Memories of Metal Shop 

Sitting
Tall stool
Metal table
Vice gripping
My victim
Bending
Shaving
Scraping
Demanding
It fit into
My will.

Resistance
Solid
We find
Detente,
This soul
Longing
For the
Trees

Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct: A Haiku

Concrete broken to dust

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Tonight’s Haiku: Remembering You

On the edge of dreams
I can see your eyes, briefly
Sadly, time’s mists win

Leaves upon the ground

Leaves upon the ground

Echos of summer fading

Memories remain

Sunday Morning, June 3, 2018

Now I’m awake

The cool air

Through my window

Very welcome

Reminders of

Times along

The coast

Blessed sea breeze

Lacking the scent

Of the sea

No ocean crushing

Sound for my ears

An incompleteness

That my soul

Longs to complete

Memories Unbidden 

Edvard Munch's
Edvard Munch’s “Melancholy”

Memories come
Unbidden

Ghosts of my youth
Painful moments

Choices I’ve made
But not understood

There’s wisdom there
Not just misery

Forgive the boy
That I was

And see inside
My heart

Now I understand
My internalized mind

Echoes of fears and failures
This early spring morn

Daytime Memories

Sunlight has climbed out
The forces of daytime surge
Hints of blessed nights

 

 

An evening walk

As the darkness falls
Light echoing the day’s joy
Fading to slumber