Persona Poetry

I'll leave it up to you to guess the Persona I'm using here.

1. Reliability

Turn on my keys
And fire me up

We’ll go places
And do things

We’ll go to work
and when the day is done

I’ll see you get home.

2. Speed

Let me sit in an empty parking lot
at night when the dusk conceals us.

I can be your vessel,
your mobile island shelter.

Be gentle with your passenger,
She is new, pure and sweet.

Please tomorrow,
Won’t you clean my seats?

3. Insurance

How dare you, you
insolent ignorant fuck.

Turn the wheel
Guide me true.

Save me now
from the destruction.

It’s all to late in these last seconds,
In the instance we shall part.

Tanka Poetry

1
Dim lights,
in an old bar.
Days last light-
fading as the
flies congregate.

2
To the woman,
her arms and ample chest covered
in indigo tattoos-
My friend is in love,
with your art.

3
In the chilled night,
a hint of spring blows-
through the dying city.
The absence of people
tells all.

4
Driving with the windows down:
The air rushing in
Complements the radio.
Erasing all fears of dulled senses-
Passing by a cop: all breath ceases.

5
A piss before bed,
Long lasting relief
in the steady golden stream:
the spoils of battles won
and foes of the evening passed.

Haibun 9

Removed...

Haibun 7

This Haibun has been removed for submission to Contemporary Haibun.

Haibun 6

This Haibun has been removed for submission to Contemporary Haibun.

Haiku 13 (Gift Haiku)

This poem was written as a gift to a Native American Healer that came to my poetry class a few weeks ago. I felt a little awkward about it because everybody else had neat printed copies or cards whereas I had to rip mine out of my notebook and forgot to put my name on it. I hope that he enjoyed it never the less, I actually spent a lot of time and care working on it.

Lift my spirits high,
Send me your gracious insights-
fly away on wings

Haiku 11

Iris in the sky
outline the wide universe-
in your basking glow.