Dream Land Poem 22/Hour 22
Dream Land -Haiku
By: LuvMiFreely
It’s almost over
Just 2 more hours to go
Sleep is calling me
#22
I knew what I had to do so I put on my dancing shoes and I danced the night away.
Hour 16 ( Love Deep)
The deep rolling waters
are attracted by the sunshine
a state where love never dies
Copyright(c)2022 Roxann Lawrence
Subbing in America through Haiku: Hour 22
Performing in front of parents is a collective moment of shared humiliation. The umbilical cord connecting them to their parents weakens a little under the harsh stage lights that bleach their eye sockets and inextricably and tightly binds them into a group.
dangling astronauts
grasping for the escape hatch
just to stay afloat
Hour 22: who’s the monster
i watch you,
hawk-eyed
though it is you
who’re preying
on my misery
i watch you
when i turn
this way or that
somehow
you’re always
in my field of vision
throwing
your head back
and laughing
at some silly
joke SHE’s told you
and i see
the vein
in your neck throb
my skin’s gone cold
mouth’s dry
you’ve forgotten
so easily?
which side of you
do i believe?
the one that
calls me
in secret
affirming
our bond?
or the hand that’s
clutching HERS
now?
it’s over, the spring
leaves, proud
in their green
tenderness,
say smugly to me
and something shardy
hurts so deep
i bleed
and my skin
erupts
the doctor’s verdict:
lichens planus
likely cause: extreme
emotional stress
Crash 2
Upside down in metal origami
spiderwebbed windshield
roof smashed to almost top of head level
seatbelt preventing neck fracture
as far as I know
daring to squirm
risking the hangman
it was all going so well
I don’t even remember how it happened
there was a brief moment
where I felt like I was floating.
Hour 22: Tested
They stood at the kitchen window
and absent-mindedly
tested the tenderness,
pushing a burly
farm-tested thumb
through the skin
of the overripe avocado,
then went on watching
the crows scatter
newly planted seeds
in the dewy morning light
I Can Make It, I Know I Can
I Can Make It, I Know I Can
I
can make it. At first there was doubt.
And now, I know I can do it.
No fear, for once you get started.
More than a push but now it is done.
A tall task it was, but it was fun.
Key to success
enjoy the ride.
It’s only as hard as you make it.
Truth is, “It’s extremely hard.”
I
know how this sounds and I do
not want to dissuade you.
Only want you to experience
what I just did and feel it.
I
can tell you honestly
and without exaggeration
never doubt your ability to adapt.
Hour twenty two, 6 am
I Can Make It, I Know I Can
(form Acrostic/Drabble)
Charlie the Mayfly.
v.j.calone