Global Haiku • January 2016
Dr. Randy Brooks

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Alizarin Salmi

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


© 2016, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
All rights returned to authors upon publication.