National Poetry Month: Haiku Psyche-Coup

Here is my psyche-u-Haiku. The first six Haiku poems are in the rhythm of 5-7-5 syllables, totaling 17 syllables per poem. The second set of six Haiku poems are in the rhythm of 3-5-3 syllables, totaling 11 syllables.

If you'd like to sing my Haiku poems to your original music. Feel free to compose. Of course, these poems are copyright by me, Anne Hart. But you're welcome to at no cost to me set these lyrics to your own music and play it anywhere, as long as you acknowledge credit for these lyrics to me, Anne Hart.

Then again, if you don't compose or play music, or translate lyrics, enjoy reading the poems. Music is a healing tool as is rhythm, and the creation of these Haiku poems is a form of meditation, at least for me as an author. On the other hand, it makes use of my master's degree in creative writing emphasizing poetry, plays, and fiction, that I finally have made use of after all these long decades. At last, a therapeutic, healing application of creative writing here...so enjoy as ambient music plays in the background.

PSYCHE-U-HAIKU In 5 7 5 = 17 syllables

copyright by Anne Hart

MAGICAL THINKING

1. I will choose someone

Who will not be there for me...

Reasons of the past.

2. Give me connection.

Not until you get a break--

Our confirmation.

3. Magical thinking

I am as I am treated--

Strategies arise.

4. Work will become stuck.

I shall not be reassured--

Malnourished body.

5. The will may be strong.

An expression of the self--

Redeem the other.

6. Odiferous goals.

Distress of disconnection--

Search reassurance.

HAIKU In 3 5 3 = 11 syllables

Tapestries

1. TAPESTRIES ON THE WALLS OF BANKS

I wove with bamboo

Wilt in banks.

2. Sob-shocked drums

Blazing artisans

Belly dance.

3. Dog lifts pup

Gnawed from newborn's cord

Web of blood.

4. Chocolate

Joy but waits its turn,

Bittersweet.

5. The sage grows

A gray skin of stones,

Forgiveness.

6. Rainforest,

Shy sneaker's trance dance

Boomerangs.