Somehow I knew his mask was porcelain –impossible to hide the soul’s lightreflected in troubled eyes… I played along though,humoured his self-deceptionnodded at assertions of calm Knew that one day the facade would crackthe mask would slip and the rage escape Why I didn’t run; I do not knowMaybe it was recognition –my own countenance […]
Wrapped in reptilian attire, changeclimbs aboard my well-intentioned schemelike a boa constrictor – disarming me I am more inconvenienced than repulsed –after all, snake is my power animal,Or so the seer said…many years ago Days when I would wear the scalycomportment of power – invitetransformation- my essence a seeker But I am trying to settle […]
Met a bear who proclaimed himself to be a man;knew the instant I spotted him – lumberinggait approaching – that he was an animal,feared for my safety, would have retreated stayed at my mother’s side – sheltered infamiliarity – were I not so fixated on hisblatant woundedness. Sympathy blindingsensibility, i listened, hypnotized by the whiteness […]
I love both your sunbeam photograph and haiku! They evoke such a feeling of hope for good days to come.
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Thanks Liz. Can’t be far off now.
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Oh darn!
I missed this one 🙂
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Never too late to join in.
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Lovely sentiment and photo. Spring will surely come! 🙂
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I’m ready, but the weather station has just issued another snowstorm watch. Thanks Tanja.
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This, too, shall pass!
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Or it found you 🙂
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Lol. Yes. It definitely drew me out of the house.
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