echoing parenthesis

parenthesis meets its matchin apostropheI listen to echoes.  after a drab October, the early November sunshine cast golden rays on comma another absurdity

totality

in stillness of nightif you persistin being that close to me; I will have to finda way to plunge myselfinto your luminous soul I only believe in totality

that hammer

If I had a hammer, I would smash iton your pumpkin patch, think it is your headall blood and gore, a pulp, beauty to behold. *************a nail, essential in the centre of that wallfor your photo to be displayed for allIf I had a hammer, I would hit hard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AppleHouse Poetry Workshop: 10/10/10: 3 lines, [...]

a child’s play

that yellow ballorbits in airdrops perfectly in the ditcha child dithers to catch ithis hands stick into mudghosts of dead childrenhaunt his neighborhood

transient

it is two o’clock-time when someone else’s lovebecomes transiently yours

birthday swan song

song is but a joyillogically I sing offkeyon my birthday today ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today it is my birthday. I had looked forward of it being the best one of my life but that didn’t happen. So what? I can still celebrate it, can’t I? I will gift myself with some jewellery, I am hankering after. Another [...]

special talent

your pregnant pauses-are your only special talentmine is to ignore

slumber: haiku-lets

deprived of sleepI slumber dreamily in the daywhen morbidity digs digged morbidityturns around and runs awayheaven eludes heaven: misnomer;cloaking that invisibiltyof our ignorance an ignorant mindis delirious in itselfleave it well alone aloneness suits-mind turns towards bigger dreamsthriving within it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I call those dancing verses, renamed haiku-let here. I have not done this for [...]

night sounds

fraught with such distraughtin darkness he touched her arm;said, dispel my insomnia

fantasizing about glass

that glass of water-water swirls of it suddenlyuncannily I see you