Donald Kolberg Studio
POETRY
Haiku
Haiku (plural haiku) is a very short form of Japanese poetry. Modern Japanese haiku are increasingly unlikely to follow the tradition of 17 syllables or to take nature as their subject, but the use of juxtaposition continues to be honored in both traditional and modern haiku. I am just a student of this form and hope you find what I've written to be understandable
Each brushstroke shimmers
With the pigment of my soul
A rainy morning
Trees shivering cold,
branches so full of despair.
Fingers ache with age.
As tree bark peels back
it reveals a growing skin
wrinkled hands still soft
the moon hides in clouds
playing peek a boo with night
age fades in time
a train whistle cries
moaning in the silent night
our dreams wake us
Leaves as dry as dust
Crumble and drop from branches
So many lives gone
Stones in the river,
Gently pushed by the current,
I watch and grow old
the moon walks the sky
thick fat light busting its seams
reflections of life