Osprey over pond
Sharp-eyed, wings fold and plummet
Death served with a splash
Posts Tagged ‘haiku’
Nature’s Way (Five Haiku)
Posted in Good in the End poetry collection (death and dying), tagged death and impermanence, death in nature, haiku, natural death on May 17, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Summer’s End
Posted in Good in the End poetry collection (death and dying), tagged bird migration, change of seasons, earth's tilt, fall colors, fall foliage, haiku, hospice on August 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Tilting water world
One red leaf falls to the pond
Startled geese take flight
Doing Cancer (in loving memory of Jeanne Conover)
Posted in Good in the End poetry collection (death and dying), tagged cancer treatment, haiku, hospice, hospice postwar Japan, hospital cancer ward, pancreatic cancer, poem on March 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
In the beginning, the white-frocked horseman of her apocalypse
Eyes averted, blurts she has pancreatic cancer in store
She rocks, absorbs our reeling shock then, pensive, quips
A curious “Well, I’ve never done cancer before.”
Eye of the Storm
Posted in Randoms, Rogues and Outliers, tagged Chesapeake Bay, haiku, poem, seagull, winter storm on December 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Wind wails, fraught with ice
White on gray the roiling bay
Gulls remain, silent