PARALLEL POEMS

Poetry found by combining things – two tracks sometimes almost meeting, sometimes forking

  1. Home
  2. Haiku
  3. 2018
  4. April 2018
  • Home
  • Published
      • Back
      • Books
  • Haiku
      • Back
      • 2023
      • 2022
      • 2021
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012
      • 2011
  • Haibun
  • Sequences
  • Backroom
Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

mealed-with-flesh
from man-mold made
man-mould mound


Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

a universe
wholly cosmetic
(who knows how?)


Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

nothing's said hot
lest it be dreamed out
in nothing but words


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

a twitter of insignificance from the cygnet


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

a tui
chimes descant to
its shadow


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

shining cuckoo in transparent absence


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

baby booming
songs of departure
thunder light


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

unseen breeze
just as night rustles
into the earth


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

wordless tryst
the scent of crushed leaves
where we lay


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

sighs adrift
in the shadow shift
of a fontanelle


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

ebbing light—
a milk-heavy cow tastes
the last of it


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

distant storm
a door creaks open
to absence


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

haiku rubrics
red ochred hands
scale the wall


 

Details
Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2018

paschal moon
i eat what i am
to become


 

Details
Written by: Clayton Beach & Hansha Teki
Category: April 2018
  • Presence #61
  • Linked Verse

a tulip waits  
in the silence
before daylight   

a river's roar rises 
from the heart of darkness  

the yellowed keys  
of a vintage steinway  
gather dust   

songs of yesteryear 
seep through cracked windows 

a sparrow feather 
stays aloft 
in the summer sun  

barely a breath  
the stillness  
of a deer  

child lying slain  
by a father's gun  

the echo  
of an ancient tale 
now so real  

from the belly of leviathan  
he slouches toward ninevah   

sunset fire  
its hour comes round  
in the end   


Clayton Beach 
Hansha Teki


© Stephen Bailey 2011 - 2023
Back to top