in a seaside cafe
alone, listening ...
summer night breeze
waiting for the Muse ...
the seaside cafe tables
fill and empty
from a sea of words
the Muse rises with breasts covered
awake ...not yet awake
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, XCVI: "fireballs"
as if
there is no tomorrow ...
fireballs over Gaza
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, XCVII: "evacuation"
after Jane Reichhold
Gaza evacuation
bombed-out ruins
after
bombed-out ruins
FYI: The prefatory note refers to the following classical haiku:
coming home
flower
by
flower
San Francisco Haiku Anthology, 1992
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, "poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty."
-- Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet, playwright and translator who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Added:
an old woman
claps her raised hands
twice ...
where the Shinto shrine
once stood ten years ago
Added: Game Show, 2024, LXVI
Presidential "Debate"
this deafening, deadly sound
of spit-drop silence
Added:
this unseasonal heat ...
two motorcycles race past me
and weave through
the rush-hour traffic, later
a third... a sixth one speeds by
