Understanding Picasso

Eyes unfocussed after love,
I gaze at your face next to mine.
Your features distorted by closeness,
exhaustion.

Falling asleep I dream of Picassos.

Urban haiku

Over on One Deep Breath, this weeks prompt is to write an urban haiku. This one has been writing itself all day:

dancing at goth club

make up and glamorous clothes

somewhere to belong

Fragment

You’re overdressed for recycling
in your long flowing skirt and stilettos,
smashing bottles from last night’s wild party

while in my sensible shoes I feed the paper bank
with ripped up shreds of poems
that could be about you


but thankfully aren’t.

previously published in Poetry Scotland.

Haiku - Journeys

The challenge on One Deep Breath this week is to write a haiku on Journeys. This is mine:

mist shrouded pathway

no signposts, no landmarks

- into the unknown