2/28/10

Last year's leaves abound
Piles litter patio
Hockey on T.V.

Gettysburg

Too old to be excited
Too young to care
Age of boredom
We spend hours
Walk the grounds
Scour green fields
Brown trails
Scars of the earth
Long healed
Bodies blood gone
Only bits of lead
Reminders of taken lives
Illegal souvenirs

2/27/10

Lunch on Saturday
Cheeseburgers ice cream giggles
High point of my week

2/26/10

Yearly review time
Meets expectations again
Mediocrity

2/25/10

Refreshed but not clean
Freezing late winter rain storm
Wet leaves stick to shoes

2/24/10

February rain
Washing away the grass seed
Do it all again

2/23/10

Bubbles are bursting
Dish soap back yard laughing fit
Racing chasing kids

2/22/10

Two sisters fighting
Toys and tears litter the room
I need more coffee

2/21/10

Spring begins again
Tulips push through thawing ground
Buds soon tun to leaves

2/20/10

Dining with the girls
Nuggets fries and playland slide
Eat before you play

2/19/10

At the local pub
Best place in town for writing
Notebooks and beer mugs

12/18/10

Ideas slip away
Notebook pages remain blank
Make coffee instead

2/17/10

Evangelical
Homosexuality
Antidogmatic

2/16/10

Crisp green folded bills
Pull out some to pay for lunch
Who still uses cash

2/15/10

Aimless as always
Age hasn't brought direction
Wonder where I'll end

2/14/10

Whose idea was this
Stupid ass Valentine's Day
Not buying roses

2/13/10

I need to haiku
Count out all the syllables
Post it on the web

2/12/10

Improvise adapt
Overcome what lies ahead
There is nothing else

2/11/10

Frozen to faces
Snow filled beards and soggy scarves
Winter is angry

2/10/10

Red ripe hangs heavy
Vine to hand to waiting mouth
Juicy seeds stain chin

2/9/10

Black interrupts white
Both sing out strong hold long notes
Eighty eight teeth gleam

2/8/10

Sometimes it's sideways
Agitated and obsessed
Stolen and broken

2/7/10

Underneath the bed
Behind open closet door
Monsters are hiding

2/6/10

Blood drips pricked thumb tip
Push into bulletin board
Useless papers held

2/5/10

Bonded through bloodshed
On South Pacific beach fronts
Never forgetting

2/4/10

Wave rises overhead
Final breath escapes
Death turns retreating

2/3/10

White winged swan floats on
Early morning empty lake
Lifts, flies north alone

2/2/10

Timing of Spring blooms
melting snows moisten hard earth
summer being born