Thusly, the raindrop

each falling raindrop
makes its
own
small
splash

The Silence

sunlight reaches
- a sleeper just at dawn
and the world awakes
ever so
reluctantly

An old graveyard

he pauses
and in silence prays
before the gates
of an old graveyard
as a cloud passses

Harvest Moon

in the moonlight
they bend their backs
to harvest what they can
from refuse cans and street trash
harvest moon

A Tanka for Christina

who has seen the wind
trapped by the branches
of an old oak tree
resisting its capture
so valiantly?

A tanka for Neil Armstrong - of Ohio & the world

that young man
from Ohio
his one small step
was a giant leap
forward

before & after

when we where not here
a whole world went about
its business
when we leave here
it will as well