lightning cracks ripping across dark skies demanding dreamers awaken thunder rumbles stirring their hearts and imaginations there is nothing like rain in the high mountain desert droplets pouring down like a million answered prayers longings into the embrace of a parched land that has waited…

I take a deep breath and plunge Now I’m in deep with you We swim around Blissfully taking each other in I notice your skin Wrinkly and pale I look at you Asking with my eyes “How long can we survive like this?” You look…

I feel weightless while submerged The sounds in my ears are like a gentle thunder   I am free under the Shooshing water Creating ripples as I exhale small bubbles   Looking up, I see A distorted vision Of the land We call home  …

She is selecting a card, then is surrounded by the shopping carts.    

Leaves of sorrow on my way, I stop and I say to myself-where is the love? Did it run away on the wings of a dove?   And if it ran, will it come back to me? If it returns, I will embrace the sea,…

He comes along with a big smile In form that no one will whine. A look that is deceiving and worn, As if he has a heart full of thorn.   He opens his heart in thousand words But one can understood. It takes a…

dawn beckons me up eyes shifting under closed lids just five more minutes

Below the surface it was all blue and black – like the bruises I wore on my heart. The shipwreck was a magnificent nightmare – a broken home in the sea. I looked for you in the debris – like I searched for you at…

The yew tree, It’s red berries, And black seeds, Flat needles, new green; More a stunted bush than One of trunk and height, but the berry, Within the seed, contains a dark night. Bite down. It is the sweetest suicide. Emerge into the web of…

FALLS Clear waters fall From the deep blue ocean Turned down to stand Conveying love, peace and hope To couples around the globe (Tanka, 2015 @9:15 a.m.)