Three Haikus for Hiroshima

Sunny morning gone,

firestorm sky raining black

on Hiroshima.

Summer night lanterns

on Motoyasu River ...

spirits of the dead.

Child fingers folding

rainbow squares of peace and hope,

cranes for Sadako.

                         

                                                                   

                                                                 

Big Mistake

 Mistakes are made

most every day

and all the days thereafter

but the biggest mistake

we often make

is the hardest one to master.

When we open the doors

to our brain

inviting guilt right in

it gnaws upon

our troubled minds

and dines on our thinking.

The holes it leaves

are ripe and primed

to fill with scorn 

and blaming,

those scarring webs

that block our way

to growth

and self-realising.

(Painting by a very young Emma Dean)

Waterfall Way Haikus

Atop a ridge,

 tuned by nature's hand

rock drums to play.