Visible

Silent now, this moment’s pause, bathed in ochre’s tinge of red,
revealing histories’ flaxen stitch, stretched through pin pricks long since bled.
Day lies still around me, ‘cross rustic echoes this past enfolds,
suspends my eye along the line where every memory’s story is told.

HAIKU: MYSTERY OF LIFE

 

By Charles Robert Lindholm

 

Mystery of life

Songs in Sand

And still the waves
slip ashore,
singing their
conspiratorial whispers
between grains of sand.
The wind slides in
from the deep,
empty places,
haunted and lonely,
cold and clean
like a wet finger around

Our Earth is Slipping

Earth is slipping,

And we are sleeping.

Plains are flooded,

The forest is gutted.

Bondage and Freedom

Life –

Aggrieved, Wretched,

Lamenting, Oppressing, Despairing, Jousting,

THE SALT MINES

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

working in the salt mines
it’s a hard and daily grind
a slave to weekly wages
it’s a life that’s so unkind 

no parties with the mighty
the famous and the rich

carefully written

i imagine our Gods
write and send
letters, notes, papers, and art
out into the universe

New Sofa

We have a new sofa
it’s lovely and green
And it is the best sofa
that we’ve ever seen

HAIKU: PAINTING MY PORTRAIT

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Colored days passing

#6 POETRY =

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Poetry =

THE DAILY RECORD

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

 

They say there is a daily record
we all make in the Book of Life
I wonder if that’s true
Some poor angel
recording all the details
of everything I do

Cups For Each Other

​down frozen teeth

come foxes from your arm

eyes cloaked in red

Therein Within My Soul

Therein Within My Soul

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Therein within my soul

Are lives and loves mislaid

With memories from long ago.

~ My Sweet

~ My Sweet

Shall I pick thee berries
one
by
one
Warm ‘neath this
Sultry sun,

~ Haiku Cyclet

~ Haiku Cyclet

I

 

Stretching, Dawn yawned

Light plays upon horizons

Sirens seeking sailors

II

#5 POETRY =

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Poetry =

That’s all

Two legs, that are columns, your roof of bone, blood, sinew,
housing your pantheon, your gods that were born from burnt meals,
falls off your bicycle, windows you leapt from, drainpipes
slid down, hearts your broke with unkind words, papers you tore
and launched off bridges you walked
in the night.

Bound By Love

Bound By Love

-Linda Lee Lyberg

My Life

I pledge to you

Wholly and completely

My heart, my soul, my love, my mind

~ Deep

Beautiful, unique Jagged pieces of

Who we are

Who we are meant to be
As life carves our existence

Respecter of none
O’Prunty

Copyright Applies

Dead Horse

Better here to cease than the knackers yard
A wild hearted beast that lived fast and died hard.

Better to have fallen than led away to be rendered
To have died on the hoof than gone lame and surrendered.

HAIKU: BE LIKE THE SNOWFLAKE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Be like the snowflake

live the life you intended

HAIKU: TRUE HAPPINESS

By Charles Robert Lindholm

MY HAIKU FOR YOU

LIFE’S TOO SHORT FOR ANYTHING

~ Flowers for Mother

Flowers for Mother

 

She picked the petals
One by one,
Tossed them ‘neath
A sultry sun,

 

A waft of wind
Carried them away;
As Mother
Received an earthly bouquet

Green Four

Seven colours, seven days
and green’s the next in line
The fourth one in the rainbow
and one that’s very fine

For it speaks to me of life itself
and the good things oft bestowed
on each of us ‘most every day
from all that nature grows

Gone Forever

Washing my laundry, I thought—
The time I have wasted.
I should have invested it

~ Haiku

Weather beaten vane

Whipping winds and metal clash

I’m Nobody! Who Are You?

I’m nobody. Who are you?
Had I never made that decision,

Sunset

Sunset

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Perhaps our paths will cross again

In another time and place

Where you and I will both lose

All sense of time and space.