Setting
The Earth turns away /
Receding her face from light. /
Buds hold spring within.
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Face
Sun shines through one face. /
In each of us, a thousand. /
Select one and shine.
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Moments
Moment to moment, /
decide or do not decide. /
Faceless choices near.
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First
First, they take your face. /
Next, your body is product. /
Then, you are no more.
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Night visitor
Ancient face abounds;
Deep into the night it shines.
See in darkness home.
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Brooding
A face in the clouds /
reclining in evening sun /
brooding toward the night.
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083020
Failure stares at me /
feral animal, dark smile /
face fractured with fear.
Filed under Haiku to You Thursday, poetry by author
Young woman’s torn face /
droops from the magazine /
model off the rack.
Filed under Haiku to You Thursday, poetry by author
He didn’t understand why people were avoiding him. Granted, he had gotten up late, so he had to skip a few of the normal morning rituals, but he had showered the night before and brushed his teeth before he went to bed. And thus far this morning, he’d only had half a cup of tea. So, what was the big deal? His hair may have been a bit of a tangle, but his clothes were fresh.
He couldn’t understand it.
Then he understood it even less: women he didn’t know and had never met began giving him that slightly coy, come hither look. The one that starts with her glancing away when their eyes first meet, then with her head slightly cocked and her eyes slightly closed, she turns her gaze back to him and smiles that promisingly wicked half smile. One woman even circled her tongue over her lips.
They weren’t the type of women who were usually attracted to him, so why now?
He went to rest room in his office to comb his hair. Maybe they were making fun of him. That’s when he looked in the mirror.
He was frightened.
No, he was scared!
How could this be? Whom had he offended? What deity or person with near-divine powers had done this to him?
He tried to make a mental list of who could have done this to him. It was as much a list of distraction as a true list of candidates. There was Elinor over in accounting, whom he had snubbed at a company gathering. Not on purpose, but just the same. Then there was Bob, his neighbor, whose cat was always digging in his flowers. Not that he liked flowers all that much, but he liked the cat even less. And…
Sometimes the new you is thrust upon you.
He only hoped he didn’t wake up with a turkey face as the days left Halloween and drew closer to Thanksgiving.
Filed under Photo by author, Photo Finish Friday
Fireflies flicker. /
Evening sun lingers with us. /
Your face holds the light.
Filed under Flicker, haiku, Haiku to You Thursday, poem, poetry by author
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