Haiku 8 Poem by Mark Heathcote

I knotted my face- and
Squashed it close to a window
As the world went by

I drifted like a cloud
Hoped one day the sun would shine
Obstacle- rainbows

I chose one moment
It passed me by so quickly
Life in the slow lane

I saw two dog suns
Consecutive years running
Soon there'll not be one

I found friendship once
Where it went I've forgotten
Companionship none

Even fish must talk
And decipher the silence
Like a heron pause


God, has a language
That has only one dialect
Yet, none can speak it

Pass the salt of life
And the chilly of passion
Love is on ration


1.
His heart an ocean
moist lips now refreshed—kiss Him
drink the world expands

2.
swallows head home south
the rice fields have been harvest
koi fish - good to eat

3.
gold mountain monkeys
survive winter on lichens
dead trees long provide

4.
moss hugs the stonewalls
wintertime mimicking snow-
covered parking lots

5.
wild yak butter is
rubbed-on prayer flagpoles
journeys end comes soon


6.
mantras are loud sung!
the Thunder looks on circles
the fox and the bear

7
the mandarin duck
paired for a lifetime are they
shadow and mountain

8
I knotted my face
squashed it against a window
and the world went by

9
I chose one moment
it passed me by so quickly
life in the slow lane

10
lightning steals the show
orchestrates a brief nocturne
fervent pianist


summer lightning
orchestrates a nocturne-
fervent pianist

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snow mimicking
-mossy gravestones
parking lots

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shuttlecock racket
pairing for a lifetime
mandarin ducks