Haiku

Whisper with the birch —

Why wander in the cold sun,

Solemn insect friend?

(4/26/2010)

April Rhapsody*

April Rhapsody

Can you feel the sun shining?

I feel it on my face,

So strong my eyes water.

I'd share it with you here.

Come closer. Let's feel its rays together.

I'd hide myself in the springtime grass,

Blades so sweet and long;

A bird walks close by me now.

I feel the sun on the flower tops.

I did everything in no-time today,

Flowers everywhere.

And sun and trees and grass.

Two poems before breakfast,

Another with my lunch.

The yawning sky greets

The sun's pillar of brightness;

Season-swept clouds paint the trees

And hills and house windows with laughing.

* From Greek "to stitch together song, to recite poetry"

(4/12/2010)

Fascinating and disturbing dream*

* I'll warn you this is a bit of a strange one.

Fascinating and disturbing dream

Imagine (if you will) this man

Who is a font of industry

He lives in a town called West

Located, as it was, in the West of North America

The Great Continent.

A great exponent of Manifest Destiny.

This town on the mountain prairie

Was a stagecoach town,

And boomed with the task of settling

The Great Continent

And making the Red man scarce.

He wrote,

"Imagine (if you will) this growing town

And the men and boys who come here

Employed in the mighty task of settling

The Great Continent

And fighting the Indians found there.

"Imagine now,

Lopping off the arms of

Ten Thousand men, and

Devising a machine so precise

It would articulate each one above the other

In a giant hand-clap.

"The clap of twenty-thousand hands

Would be a mighty thing of Industry."

This man was a great proponent

Of right nutrition, balanced meals,

And foods high in vitamins.

He himself died quite rich

At the age of eighty.

(4/5/10)