-haiku/tanka-

-haiku-

the greek mindset
enlightened living...
missing the point.



-haiku-

tom-boy afternoons
wild, reckless, free, and young...

growing older.

-haiku-

repentant of brandishing

quiet hatred

these heated times.

-haiku-

i have fashioned

quaint afternoons into

disciples of breath.

-haiku-

mouth parted

spoke in tempo

4/4 time, molto leno.

-haiku-

welcomed this day

with hands, soil stained-

knees bent in awareness.

-tanka-

skilled in making

memories of you

a necklace of rising

legs, mid-air samba

closed evenings, cornbread breezes.

-haiku-

brownshinned griot

bath tub immersed

whispered prayings.

-haiku-

voice. mixture.

wind & string in.

stru. ment walking man

-haiku-

in.stru.ment man-

child he, walking

oboe-viola voiced man.

-sonku-

let life be

na.ked.

things exposed

before me,

like Yah.weh.

-haiku-

to mornings'

saxophone in alto-

feet beginning day.

-haiku-

jazz was: silence

tasted the moment

eyes became aware.

-haiku-

lonely soul

feelings of sistahood

carried by bruised river.

©2011