Six haikus of despair and six haikus of hope

jem

A silent routine
She longs for what she must lose
And we'll bathe in death

Faraway children
Palimpsest memories of
Their absent father

The wild, violent sea
Separates us; raw desire,
Our hopes, our dead dreams

Cruel November frost
Freezes the soft ground; my soft
Heart has frozen too

Vulnerable beauty
Fragile child, denied her pain
Drowns in ecstasy

Scared, abandoned children
Exhausted in a blood-red
Tempest, sink their raft

Watch her silhouette
Dance on the raw desert fire
Hypnotised by ghosts

She smiled softly, in
A sea of flowers, we kissed
And then I smiled too

Warmed by new year sun
You held my hand and my heart
For just a moment

Then we'll get quite drunk
On disgusting cheap red wine
And kiss and kiss and

Entwined, our bodies
Merge, releasing the passion
We both hide inside

Those mighty redwoods
Lived thousands of years, her smile
Shines eternally