Poetry Collection

Flight to the Ford

Travel, then suddenly, chaos!
The Travelers were ambushed.
Swords clashed, men fell,
The forest wept with sagging,
Dying trees.

But they could not be stopped,
Shoving onward to escape their assailants,
Heading for their destination.
No one had told them that their fallen comrades
Had already arrived there…

Causality

I tire yet get no sleep
Forevermore thinking too deep
If I lay myself down to bed
Never rising again, my head
Cause and effect, the cause past
The effect everlasting

That is causality

Man Is

(I'd post the Kanji of this Haiku, but DA won't let me type Japanese. Bah.)

Jinruishi
Mina no Unmei
Mina no Aiwa

Human History
Everyone’s Fate
Everyone’s Tragic Tale

Frost

Frost
Horrible Stuff
Frost means getting up early
To go scrape ice off of car windows
Frost means having to let my car warm up
Frost means snow tires and slipping and sliding down the road.
I hate it when there’s frost on the ground, on my car
I hate it when it’s cold enough for frost
The frost means it’s cold
I hate the cold

Call of the Sword

Can you hear it?
The call of the sword
Its blade glistening like a kagami
The hamon jagged as ishi
Can you feel that?
The gravity of it
Its power given to
The wielder

Pulled forth from the saya
A ringing of strength audible
Taking hold with both hands
The man is transformed into God

Unheard Warnings

I tried to warn them
They refused to hear
I tried to help them
They turned a deaf ear
All the king’s horses
And all the kings men
Fell down with Humpty Dumpty
Again