Showing posts with label 1974. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1974. Show all posts

Friday, April 18, 2014

Highschool Haiku



Transformed
The snow comes and makes
The gray winter beautiful
But how about me?

Ephemeral
Am I to be like
A vanishing mist or will
You remember me


~Kathie (September 26, 1974)


Though it's National Poetry Month I have not had much time to write new poems. So, I thought I would celebrate the rest of this month by posting some poems from my past. A kind friend informed me that yesterday was National Haiku Poetry Day and amazingly I found these while searching for something else in a box in my basement. I wrote them when I was a teen but they still seem relevant today. I hope you enjoy them and get inspired to write some of your own!

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Memories

(Plaster sculpture by Kathie 1998)

Memories are shadows that cling to your thoughts,
Memories are ghosts that know no time,
Haunting you day and night.
Memories are clouds that block out the sun,
The fog in the morning,
The mist on the lake.
Memories are the wind, rushing in,
Disturbing the cobwebs
And rushing out again.
Memories are a never ending record,
Repeating, repeating,
Teasing, laughing, convicting,
An endless echo of times gone by.




~Kathie (11-7-74)