haiku 11/23/11

night time embraces
her chill, dark arms wrap 'round me--
i find comfort there

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senryu 11/22/11

in trouble again
no idea what i did wrong--
i'm sick of this shit

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senryu 11/21/11

there's so much talking
finding silence is so rare--
yet little gets said

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haiku 11/20/11

brown cattails swaying
beneath the barren young tree--
november twilight

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senryu 11/19/11

alone in the pool
swimming her laps back and forth--
determination

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haiku 11/18/11

poking through the earth
skeleton branches of trees--
reaching for the sky

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haiku 11/17/11

the cold evening wind
blowing through the dead, brown leaves--
sounds like summer rain

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shadorma 11/16/11

hunker down
books over your heads
so useless
so silly
pray that there's no tornado
if it hits--we're dead

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senryu 11/15/11

paralyzed by doubt
i can't make a decision--
which haystack to choose?

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senryu 11/14/11

the sun's going down
outside is yellow orange--
the meeting drones on

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senryu 11/13/11

sneak off to Auburn
spend time writing with my friends--
i still feel alone

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senryu 11/12/11

so much work to do--
i grade for many hours--
still piles left to go

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senryu 11/11/11

you keep us all safe
this is how we remember--
cheap t.v.s on sale

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senryu 11/10/11

grimly determined
she pushes on, keeps going--
her persistence rocks!

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senryu 11/09/11

disappointment stabs
worked on this for so damn long--
most can't pass the test

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senryu 11/08/11

thank God for my friends
and the kindness of colleagues--
without them i'm lost

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senryu 11/07/11

fear and prejudice
always trying to escape--
cages in our minds

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haiku 11/06/11

orange hellfire glows--
the mill in city's center
burning to the ground

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haiku 11/05/11

smoke black clouds stretch out
across orange horizon--
no--not clouds--real smoke!

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senryu 11/04/11

where is the woman
who will see past my bullshit?
self defense gone wild

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senryu 11/03/11

i build my walls strong
they are thick and wide and deep--
inside, i'm lonely

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senryu 11/02/11

i keep to myself
it's hard to let others in--
even harder now

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senryu 11/01/11

rushing off to church
a day of obligation--
we make it on time

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senryu 10/31/11

quiet halloween
hiding in dark living room
sorry--no candy!

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senryu 10/30/11

i have enough ghosts--
failures i cannot forget--
to haunt three counties

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senryu 10/29/11

zombie-like they come
eating my brains from within--
my doubts and my fears

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senryu 10/28/11

draining my life force
like a vampire sucking blood--
all my past failures

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senryu 10/27/11

puppetlike i speak
wondering who pulls the strings--
it's not me today

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senryu 10/26/11

like a werewolf's howl
the sound of my own self-doubts
makes my blood run cold

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senryu 10/25/11

clutching my good cheer--
a tentacle from the deep
blackness of my mind

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haiku 10/25/11

red, yellow, brown leaves
a murder of crows cawing
breaking the silence


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senryu 10/24/11

boring soap opera--
when did my life become a
bad melodrama?


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quinzaine 10/23/11

Molly quietly colors.
How long will she stay
innocent?


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senryu 10/22/11

rainbows are gone now
where has all the color gone?
it all left with you


©2011-Art Belliveau

sedoka 10/21/11

quiet afternoon
low clouds with no hint of rain
shelter me from the sun’s heat
a mockingbird chirps
interrupting the silence
but improving it as well


©2011-Art Belliveau

shadorma 10/20/11

you are gone
you’ve vanished like smoke
i wonder
where you are
what it is you are doing
why torture myself?


©2011-Art Belliveau

senryu 10/19/11

in the night’s quiet
i hear the dormant echoes
of lost family life


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senryu 10/18/11

i’ve misplaced my smile
i’ve looked for it everywhere
it is in your eyes


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senryu 10/17/11

i listen for God
hoping once to hear His voice
my daughter calls me


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senryu 10/16/11

an empty blackness
sucking away all the light--
where my heart once was.


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senryu 10/15/11

slowly--piece by piece--
my life is being emptied
of all that i love


©2011-Art Belliveau

senryu 10/14/11

while you right your life
i am left out in the cold--
unnecessary


©2011-Art Belliveau

senryu 10/13/11

i’m put on the shelf
an unwanted teddy bear--
until you need me


©2011-Art Belliveau

shadorma 10/12/11

i feel sick
a soul malady’s
eating me
fading me
making me less than i was--
is this my life now?


©2011-Art Belliveau

haiku 10/11/11

cerulean sky
many people surround me--
i feel so alone


©2011-Art Belliveau