Global Haiku • January 2016
Dr. Randy Brooks

Creative Freedom

by
Alizarin Salmi

I live a crazy, beautiful, ordinary, spectacularly-amazing life. This collection of haiku highlights all aspects of my life, the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the broken. I write haiku based on my memories, feelings, thoughts, and experiences. The beauty in haiku is that the author is given creative freedom. It is my hope that these poems enlighten you, and light a fire in you to go out and create beauty in the world.

she sips red wine
from a long-stem glass—
emerald eyes glimmering

dry wildflowers
sway gently
beside the broken gate

she walks along
the moonlit path
daisies in her hair

wooden dock
her toes skim the water—
a lone wolf howls

sweltering summer night
their clothes
remain on the shore

Autumn evening in the valley—
they drink
in the starry sky

moonlight
illuminates her skin—
his fingertips trace her spine

two-year anniversary dinner,
black velvet box!
. . . earrings again

full dinner table
thump, thump
the dog's tail below us

empty wine bottles—
robust laughter
echoes through the cabin

muddy prints across the carpet . . .
the yellow lab
is dipped in chocolate

October sunset—
pastel colors swirl
in the tide pools

the little girl crawls
under the wooden fence
whinnies greet her

lightning
illuminates the room—
the baby sleeps peacefully

through the birch forest,
a wooden table draped in lace—
picnic for two

horse breath
warm on my hands
the smell of fresh-cut hay

a young life
taken too soon—
the blood moon rises again

she walks
to the weather-worn pasture gate
apples in hand