Haiku: Childhood Memory

Pole in hand, I walk
The trail, clunking along with
My dad's tacklebox

Haiku: Talent

Oh, things I could do
(If only you would let me)
To give you pleasure!

Haiku: Confidence

Confidence is so
Elusive when you always
Fall short of your goals.

Haiku: Postcard

I missed the deadline,
You can fail me for the week.
Nevertheless, here:

1.
Pretty postcards show
What fun things I've been doing
Because you ar'n't here.

2.
The last thing she sent:
A postcard from Hawaii.
Then she disappeared.

3.
"With all of my heart:"
The last words she wrote before
She left forever.

Haiku: Freestyle

A trifecta:

1.
Going where I please
Is the finest way to hike.
To hell with the map!

2.
Creativity:
Coloring outside the lines
Lets out the passion.

3.
Freestyling full speed,
Throwing all the rules aside.
Why? DISCOVERY.

Haiku: Drift

Sunlight falls, driving
The sparkling colours from the
Dewey leaves and grass.

Me and my lover
Standing on the dock above
The drifting duckweed.

We hold each other
As the world turns around us
Knowing well our ends.

"Just a chapter,"
I say to her wistful eyes,
"In your life story."

Haiku: Fire

Seeming sanity
Fools my peers, but floats above
A bed of embers.

Those deep-seated thoughts
That drive my burning fury
are purifying.

"Can't do it again,"
She said as she struck the match
And set me aflame.

Haiku: Landscape

Red and yellow leaves
Signal a return to school:
Landscape of children.

Snow falls and covers
Everything. Landscape of white,
Perfect for snowmen.

New buds break open
To decorate the landscape.
Spring awakens us.

Wind sweeps through treetops
And brings a pleasant green warmth
Across the landscape.

Haiku: Spring

Orion slips down,

Now below the horizon,

While Leo rises.

Trees stretch t'ward sunlight.

Branches sprout bud and flower,

Shed their winter grey.

The softening wind

Reassures our numbed senses

That winter is over.

* * * * *

Haiku: Conversation

Our eyes meet. Silent

Words pass between us. We need

No conversation.
* * * * *

Haiku: Annoyance

Lying in the grass
Gazing up at starlight. Then--
Oh no, mosquitos!
* * * * *
You know, that blog?

Haiku: Happiness

Sunlight, morning dew,
Warbler sings the day's first song,
Spring flowers break ground.
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(Late addition:)

Eudomonia:
Aristotelianist
word for HAPPINESS.

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