I was trying to think of where my haiku were hidden and finally found some in a notebook. I think the others must have been on Alex’s computer when we formatted the hard-drive. I went to bed at 3:30AM and woke up when Mom called me at 11:30AM. She wanted to go to town, so we went out despite my upset stomach. I feel really nauseous today, just took Pepto to try and calm everything down.
I am posting haiku partially because I love the form and partially on account of Loach’s suggestion:
Rain water pours down
Like my strong desperation
Causing growing pains.
April here again
The time I long called love
But shadows now blight.
Sun rises, shadows
Fall to ground graying darkness
But the light conquers.
Confidence I need
So I can stand strong once more
But my faith narrows.
Did you really know
Who you held tightly in arms
Before you said bye?
©April 24, 1997
The trees are bare now
Like the circle of my arms,
Winter continues.
Bright days are coming
When beautiful flowers bloom
Spring-time beckons us.
Limbs like skeletons
Reach toward the clear blue sky
Winter is waning.
The cold is biting
Like old memories hidden
Yet not forgotten.
Anger burns like fire
Eating at one’s inner parts
Until the harm mends.
Sons grow fast as grass
Surpassing our daily dreams,
Finally leaving.
Old age is not kind
Leaving one brittle, broken,
Winter wasted trees.
Dawn breaks upon us
Awakening out senses,
Soft roses open.
When we are happy
Sunlight streams bright over us
We know Spring will come.
©March 8, 2002
Dreaming once again
Days when warmth finally comes
Spring rains down on us.
Rising from the grave
Of dreary Winter dark days
Spring beckons flowers.
On Easter morning
The Savior new arisen
Wakes His creation.
©April 15, 2003
Smiles light the sweet eyes
Of our much blessed children
Sun lit blossoms bloom.
Gray skies like Winter
Still hold windy mighty sway
Trees like us then bend.
©March 19, 2005
Jo Ann J. A. Jordan
I am sure there are more of these around here. I will keep an eye out for them when I am puttering around. I think Alex has floppies with all my content that was on his computer so I may reload them onto his computer and transfer them to CD so my computer can read them. I do not have a floppy drive which is unfortunate sometimes.
I found these in my notebook too:
Spring Arrives
The cold gray of Winter
Fades gradually away
Blue taking over the canopy
Green surging forth
In places where bleak skeletal
Branches only recent were seen.
All life seems to cry
Come out join the festival
Death is only a season
Be revived in joy
Awaken and arise
Blush and welcome surprise.
©April 24,1997
Jo Ann J. A. Jordan
Glow
Carry the glow
Of light within
You even when
The world sore forsakes
All your hopes and dreams.
Let it nourish you
And those who round you
Are sinking into
Deep waters of despair
You will have well done.
Upon your life
Sweet grace and love
Will then abound
And you live to see
The victory no test can confound.
©April 23, 1997
Jo Ann J. A. Jordan
I thank Loach for encouraging me to find the haiku and so discover these forgotten poems. Pretty cool for me.
Hope you have a wonderful Saturday!
Smiles,
Jo Ann
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