Half past three

When work is over for the day
and sun’s still shining bright
A part of me looks forward to
the beach, soon in my sight
The breeze that blows in from the sea
though warm will cool me down
Contentment overwhelms me
and joy replaces frown

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Meanings

your words held their breath
as tight as an intrepid bud

Word’s Worth

What these words are worth
To those without eyes to read
Or chips in heads binaring what pens bleed?
Take time before it melts
To look,
To see,
To listen,
To hear
All the tiny things the earth
Wants
Unveiled
Record them, Poet!

I’m everything

I’m dancing. I’m rhythm
I’m words on a page
I’m pen and I’m words
from a poet and sage

Joy Abounding

Collapsed into my garden chair
Melancholy wrapped my heart
I cried out: Life’s unfair!
But, gray despair would not depart

More than sunshine met me there
Warmth flooded the depths of my soul
Sadness ran as did every care
Rays of Love’s Light made me whole

Free

Today I found freedom
and went for a run
in Simon’s Field, Faygate
with frolics and fun

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HAIKU: SHE ALWAYS MELTS MY HEART

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I Look In Her Eyes

Yellow II (revisited)

2 of 6 in the Jemverse ‘Yellow” series

Yellow things are mostly there
to serve as a reminder
the fact that summer’s almost here
and is going to be a blinder!

There’s yellow in those daffodils
that arrive in early Spring
and yellow in that forsythia
with all the joy it brings.

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By Charles Robert Lindholm

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Christmas Joy

CHRISTMAS HAIKU: YOU KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS

By Charles Robert Lindholm

You Know It’s Christmas

A soliloquy for Christmas

A soliloquy for Christmas
with a little introspection
Thinking of the year that’s been
in pensive contemplation
And looking forward to the next
anticipation growing
For all the promise that’s in store
A smile, as I’ve the knowing

HAIKU: THE BEST HOLIDAY

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Children At Christmas

MY CHRISTMAS WISH – 2017

MY CHRISTMAS WISH
By Charles Robert Lindholm

As I make my wishes for Christmas 2017 – the best gift after a wish for world peace and the love of my soulmate and family is for a lifetime of friendship with you!!!

WISHING YOU THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL  –  SPENDING CHRISTMAS WITH THE ONES YOU LOVE

HAIKU: THE FIRST CHRISTMAS SONG

By Charles Robert Lindholm

The First Christmas Song

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I WAIT FOR THE NEW DAY

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Each morning
I sit and watch
the Eastern horizon
start to glow 

with the tiniest
sliver of light

Ode to Postman

No beard, no red fur
A smile of the moon

No cap, no sledge

Come hopping rockets

Snapshot

Once more I am waiting
on a station, it’s dark
It’s been a long day
and I was up with the lark

AUTUMN

By Charles Robert Lindholm

the change is so obvious, so dramatic
leaves changing color
bird’s flying south
the chill in the air 

The red

I stopped, reduced to tears
when the red before me lay
Tear of joy for splendour
shown to me upon this day

Walking down an avenue
trees on either side
Then this, the most spectacular
to leave me misty-eyed

THE CADENCE OF MY HEART

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I lie alone in bed
with words
and rhymes
and rhythms
beating
in my head 

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By Charles Robert Lindholm 

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Morning Meditation

Wind whips indiscriminately

Fullness of Joy

A stream flows freely from my heart;
It cannot be stopped—
Laughing, trickling, gurgling, bubbling,
Over weed and rock.

The beauty of language

I’m happy when writing
It fills me with joy
and it’s done this for ages
(since I was a boy)
I’ve written most days
sometimes just a few lines
to capture the years
the moments and times

HAIKU: MYSTERY OF LIFE

 

By Charles Robert Lindholm

 

Mystery of life