TV

Watching Food Network made me think of this. 

Food makes me hungry
Food Network shows all kinds.
Loves watching all shows.

Friendship

After spending an enjoyable evening with my best friend, this poem came to me. 

Joyous times are few
Friendships blossoming tonight
Love makes hearts so full.

Confusion

A lot has happened over the last couple of days and I have thoughts running through my head, trying to sort things out. I've also been in a Haiku mood (I think because my students are writing them). 

So many feelings
So many thoughts unspoken.
Hoping they'll resolve.

For yesterday

So I had a very late rehearsal yesterday which prevented me from posting my poem. Here it is: 

A Journey
Fast confusing thoughts
Running through my head always
Where will I end up?

Disappointment

This little haiku was written after a crushing disappointment at work. 

Disappointment rips
Ripping my soul into shards
Neverending pain.

Tolling Bells

I found an old design journal of mine and I reread it. This is the poem that came from it. 

Tolling Bells

Tension mounts slowly.

The disappointment in

Your eyes pierces

Me worse then

Any knife blade.

I know what

You want from

Me but I’m

Unable to deliver.

It’s draining me.

I can take

Anger, I can

Take yelling, but

It’s your silence

That cuts me

To the core.

Stoic and Sphinx-like

You stare at

Me, gaze unwavering.

Your mouth is

A hard line.

Gone is the

Warmth and laughs

You’ve shown me.

Instead, it is

Now cold indifference

That I face.

The bells that

Toll In Memoriam

Of our beloved

Department Chair have

Changed the very

Air between us.

Gone is the

Mutual joking, smiles

And general friendliness.

Instead, it’s replaced

By great tension.

Your beautiful choreography

Is marred by

My horrid sound.

Although I push

Myself, I know

You’ll never be

Satisfied with my

Work. Even still,

Because I look

Up to you,

I will continue

To work and

Try to match

Your vision perfectly.

It’s all that

I can do.  

Secrets

Like all of my poems, this one has a great deal of meaning. This was written out of anger when someone I thought I could trust betrayed it. Always a great feeling. But, on the plus side, I did get a pretty good poem out of it, so it's not all bad. 

A secret revealed
Confidence broken
Trust unmoored
Words left unspoken.

Let go of the anger
Or hide the pain.
When the pain stops,
Do scars remain?