why desperate haste
at desperate enterprise
winter hurries not
I do not keep pace
with my companions hearing
different drummers
soldiers keep cadence
that civilians cannot force
spring’s early entrance
Hurry
17 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
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E. L. E. Act 5
16 Jul 2012 2 Comments
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
for now we gather
what we can and await sun’s
return warming soil
nurturing life when
the ice recedes and life’s wheel
turns toward spring’s rebirth
E. L. E. – Act 4
15 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
not this day nor next
would our second chance arrive
to begin again
and that new life would
bear only small resemblance
to what came before
E. L. E. – Act 3
14 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
we’d collected long
species plants animals seeds
prepared to reseed
earth when the ice passed
clouds parted and sun returned
abetting nature
E. L. E – Act 2
13 Jul 2012 1 Comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
assignment simple
as continents fell to ice
seek out the living
before the steady
march of ice destroyed all who’d
ignored our warnings
E.L.E. — Act 1
12 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
the ice was creeping
down over the land we flew
across leaden skies
seeking signs of life
upon the barren landscape
nature yielded naught
duel nature
10 Jul 2012 1 Comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry, Uncategorized
one by one they come
stepping cadence through dreams dark
mists hiding from day
we all aspire to
obi-wan’s wisdom luke’s light
but vader lurks deep
face the darkness own
its embrace that dark self the
balance of our self
Yin & Yang
09 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
fleeing fast as rays
of light half seen half felt half
heard wisps in flight from
that despoiled lessons
finally learned freedom light
beauty within sight
fleeing ominous
shafts of ecliptic darkness
half seen half felt half
heard pitiable
remnants racing below to
that despoiled lessons
still unlearned beauty
life deserted left behind
without a care
rays of light fleeing
up dark shafts racing downward
supreme encounter
imminent outcome
irrelevant life lost in
pursuit of life loses not
life lost in pursuit
of belial lost before
it ever began
Serendipity
08 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
on a day like any other
but running late – something I
never do – going by
plane instead of train – something
I could not afford to do – on a day
I really would have liked to stay
I met a man who missed
his plane and was in the line
next to mine
how very polite we were – each
of us to the other
discussing all the little
mundane, inane things as
strangers are want
to do – hiding the thoughts deep
in our minds – thoughts that
could turn an ocean to steam
Amidst Clouds
07 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, haiku, Poetry
have you ever stared
at the moon till nothing else
existed and ’twas
so large and so near
you felt you could reach out and
touch her very face
have you ever gazed
up at the clouds
and felt as if you could cup
their soft whiteness
have you ever seen
stars on desert nights
felt like you could soar
surely there amidst
heavens’ vast expanse find truths
not found here on earth
Perle Champion 