**** LOVELY BLOG READERS: I’m so sorry for the haiku delay. I was being SO good at posting my haiku daily on facebook… and Instagram… and Twitter, that I forgot about the blog! I’ve just added the four days that I missed and I’ll keep it up to date from here on out! ****
You’re your own arrow
with an aim both true and high
Way to make a point
I do not know what we got ourselves into this month.
This was the hardest thing! An anagram poem.
(Curses, Linda Baie for making this look so fun and easy last month!)
Why did I find it so so so hard? OK, impossible.
But the clock’s run out of time so here goes….
a pair of anagrams per line.
Aaaaaaak!
What can I glean from the angel
at my elbow about what lies below?
What can I parse from her spare verse (that veers toward danger), what garden does she steer me through, what hooked trees
loom in stark detail?
My eyes dilate
as I gaze over the acres that scare me,
at the serpents earth presents.
But then at the bluest sky, too – not subtle,
that goodness. It cannot stifle itself,
this earth – its heart whole, like mine.
P.S. Yes, it’s my birthday. Yes, my youngest made me this birthday card. And yes, she’s a senior in school and ready to launch. My birthday will be quiet next year….