The Enormity of Life (writing haiku)

It starts out with this.

two lone sunflowers
bend heads over a gravestone
tall, gangly mourners

then the debate with self
mammoth, two-syllables, may be better
a truer description of plant and emotion
replace 1st 2 beats of 1st line
or 2nd two-beats of the last

frail stems fail
sun-gold petals no longer able
to gaze at the stars
wither and fall down
heads too heavy with seed
hover over
spill their shiny tears on
carefully cut gray marble

a name
a day, a month, a year
followed by
a day, a month, a year

and the dash between

a split second glance
scene, from a passenger seat
of a speeding car
(not a haiku)

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