flamingo

at the edge of the lake

April 2 prompt: sneak, light walking

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the sparrow's last sip

from a birdbath . . .

on your birthday

how I didn't want to believe

in your goodbyes

*Thanks again to Kathy for helping me revise this.

April 3 prompt: drink, drought, birdbath

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Carribean Kigo Kukai #49

puffy clouds

a seagull soars higher 

than my kite

4th place

prompt: kite
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Mindful Writing Challenge '13 - Day 13