Hips Don’t Lie But Your Eyes Do

I saw the

flickering flame

of

desire

burning brightly

in your eyes,

heard your heartbeat

pick up

the

pace

every time

she walked by.

You once looked

at me

that

way,

with stars

in your eyes.

Time has taken

its toll

upon

my

broken body,

but I’m still

the same inside.

Let love

reignite

ashes

of passion,

long since dead.

(A hay(na)ku is a three line poem where the only rule is that the first line is made up of one word, the second line of two words, and the third line of three words. A reverse hay(na)ku is a three line poem composed in the opposite manner, so line one would be three words, line two is two words, and line three would be just one word. During the 2019 Poetry Marathon, I combined these two styles to create what I called the “mirror hay(na)ku”. This time, I have taken things a step further with the “Hall of Mirrors Hay(na)ku”, which is composed of five separate mirror hay(na)ku stanzas.)