A Love Story in Haiku

 

 

Clad in winks and smiles

Adorned with leather and spice

Towered deferred dreams

 

A golden promise

A flash, faux pearls and diamonds

Melody of hope

 

Belief was the rule

The glow blinded the reasons

We held onto faith

 

We drowned the whispers

We squashed the emergent pain

Our truth was the rule

 

But tears dull the shine

We once held hope now hold dust

Screams supplant the dreams

 

Wishes fool the heart

            We ran to what fought the hurt

                        Hurt had no defense

                       

By Terry Lynn Armstead

Copyright TLA 4/3/2015

Common Chaos

Everyone remembers the shot

We stood on front porches

Arms folded

Peering across and down and up our avenue

We were not ashamed

We knew the ritual

The festival of neighborhoods began

Conversation muted but steady

(This is just a working poem from a working short story; this is totally unorganized)

4/4/4015

Red Stairs

Stairs

Rising, reaching, joining

Sky

Blue, calling, naming

Earth

Brown, deep, warm

Home, black, family

Welcome

Copyright TLA 4/5/2015