The Thorn From My Flesh -

 

 

People see my thorns,

Thinking they're icons,

Of my hate and spite -

But in my reality they,

Are awkward prayers,

Cast in darkest fears,

For grace and mercy.

 

                 ~ Tiwago

Gamera

 

 

 

 

I walk upon a spinning turtle -

Dizzy from its centripetalness.

I fall upon the green carapace,

And hold on with all my might,

To the stems of life around me.

Closing eyes, I face the light -

Freeing my mind to soar far away.

Until I fly too close to the sun.

 

~ Tiwago

Turkey Vulture

on a cartoon birch /

a cartoon silhouette /

the hunched perch /

a silent shibboleth

 

~ Tiwago

 

 

 

In The Woods -

 

 

 

woodland floor 

like a leopard 

patterns shift 

softly dappled 

eyes want more

 

      ~ Tiwago

A Dirty Poem -

trees' past glories decompose /

fungal threads joined into lace /

sacred earthworms making earth

~ Tiwago

My Hand Covers Up The Sun:

 

 

The sun is such a small thing,

To make such a big difference;

While I am such a large thing,

To make so little a difference.

 

~ Tiwago

Well of Life #Haiku :

artesian flowers /

gushing up through warming earth /

the spring of blood's roots

 

~ Tiwago