Measured Wave Lengths

Some more haiku-formed musings, this time with "wave(s)" as syllable #5:

Rolling, tossing waves
calmed by a softening voice
pattern for the ages

Ringlets, curls in waves
wind-tossed strands across bright eyes
flirtatious protein

Rippling shimmers waves
gold to the edge, bread basket
migrant peasants dream

Star to the crowd, wave
walking the fame eternal
self adoration

Never amber waves
grainy photos black and white
myth and nostalgic

Roll in, roll out, waves
push up the strand pull full back
note of joy? Sadness?

Invisible waves
communicate essentials
twittering nuisance

And, a late addition Saturday, in honour of the snowstorm that settled in for the weekend last night:

Mid-April flurries
delicate disappointment
crystal on crystal

Heart to Heart

I was reading a poem by Carol Light; "Raynaud's Weather." The first part is prose poem, the second a series of linked haiku-formed stanzas. Since I usually work in prose, I thought some deliberate practice with haiku form might be useful, at least as a way to break out of a habit.

 So, I fixed (by what process I cannot recall--if there was a process--maybe it was just that that's how the first one went) on a series in which the fifth syllable would always be the word "heart." And away I went. 

To try, to take, heart

beat the drums loudly and lordly

say "no" nevermore

Lonely hunter, heart

less an organ, pure idea

seeking company

Matter has, needs, heart

strong nucleus, moving core

streaming particles

Lifetime measured heart

starts continues flutters stops

soars throbs sore goes out

Take it all to heart

attack root causes affect

ranges of choices

Supporting rings, heart

wood pithy prone to decay

devalues timber

Without love no heart

break without numbing heart break

no recovery

Back-slapping joy heart-

y zealous greeting betrays

fear of loneliness

Action, stasis, heart

stopping each in its own way

silence follows thumping

Home of all homes heart

land, place from, destination

radiates ways back

Drums imitate heart

throb stimulate call to arms

destroying loving