we are leaves and seeds
drifting upon gentle winds
here for a time—gone.
//
love comes to us
we
are that love
//
what we re|member
of you will always be your love
a sea moving home
Category Archives: ode
poem 136/365:2016
I taught her to give birth
and her me to be a man—
enough to love her
//
mothers give birth to men
who will give them love or grief…
#bringbackourgirls
the sky is darkened
when our daughters are stolen
the future is a void
Poem 132/365:2014
casting love as shade
dancing in the wind with grace
—mothers are our trees
we are deserts without them;
loveless—a shore without sea
poem 72/365:2014
three years since the wave
cracked open Fukushima
Sakura blossom
Poem 10/365:2014 | for Imamu Amiri Baraka
your words are the sun
to a soul lost in the night
the spring of winter
I became you
when
I read you
your poems became fire
to a wild bush unconsumed
a revolution
you the idea
art
in full bloom
you have transitioned
immortalized by your art
beyond our mortal grasp
[we will miss you Abbu]
Haiku 295/365:2013 | for Zebulon
your smile warms the heart
that mourns the sun in autumn
where time turns winter
Haiku 297/365:2013 | Dawnsong to Askia
I heard the dawn’s song
sacred as our breaths give birth
to old and new souls
