HAIKU: SWANS ON A LAKE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Two Swans On A Lake

The breathless cygnet

Beside the Brayford Pool
in Lincoln’s city fair
Two swans swam toward me
with a cygnet following there

He was moaning as he followed
in his parents’ speedy wake
with a little voice that whimpered
“Slow down for pity’s sake”

New York City

 

painting by Richard Rensberry

If my thoughts had wings,
they’d fly to Manhattan
like doves or swans
pure white. They would
enrapture your face
with eternal smiles
and feed your laughter
the screams and shrieks
of a summer child.