Tag: National Poetry Month

personal polaris – National Haiku Day

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April 17 is National Haiku Poetry day! I have already done one haiku, but it’s always fun to do another. For anyone that doesn’t know, haiku are Japanese in origin and are poems that follow a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. Typically, a traditional haiku would be more nature focused, almost like a meditation and appreciation of the world around us, though that is not a requirement. It is also not necessary to rhyme as I do in mine, so long as you follow the 5-7-5 pattern.

i found in your eye
the brightest star in the sky
to plot my course by

ghosting, or modern day tactics

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maybe it’s complicated
maybe it’s simple
maybe I’ve read too much into it
maybe it’s just what it seems.

we always want the answers
we want to know
the why
the when
the what
the who
the where
the how
understand every facet
analyze every angle

unfortunately, not everything has an answer.
sometimes silence is just silence
and a ghost is just a ghost
because at the end
it meant nothing.

No Regrets

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that idealized love
which fuels us
(all of us
in the secret places of our hearts
that we do not admit)
exists

But it is:
not always returned;
not always understood;
not always perfect;
not immune to the ravages
of the mortal coil.

Here is a miracle:
that all of the generations existed
that your mother met your father
and through happenstance
whether sorrowful or beautiful
you existed.
that through all the ages, wars, and devastations
my line of ancestors persevered
and led to me.
that somehow, despite the breadth and width and depth
of the whole of the world
we met.

through some small twist of fate
we might not have been
and yet we are.
Existing to meet,
meeting itself –
a miracle.

And yet
love returned is rare.
Yes, it’s not fair.
But we all know the rules of the game
and the rewards
and the worth behind the risk.