Category: Haiku

Longing

Saying our goodbyes From the moment we first met How our lives go fast While I didn’t count You grew beyond my hand’s reach Just living does that We hold hands to sleep A howling wind topples trees We are dreaming still We live forever In memories and friendship You are always mine Every day … Continue reading “Longing”

Saying our goodbyes
From the moment we first met
How our lives go fast

While I didn’t count
You grew beyond my hand’s reach
Just living does that

We hold hands to sleep
A howling wind topples trees
We are dreaming still

We live forever
In memories and friendship
You are always mine

Every day my heart
Carves a path to memory
You come in again

 

Skiing with Arthritis

Not content to watch. My downhill days are numbered. I’ll fly while I can.     Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

Not content to watch.
My downhill days are numbered.
I’ll fly while I can.

 

 

Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

Writing poetry

Know how to be still Inspiration will find you When you least expect       Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

Know how to be still
Inspiration will find you
When you least expect

 

 

 

Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

First Grade

When you learn to read The world is an open book And you are the words       Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

When you learn to read
The world is an open book
And you are the words

 

 

 

Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

Late February

Like birds, you rejoice When crocuses come to ground Yellow world erupts       Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

Like birds, you rejoice
When crocuses come to ground
Yellow world erupts

 

 

 

Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

For Judy

We live forever In memories and friendship You are always mine     Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

We live forever
In memories and friendship
You are always mine

 

 

Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

With Ian

We hold hands to sleep A howling wind topples trees We are dreaming still       Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

We hold hands to sleep
A howling wind topples trees
We are dreaming still

 

 

 

Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

Daylight Savings Time

I type like the rain Insistent in its pouring A sleepy world rests       Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

I type like the rain
Insistent in its pouring
A sleepy world rests

 

 

 

Key words: Janice Lynch Schuster, haiku

Mom

Her voice sounds like home No matter what she tells me Her words take me there

Her voice sounds like home
No matter what she tells me
Her words take me there