MY POETRY FOR FEBRUARY ~ NATIONAL HAIKU WRITING MONTH ~

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undone by sunsets | destiny calls us home | down a winding red road

with soul freed he rides | winter winds journeying home | to the other side

flowers for the dead | cheer the living with beauty | their message, live

boy swings in hammock | too rainy outside to play | brings the wind inside

we awaken spirits | with our everyday dance | then stop - acknowledge

down this street | the sun playing hide-and-seek | a whole world happens

scarlet flamingos | unfurling ruddy feathers | kissed by sunset

prickly pear heart | your center is the best part | past the thorns there’s mad love

mythical ones speak in tongues | forever tattoos on rock | faces that tell us

I miss you dark haired | lost to moonlight and stars | still afire

gaps in memory | jelled realities floating | timed out synapses

a cloak of distance | enfolds you but cannot hide | your light shining through

time and water | liquid that freezes or flows | rivers we go down

you are my other | me seen clear in your black eyes | twin souls divided

pounded gold for the fifth sun | silver strung for moon | offerings to god

earth’s broken rudder | twisted axel to the core | righted by the stars

if the poets were to stop | writing with their hearts | there would be chaos

morphing metaphors | to sooth our life’s obsessions | beauty can’t be beat

colonial snare | forced vision’s epicenter | everything crumbles

purple-red rimmed rock | calls from winter deep canyons | in your own soft voice

a conger woman | turned the color of sun, maiz | flesh offerings


©Odilia Galván Rodríguez, 2011