Haiku: Phone Me

Haiku

Business must be good:

Another phone book is here.

Call me; show you care.

(8/18/2011)

Turning Over

Turning Over

How many hopes, wishes, loves

Have ended at the strike of a

Bullet or a bomb? Shall we

Turn over the whole surface of

The Earth for the graves

Yet to be claimed? Shall we

Bury our own lost selves now

In the debris of not caring,

Not understanding, not—?

A new way must be found.

Hopes and wishes cannot keep

Under the ground. Love cannot,

Must not look back.

(7/5/2011)

Only You

Only You

No moon,

Never dawn:

Skyless night

Alone with you.

(7/16/2011)

Sorry my blog has been so quiet the past couple of months. I've certainly been busy and this shows with my slower output. Poetry requires a lot of focus, and my focus has been elsewhere. But it's been good. I'm writing music, and enjoying the many loves in my life.

I will try to keep posting at least once per month and sometimes still share an older poem if I don't have a new one I want to post on here.

As for my music, I've been putting finishing touches on my first string quartet which I hope to get performed this fall at WOU. (Any string players out there interested in seeing my score and/or possibly playing on it with me, feel free to contact me!) I have the rondo movement on my youtube here, and am thinking of posting the third and possibly fourth movements on there as soon as I feel like they are "done."