10/28/2004
happy trees
dance and sway
in the joyful wind.
leapfrog leapfrog
hopping down the way
where is he going?
i cannot say.
but he hops
and he hops
hopscotching all the day
until he tires of hopping
and then hops home to stay.
10/29/2004
serpentine likeness
a body of shedding flesh
a mouth of smooth pink cotton
and the eyes of such predators
engulf the living whole
after its own touch of venom
slowly digesting the corpse
over an agonizing week
comprising a painful acidic death
its rattle should have whispered it
your mind should have decoded it:
warning you of its guise.
9/20/2006
may i go blind
and miss the sun
may i go deaf
and live in silence
may i be mute
my tongue limp and useless
may i never smell
another aroma of Christmas
but may i lose your love
then please
take my eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and fingers
with you
without you
they can only sense the darkness
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| Photo courtesy of Melanie Doi |
i remember crayons
little fingers grasping tight to its
cerulean body
splashing the white paper with color
that only he could give it.
i recall sunshine
red tricycles glowing from its light
making it the greatest in all the world
the fastest in all the earth
more beautiful than all diamonds
i danced with a thousand fairies
flew with a thousand hawks
saw a thousand circuses
and laughed at a thousand jokes
i spoke a thousand languages
wrote a thousand books
i saw a thousand wonders
that no one else could see
i lived a thousand adventures in every memory.
i could have kept going
but alas growing up took a hold of me and i forgot
as you did.
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| Photo courtesy of Melanie Doi |
You are a beautiful writer, and your daughters are so pretty :)
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