Short and Oriental Poems

SHORT AND ORIENTAL POEMS

Goldfish swim with fins.
Butterflies have fragile wings.
Must hands be tigers?

Starlings black in trees.
Sound of rain on yellow leaves.
Thus summer recedes.

Blossoms color boughs.
Voices of women are stilled.
Perfume drifts slowly.

Love is a thing of evening,
of cricket voices,
and the silent holding of hands.

A stone thrown hard 
displaces no more water 
than that same stone dropped. 

Taillights diminish to dots 
in the evening darkness. 
She’s gone
and crickets chirp sadly.

SEMINAR

Slowly the door
and the ticking clock
turn into crouched tigers
prepared to spring.

CHRISTMAS CARD

Out from the stove the white smoke twirls
and curls around a frozen world.